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.
Salma Hayek is opening up about the lingering trauma she still feels from her horrific experience working with Harvey Weinstein on “Frida”, her 2002 passion project about the life of acclaimed Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.
In a new interview with the Evening Standard, Hayek said that she initially felt as if working with Weinstein — whose gift for producing films that earned both critical acclaim, big bucks at the box office and frequent Oscar wins — was “a dream come true.” However, that dream turned into a nightmare, she’s alleged, due to Weinstein’s predatory demands for sex and his violent behaviour.
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