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.
Woody Allen Responds To ‘Self-Serving’ Stars Who Denounced Him: ‘Actors Have No Idea Of The Facts’
etcanada.comDirector Woody Allen is speaking openly about the actors who denounced him at the height of the #MeToo era, despite working with him in his films. “I assume that for the rest of my life a large number of people will think I was a predator,” he says in a new interview with the Guardian ahead of the U.K.
release of his latest romantic dramedy, “A Rainy Day In New York.” The film was part of a multi-picture deal with Amazon that crashed to a halt when accusations against Harvey Weinstein started making headlines, thanks to Allen’s own son, Ronan Farrow. “Anything I say sounds self-serving and defensive, so it’s best if I just go my way and work,” Allen says of the long-standing accusations that he molested adopted daughter Dylan Farrow.
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