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.
James Gandolfini once threatened to ‘beat the f*** out of’ Harvey Weinstein
metro.co.ukbefore the disgraced producer was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault.The late Sopranos star worked with Weinstein on the 2012 crime drama Killing Them Softly, playing a hitman alongside Brad Pitt.
James was notoriously camera-shy and never blazed the promotional trail a film’s cast usually take part in in the lead up to a movie’s release.
In fact, the Enough Said star only ever sat down for one interview with 60 Minutes in his lengthy career.However, for Killing Them Softly, Weinstein kept calling the actor and insisting he appear on David Letterman’s late-night show.
The director got ‘f***ing nasty’ with the James to the point where the actor threatened actual violence on him, according to James’ Sopranos co-star.
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