(Official White House photo by Pete Souza)
By Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter
Bets are good that the Obama family will be watching the Oscar telecast on Feb. 26 considering what avid movie fans they are.
Now
that he’s gone from office, Hollywood insiders reveal the Obama White
House constantly asked for access to new releases. Hollywood has a long
tradition of providing films to the White House, where there’s a posh
screening room.
“There
was never a film they didn’t request to watch,” says an executive at
one studio. President Obama’s office also routinely requested awards
screeners (including La La Land and other current Oscar contenders).
Another source says an ask even came in to watch Monster Trucks
several days before Barack and Michelle Obama and their daughters,
Malia — currently interning at Harvey Weinstein’s film company — and
Sasha, left the White House for good on Jan. 20.
Sources
say one or more members of the Obama family watched movies in the
screening room, in the private residence and even on Air Force One. And
when vacationing in Kailua, Hawaii, the Obama family often went to a
nearby Regal theater.
“Bill
Clinton was famously interested as well in movies, but that was in the
DVD era, so more often than not, he would ask for DVDs,” says an
executive. “George W. not so much.”
So far, the Trump White House has been relatively quiet, although the new president hosted a screening for Finding Dory (on DVD) and asked for access to James Franco-Bryan Cranston comedy Why Him?.
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