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Whoopi Goldberg Signs up for New Comedy Movie Produced by Michelle Obama

The film pairs four veteran stars in a story about grief, marriage and second chances, marking the first Higher Ground-Macro feature collaboration for Netflix.

  • Netflix announced the original comedy "Women Like Us," starring Whoopi Goldberg, Jenifer Lewis, Vanessa Williams, and Vivica A. Fox. Director Tasha Smith will helm production this fall in New York City.
  • A recently widowed woman is dragged to the Hamptons by her lifelong best friends and sister on what should have been her 30th anniversary. The weekend becomes a reckoning with grief, marriage, and the sisterhood that has carried them throughout the years.
  • Charles D. King's Macro Film Studios and President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground are producing the film. Michelle Obama and King will executive produce.
  • Ali Kinney wrote the original script with additional writing from Tracy Oliver, whose credits include "Ginny & Georgia" and "Girls Trip." Both writers bring established experience to the feature comedy.
  • This project continues Netflix and Higher Ground's partnership, which began in 2018. The company has produced various works featuring Black talent, including "Rustin" and "American Symphony.
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Whoopi Goldberg plays in the Netflix comedy "Women Like Us" which is produced by the Obama company. Whoopi Goldberg (70) shoots a film for the production company of Barack (64) and Michelle Obama (62). The Oscar winner takes over one of the leading roles in "Women Like Us", a comedy created as an original film for Netflix. Next to her are Jenifer Lewis (69), Vanessa Williams (63) and Vivica A. Fox (61) in front of the camera. Filmed in New York …

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