New York Post

White House to movie house

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WHILE the Obamas line up their post-White House plans, we hear that first daughter Malia Obama’s already landed a plum gig for sometime in the future — an internship with Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

Sources buzzed about the gig before inaugural weekend. Malia, 18, has already built up an impressive résumé in film and TV, even before she attends Harvard University later this year.

In 2015, she landed a summer internship on the set of HBO’s Lena Dunham series “Girls,” and she was seen delivering coffee to the series’ cast and crew in hip Williamsbu­rg.

Before that she reportedly worked as a production assistant for Halle Berry’s CBS show “Ex- tant,” which was executive produced by Steven Spielberg. She’s also reportedly had an internship at an unnamed fashion house.

Weinstein’s credits include current films “Lion” and “The Founder,” as well as Oscar winners “Shakespear­e in Love,” “The King’s Speech” and “Pulp Fiction.”

An alum of Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, Barack and Michelle Obama’s elder daughter announced last year via the White House that she’d attend Harvard after taking a gap year.

Weinstein has been a big Democratic backer, along with Hollywood moguls such as Jeffrey Katz en berg and superstars like Bar bra Streisand.

At a 2013 Democratic National Committee fund-raiser Weinstein hosted with his wife, Georgina Chapman, Obama thanked the couple for “their friendship and support, and for the amazing movies that they’ve made.”

At a 2012 fund-raiser that Weinstein hosted for Obama with Anne Hathaway, Aaron Sorkin and Joanne Woodward, Weinstein introduced Obama as “the Paul Newman of American presidents.”

Reps for the Weinstein Co. did not comment, and reps for the Obamas did not get back to us on Thursday. The first family was reportedly headed for a Palm Springs, Calif., vacation after the inaugurati­on.

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