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*Jamie Foxx and his crew of “Django Unchained” cohorts have been pumping up the volume on the new flick everywhere. He’s also been getting a lot of flack for the production. It should come as no surprise that one notable person in particular, Spike Lee, is refusing to see it because he says it’s disrespectful. [...]
*Director Spike Lee‘s most recent cinematic achievement, “Red Hook Summer,” is now out on DVD and Blu-ray. To help celebrate, Image Entertainment’s One Village label is giving you a chance to win a $500 gift card and a personally signed DVD or Blu-ray copy of the film by Spike Lee himself. “Red Hook Summer” stars [...]
*CHATSWORTH, CA – The limits of faith and temptation are tested in the upcoming DVD and Blu-ray release of Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer. Image Entertainment’s One Village label will release the film on both Blu-ray and DVD on December 21, 2012. Red Hook Summer stars Clarke Peters (Endgame, Notting Hill), Nate Parker (The Great [...]
*Mike Tyson is getting some backlash for announcing that a national tour of his one-man stage show will start in the city that sent him to prison for rape. As previously reported, the former heavyweight boxing champ on Feb. 12 will launch a 23-city run of “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth” in Indianapolis, where he served [...]
*Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson plans to take his one-man theater show on a U.S. Tour in early 2013. Tyson, 45, made the announcement Tuesday on ABC’s late-night show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth” is an autobiographical monologue performed by Tyson in which he reflects upon his tough childhood in Brooklyn, the [...]
*Spike Lee has something up his sleeve for the commemorative “Bad25” documentary airing tomorrow night (Thanksgiving) at 9:30pm E/P on ABC. Michael Jackson will forever be immortal through his music and influence. Spike is planning to tell his story, however, through film, taking fans on a journey through the life and career of one of [...]
*Spike Lee’s remake of Park Chan-wook’s 2003 suspense thriller “Oldboy” will get an Oct. 11, 2013 release date from distributer FilmDistrict, reports Deadline. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Spike’s version stars Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley and Samuel L. Jackson. Brolin plays an advertising executive who is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years [...]
*ABC has released a 60-second trailer for its Thanksgiving night premiere of “Michael Jackson: BAD25,” the Spike Lee-directed documentary that chronicles the making of the King of Pop’s “Bad” album. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] In addition to behind-the-scenes footage, the trailer promotes interviews with Sheryl Crow (a one-time back-up singer), Martin Scorsese (who directed [...]
*The Spike Lee-directed documentary “BAD25,” which takes viewers through the making of Michael Jackson’s 1987 album “Bad” and recently debuted at the Venice and Toronto film festivals, will get a one-week theatrical run in Los Angeles and New York beginning Oct. 19. After the theater run, “BAD25” will air on ABC on Thanksgiving night (Nov. [...]
*Could a “Porgy and Bess” remake be on the horizon? For over a decade now, Spike Lee has been attempting to revive George Gershwin’s 1935 folk opera story, but he’s been met with some tough opposition from the Gershwin estate. The filmmaker was close at one point, but the whole deal fell apart after a [...]
*EURweb partner/associate Cherise Nicole (www.CNikky.com) got together with the usually grumpy and sour Spike Lee, but on this day he was feeling real good. Who knows, maybe it was the affable cutie pie, Miss Nicole, who brought that big smile to Mr. Spike’s face that didn’t leave for the rest of the interview. Cherise got [...]
*Spike Lee’s “Red Hook Summer” has been met wtih mixed reviews from critics from the major news outlets, but has been given a favorable review here in our dear EUR/Electronic Urban Report. Those that have expressed concern over the film’s content and script simply cannot bring themselves to imagine how many major parts of the [...]
*Director Spike Lee spoke to CNN’s Don Lemon about stereotypes in film, and the conversation inevitably swung around to Tyler Perry. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The two directors traded public barbs after Lee, in 2009 said, among other things, that Perry’s films “harken back to ‘Amos n’ Andy’. Perry responded by famously saying Spike [...]
*Both Spike Lee and Chris Rock have reasons to smile. Their movies debuted with strong numbers in one of the toughest cities in the country: New York. Spike Lee’s “Red Hook Summer,” was placed on four New York screens. The film, which follows 13-year-old Flik Royale as he is sent from Atlanta to Red Hook,Brooklyn [...]
*Spike Lee’s homage to controversial civil rights leader Malcolm X apparently goes deeper than a movie.You may recall, Lee wrote and directed Denzel Washington in a biopic about Malcolm in 1992. Now, according to the New York Post, after hearing that the estate of the late icon owes the Manhattan Mini Storage Company $2,447, the [...]
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