Singer John Legend is apparently already feeling nostalgic about Barack Obama’s presidency, portraying the last eight years as a “scandal-free” era the American people will surely miss.
Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to Barry, a movie about a formative year in the life of a young Barack Obama, following its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this month.
Sony’s Screen Gems micro-budget horror thriller Don’t Breathe finally unseated Suicide Squad for a first-place finish at the box office this weekend as Obama first date biopic Southside With You failed to set hearts aflutter in limited release and Roberto Duran boxing drama Hands of Stone fared decently ahead of its Labor Day weekend expansion.
Pop superstar John Legend showered Michelle and Barack Obama in praise and offered his two cents on the 2016 presidential race in an interview, insisting that GOP White House hopefully Donald Trump has “made it abundantly clear that he’s utterly unqualified to be president.”
A second film chronicling the life of young President Obama has been announced.
In what is sure to become one of the first in a long list of films portraying the life of the Obama’s, “Southside With You” tells the story set in the summer of 1989 of how then-first-year Harvard Law student Barack Obama asked Michelle Robinson out on their first date.
The first photos from Southside with You, the upcoming film about President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama’s first date, were released online Tuesday.
In December, a romantic biopic about the life of President Barack Obama prior to his life in national politics was announced, with a note that a search for a suitable actor to play a young future president was underway. According to Deadline, the search is over.