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.
‘Good Boss’ Star Javier Bardem Compares His Character to Harvey Weinstein (Video)
thewrap.comgood boss," Bardem said with a laugh during a conversation with León de Aranoa and TheWrap's Steve Pond. "But that's what the people in the factory, the people around him, and most especially the audience have to believe -- that he's kind of a man with great intentions.
But then something goes wrong."While several problematic relationships develop in the course of the movie, Blanco's most challenging one is with a fired employee who sets up camp with his children on public land across from the factory gates just as competition judges are on their way to inspect the business.
The ex-employee's intention is to create an embarrassing scene and demand that Blanco give him back his job.Although their stories are different, Bardem compared his.
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