With the sequel — finally — upon us, the director and star plus author Irvine Welsh, producer Andrew Macdonald and more look back on the 1996 Cool Britannia flagbearer and how it all happened. By Alex ...

In 1996, movie producer Andrew Macdonald and director Danny Boyle had the good sense to adapt the Irvine Welsh novel "Trainspotting" into a film. The story, which centered around a group of heroin ...

For die-hard fans of Danny Boyle’s 1996 hit Trainspotting, the just-released sequel, T2 Trainspotting, could also be called Easter Egg Spotting. That’s because this sequel — which opened in the U.K.

The young men who raced around Edinburgh in director Danny Boyle’s “Trainspotting” have hit middle age. “T2 Trainspotting,” which opens March 17, is a sequel, set in the present, to the indie film ...

Taking its cue from Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, the Edinburgh-based film took sex and drugs with humour to a mainstream level, and endlessly working those box office cash drawers with its exquisite cast ...

MCGREGOR GETS LIFETIME HONOR . Ewan McGregor is set to be honored with an outstanding contribution to film and television ...

Danny Boyle is directing the sequel to the film that cemented his career back in 1996. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Moving fast to a preemptive deal, the Sony label has landed the package, ...

The soundtrack to the sequel to Danny Boyle's 1996 film has leaked (and subsequently been removed) onto Amazon UK. Danny Boyle‘s 1996 film “Trainspotting” follows a group of heroin addicts in an ...

WASHINGTON — There’s no denying that Darren Aronofsky’s “Requiem for a Dream” (2000) and Vince Gilligan’s “Breaking Bad” (2008) are masterworks, functioning as better anti-drug campaigns than any ...

Ewan McGregor, left, and Robert Carlyle are up to more bathroom capers in “T2: Trainspotting,” which updates the lives of the four Scottish heroin addicts we first met on screen in 1996. Danny Boyle’s ...

This morning, I walked into the office, fired up the photo server and saw photos from the Trainspotting 2 set in Edinburgh, Scotland. The shots of Ewan McGregor and Ewen Bremner on the run echoed the ...