Publishing

On return from South Africa, Weinstock worked as an editor at Random House and Riverhead Books before becoming a full-time author. His publications include the nonfiction book The Secret Love of Sons; the novels As Long As She Needs Me and The Golden Hour; and articles and essays in magazines including The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Vogue, Elle, Glamour, and GQ.

Speechwriting

In 2000 Weinstock was hired by Peter Chernin, then president of News Corporation, to serve as Director of Corporate Communications. A year later, on his promotion to Vice President of Corporate Communications, Weinstock became chief speechwriter for the Chairman of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch.

Producing

In 2004 Weinstock moved to Los Angeles to join 20th Television (then 20th Century Fox Television) as Vice President of Comedy Development. In 2007 director Judd Apatow tapped Weinstock to run Apatow Productions, with Weinstock overseeing Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Step Brothers, Pineapple Express, Get Him to the Greek, and Bridesmaids. Two years later, Weinstock reunited with Peter Chernin to serve as Senior Vice President at the launch of Chernin Entertainment. In 2015 Weinstock partnered with actor/director Ben Stiller as the Creative Head of Red Hour Films.

In 2016, while heading Red Hour, Weinstock discovered and developed the series Severance, nominated for 14 Emmy Awards in its first season and 27 in its second.^[4][5][6] Weinstock continues to serve as Executive Producer of the series.

In addition to Severance, under Weinstock’s leadership, Red Hour released the films Alex Strangelove, The Package, Plus One, Dinner in America and Queenpins, along with the series In the Dark, which ran for four seasons on the CW and Netflix, and Escape at Dannemora, which was aired on Showtime and nominated for 12 Emmy Awards.^[7]

In 2021 Weinstock founded Invention, an independent production company with executives in Los Angeles, Australia, Kenya and Uganda. Under the Invention banner, Weinstock is developing projects with Apple TV+, FX, Fifth Season, Fremantle, Mattel Studios, Tomorrow Studios, Gaumont (Italy), BriskPace (Germany), Easy Tiger (Australia), Good Bad Films (India), and more.

In 2024 Weinstock produced Thelma, casting 94-year-old June Squibb in the first leading role of her career. Invention's inaugural feature, Thelma was distributed by Magnolia Pictures and Universal Studios, and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.^[8] The same year, Invention announced two independent films: In Memoriam, directed by Rob Burnett and starring Marc Maron, Sharon Stone, Lily Gladstone, and Justin Long; and The Saviors, directed by Kevin Hamedani and starring Adam Scott, Danielle Deadwyler and Greg Kinnear.^{[9][10][11][12]} In 2026 Neon acquired global rights to Invention’s “Clarissa,” a Lagos-set adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway,” directed by twins Arie and Chuko Esiri, starring Sophie Okonedo, David Oyelowo, Ayo Edebiri and India Amarteifio.

In 2025 Weinstock partnered with Glassriver on the Iceland-set series Masquerade, a prestige thriller about an American reporter, created by Icelandic writer Andri Ottarsson (Case).^[13] With projects in development in Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, India, the Philippines, Nigeria, Rwanda and more, Weinstock is one of the only American producers with an international slate and global reach.