"Juno" and "Waitress" are films that were snapped up by the major studios' indie divisions, and both films benefited from the modern-day slow rollout strategies created by brothers Harvey and BobWeinstein, who founded the onetime independent Miramax in the late '70s.
Even more recently, he made an attempt, with fellow billionaires Bob and Harvey Weinstein, to gain control of the famed Disney film studio Miramax, which had been going through its own financial woes.