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.
Julia Stiles Says Harvey Weinstein ‘Got His Hands’ on Her 2000 Rom-Com and ‘It Became Dumb’; She ‘Felt Slimy’ When Reshoots Made Her Film a Dance Scene
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Julia Stiles appeared on Brett Goldstein’s “Films to Be Buried With” podcast and remembered feeling “slimy” when she was forced to perform a dance scene in the 2000 rom-com “Down to You” after Harvey Weinstein took control of the production.
Stiles said Weinstein ruined the movie. “Down to You” paired Stiles with Freddie Prinze Jr. in the story of two college students who fall for each other and have an up-and-down romance.
The movie was made during the teen rom-com boom, when both actors became icons of the year prior thanks to the hits “She’s All That” and “10 Things I Hate About You.” Stiles called Prinze a “lovely, wonderful actor” and said the “Down to You” script was “very good.
And then Harvey Weinstein got his hands on it and decided to capitalize on this trend… and it just became dumb.” “When we did reshoots, I’m told that [Harvey] decided that because of the success of ‘Save the Last Dance’ and ’10 Things I Hate About You,’ with me dancing on the pool table, that he needed to have me dance in the film,” Stiles continued. “It was just dumb. ‘Let’s get her on a pool table and have her [dance].’ It wasn’t even imaginative.
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