Paula Weinstein, the revered producer of movies together with “The Good Storm,” “Analyze This,” “The Fabulous Baker Boys” and “Blood Diamond,” and former chief content material officer at Tribeca Enterprises, died Monday in New York. She was 78.
Her daughter, Hannah Rosenberg, mentioned in an announcement, “The world is a lesser place with out my mom. She was a masterful producer and a pressure of nature for the issues she believed in, together with the various initiatives that spanned her illustrious profession, the tales she fought to inform and the social justice causes she championed.
“She shattered obstacles in Hollywood and at all times lifted different ladies alongside along with her. And I do know my mom would need me so as to add this: when you’d wish to honor her, please cease what you might be doing and switch your consideration towards reelecting President Biden and ensuring Democrats win down the poll so we will be certain Democracy survives in America and all over the world.”
Weinstein was additionally an government producer on “Grace and Frankie” and gained two primetime Emmys for producing TV films “Truman” and “Recount.”
At Tribeca, she managed branded leisure and oversaw the movie pageant’s programming workforce. She helped create and publicize the Tribeca Talks collection, and helped construct Tribeca Studios, engaged on selling the work of underrepresented filmmakers.
Tribeca co-founder and CEO Jane Rosenthal remembered Weinstein in an announcement, saying, “I’m heartbroken by the passing of my shut pal, colleague, and mentor Paula Weinstein. Paula was at all times somebody I might Iook as much as and served as an inspiration for me and numerous different ladies. She was attractive in and out, sensible, politically and socially savvy, with an incredible humorousness. The trade has misplaced one among its nice and passionate producers and storytellers and Tribeca has misplaced a member of the family and a pricey pal.”
Weinstein left Tribeca Enterprises in September 2023 to commit her time to political causes.
By way of her Spring Creek Prods., which she co-founded along with her late husband in 1990, she additionally produced “Fearless,” “Flesh and Bone,” “This Is The place I Go away You,” “Too Large to Fail,” “The Firm Males,” “The Astronaut Farmer” and “Monster-in-Legislation.”
Her husband, Mark Rosenberg, died on the set of “Flesh and Bone” in 1992. She instructed the Los Angeles Instances on the time, “I’m enthusiastic about these films popping out. I’m very pleased with them, of the work that Mark and I did collectively, and on the similar time there’s a stage of unhappiness as a result of he’s not right here to take pleasure in them, and see the outstanding work of those two administrators and scripts and folks he believed in come to fruition.”
Weinstein additionally served as president of United Artists, government vp at Fox and vp at Warner Bros.
Weinstein’s mom, producer Hannah Weinstein, moved her household to London within the Nineteen Fifties and produced tv initiatives that gave work to blacklisted People, together with “The Adventures of Robin Hood.” Her father was a journalist.
Weinstein’s honors embody two Crystal Awards from Ladies in Movie, the Corridor of Fame Award from Selection, the Nationwide City League Citizen Award, and the Invoice of Rights Award from the Southern California Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. She was a founding member of the Hollywood Ladies’s Political Committee which raised hundreds of thousands of {dollars} for Democratic candidates for over 20 years. She additionally served as a former board member of the ACLU of Southern California.
She is survived by her daughter, Hannah Rosenberg.