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.
‘Scary Movie’ Turns 20: Marlon Wayans and Anna Faris Tell All About the R-Rated Spoof
variety.comMackenzie Nichols Staff WriterIt was only a matter of time before the most powerful brothers in Hollywood got into business together.
In the late ’90s, “Scary Movie,” a comedy that satirized slasher-killer movies, brought three of the Wayans brothers — Marlon, Shawn and Keenen Ivory — to the doorstep of Dimension Films, the boutique horror studio run by Bob and Harvey Weinstein.According to Marlon, making “Scary Movie” with the Weinsteins for a summer 2000 release was indeed a frightening experience.
And not just because he was abruptly fired from making the third movie in the franchise, “Scary Movie 3,” on a holiday.“[The Weinstein’s are] not the best or the kindest people to be in business with,” Marlon Wayans tells Variety. “They’re.
Read more on variety.com