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.
Harvey Weinstein undercut Robin Williams’ film deal, says Kevin Smith
nme.comGood Will Hunting out of cinemas early so that Robin Williams would receive less money, Kevin Smith has claimed.Smith, who served as co-executive producer, approached the subject in his new book Kevin’s Smith’s Secret Stash, saying that Weinstein, who produced the film, had it removed from cinemas in order to cap its profit.Allegedly Williams’ deal stipulated that if the film grossed over $100million at the box office, he would receive a greater percentage of the film’s gross, which would be split with Weinstein’s production company Miramax.“They pulled that movie out of theatres while it was still earning at the time,” he explained to The Daily Beast.“It was doing incredibly well, and the deal that they’d made with Robin was a.
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