It covers one day in the summer of 1989 - way before the stress of two historic White House terms turned his hair gray - when Obama wooed the future First Lady on a whirlwind date across Chicago’s South Side. Scripted and directed by Richard Tanne, the film stars Tika Sumpter, Parker Sawyers and Vanessa Bell Calloway. Miramax and Roadside teamed on the Ian McKellen starrer Mr Holmes, a prestige film hit that grossed nearly $18 million in the U.S.
IM Global financed the film and will sell international rights this week at Berlin, where it screened for offshore buyers today. Stuart Ford’s IM Global is finalizing the deal with WME Global. The hope is to release in the summer, and the expectation is that it will have strong appeal with African-American and art house audiences. There is also a mid-seven-figure P&A and a substantial screen count that promises a wide release for one of the most popular films to premiere at Sundance, and this makes it one of the bigger deals from that festival.
They are finishing the deal in Berlin tonight, sources tell me, and they’ll release in partnership with Roadside Attractions. President Barack Obama and future First Lady Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, is near closing with Miramax in a North American rights deal around $2 million. I’ve added the press release below the original story break.ĮXCLUSIVE: Southside With You, the film that chronicles the first date between future U.S. UPDATED, February 13, 11:49 AM: Miramax has confirmed the story Deadline broke Friday, that it acquired rights to the Obamas’ first-date film Southside With You and will release in partnership with Roadside Attractions.
2nd UPDATE, March 15: Miramax has set an August 19 opening for the Obamas’ first-date film Southside With You, which it is releasing in partnership with Roadside Attractions.
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