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.
Harvey Weinstein Opera in the Works in Ireland
thewrap.comconvicted last year of rape and a forcible sexual act. “There are conversations about taking it somewhere off the beaten track in New York, but it is very early days still,” Conor Mitchell told the New York Post on Saturday.
Mitchell directs the Belfast Ensemble in Ireland, which is hoping to stage “The Trial of Harvey Weinstein” at the Belfast International Arts Festival this fall.“Belfast is a very politicized place.
There is a real tradition here of highly politically charged subject matter in the plays,” said Mitchell.Still, Mitchell said he doesn’t “care” about Weinstein.
The title of the opera includes Weinstein’s name, but the focus of Mitchell’s work, he said, is the women who accused Weinstein.
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