LA Weekly has a great article on IMDB and
the story of how it got started.
IMDB is a subsidiary of the empire
known as Amazon.com but is allowed to run independently. One would
like to think that IMDB sprang from
nowhere however it took 5 years before they started going commercial.
That’s 5 years doing this project on top of whatever else they were
doing.
Now if they could only get some more Asian correspondants to cover
Asian movies in more detail.
Read the LA Times article yourself
Thanks to Gen for the link