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.
Zoë Kravitz on rewriting feature debut ‘Pussy Island’ after Weinstein allegations
nme.comPussy Island following the allegations against Harvey Weinstein.The actor spoke about her first film as writer-director in an interview with ELLE, saying the project was originally inspired by “the lack of conversation around the way women are treated specifically in the entertainment industry.”She went on to say the process began over five years ago and changed in light of the #MeToo movement.“I started writing it pre-#MeToo, pre-Harvey [Weinstein].
Then the world started to have the conversation, so [the script] changed a lot,” Kravitz said.“It became more about a power struggle and what that power struggle means.
I rewrote it a million times. Now we’re like, ‘Holy shit. We’re doing this!’”The actor went on to say filming on the project begins this summer, and shared her anticipation.“I have moments of being nervous,” she said. “But I know the story so well, and I’m trying to focus less on ‘Am I going to do a good job?’ and more on ‘What is my intention?’”The film follows cocktail waitress Frida as she flirts with tech mogul Slater King, played by Channing Tatum, who Kravitz is involved with personally.
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