Good Will Hunting. 1997.
Shakespeare in Love 1998.
Been a while, more than a decade.
Those were Weinstein's Oscar winners with Miramax. Since then the new company, The Weinstein Company, has won with Chicago and The King's Speech. They also had a hand in making The Artist or bringing it to America.
The Weinsteins probably have a lot of people reading scripts for them. Young Obama's probably only one of many. A president's kid is a curiosity, somebody to show off to Hollywood people who are impressed by that sort of thing. Harvey's not going to have her making coffee for him. But that doesn't mean she's running the company.