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.
Where the cast of Blade Runner are now - tragic deaths, horror accidents, heated bust-ups
dailystar.co.ukmovie are now… It comes after Ridley pleadged the TV show will "uphold the intellect, themes and spirit of its film predecessors".Harrison Ford (Rick Deckard) took on the lead role first offered to Dustin Hoffman, who turned it down for being “too macho”.He called it his most difficult film experience but boosted him to leading man status with Patriot Games, The Fugitive and Air Force One among his many follow-on blockbusters as well as the Star Wars prequels and Indiana Jones sequels.He has been in a number of aircraft accidents and near misses cheating death and is married to Ally McBeal’s Calista Flockhart.
Next year the 80-year-old pulls on a fedora again to reprise his role as Indiana Jones.Daryl Hannah (Pris) scooped the part over Debbie Harry from Blondie, who was Ridley’s first pick, and scored huge hits next in Splash and Roxanne as well as Kill Bill.Her love life has seen relationships with John F Kennedy Jr, a marriage to Neil Young and she spoke out about suffering sexual harassment from Harvey Weinstein, whom she claimed stopped her finding work after Kill Bill.In 2002 the now 61-year-old played Robbie Williams’ love interest in his video for hit single Feel.Rutger Hauer (Roy Batty) wore hot pink satin trousers and huge green sunglasses for his Blade Runner audition and later branded it his favourite film he’s starred in.Following this success he took on roles in Batman Begins, Sin City and Buffy The Vampire Slayer.Married twice, he died in 2019 aged 75 from an undisclosed illness.Sean Young (Rachael) went on to star in sci-fi flick Dune, Wall Street and Ace Venture: Pet Detective.But her career took a tumble after a horse riding accident meant she had to pull out of playing Vicki Vale in Tim Burton’s.
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