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 is making some big claims against Harvey Weinstein. In his new book, Kevin Smith’s Secret Stash, the writer/director, and executive producer of the 1998 Oscar-winning film “Good Will Hunting”, claimed Weinstein, head of Miramax at the time, pulled the flick from theatres early to mess with star Robin Williams’ deal.
According to Smith, if the film grossed over $100 million dollars at the box office, Williams would receive a greater percentage of the film’s gross, splitting that money with Miramax. READ MORE: Robin Williams Is ‘The Tasmanian Devil Of Standup Comedy’ In ‘Superstar’ Profile But Weinstein and the production company pulled the film early, despite it doing well. “I remember when ‘Good Will Hunting’ was leaving
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