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.
Happy 20th Birthday 'Scary Movie'
essence.comScary Movie, the comedy that made fun of slasher films like Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, turned 20 years old today.
The movie that every studio passed on except for Harvey Weinstein’s Dimension Films, was made for a mere $19 million, but collected more than $157 million at the domestic box office, Variety reports.
Scary Movie’s opening day wasn’t too shabby either—it made a cool $15 million. The movie birthed a franchise, including four more films, but the Wayans brothers involvement with Scary Movie ended after 2001’s second installment.
Still, Scary’s success boosted Regina Hall (Brenda), Marlon (Shorty) and Shawn’s (Ray) Hollywood profile. Marlon, who later found success with White Chicks and the Haunted House franchise,.
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