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.
‘The Haunting of Hill House’ Star Victoria Pedretti and Hanna van Vliet Hype Each Other Up at Rotterdam Film Festival: ‘You Are a Leader’
variety.comMarta Balaga “The Haunting of Hill House” star Victoria Pedretti hyped fellow actor – and co-creator of Netflix’s “Anne+” – Hanna van Vliet at International Film Festival Rotterdam Sunday evening. “You are a leader,” she told her. “True.
I’m a leader,” responded van Vliet, admitting the change in the industry starts with “diversifying the teams.” “We made ‘Anne+’ without any money, so we had all this freedom and could cast and hire whoever we wanted.
People get better at their jobs and later, they will be the ones in power. We have to start small and grow everyone into ‘the big guy.’ Girl.
Person.” While the system is “corrupt,” you have to “know it in order to infiltrate it,” added Pedretti. “I remember the first dinner with the cast of ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ and everyone was talking about Harvey Weinstein.
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