July 27, 2012 — -- London's Olympic Stadium became a vast meadow in an opening ceremony that at first evoked the early history of the United Kingdom to kick off the 2012 Olympics. But soon ...

Well aware it would be a tough slog to match Beijing in terms of glitz and sheer spectacle, filmmaker Danny Boyle has decided to keep it real during the London Olympic opening ceremony. Boyle, the ...

LONDON - As he considered Beijing's extravagant coming-out party to the world four years ago, Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle felt more liberated than daunted by that Olympics Opening Ceremony as ...

I saw the London Olympics opening ceremony late, on Pacific Time—my colleague Catherine Mayer reviews it elsewhere at time.com—but it was a spectacle and a hoot, in the best sense of both ...

Film-director Danny Boyle is kicking off the Olympic games with a dazzling and very English opening show. Queen Elizabeth II declared the London Games open. The Olympic cauldron is lit. It came ...

A record 40.7 million Americans watched NBC television's coverage of the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, making it the most-watched Summer Games opening, NBC said on Saturday.