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.
disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein.The comedy is not available to be watched online or purchased digitally; meanwhile, Blu-ray DVDs are selling them for almost $100 a pop.“In order to tell the story, unfortunately, I’m gonna have to say the name that nobody wants to hear anymore.
But of course, Harvey Weinstein figures into the story,” the “Mallrats” director told The Wrap.“I mean, honestly, not even a thought.
I don’t think he realized that he still owned that movie,” he added. “I don’t think he realized that it went out of public distribution or anything like that.”The New Jersey native then explained how Weinstein, now 70, called Smith “out of the blue” in 2017 to produce a “Dogma” TV series or sequel.The “Chasing Amy” screenwriter continued, “All the people that were in it are still around, so we can we can make a pretty good sequel or series even better.”“And I got really excited because I was like, ‘Oh my God, for the first time.
The dude [Weinstein] remembered me. Like, after a decade he remembered that I was part of the Miramax family.’ And he remembered that he had ‘Dogma’ and had a cool cast and I don’t know, I felt like wow, that’s, that’s cool,” Smith said.However, scandal rocked the Miramax founder’s world (and Hollywood) when a bombshell New York Times exposé uncovered the numerous sexual assault allegations against him a week after that fateful phone call.Smith even tried to buy back the rights for “Dogma,” but Weinstein was asking for too much. “We felt very dirty about because we didn’t want to give him money,” Smith said. “He’s holding it hostage.
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