Oscar encouraging to a Film4 under fire

January 22, 2009 All those Oscar noms raining down on "Slumdog Millionaire" couldn't have arrived at a more fortuitous moment for Film4, the embattled moviemaking unit of U.K. pubcaster Channel 4. Film4 may be under attack in Great Britain, but movies in which it had a hand have received a warm reception this awards season. The biggest fanfare has greeted Danny Boyle's "Slumdog," a project based on the novel "Q&A," which was originally optioned and developed by Film4 and subsequently co-financed with Celador.

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