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.
Kevin Smith reveals he received ‘bona fide death threats’ for cult classic ‘Dogma’
nypost.comEntertainment Weekly on Friday that he recalled receiving “400,000 pieces of hate mail and three bona fide death threats” after the film debuted.
The comedy starred Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as two fallen angels who attempt to get from New Jersey back to heaven.“The movie had a rubber poop monster in it,” Smith told the outlet. “Can you imagine getting that irate over a movie with a rubber poop monster?”Smith recalled a lot of the hateful messages he received focused on his take on religion.
One message he vividly remembers said: “You Jews better take that money you stole from us and start investing in flak jackets, because we’re coming in there with shotguns.”“I hope whoever wrote that, that missive, found peace,” Smith told the outlet.“Dogma” is currently not on streaming services.
Smith told The Wrap in 2022 that producer Harvey Weinstein was “holding it hostage.”“My movie about angels is owned by the devil himself,” he told the outlet at the time.Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison after being convicted in February 2020 of forcing oral sex on TV and film production assistant Mimi Haley in 2006 and third-degree rape of hairstylist Jessica Mann in 2013.He was acquitted of first-degree rape and two counts of predatory sexual assault from actress Annabella Sciorra’s allegations of rape in the 1990s.
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