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.
‘She Said’: Read The Screenplay Chronicling How The New York Times Took On Harvey Weinstein
deadline.comEditors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year’s movie awards races.
With her Universal Pictures drama She Said, director Maria Schrader tackles one of the great stories of the new century: recounting, step by step, how New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey took on Harvey Weinstein and won.
The film starring Carey Mulligan as Twohey and Zoe Kazan as Kantor is based on the original reporting of the NYT duo and their subsequent bestseller She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement.
The film’s script was adapted by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, the Spirit Award nominee behind such films as Ida and Colette. She Said’s plot is set in motion in 2017, when Kantor gets a tip about actress Rose McGowan and an alleged sexual assault at the hands of Weinstein — the Oscar-winning producer behind Miramax and The Weinstein Company who for decades wielded his wealth, power and reputation to shield himself from accusations of sexual abuse.
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