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 reveals Harvey Weinstein's foul-mouthed tirade about Serendipity premiere left her 'shaking'
standard.co.ukBritish actress Kate Beckinsale has revealed how “monstrous” Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein left her shaking and in tears with a foul-mouthed rant when she wore trousers to a film premiere instead of a short skirt.
The British star spoke out hours after Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for the rape and sexual assault of two women, saying the disgraced 67-year-old screamed abuse after luring her to his home under the pretext of a playdate for their children.
Ms Beckinsale, writing on Instagram, said Weinstein had “insisted” on a New York premiere for the romantic comedy Serendipity just weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks, ignoring the cast and crew’s protests that it was “the most insensitive, tone deaf, disrespectful idea
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