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Legendary Entertainment chief Thomas Tull tells Deadline that President Obama is hoping to drop by the set of the Jackie Robinson biopic 42 on Tuesday. The President on June 26th will be appearing at fundraisers in Atlanta, where Legendary’s film is shooting. Tulls says they’d received a call from the White House earlier this week to see if it would be OK if Obama came by. “Well, of course I said it would be OK,” said Tull, who has given $35,800 to the Obama Victory Fund 2012 so far. Details of the set visit are still being worked out. In recent campaign speeches, Obama has mentioned Robinson, who broke baseball’s color barrier, as “laying the groundwork” for an African-American to become President. Obama recently has relentlessly been hitting up Hollywood for cash.
42, which was the ball player’s uniform number, details Robinson’s 1947 rookie season with the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Brian Helgeland-directed film stars Harrison Ford as Dodgers GM Branch Rickey and Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson. 42 is scheduled to be released on April 12, 2013, not long after the MLB season opener.
The last time the President was in Atlanta was on March 16 for a pair of fundraisers at supporter Tyler Perry’s film and TV studio.
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So one person can give $35.800 to the politician, and its ok with you people? Its called corruption. In real countries you can’t give money to politicians.
But Sheldon Addelson’s $10M to Gingrich & potential $100M (from Chinese casinos)to Romney is ok to you people?
No! They are both wrong. Do you think they are both right?
Why doesn’t David Geffen give $500 Million to an Obama PAC? Katzenberg could give $200 Million and never miss it. Same with Spielberg. Hollywood has so many billionaires why don’t they give big money? Because they are all limousine liberals and they are selfish and greedy.
They don’t care that much about Obama being re-elected. If they did then you’d see all of them giving more than Adelson gives to the Republicans and the only reason he gives so much is because he thinks they are more supportive of Israel than Obama is. Haim Saban is a billionaire but you don’t see him donating hundreds of millions to the Democrats and he’s a super hawk with regard to Israel vs. Iran.
Because Geffen doesn’t want to waste $500 million, that’s why. He isn’t stupid, you know.
So only the government can give money to politicians?
Yeah…that’s MUCH better.
So let’s see — in six months he’s “given” just about $36,000 into the bottomless well of Obama’s campaign fund…
Wonder how much the assistants at his company have been paid.
Let’s hope this is part of Obama’s farewell tour
That won’t happen, we don’t need a republican. That will not help anything that’s going on in this country. People want change, but change happens slowly, an economy takes years to get back to where it was.
It doesn’t happen overnight… I’m sick of people putting the president down, more people under the age of 26 thanks to the extended healthcare have health insurance.
That is a very good thing…
I disagree. Change doesn’t happen THAT slowly. This administration has been nothing but a strong headwind on the economy. Romney has the experience to clean up after this president’s bumbled mess of a term. And since when is it ok to mooch off your parents till your 26? It doesn’t matter since the Supreme Court will likely rule against the healthcare law this week.
It’s not about experience. It’s about cooperation. And this president has barely gotten any from the Republicans. THAT’S the problem.
Ever since the GOP ended the Democrats filibuster-proof majority with the Scott Brown Senate seat win in 2009 almost nothing has gotten done. Had the GOP been more willing to compromise unemployment EASILY would be under 7% right now. But while they care about unemployment, they care about winning MORE. So don’t blame this all the President. Congress needs to do their job too.
And mooching off parents? Perhaps if insurance wasn’t so damn expensive and college grads didn’t have thousands of dollars in student loans more young adults could afford to buy their own insurance.
You can’t be talking about the first two years of the Obama presidency when he had majorities in both chambers of Congress. Sorry, but the obstructionist Republicans talking point just doesn’t fly.
It’s not a good thing to be a mooch and change doesn’t happen THAT slowly unless you have an administration that acts as a strong headwind for the economy.
Have you heard of Super PACs, 35k is a drop in thr bucket, and we know who gave the money.
Obama is addicted to showbiz now the same way Clinton became addicted. They love being in the spotlight with stars.
I guess people have forgotten about the Koch brothers? It’s ok for conservatives to give and give more, but for liberals to give that’s a no no. You all sound like a bunch of FOX hypocrites
Are you a troll, Soros?
They are all crooks. Can’t you see that?
just glad he’s not going to hamper LA traffic fur the umpteenth time in two months.
“42 is scheduled to be released on April 12, 2013, not long after the MLB season opener.”
The April 12 date is significant as it represents the day in which Jackie Robinson made his debut as a Brooklyn Dodger. April 12, 2013 is the 66th anniversary of what is now known as “Jackie Robinson Day.”
At least we know what movie I am not seeing. I’m going to boycott this to no extent. Word of mouth and facebook.
Chaz, congrats, you’re RACIST.
Deep, very deep.
I don’t know why you’re all focusing on money when the real subject is Fantastic PR!
Even money couldn’t buy you this kind of publicity — oh wait, it did.
I thought Deadline was an entertainment news site, not a political forum. Politics aside, “42″ is a movie that is long overdue. They filmed for 2 weeks here in my hometown south of Atlanta, and I’m very proud to have been a part of it. While I was only an extra, I got to sit right behind Mr. Ford for a pivotal stadium scene in which Jackie Robinson scored his first run after becoming a part of the Dodgers organization.
“Details of the set visit are still being worked out.” ugh!…not!!
Dom, do you really believe your readers think this “visit” is anything but a very well orchestrated campaign stop that’s been months in planning strategically made to capture the baseball-loving minority vote in nov.??
Chaz, “to no extent” means not at all, you moron. You contradicted yourself with your own bigoted stupidity.
Just sec! Why does politics banter always rear it’s bloated head in these forums? Remember the AOL days when we’d all go in an online chat room and make fun of “that guy”? You sir are “that guy”. This is a $60 million biopic about Jack Robinson. It’s a human interest story. Let’s focus on that and not anachronistic politics!
Really? Is everyone talking about a 35k donation to a campaign that raised close to a billion USD? Really? Let’s talk about movies. Refrain from saying that the previous two Democratic presidents are the Antichrists and therefore “addicted” to Hollywood. Hollywood is a machine that was created by the government. Please see: Roosevelt’s WPA, then HCUA… (do not shorthand this step to looking at The McCarthy Hearings, those are different and an incorrect assumption) Then read Ayn Rand’s Screen Guide for Americans… which was a warning on how to create a sense of national cinema which we still don’ have… then you’ll start to understand that Presidents, Politics and Hollywood have a long history. This has very little to do with 35k investments in politics. Obama is playing by the prewritten playbook. He is NOT authoring any new pages of it either.