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.
Twenty years ago, sexual harrassment incidents that happened in the workplace were often discounted (not all, but many). As a working actress for over three decades, Maria Schrader witnessed numerous experiences that were not talked about because it was considered “normal.” On Oct.
5, 2017 there was a seismic shift in that regard and the #MeToo movement was born. A moment Schrader hs now chronicled as a filmmaker with the new drama “She Said.” READ MORE: “She Said” Review: Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan expose the Weinstein #MeToo story in a ‘Spotlight’-esque procedural [NYFF] Adapted from the non-fiction novel by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, “She Said” follows the two journalists as they endeavor to break the story on Harvey Weinstein‘s long history of sexual harassment in the movie business.
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