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.
Kate Beckinsale hits back at backlash from fans after speaking out about Harvey Weinstein
metro.co.ukKate Beckinsale has hit back at the followers who criticised her for sharing a story of her experiences with Harvey Weinstein.
The actress, 46, had shared a story about how Harvey had screamed at her and called her a ‘c**t’ for wearing a suit to a red carpet, but her message was met with mixed responses from her followers.
While most were supportive of her for speaking out, others sent less kind messages, which Kate replied to. One follower wrote: ‘And you only decide to go public with this now???
Was it about your career and the money? Can you explain to us?’ Kate replied: ‘There is very recently a climate where this is even possible to tell and not just into a void. ‘And that is thanks to many other brave women going public about far
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