Harvey Weinstein CBE (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer. He and his brother Bob Weinstein co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films, including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), The Crying Game (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), and Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love, and garnered seven Tony Awards for a variety of plays and musicals, including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded The Weinstein Company, a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.
Ben Affleck Confirmed On Harvey Weinstein’s ‘Red Flag List’ Of Actors He Feared Would Talk To Journalists About His Sexual Misconduct
etcanada.comMore information is pouring out of the 1,000-plus pages of recently unsealed documents from Harvey Weinstein’s trial ahead of his sentencing on Wednesday, after the disgraced movie mogul was found guilty on two charges in his sexual assault trial.
Among that information, Variety confirmed, is that Weinstein had been keeping a “red flag list” of actors, producers and others he’d worked with over the years that he feared would confirm accusations of his sexual misconduct to reporters.
According to Variety, the list was a lengthy one that featured more than 70 names, including actress Annabella Sciorra (who was one of his accusers at his trial) and Rose McGowan.
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