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.
Ari Emanuel took some shots during his latest public appearance. The Endeavor CEO took aim at CAA over their handling of issues related to Harvey Weinstein, calling for Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane to “take a leave of absence” while the matter is investigated.
He also urged the studios and actors to get a deal done even if it means getting “half a loaf”, saying that, “You’re not winning an Oscar for this negotiation”.
Speaking at the Bloomberg Screentime event, he also talked up interest in the rights to WWE’s Raw and teased deals with Netflix for Tyler Perry and David Ellison.
He also took aim at Benjamin Netanyahu over the terror attacks in Israel. It was a short, but, as ever, wildly entertaining conversation with Emanuel.
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