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Obama Not Attending Friday’s Young Hollywood Fundraiser

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday June 25, 2012 @ 7:42pm PDTTags: 42, Barack Obama, Gen44, Hollywood campaign fundraising, Jackie Robinson

President Barack Obama will not be coming to LA on Friday for his Gen44 fundraiser after all. Instead of coming to town, Obama will be sending surrogates to the June 29 evening event at Soho House. Harper Reed, campaign Chief Technology Officer, Mitch Stewart, the Battleground States director and David Simas, director of Opinion Research, will be standing in for the President. From the event’s announcement on June 20th, Obama’s actual presence at the fundraiser was always ambiguous until today. However, a plethora of Young Hollywood and not-so-Young Hollywood, from chair Jared Leto to Olivia Wilde, director David Fincher, musician Peter Frampton, Dirty Dancing’s Jennifer Grey, Connie Britton, DJ Steve Aoki, Big Bang Theory’s Johnny Galecki, The Game author Neil Strauss and Maggie Q, among others, will still be there. A source close to the event told Deadline there may be a video from the President played for the paying guests. Tickets for Friday’s reception are $500 each for attendees and $2,500 each for Host Committee members like Leto and Britton. That’s a far cry from the $40,000 an individual price for Obama’s record-breaking $15 million May 10 dinner at George Clooney’s house. It’s not close in price either to the June 7 $40,000 a couple event the President attended at Glee creator Ryan Murphy’s Beverly Hills home or the $40,000 a person dinner Sarah Jessica Parker and Vogue editor Anna Wintour hosted for the President and the First Lady in NYC on June 14.  The President isn’t coming to LA, which on a Friday might be a traffic blessing, but he is out on the campaign trail this week – with a possible Hollywood connection. As Deadline reported, Obama is hoping to swing by the set of the Jackie Robinson biopic 42 being shot in Atlanta when he is in the Southern city tomorrow for a series of fundraisers. Deadline has been told it is now unlikely the President will meet with the movie’s stars Harrison Ford and Chadwick Boseman, but that it is still possible.

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Obama Wants Jackie Robinson Pic Set Visit

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Saturday June 23, 2012 @ 1:25pm PDTTags: 42, Barack Obama, Hollywood fundraisers, Jackie Robinson, Legendary Pictures, Thomas Tull

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 … Read More »

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Nicole Beharie To Play Jackie Robinson’s Love In ’42′

By BRIAN BROOKS | Tuesday February 14, 2012 @ 10:08am PSTTags: 42, Jackie Robinson, Shame

42 is the biopic of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player. Nicole Beharie will play the role of Rachel Isum, Robinson’s life love. Legendary Pictures will bring 42 to the screen. Last year Beharie starred … Read More »

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Chris Meloni To Play Leo Durocher In Jackie Robinson Film ‘42’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 1, 2012 @ 2:54pm PSTTags: Chris Meloni, Jackie Robinson
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Chris Meloni has been set to play Leo Durocher in 42, the Brian Helgeland-directed biopic for legendary Pictures about Jackie Robinson and the breaking of baseball’s color line. Chadwick Boseman is playing Robinson, … Read More »

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TOLDJA! Harrison Ford Set To Play Branch Rickey In Jackie Robinson Film ’42′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday December 9, 2011 @ 4:36pm PSTTags: 42, Branch Rickey, Harrison Ford, Jackie Robinson
Mike Fleming

Deadline revealed yesterday that Legendary Pictures was courting Harrison Ford to play Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers GM who with Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball in 1947. Legendary has announced that Ford is set, and that … Read More »

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Legendary Courts Harrison Ford To Play Branch Rickey In Jackie Robinson Film ’42′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday December 8, 2011 @ 8:42am PSTTags: 42, Branch Rickey, Brian Helgeland, Harrison Ford, Jackie Robinson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Pictures is courting Harrison Ford to play Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey in 42, the Brian Helgeland-directed chronicle of how Rickey and Jackie Robinson eradicated segregation in baseball in 1947. Helgeland has written a script after Legendary jump-started a long dormant project in collaboration with Robinson’s widow, Rachel Robinson. The film’s being produced by Legendary’s Thomas Tull with Jon Jashni and Dick Cook exec producing. The film will be released by Warner Bros.

Numerous top actors have been mentioned for the Rickey role, including Robert Redford, who was attached a decade ago when the project was first contemplated. Now, it looks like it’s Ford’s role if he wants it, and while he has been mentioned for a number of projects including Ender’s Game, here he would be playing the man who with Robinson was the catalyst for the most groundbreaking event to occur in sports in the 20th century.

It wasn’t enough to decide to break baseball’s color line; Rickey had to search for the right player and qualities that went beyond hitting, fielding, speed and a throwing arm. Read More »

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