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.
Ronan Farrow severs ties with his publisher as they work with his father Woody Allen on memoir
metro.co.ukRonan Farrow is severing ties with his publisher after they confirmed they would be publishing his father Woody Allen’s autobiography.
This week, Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, announced that they would be publishing the director’s autobiography, Apropos of Nothing, this April.
Hachette’s division Little, Brown and Company published Ronan Farrow’s book Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, which details the challenges he faced in the reporting of the sexual abuse and misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein.
And Ronan, 32, has called out Hachette on social media for allegedly failing to fact-check any claims in the book made against his sister Dylan’s allegations that Allen
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