'selling time' with tom cruise maybe
2006-11-01 15:54:35
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answered by askance 4
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Milestones:
* 1980 Wrote, produced and directed first medium-length student film (60-minute thesis for NYU) "Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads"
* 1986 First feature film as director, screenwriter, producer and actor "She's Gotta Have It" (made for approximately $175,000; shot in 12 days)
* 1987 First book published "She's Gotta Have It: Inside Guerilla Filmmaking" (Simon & Schuster)
* 1989 Helmed the controversal racial drama, "Do the Right Thing"
* 1991 Produced first off-Broadway play, "Folks Remembers a Missing Page"
* 1991 Sued by Curtis Brown for money Brown alleged that Lee owed him from when the two men were partners in a production company called Fresh Films, Inc. (in 1984) and Lee was directing and Brown was executive producer of an unfinished film, "The Messenger"
* 1992 Directed Denzel Washington as the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader in "Malcolm X"
* 1992 Formed record label, Forty Acres and a Mule Music Works, a division of Sony; first artists signed: State of Arts, Youssou N'Dour and Lonette McKee
* 1997 Produced and directed the documentary "4 Little Girls"; earned Oscar nomination
* 1997 Signed three-year, first-look production deal with Columbia Pictures
* 1998 Had first Number One hit with "He Got Game", starring Denzel Washington
* 1999 Helmed the controversial "Summer of Sam"
* 2000 Again courted controversy with "Bamboozled", about a TV executive who creates a modern-day minstrel show that becomes a surprise hit TV series
* 2002 Directed the crime drama "The 25th Hour"
* 2002 Was director of the documentary "Jim Brown: All American"; produced under the auspices of HBO sports; released theatrically in USA in March
* 2004 Helmed the comedy "She Hate Me"
* 2006 Helmed a Hurricane Katrina documentary for HBO, "When the Levees Broke"
* 2006 Reteamed with Denzel Washington to direct the hostage drama "Inside Man," also starring Jodie Foster and Clive Owen
* Established two annual $5000 grants for minority students at NYU's film school, "Spike Lee Minority Fellowships to Help Second or Third Year Black Students"
* Founded Forty Acres and a Mule production company
* Grew up in Brooklyn, New York
* Made first student films at NYU (in collaboration with cinematographer Ernest Dickerson), "The Answer" (a ten-minute film about a black screenwriter hired to write and direct a remake of "Birth of a Nation") and "Sarah"
2006-11-02 00:00:05
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answered by Anonymous
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Looks like Selling Time, although he has a mini film about Katrina coming out this year.
2006-11-01 23:57:28
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answered by MRWOK 1
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Better question--Does anyone give a rat's backside about Spike Lee's next movie? He is nothing but a conceited, pompous, long-winded, self promotion machine.
2006-11-01 23:56:13
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answered by Yinzer Power 6
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I heard it's about the aftermath of katrina, or at least was filmed there.
2006-11-01 23:54:14
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answered by Anonymous
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keep it on the down low: the r kelly story
2006-11-01 23:54:29
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answered by reno_tony_casino 5
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