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.
Hachette Employees Stage Walkout Over Woody Allen Memoir After Ronan Farrow Cuts Ties With Publishing Company
etcanada.comRonan Farrow is sharing some harsh words for his own publisher, Hachette Book Group, over its recent acquisition of his father Woody Allen’s memoirs.
On Tuesday, the investigative journalist — whose reporting on Harvey Weinstein ultimately unleashed the #MeToo movement and led to the disgraced movie mogul’s trial and conviction — took to Twitter to slam Hachette for publishing the memoir written by his father.
Ronan and sister Dylan Farrow have long alleged that she was the victim of sexual molestation at the hands of the Oscar-winning filmmaker; Allen has consistently denied the allegations, claiming they were part of then-partner Mia Farrow’s plot to poison their children against him when he embarked on a relationship with Farrow’s
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