How was Spike Lee able to get his movies in Cacllywood?

[Super Ramon]

Is he the suge knight of hollywood?

 

[AnonymityX1000]

There was audience demand after he did a couple independently.

 

[Ziggiy]

He pretty much produced his early movies independently and on the cheap. I think he shot Shes Gotta Have It on a budget below $200k and it ended up grossing $9 million.

Spike pretty much ushered in the modern day independent film business

 

[AnonymityX1000]

He pretty much produced his early movies independently and on the cheap. I think he shot Shes Gotta Have It on a budget below $200k and it ended up grossing $9 million.

Spike pretty much ushered in the modern day independent film business

He also gave birth to a lot of Black directors.
Matty Rich, Jon Singleton, The Hughes Bros. all got their shot because of what Spike did.

 

[street heat]

cacllywood ? really breh?

yall gotta stop with this try hard shyt

 

[Super Ramon]

cacllywood ? really breh?

yall gotta stop with this try hard shyt

My bad I meant hollyweird

 

[Nigerianwonder]

Spike has put on a lot of the great black actors and directors from Samuel Jackson to Denzel. A lotta big names owe their careers to him. That type of goodwill and pull goes very far in Hollywood. Many of his films are also independently funded.

 

[prophecypro]

He was just that damn good of a filmmaker

You come out the gate with Mo Better Blues, Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever and Malcolm X

 

[Apollo Kid]

It's too bad that after Inside Man, his movies have been trash.

25th Hour is mad underrated.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Spike can't get no more movies made though

I'm talkin national releases. It's like Hollywood made a concerted effort to blackball him

 

[AnonymityX1000]

Spike can't get no more movies made though

I'm talkin national releases. It's like Hollywood made a concerted effort to blackball him

He fukked up by criticizing Clint Eastwood's WW 2 movie (Flags of Our Fathers) in order to promote his own (Miracle at St. Anna), shyt totally backfired. Since then he has no wins with the upper crust of Hollywood.

 

[BlackDynamite310]

He can't now and the ones he did the homies helped fund

 

[OmegaK2099]

I actually liked his version of oldboy

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Ummmmm... cuz theres is another direction..... NY.

If anyplace can neutralize Hollywood its NY.... and he went THAT direction instead

 

[Ziggiy]

It's too bad that after Inside Man, his movies have been trash.

25th Hour is mad underrated.

fukk outta here.

Wasn't NOTHING trash about Chiraq. I love that film