Harvey Weinstein CBE (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer. He and his brother Bob Weinstein co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films, including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), The Crying Game (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), and Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love, and garnered seven Tony Awards for a variety of plays and musicals, including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded The Weinstein Company, a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.
Brad Pitt Producing Film About Harvey Weinstein Exposé With Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan Set to Star
etonline.comBrad Pitt is producing an upcoming movie based on an exposé on Harvey Weinstein, ET confirms. Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan are attached to star. , a Universal Pictures film, will be based on the best-seller by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, two reporters who helped expose Weinstein's history of abuse and sexual misconduct against women.
The former movie mogul is serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York after convictions for rape and sexual assault against two women.
He has denied any wrongdoing. Mulligan will star as Twohey in the film, while Kazan will play Kantor. Both actresses are in final negotiations on the film, which is set to begin production this summer.
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