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.
Steve Schirripa has revealed that his Sopranos co-star James Gandolfini once threatened to 'beat the f***' out of Harvey Weinstein.The late Gandolfini starred in Killing Them Softly, a film distributed by the disgraced movie mogul's company, back in 2012.But the actor best known for playing Tony Soprano on the HBO mob hit took exception to Weinstein's insistence that he promote the film on the talk show circuit.'He said, "Harvey Weinstein keeps calling, he wants me to do Letterman and I said no." And he got f*cking nasty with Jim,' recalled Schirripa on The Joe Rogan Experience.
Bad blood: Steve Schirripa has revealed that his Sopranos co-star James Gandolfini [R, in 2013] once threatened to 'beat the f***' out of Harvey Weinstein [L, in.
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