Obama romance movie “Southside With You” sells to Miramax, Roadside February 13, 2016 - 12:50 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Following a successful partnership on “Mr. Holmes,” Miramax and Roadside Attractions are nearing a low-seven-figure deal to acquire the Obama romance movie “Southside With You”, TheWrap said citing an individual familiar with the negotiations. Richard Tanne wrote and directed the film, which will likely receive a wide release this summer. The movie premiered last month at the Sundance Film Festival, where it earned enthusiastic reviews. Set in Chicago in 1989, “Southside With You” chronicles the first date between future U.S. President Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers) and future First Lady Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter). Stuart Ford‘s IM Global financed the film and is selling international rights in Berlin. They company is also involved in negotiating the domestic deal along with WME Global “Southside With You” was produced by Robert Teitel, Sumpter and Tanne, and executive produced by Ford, Matt Jackson, Glendon Palmer, Mike Jackson, Carrie Holt De Lama, Tracey Bing and John Legend, the latter of whom also sings an original song over the end credits.   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity  The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization.Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia.Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |
