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.
Donald Glover hires ‘amazingly talented’ Malia Obama to write for his new show
nypost.comwith Vanity Fair on Friday, insisting that the former first daughter, 23, wasn’t a beneficiary of nepotism. “She’s just, like, an amazingly talented person,” Glover cooed of Malia. “She’s really focused, and she’s working really hard.”While most struggling screenwriters toil away for years trying to catch a break in Hollywood, it’s been a seemingly swift ride for Malia, who only graduated from Harvard last year.
The wunderkind previously interned on Lena Dunham’s HBO series “Girls” in 2015 and at the Weinstein Company in 2017, before boss Harvey Weinstein was brought down on rape and other charges.
Glover’s brother, Stephen, 31, is also working on the upcoming Amazon series. “I feel like she’s just somebody who’s gonna have really good things coming soon,” Stephen similarly fawned over Malia’s abilities while speaking to Vanity Fair.“Her writing style is great,” he further gushed. “Donald always says perspective is important, and people with different perspectives are important for a writers’ room.
And for sure, she definitely has a unique perspective on everything.”Details about the series haven’t been disclosed. However, Insider reported last month that the show may revolve around a “‘Beyoncé-like figure.”Malia’s new gig isn’t the Obama family’s first foray into the TV business.
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