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.
Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan to play reporters who broke the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal story
dailymail.co.ukCarey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan are set to lead a film about the New York Times reporters who broke the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal story in fall of 2017.The actresses are being courted for roles as journalistsMegan Twohey and Jodi Kantor in She Said, an upcoming film about the bombshell investigation based onthe New York Times bestseller She Said: Breaking The Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite A Movement.A litany sexual misconduct accusations were leveled against Weinstein in the October 2017 report, eventually leading to the film exec being sentenced to 23-years in prison for rape in March 2020 while also inspiring the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements to fight sexism in the workplace and beyond.She Said will not center on the.
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