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.
George Clooney is sharing his thoughts on the changing culture in Hollywood. In a new interview with The Sunday Times, the 60-year-old actor discussed the way things are different in the entertainment industry in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Click inside to find out what he said… “Just because you’re a boss, it doesn’t mean you get to s–t on people.
I’ve been the boss and the guy being s–t on,” he said. “You can’t get away with being a d–k any more — you’d get ratted out.” George went on to say that some of this change is the result of the #MeToo movement, referencing both former producer Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin. “It’s changed in this way,” he explained. “On top of the terrible things Weinstein did, being a jerk at work is
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