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.
Silver Lining For ‘Silver Lining Playbook’ Producer & Stars Out Of Weinstein Bankruptcy Looks Dim After Latest Court Loss – Update
deadline.comUPDATE, 5:25 PM: The byzantine bankruptcy of The Weinstein Company and its acquired assets had a least one element settled today with an appeals court ruling that looks to leave some of Hollywood’s biggest stars a little light, to say the least.
Affirming lower court rulings, a three judge panel on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals dropped an opinion that Skyglass Media (formerly known as Lantern) don’t owe Silver Linings Playbook producer Bruce Cohen the percentage of the Oscar winning film he was owned when the now imprisoned Harvey Weinstein and his brother’s Bob outfit cratered a few years back as sexual assault claims engulfed the older sibling. “The approximately $400,000 in contingent compensation owed to Cohen before the sale’s
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