The “Fabulous Baker Boys” producer was 78 years old
Paula Weinstein
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Paula Weinstein, veteran studio executive, two-time Emmy Award winner and producer on projects such as Great baker boys, The perfect storm, Analyze this And Grace and FrankieHe died on Monday. She was 78 years old.
Her daughter, Hannah Rosenberg, said Weinstein died at her home in New York Hollywood Reporter. The cause of death was not revealed.
“The world is a lesser place without my mother,” Rosenberg said in a statement. “She was an accomplished producer and a force of nature for the things she believed in, including many projects spanning her illustrious career, the stories she fought to tell and the social justice issues she championed.”
In September, Weinstein left Tribeca Enterprises, which she joined as an executive vice president in 2013, to work on political campaigns. She was previously a vice president at Warner Bros., an executive vice president at 20th Century Fox and president of United Artists.
In 1989, she and her late husband, Mark Rosenberg, a Warner Bros. executive, launched Spring Creek Prods. Their Warners-based company has produced features including Great baker boys (1989), Analyze this (1999), The perfect storm (2000), Monster in law (2005), Blood diamond (2006) and In the heart of the sea (2015).
She won an Emmys for producing HBO television films Truman (1995) and He told (2008) for Spring Creek and received nominations for her work Citizen Cohen (1992) and Too big to fail (2011). She was an executive producer at Netflix Grace and Frankie For all its seven chapters.
Born in Manhattan on November 19, 1945, Weinstein began her career as an assistant film editor in New York and served as director of special events for Mayor John Lindsay, presenting cultural productions and street festivals to communities throughout the city.
Her producing credits are also included Flesh and bone (1993), House of spirits (1993), Something to talk about (1995), Freedom Heights (1999), Eternal piece (2000), Analyze it (2002), Save us from Eva (2003) and This is where I leave you (2014).
At Tribeca, Weinstein, as chief content officer, managed the company’s branded entertainment and oversaw programming for the annual Tribeca Film Festival. She helped create and popularize the Tribeca Talks series, which featured Tom Hanks with Bruce Springsteen, Alejandro G. Iñárritu with Marina Abramović, Barbra Streisand with Robert Rodriguez and George Lucas with Stephen Colbert, among other pairings.
Weinstein also played a pivotal role in building Tribeca Studios, pursuing programs focused on empowering underrepresented filmmakers in collaboration with brands including P&G, Chanel, Dick’s Sporting Goods, and Bank of America.
In a statement, Tribeca CEO and co-founder Jane Rosenthal called Weinstein her mentor.
“Paula has always been someone I could look up to and served as an inspiration to me and countless other women,” she said. She was gorgeous inside and out, intelligent, politically and socially astute, and had a wonderful sense of humour. The industry has lost one of its great and passionate producers and storytellers, and Tribeca has lost a family member and a dear friend.
Weinstein received a Crystal Award from Women in Film in 1999 and has served on the boards of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union, and on President Obama’s National Finance Committee.
She was also a founding member of the Women’s Political Committee of Hollywood, which has raised millions of dollars for Democratic candidates for more than 20 years, and a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.
Weinstein was married to Mark Rosenberg – brother Los Angeles Law Actor Alan Rosenberg – from 1984 until his death from heart failure on the set of Texas Flesh and bone In 1992. He was 44 years old. Survivors include her sisters, Lisa and Dina.
