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.
Sia Says She Once Stopped Maddie Ziegler From Getting On A Plane With Harvey Weinstein: ‘That Was Really Disgusting’
etcanada.comSia said she once stopped Maddie Ziegler from getting on a plane with disgraced filmmaker Harvey Weinstein. The musician, who has been busy promoting her new movie “Music”, in which Ziegler, 17, stars alongside the likes of Kate Hudson and Leslie Odom Jr., has been working with the former “Dance Moms” star since she was just 11-years-old. “I kept her off a plane that Harvey Weinstein tried to get her on,” Sia told the Zach Sang Show during an interview Wednesday. “I know there’s times where my insight has really made a difference, like has kept her safe. “Yeah, that was really disgusting.
When he invited her, that’s when I called [Ziegler’s mom] Melissa, I had to. I just said, ‘Please don’t, do not do that.'” RELATED: Sia Opens Up About
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