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.
Woody Allen’s son hits out at publisher of filmmaker’s memoirs
breakingnews.ieWoody Allen’s son and prominent journalist Ronan Farrow has threatened to walk away from his publisher after it emerged it was putting out the filmmaker’s memoirs.
The family has been bitterly divided since Dylan Farrow – Allen’s adopted daughter with the actress Mia Farrow – accused him of molesting her as a child in the early 1990s.
Allen, 84, vehemently denies the allegations and was not charged following two separate investigations. His memoir, titled Apropos Of Nothing, will be released in the US in April by Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group.
Hachette worked with Ronan on his acclaimed book Catch And Kill, which explored how powerful men, including Harvey Weinstein, avoided punishment for sexual crimes.
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