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Paula Weinstein

Born November 19, 1945 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Died March 25, 2024 · aged 78

Paula Weinstein (November 19, 1945 – March 25, 2024) was an American film and television producer, executive, and political activist, known for producing films like The Perfect Storm and Blood Diamond, and the TV series Grace and Frankie. Born in Manhattan in 1945, she began her career in Hollywood and rose to become an executive at several major studios before co-founding Spring Creek Productions…

Known For

Blood Diamond

Blood Diamond · 2006

MovieDramaThriller

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

In the Heart of the Sea

In the Heart of the Sea · 2015

In the Heart of the Sea

MovieThrillerDrama

In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.

The Perfect Storm

The Perfect Storm · 2000

The Perfect Storm

MovieDramaAdventure

In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.

This Is Where I Leave You

This Is Where I Leave You · 2014

This Is Where I Leave You

MovieDramaComedy

When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Looney Tunes: Back in Action · 2003

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

MovieAnimationComedy

Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recently-fired stuntman Damien Drake Jr. and embarks on a round-the-world adventure, along with Bugs and The VP of Warner Bros. Their mission? Find Damien's father, and the missing blue diamond... and stay one step ahead of The Acme Corp., who wants the diamond for their own purposes.

Monster-in-Law

Monster-in-Law · 2005

MovieRomanceComedy

Office temp Charlotte Cantilini thinks she's found Mr. Right when she starts dating gorgeous surgeon Dr. Kevin Fields. But there's a problem standing in the way of everlasting bliss: Kevin's overbearing and controlling mother, Viola. Fearing she'll lose her son's affections forever, Viola decides to break up the happy couple by becoming the world's worst mother-in-law.

The House of the Spirits

The House of the Spirits · 1993

The House of the Spirits

MovieRomanceDrama

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

Rumor Has It...

Rumor Has It... · 2005

Rumor Has It...

MovieComedyRomance

Sarah Huttinger learns that her family was the inspiration for the book and film "The Graduate" -- and that she just might be the offspring of the well-documented event.

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Blood Diamond

Blood Diamond · 2006

MovieDramaThriller

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

Producer

In the Heart of the Sea

In the Heart of the Sea · 2015

In the Heart of the Sea

MovieThrillerDrama

In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.

Producer

The Perfect Storm

The Perfect Storm · 2000

The Perfect Storm

MovieDramaAdventure

In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.

Producer

This Is Where I Leave You

This Is Where I Leave You · 2014

This Is Where I Leave You

MovieDramaComedy

When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.

Producer

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Looney Tunes: Back in Action · 2003

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

MovieAnimationComedy

Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recently-fired stuntman Damien Drake Jr. and embarks on a round-the-world adventure, along with Bugs and The VP of Warner Bros. Their mission? Find Damien's father, and the missing blue diamond... and stay one step ahead of The Acme Corp., who wants the diamond for their own purposes.

Producer

Monster-in-Law

Monster-in-Law · 2005

MovieRomanceComedy

Office temp Charlotte Cantilini thinks she's found Mr. Right when she starts dating gorgeous surgeon Dr. Kevin Fields. But there's a problem standing in the way of everlasting bliss: Kevin's overbearing and controlling mother, Viola. Fearing she'll lose her son's affections forever, Viola decides to break up the happy couple by becoming the world's worst mother-in-law.

Producer

The House of the Spirits

The House of the Spirits · 1993

The House of the Spirits

MovieRomanceDrama

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

Executive Producer

Rumor Has It...

Rumor Has It... · 2005

Rumor Has It...

MovieComedyRomance

Sarah Huttinger learns that her family was the inspiration for the book and film "The Graduate" -- and that she just might be the offspring of the well-documented event.

Producer

Analyze This

Analyze This · 1999

MovieComedyCrime

Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti needs help dealing with his role in the "family," unlucky shrink Dr. Ben Sobel is given just days to resolve Vitti's emotional crisis and turn him into a happy, well-adjusted gangster.

Producer

Analyze That

Analyze That · 2002

MovieComedyCrime

The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel for help and finds that Sobel needs some serious help himself as he has inherited the family practice, as well as an excess stock of stress.

Producer

Bandits

Bandits · 2001

MovieComedyCrime

After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and California in order to finance their scheme for a new life south of the border. Unfortunately, things get more complicated when they meet Kate, who runs into them with her car. She joins the bandits on their cross-country spree, and eventually she steals something, too: their hearts.

Producer

How Do You Know

How Do You Know · 2010

How Do You Know

MovieComedyDrama

After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.

Producer

The Company Men

The Company Men · 2010

The Company Men

Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and two co-workers jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands and fathers.

Producer

Too Big to Fail

Too Big to Fail · 2011

Too Big to Fail

MovieDramaTV Movie

An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.

Executive Producer

The Fabulous Baker Boys

The Fabulous Baker Boys · 1989

The Fabulous Baker Boys

MovieComedyDrama

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.

Producer

Something to Talk About

Something to Talk About · 1995

Something to Talk About

MovieComedyDrama

Grace King Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie is deceiving her with another woman. After confronting him in the middle of the night on the streets of their small home town, she decides to stay at her sister Emma Rae's house for a while to make up her mind. Breaking out of her everyday life, she starts to question the authority of everyone.

Producer

The Astronaut Farmer

The Astronaut Farmer · 2007

The Astronaut Farmer

MovieScience FictionAdventure

Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he's an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he's built and wants to take into space. It's his dream. The FBI puts him under surveillance when he tries to buy rocket fuel, and the FAA stalls him when he files a flight plan – but Charles is undeterred.

Producer

Envy

A man becomes increasingly jealous of his friend's newfound success.

Producer

Possession

Possession · 2002

MovieDramaMystery

Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.

Producer

With Honors

With Honors · 1994

MovieComedyDrama

Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.

Producer

Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels · 2004

Iron Jawed Angels

MovieDramaTV Movie

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

Executive Producer

Bejewelled

Bejewelled · 1991

MovieActionTV Movie

An American's family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a private investigator-in-training to try and recover them.

Executive Producer

Deliver Us from Eva

Deliver Us from Eva · 2003

Deliver Us from Eva

MovieRomanceComedy

Eva Dandridge has been in charge of her younger sisters ever since their parents died many years ago. She is a very uptight young woman who constantly meddles in the affairs of her sisters and their significant others. Her brothers-in-law, who are tired of Eva interfering in their lives, decide to set her up with someone so she can leave them alone. They end up paying Ray, the local "playboy," $5,000 to date her. The plan goes by smoothly, but trouble comes when Ray actually falls in love with Eva.

Executive Producer

Flesh and Bone

Flesh and Bone · 1993

MovieDramaRomance

Haunted by memories of his father murdering a family, Arlis Sweeney prefers to keep to himself, focusing his energy on his work. One day, the traumatic past that eats away at him returns when he meets Kay Davies, a woman connected to the bloody event. Against all odds, Arlis and Kay fall in love; however, when his father, Roy, reappears in his life -- with the coldhearted Ginnie in tow -- Arlis must deal with his past demons.

Producer

Grace and Frankie

Grace and Frankie · 2015

Grace and Frankie

SeriesComedyDrama

Elegant, proper Grace and freewheeling, eccentric Frankie are a pair of frenemies whose lives are turned upside down - and permanently intertwined - when their husbands leave them for each other. Together, they must face starting over in their 70s in a 21st century world.

Executive Producer

Salem Witch Trials

Salem Witch Trials · 2003

Salem Witch Trials

Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that forever stands as one of the darkest chapters in American history. For those accused of witchcraft by their neighbors and friends, there was little chance of clearing their names; the mass paranoia that ravaged through the community took the lives of 19 innocent men and women.

Executive Producer