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.
Goldie Hawn missed out on 'Chicago' role because Harvey Weinstein thought she was too old
torontosun.comGoldie Hawn missed out on the chance to play Roxie Hart in a mid-1990s movie adaptation of hit musical Chicago, because movie mogul Harvey Weinstein thought she was too old.The actress reveals she was working on the project with Madonna, and Weinstein was brought on board as a producer.
Goldie also recruited director Nicholas Hytner and Weinstein asked the late Wendy Wasserstein to pen the screenplay.All was going smoothly until Hawn saw the first draft of Wasserstein’s script.“It was for a
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