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Summer 2009: but what does it *mean*?
Mon, Aug 31 2009 11:31 PM

Clearly someone at Variety was crunching numbers every Sunday night and waiting for the moment they could announce that this was the highest-grossing summer EVER; late Monday afternoon, with all the box office estimates confirmed, it was time to drop the good news. Yes, this summer set records all over. $4.17 billion grossed over last summer's $4.16 billion... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Biz, Up, Pixar, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, WALL-E, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Transformers 2, District 9, Star Trek, The Proposal, Ratatouille, The Hangover

The Weinsteins go all in.
Mon, Aug 17 2009 10:20 AM

Given Hollywood's deathless creative conservatism, it's no surprise that people still root for the Weinstein brothers; relatively speaking, they're bold revolutionaries, icons of the heyday of American indie film. After months of silence in the face of media speculation about the stability of the (latest) house that Harvey and Bob built, the brothers... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Harvey Weinstein, Bruno, Biz, District 9, Nine, Funny People, Bob Weinstein, Weinstein Company, Miramax, Peter Biskind