Paula Weinstein, the veteran studio executive, two-time Emmy winner and producer on such projects as The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Perfect Storm, Analyze This and Grace and Frankie, died Monday. She was 78.
Weinstein died at her home in New York, her daughter, Hannah Rosenberg, told The Hollywood Reporter. No cause of death was revealed.
“The world is a lesser place without my mother,” Rosenberg said in a statement. “She was a masterful producer and a force of nature for the things she believed in, including the many projects that spanned her illustrious career, the stories she fought to tell and the social justice causes she championed.”
In September, Weinstein exited Tribeca Enterprises, which she joined as executive vp in 2013, to work on political campaigns. She earlier was a vp at Warner Bros., an executive vp at 20th Century Fox and president of United Artists.
In 1989, she and her late husband, Warner Bros. executive Mark Rosenberg, launched Spring Creek Prods. Their Warners-based company produced features including The Fabulous 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 received her Emmys for producing the HBO telefilms Truman (1995) and Recount (2008) for Spring Creek and landed noms for her work on Citizen Cohn (1992) and Too Big to Fail (2011). She was executive producer on Netflix’s Grace and Frankie for all seven of its seasons.
Born in Manhattan on Nov. 19, 1945, Weinstein began her career as an assistant film editor in New York and served as special events director for Mayor John Lindsay, bringing cultural productions and street festivals to communities across the city.
Her producing credits also included Flesh and Bone (1993), The House of the Spirits (1993), Something to Talk About (1995), Liberty Heights (1999), An Everlasting Piece (2000), Analyze That (2002), Deliver Us…
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