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.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Martin Scorsese revealed in an interview with GQ magazine that Warner Bros. wished to turn his Oscar winner “The Departed” into a franchise, much to his disagreement.
The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a Massachusetts State Police officer and Matt Damon as a Boston gang member who go undercover to infiltrate each other’s organizations. “The Departed” ends with the memorable deaths of both characters, but Warner Bros.
allegedly wanted to keep one character alive so that a sequel could get made. “What they wanted was a franchise. It wasn’t about a moral issue of a person living or dying,” Scorsese said, noting that test screening audiences loved his version of the film where both characters died. “And then the studio guys walked out [of the same test screening] and they were very sad, because they just didn’t want that movie.
They wanted the franchise. Which means: I can’t work here anymore.” “The Departed” was the third film in a row where Scorsese ended up thinking he could no longer work in Hollywood.
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