Kevin Smith Says Harvey Weinstein Screwed Robin Williams Over on Good Will Hunting Pay

The late comic reportedly had a profitable back-end cope with Miramax.

Harvey Weinstein pulled “Good Will Hunting” from theaters early to keep away from paying Robin Williams more cash, based on a brand new e-book.

Kevin Smith, who acted as an government producer on the 1997 Oscar-winning movie, claims in his new work titled “Kevin Smith’s Secret Stash” that the disgraced Hollywood producer made the choice to keep away from a profitable back-end cope with the late comic.

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“The deal that they’d made with Robin was a high-percentage first-dollar gross — a movie-star deal — and it was great, because instantly by putting Robin in the movie their pre-sales paid for the whole f — — — film.” Smith defined whereas discussing the e-book with The Daily Beast.

“He’d get a bigger percentage if it crossed $100 million, so every dollar the movie made at the theatrical box office would have to be split — I’m not sure if it was a 50/50 split — with Robin Williams.”

He went on to say he felt “weird” the day “Good Will Hunting” was leaving the theaters, particularly because it had such unimaginable Oscar buzz.

“They did it because keeping it in theaters meant that more of the money would go to Robin, whereas the moment it went to video the split wasn’t Robin-heavy.