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There’s one thing Spike Lee definitely won’t be doing during the Holidays this year — eating popcorn while indulging in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained film, which opens in theaters on Christmas day.
The Do the Right Thing director says he’s boycotting the new movie because he believes it’s the wrong thing for his ancestors.
“American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It Was A Holocaust. My Ancestors Are Slaves. | Full Story
Josh Brolin recently sat down with Collider to discuss his starring role in Spike Lee‘s heavily anticipated remake of Oldboy.
While fans of the Chan-Wook Park original may hold a hefty amount of resentment towards the upcoming film, Josh Brolin — who’s taken on the leading role — had nothing but good things to say about his director, cinematographer, co-star, and overall experience. He’s confident the new film will easily match the cult classic developed by Park. | Full Story
Spike Lee is in negotiations with Nate Parker to be the latest addition to his upcoming remake of Chan-Wook Park’s Oldboy, according to The Playlist.
Though his role in Old Boy seems to be minor, Parker is in talks with Spike Lee to play a doctor who interacts with Elizabeth Olsen. Additionally, the young star will be in such company as Josh Brolin, (who is slated to star) Sharlto Copley, and Samuel L. | Full Story
Michael Jackson will never die — at least not in spirit. Spike Lee did his part to to keep the pop legend alive with his Bad 25 documentary, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival 25 years to the day after Jackson released his chart-topping album.
Lee was commissioned by Sony and Epic records to make the documentary, which he calls “a love letter” to Jackson. The director featured interviews not only with the same old familiar faces, but also a slew of unknown collaborators who worked in the trenches on the album. | Full Story
Spike Lee’s documentary Bad 25, has been picked up by ABC for a Thanksgiving broadcast date. The film features the late-great Michael Jackson, and the making of his classic album, Bad.
Bad 25 is a collaboration between the long-time director in cooperation with Jackson’s estate and Legacy/Epic Records. The film includes never-before-seen footage of Jackson as he toured to support the “Bad” album, along with his studio sessions recording. | Full Story
Samuel L Jackson has joined the cast of the film Oldboy, which is a revenge thriller slated to be directed by Spike Lee.
According to Empire, ‘Oldboy finds Josh Brolin as Joe Douchett, a man held captive in a nondescript room for 15 years, seemingly without cause. When his captor (Sharlto Copley) lets him go, and offers him a few details on what happened and who is responsible, he sets off on a mission to exact vengeance from those who caused him such pain.’
In Oldboy, Jackson is set to play a small role, in fact, he’s going to play a villain who is brutally tortured by Josh Brolin’ character, according to sources. | Full Story
Spike Lee is making the rounds promoting his new film Red Hook Summer, which debuted last weekend with relative good numbers. On his stop in L.A., WHOGOTTHEROLE.com got a chance to talk to the director about his film and why studios didn’t want anything to do with it. We also took the opportunity to pick Lee’s brain about his plans for the American remake of Oldboy, a film that received some backlash from diehard fans after he was announced as director. | Full Story
Spike Lee’s Brooklyn project Red Hook Summer, which was shown in four locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn, averaged about $10,525 per theater. The film took a different route than other specialty movies, opening on four screens instead of the “safer route” of two locations.
“We’re very excited, and think this is a great start to the show,” Variance Films head Dylan Marchetti said. “As Spike often says, ‘no shenanigans’ – so rather than play the per-screen average game and open only two theaters, we made sure the film was available to its audience in Harlem and of course, the Republic of Brooklyn right on the break, and the reaction from the crowds showed it was clearly worth it.”
Red Hook Summer is centered around a young boy who migrates from Atlanta, Georgia to Brooklyn, New York to spend the summer with his grandfather. | Full Story
Spike Lee Making Michael Jackson Documentary for 25th Anniversary of ‘Bad’
What do you get when you pair one of the most compelling documentarians in the film business with perhaps the greatest entertainer of the last century? You get film-making magic. That’s what’s in store with Spike Lee’s documentary on Michael Jackson and the making of the “Bad” album, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.
Lee said he got unlimited access to Michael’s vaults, providing him with priceless footage of the actor at work and even behind-the-scenes film that Michael took himself. | Full Story
Variance Films has released the first full trailer for Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer.
The highly anticipated and controversial film’s synopsis reads:
RED HOOK SUMMER tells the story of Flik Royale (Jules Brown), a sullen young boy from middle-class Atlanta who has come to spend the summer with his deeply religious grandfather, Bishop Enoch Rouse (Clarke Peters), in the housing projects of Red Hook. Having never met before, things quickly get off on the wrong foot as Bishop Enoch relentlessly attempts to convert Flik into a follower of Jesus Christ. | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
the best way to give back was to become a critic. In addition to Who Got the
Role?, he writes for ScreenPicks, We Are Movie Geeks, Off to
See the Elephant, and several other sites. He spent a year watching and
reviewing a documentary every day for his blog, Days of Docs, so now he
knows everything.
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