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 says Harvey Weinstein stiffed him on royalties for Clerks for SEVEN YEARS
dailymail.co.ukKevin Smith says Harvey Weinstein stiffed him on royalties from his breakout hit Clerks for seven years after the 1994 movie's breakout success with $3.2 million.The 49-year-old director told Variety how the producer (who's currently serving 23 years in his rape conviction) was heavy-handed in the business relationship with him.Smith said he 'did encounter' problems getting paid his fair share from Weinstein, who 'was notorious for' stiffing people out of money he owed them.
The latest:Kevin Smith, 49, says Harvey Weinstein, 68, stiffed him on royalties from his breakout hit Clerks for seven years after the 1994 movie's breakout success with $3.2 millionSmith said he's 'still out money' from what he's owed for his work with the disgraced.
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