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.
Ronan Farrow cutting ties with publisher over Woody Allen’s memoir
peoplemagazine.co.zaRonan Farrow has condemned executives at his publisher Hachette after they announced plans to release his father Woody Allen’s memoir.
A spokesperson for Grand Central Publishing, a division of the Hachette Book Group, announced on Monday that they would be releasing Apropos of Nothing in the U.S.
next month. Following the news, Woody’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow, who has alleged the filmmaker abused her as a child, took to her Twitter page to share her response, in which she pointed out that Hachette also published her brother Ronan’s book Catch and Kill – in which he exposed disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s alleged misconduct and sexual assaults in 2017.
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