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.
Graham Norton claims Harvey Weinstein forced his way onto his TV show
nypost.comJoe.“And actually, it was weird, because he asked for my e-mail. And he e-mailed me something very nice, a complimentary thing.
And then he decided he wanted to be on the show, because he was going to promote something.“And it was a show that was fully booked, so I replied saying ‘Oh, thank you so much, but the show is fully booked’.
He e-mailed back: ‘What if I blah de blah de blah’.“And he e-mailed back again, ‘But I think…’, and I just had to turn to my booker and say ‘Can you please deal with this?’ And at the time, I thought that sort of attitude, that kind of ‘Oh no, I’m going on’, that is what makes you a very good producer.“But of course, now that we know what we know, that is what makes him a predator.
It was that kind of weird, tunnel-vision thing. And it was sort of chilling in retrospect, because I was just laughing at those emails.
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