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.
Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
BFI London Film Festival Full Lineup: ‘My Policeman’ European Debut, ‘She Said’ International Premiere & Hits From Cannes, Venice
deadline.comThe BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its full list of titles, with the program comprised of 164 features and 23 world premieres across film and TV.Eye-grabbing entries from today’s launch include headline gala screenings of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s latest Bardot, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, and Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, starring Brendan Fraser, both of which make their way to London after debuts on the Lido.Other highly-anticipated titles arriving from the fall festivals include Empire of Light, the latest from Sam Mendes, which will be the festival’s American Express Gala, Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave, The Wonder by Sebastián Lelio, and Noah Baumbach’s White Noise.Those titles will all screen at the Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre as the festival returns to the nearly 3000-seat venue for its headline gala and special presentation screenings.The LFF Special Presentations, also showing at the Royal Festival Hall, includes this year’s Palme d’Or winner Triangle of Sadness as well as the European premiere of Michael Grandage’s buzzy My Policeman, starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin and Joanna Hogg’s latest feature The Eternal Daughter, starring Tilda Swinton.
LFF will also host the international premiere of She Said, starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan and based on the book by New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey who uncovered Harvey Weinstein’s history of abuse and sexual misconduct against women.Scroll down for the full list of films.As previously announced, the fest will be bookended by two Netflix films with the world premiere of Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical directed by Matthew Warchus, and the European premiere of Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A
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