Anywhere else in Hollywood, Bob Weinstein would have been the star, with a string of executive producer credits on Oscar winners such as “The English Patient” and “Good Will Hunting” and a track record for making low-budget, profitable films.
But Weinstein, 62, was always the second banana to his larger-than-life older brother Harvey. Now with Harvey booted from the film studio the brothers co-founded, their roles are reversed. It will fall on Bob Weinstein’s shoulders to save the family business and steer it into a new era, one less reliant on the art-house films his brother was known for cultivating.
