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.
Harvey Weinstein’s Latest Extradition Hearing To L.A. On Rape Charges Pushed To 2021 – Update
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: UPDATE, 1:11 PM: When and how Harvey Weinstein will be coming out to Los Angeles to face rape and other sexual assault charges won’t be known until next year.An early morning extradition hearing scheduled in upstate New York tomorrow for the incarcerated producer is going to be pushed back until April 9, 2021, I’ve learned.As things stand right now, all parties have agreed to the postponement and Erie County Court Judge Kenneth Case is anticipated to formally sign off on the plan in a much shortened version of the gathering on Friday.The Erie County D.A.’s office will be representing newly minted LA County D.A.
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