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.
Marlon Wayans has accused the Weinstein Company of muscling away the “Scary Movie” franchise. Wayans recently caught up with Kevin Hart on Hart’s “Comedy Gold Minds” podcast.
During the conversation, Wayans accused the Weinstein brothers of strong-arming the Wayans family out of the “Scary Movie” property.
RELATED: Harvey Weinstein Challenges Extradition To Face California Charges “We didn’t walk away from a franchise, they didn’t want to make our deal and they snatched it,” Wayans asserted. “They was like, they just did, Weinstein did some really terrible, like ‘rape and pillage villages’-type of business.” “That’s just the way they did their business,” he continued. “So it wasn’t that we, we ever walked away from our franchise that we
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