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.
Stephen Colbert knows Hollywood talent agents are always looking for the next big thing.In a new sketch, The Late Show, suggests that this may even include Covid-19 and its variants.The CBS late-night series has parodied the ten-percentaries in a new sketch on Friday night’s show.“2020 was a tough year for showbusiness,” says Josh Trent, the talent agent that represents the Coronavirus. “I started thinking to myself that this Covid thing is going to be huge so I got on the phone and started making some calls.”“Right away, we got it in rooms with Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Idris Elba, Lena Dunham and The Rock.
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