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.
Weinstein Investigation Movie ‘She Said’ to Star Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan as NY Times Reporters
variety.comPat Saperstein Deputy EditorCarey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan are attached to star in “She Said,” about the New York Times sexual harassment investigation against Harvey Weinstein that kicked off the #MeToo movement.
Mulligan and Kazan are in final negotiations for the Universal Pictures movie to play Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, the authors of the book “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement.”The movie will focus on Twohey and Kantor’s work to uncover the widespread sexual harassment and assault allegations over several decades against Weinstein, the Weinstein Company co-chairman who was eventually sentenced to 23 years in prison.Maria Schrader, an Emmy winner for Netflix’s “Unorthodox,” is directing from.
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