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Netflix, Higher Ground Partners Barack & Michelle Obama Expand Film & TV Creative Collaboration

Netflix and Higher Ground partners Barack & Michelle Obama have signed a new film and TV deal.

Higher Ground’s apocalyptic thriller directed by Sam Esmail, Leave the World Behind, climbed to the fifth spot on Netflix’s Most Popular Films List of all time, with 121 million views in just over three weeks after its premiere. This followed the Oscar-nominated Crip Camp, the Emmy Award-winning Our Great National Parks, as well as Fatherhood, Becoming, Worth, We the People, Descendant, plus the hit kids and family series Waffles + Mochi and Ada Twist, Scientist. Higher Ground is in production on an unscripted series about older people finding companionship, The Later Daters, which the company is producing alongside Harvard-trained behavioral scientist Logan Ury, who will serve as an on-air expert.

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