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.
I was lucky enough to be among the very first people, particularly among journalists, to see The Assistant, even before its world premiere at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival which was before it had been sold to a distributor.
I did the first interview with its writer and director Kitty Green, previously best known for her work in the nonfiction field.
Now it seems full circle that we have come to Deadline’s Contenders Film, moderating the Bleecker Street panel with Green and the film’s star, two-time Emmy winner Julia Garner.The film has been said to be a roman à clef about a Harvey Weinstein-type boss of a Tribeca-based movie production company and centers on an assistant named Jane (Garner) forced to keep quiet about his sexual
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