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In less than a decade, Timothée Chalamet has gone from a relatively unknown actor to a much sought-after A-lister. Though he is only 29 years old, the actor has had an impressive filmography already. After appearing in some TV episodes and TV movies, his feature film career began in 2014 with the Jason Reitman movie Men, Women, & Children. He appeared in two other movies that year, including Worst Friends and the Christopher Nolan film Interstellar, wherein he played Cooper's young son.

In 2024 alone, Chalamet has had a huge year in his career. This kicked off with his leading role as Paul Atreides in the well-reviewed sci-fi sequel Dune: Part Two, which released in March. He will also soon appear in the biopic A Complete Unknown, wherein he plays famed singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. A Complete Unknown releases widely on Christmas Day, but the movie has already earned Chalamet enough praise to make...

Frank Sabatella, director of Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet, is back with The Shed. Starring Frank Whaley (Vacancy), Cody Kostro (Worst Friends), Sofia Happonen (Women of a Certain Age), Timothy Bottoms (Parasomnia, Last Picture Show), and Jay Jay Warren (“Bosch”), the film is a Bigger Boat production, the company behind Frozen, Saw VI-Jigsaw, and the forthcoming Pumpkinhead remake. Peter Block and Cory Neal (Hatchet) produce. Here’s a lengthy synopsis from the sales agent […]...

Frank Sabatella, director of Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet, is back with The Shed. Starring Frank Whaley (Vacancy), Cody Kostro (Worst Friends), Sofia Happonen (Women of a Certain Age), Timothy Bottoms (Parasomnia, Last Picture Show), and Jay Jay Warren (“Bosch”), the film is a Bigger Boat production, the company behind Frozen, Saw VI-Jigsaw, and the forthcoming Pumpkinhead remake. Peter Block and Cory Neal (Hatchet) produce. Here’s a lengthy synopsis from the sales agent […]...

This November, a new President of the United States will be elected, as President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama leave the White House after two terms in office. Before their historic run comes to an end, fans can see how the First Couple's relationship started in the new film Southside with You, which hits theaters August 26. Today we have the first trailer, which shows how one date turned into a romance that has lasted for over 25 years.

Inspired by Barack Obama and Michelle's first date, Southside with You recounts the eventful summer day in 1989 when a young law firm associate named Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers) tried to woo lawyer Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter) during a daylong date that took them from the Art Institute of Chicago to a screening of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing to the site of their first kiss outside of an ice cream parlor.

Barack and Michelle Obama's first date is being given the Hollywood treatment and Tika Sumpter's Michelle Obama has finally found her leading man.

Parker Sawyers has been cast as the American President in Southside With You, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The film will follow the couple's first day-long date in 1989, which included a visit to the Art Institute in Chicago and to see Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, back when they were in college.

Worst Friends director Richard Tanne developed the idea alongside Sumpter, and is going to direct the film from his own screenplay.

The pair will both serve as executive producers on the project, which will begin filming later this summer in Chicago.

Sawyers' past credits include Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and Zero Dark Thirty.

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The story of Barack and Michelle Obama's first date is to be turned into a film called Southside By You.

Get On Up's Tika Sumpter has already been cast as the young Michelle Obama, but producers are yet to select an actor to play Barack Obama.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film will be set on the first date the Obamas shared together with a trip around Chicago.

Worst Friends director Richard Tanne developed the idea alongside Sumpter, and is going to direct from a script that he has also written. The pair will both serve as executive producers on the project.

Filming is expected to start in July 2015 in Chicago itself.

The Obamas had revealed details of their first date whilst on the campaign trail in 2012. The pair visited the Art Institute of Chicago, walked around the city and saw Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.

Deadline is reporting that President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama will be the focus of a new romantic drama, called "Southside With You," focusing on the days that Barack took Michelle on their first date. The story takes place during the summer of 1989. The date took some convincing. Obama, then an idealistic first-year Harvard Law student, took a summer job as an associate at Chicago law firm Sidley Austin where he fell for lawyer Michelle Robinson, his younger boss. The film spans the day she agreed to go out with him when the two visited the Art Institute, took a long walk, and caught a showing of Spike Lee.s new film, "Do The Right Thing." They were married in 1992. "I took her to this new movie that everybody was talking about, directed by a guy that not that many people had heard of, but it was supposed to be pretty good,...

A film based on the the presidential couple's first date is in the works, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Southside With You will focus on the day in 1989 when first-year law student Barack Obama wooed the future Michelle Obama (then Robinson) with a trip around Chicago. Get On Up's Tika Sumpter will play the young first lady, while no actor has yet been cast to play her future husband. Richard Tanne will direct from a script he wrote. The Worst Friends writer developed the idea with Sumpter, with whom he will executive produce. Tracey Bing and Stephanie Allain

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Deadline reports that a biopic chronicling the Obama’s early days is on the way from Homegrown Pictures. Taking its influence from indie romances as opposed to stern, political thinkpieces, Southside With You will follow the couple during their first date. Aw.

According to this initial report, the film is slated to be “a drama in the vein of Before Sunrise, chronicles the summer 1989 afternoon when the future President of the United States of America wooed his future First Lady on an epic first date across Chicago’s South Side.”

Apparently, the future president took quite a liking to his new boss at the Chicago law firm he’d recently joined. After several attempts, he finally plucked up the courage to ask her out on a date. And so began their courtship, with a glorious afternoon trotting around Chicago, rounded up with a screening of Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing.

The story of President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's first date is being turned into a movie entitled Southside With You, with actress Tika Sumpter signing on to play the First Lady. The story is being compared to Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise, chronicling a 1989 summer afternoon where the future Potus took his future First Lady on a whirlwind first date throughout the South Side of Chicago. Richard Tanne (Worst Friends) is directing from his original screenplay, with the filmmaker currently searching for the right actor to play Barack Obama.

In the summer of 1989, Barack Obama was a first-year Harvard law student, who took a summer job as an associate at the Chicago law firm Sidley Austin, where he fell for his younger boss, attorney Michelle Robinson. Southside With You is set during the day where Michelle agreed to go out with him, as they visited the Art Institute...

Filmmaker Oliver Stone managed to make and release a narrative feature film about a sitting U.S. President with W., and it appears that the same might occur with President Barack Obama. An independent film called Southside With You is in the works, though this is not a scathing indictment of presidential policy nor is it a story of Obama’s rise to office—it’s a date movie! Written by Richard Tanne (Worst Friends), the film will revolve around the first date between a young Barack Obama and lawyer Michelle Robinson, who would later become his wife. Set during one summer afternoon in 1989, the picture is said to be in the vein of Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset. More after the jump. Per Deadline, Tanne is set to direct and produce Southside With You for Homegrown Pictures, with production poised to begin in July on location in Chicago. Get on Up...

First dates are usually the stuff of nightmares, not to mention memoirs, columns, and blog posts, but sometimes they result in spectacular romances that go all the way to the White House.

"Southside With You" is an upcoming indie that will follow the first date of the First Couple, Barack and Michelle Obama, back in 1989. Once Obama successfully convinced his boss Michelle (née Robinson) to go out with him on a date, he took her to the Art Institute, where they had lunch, and then they went on a long walk. The two capped off their date with a trip to the cinema, where they caught a little movie called "Do The Right Thing."

Tika Sumpter ("Get On Up," "Ride Along") will star as Michelle, but there isn't anyone attached to co-star as Barack - yet. Michelle described her impression of Barack after their first date as "hip, cutting edge,...

Exclusive: Radar Pictures has snapped up spec script Midnight from screenwriters Travis Baker and Richard Tanne. The horror-thriller described as “I Know What You Did Last Summer meets Prisoners” centers on a small-town mayor’s daughter who goes missing and the detectives, family and friends who discover she’s just the latest in the town’s dark history of mystery and murder. Baker and Tanne will serve as exec producers on Midnight, which Radar’s Ted Field and Mike Weber will produce and Alexandra Eason will co-produce.

Longtime pals and collaborators Baker and Tanne started out in horror working on Eli Roth’s Hostel before co-writing series Cinema Cool. They teamed up last year on Halloween-set slasher Mischief Night, which Baker wrote and directed, Tanne produced and Lionsgate released. Their indie comedy Worst Friends was acquired by Level 33 this summer and releases on November 4. The duo also has their sword-and-sandal...

Exclusive: Indie comedy Worst Friends has been acquired by Level 33 Entertainment, which is planning a multiplatform September 16 release. Richard Tanne, Noah Barrow, House of Cards‘ Kristen Connolly, Magic Mike‘s Cody Horn, Geoffrey Arend, and Larry Fessenden star in the pic from writer-director Ralph Arend, who conceived the story with Tanne and Barrow. Tanne stars as self-involved prankster Jake, who’s left in a wheelchair after a car accident with only his childhood friend Sam (Barrow) and his no-nonsense physical therapist (Horn) to care for him. When Sam’s high school crush Zoe (Connolly) moves back to town, old rivalries resurface. […]...