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...hefty $85 million budget; Leap Year cost just $19 million to make; Youth in Revolt, $18 million. All three will have to scramble to break even. In the bang-for-a-buck category, the phenomenon remains The Blind Side, the sports-inspirational drama starring Sandra Bullock. Still in the top seven after eight weeks of release, the movie has now earned $219.2 million on a $29 million budget. It's now the all-time top grosser in the based-on-a-true-story genre (unless you count The Passion of the Christ). At the moment it trails only...
Here are the weekend's top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo...
This week the commission to investigate the causes of the financial crisis will hold its first public hearing. First up to be accused of causing massive foreclosures, nearly bankrupting our financial system and robbing us all of our retirement savings: Wall Street CEOs. On Wednesday, four top financial executives are scheduled to testify in front of the commission, including Bank of America's recently appointed chief Brian Moynihan, Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein, JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon and Morgan Stanley's John Mack...
...making for years to New York City and London, the home cities of big banks and other companies that have traditionally outsourced computer programming and other work to Indian firms. But jaunts to the industrialized world may no longer be sufficient to keep his Mumbai-based firm growing at top speed. So Chandrasekaran is also venturing to locales Indian techies in the past rarely considered worth the cost of a plane ticket. He has already stopped in Beijing and Singapore, and early in 2010, he'll head to Montevideo, São Paulo, Mexico City and the Middle East...
...first leader, slowly warped into Islamic nationalism and, later, iron rule by military dictators backed by foreign governments. But Pakistani art also began to mature during this period. Galleries and journals were established, and artists like Chughtai and Sadequain flavored their international modernism with local flair. See the top 10 nonfiction books...