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.
Ashleigh Banfield Returns To Court TV As Contributor
deadline.comBy Denise Petski Senior Managing Editor Ashleigh Banfield, a host on the original Court TV, is returning to the rebooted network as a special contributor.
Banfield will appear nightly on Court TV’s live primetime show at 8 PM ET, joining anchors Vinnie Politan, Julie Grant and Ted Rowlands in discussing the legal news of the day. “Ashleigh’s Court TV reunion appearance with Vinnie during the Harvey Weinstein trial sparked a conversation and mutual-interest in working together.
We’re thrilled to have her back on the network on a regular basis,” said Court TV Vice President Scott Tufts. Following her stint on Court TV, Banfield went on to anchor CNN’s Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield and HLN’s Primetime Justice with Ashleigh Banfield.
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