{"id":74658,"date":"2016-02-13T18:34:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T18:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2016\/02\/13\/miramax-roadside-attractions-picks-up-obama-romantic-film-southside-with-you\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T03:31:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:31:45","slug":"miramax-roadside-attractions-picks-up-obama-romantic-film-southside-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/miramax-roadside-attractions-picks-up-obama-romantic-film-southside-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Miramax, Roadside Attractions Picks Up Obama Romantic Film &#8216;Southside With You&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Miramax, Roadside Attractions Picks Up Obama Romantic Film &#8216;Southside With You&#8217;<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n<p>February 13, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Source: Deadline<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Southside-With-You-Tika-Sumpter-and-Parker-Sawyers-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-75478\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 199 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Southside-With-You-Tika-Sumpter-and-Parker-Sawyers-2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Southside-With-You-Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers 2\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Miramax has acquired North American distribution rights from prolific independent entertainment studio IM Global\u00a0to the romantic film &#8216;Southside With You,&#8217; which made its\u00a0 world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and stars\u00a0<strong>Parker Sawyers<\/strong> as the young <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong> and <strong>Tika Sumpter<\/strong>\u00a0 as Michelle Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>MIRAMAX will partner with Roadside Attractions on domestic theatrical distribution, which will likely be set for late summer 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Richard Tanne, who also makes his directorial debut, the film covers the eventful date in 1989 when a young associate named Barack Obama was trying to woo lawyer Michelle Robinson on a summer afternoon and evening, that took them from the Art Institute of Chicago to a screening of <strong>Spike Lee&#8217;s DO THE RIGHT THING <\/strong>to the site of their first kiss outside of an ice cream parlor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Southside-With-You-pic-Parker-Sawyers-and-Tika-Sumpter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-78793\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 169'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Southside-With-You-pic-Parker-Sawyers-and-Tika-Sumpter-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Southside With You pic Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU is produced by <strong>Robert Teitel, Tika Sumpter<\/strong>, and Richard Tanne. 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