Women faint after watching Danny Boyle's '127 Hours'

Danny Boyle's new movie is not for the faint hearted - two moviegoers passed out while watching gory scenes in "127 Hours" and paramedics were called in to help. The cinema has put up warning notices post the incident.

One woman fainted and another had a seizure as they watched the true story of US climber Aaron Raston, who cut off his arm after being trapped under a boulder for five days, reports express.co.uk.
An ambulance was called to treat the two women last Saturday evening after they collapsed at Cinema City in Norwich, Norfolk.

Boyle: '2012 ceremony will be more relaxed'

Danny Boyle has said that the opening ceremony of the London Olympics in 2012 will be more relaxed than that seen in Beijing in 2008.

The filmmaker will oversee the ceremony, which is being produced by Stephen Daldry with input from writer Frank Cottrell Boyce and several designers.

Boyle told The Observer: "We are at the stage of working through principles. It's a weird one, because of course you can do anything at all. What we think is that Beijing was the end of a certain kind of ceremony, that epic scale.

"The thing about the stadium is that it has the same number of seats as Beijing but is half the size. It is a more intimate space. So that's what we are thinking. We want to keep it on a human scale. It won't be such a spectacle... in a good way, we hope."

Asked if he was having sleepless nights due to the event, he replied: "Nah. It could be intimidating. But if people like me and Daldry can't cope with that, then we shouldn't be in the business.

"Most of all I think we understand something about this country. We are not about showing off shiny badges about ourselves. I mean China has to go: 'Look at us we are a very serious nation'.

"But we are so much in a post-post stage of that seriousness about ourselves that I think we have to reflect that. To be a bit more idiosyncratic and relaxed."

When it was suggested it could be an 'ironic opening ceremony', Boyle responded: "Well I don't know about that. But what I do know is that after a couple of years of this coalition government we may well all be looking for a bit of light relief."

Danny Boyle making film about hiker's story

The award-winning director of ``Slumdog Millionaire'' says he plans to make a movie about the mountaineer renowned for amputating his own arm after it was pinned by a half-ton boulder while he was hiking alone in Utah.

Danny Boyle says production on the movie ``127 Hours'' will take place in Utah over 42 days in March and April. He says some of the filming will be done in Bluejohn Canyon, where Aron Ralston's ordeal took place.

Ralston cut off his right arm with a dull blade in 2003 after he'd be pinned for several days at the bottom of the remote canyon, near Moab. He later wrote a book about the experience, ``Between a Rock and a Hard Place,'' which inspired the movie. The Coloradan also gives motivational speeches.

A Utah state panel has approved a tax credit incentive of up to $2.8 million for the filming of his story.