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.
Actor Brad Pitt will be taking on the role of producer, for an upcoming exposé on disgraced filmmaker Harvey Weinstein. According to reports via WT, Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan are set to star in the film titled She Said.
The Universal Pictures film will be based on the New York Times best-selling book She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey.
The book is written by 2 NYT reporters who helped expose Weinstein's history of abuse and sexual misconduct against women. If you didn’t know, Weinstein is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York after convictions for rape and sexual assault against two women.
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