Spike Lee bailed on his New York Knicks’ courtside seat for the rest of the season. Maybe he can commiserate with former Knicks enforcer Charles Oakley, anywhere but inside Madison Square Garden. Lee had enough of being held by security in a dispute over his proper entrance to a Knicks game when he invoked the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Spike Lee still has his courtside seat, though the New York Knicks had to tell their superfan to find another way to get there. Lee said he won’t be sitting there the rest of this season, anyway. RELATED: Knicks Say Spike Lee Wasn’t Ejected The Oscar-winning writer-director told ESPN on Tuesday […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Spike Lee still has his courtside seat, though the New York Knicks had to tell their superfan to find another way to get there. The Knicks and Lee had a disagreement Monday night over which entrance the Oscar-winning writer-director could use, but the team did not eject him from Madison Square […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Rock, Mahershala Ali, Regina King and Spike Lee are some of the presenters who will take the Oscars stage at the Dolby Theatre during Sunday’s ceremony. Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Producers Lynette Howell Taylor and Stephanie Allain announced Wednesday the final slate of […]
PARIS (AP) — American director Spike Lee will lead the jury of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the first black person to hold the post in the event’s 73-year history. Festival organizers hope Lee will “shake things up” among the world’s cinema elite at the festival which runs May 12-23. And anti-racism campaigners hope Lee’s […]
Tom Joyner and Spike Lee go way way back! Lee is so “happy” for Joyner to finally be retiring after “a quarter century” of hard work and dedication. Lee thanks Tom for being so supportive of his career over all of these years. Even before he even put out a single film, Tom let him […]
Chadwick Boseman recently dished on a episode of The Fourth Wall podcast, about a couple of his future projects, Spike Lee’s highly anticipated “Da 5 Bloods.” Lee tapped Chadwick Boseman to join the ensemble of his next film, which Netflix will distribute. The film follows Vietnam veterans who go back to the jungle to find their lost innocence […]
Oscar-winner Spike Lee is producing a new spin on the Romeo and Juliet tale by directing a feature adaptation of Ron Wimberly’s graphic novel “Prince of Cats,” which is an 80s hip-hop retelling of the Shakespearean classic. Via Complex: Prince of Cats is described as a hip-hop take on William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet set in 1980’s Brooklyn. The story […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Spike Lee will receive Film at Lincoln Center’s 46th Chaplin Award. Lincoln Center announced Thursday that the 62-year-old filmmaker will be honored in its annual fundraising gala on April 27. For its 50th anniversary last year, Lincoln Center skipped a Chaplin Award honoree and instead hosted a special gala that featured […]
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (AP) — Writer-director Spike Lee added to his New York Knicks collection by purchasing 13 items associated with his favorite team in a recent auction. The family of late Knicks coach Red Holzman sold off 35 items that netted $319,341, according to SCP Auctions, which handled last week’s sale. Among Lee’s acquisitions […]
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (AP) — Writer-director Spike Lee added to his New York Knicks collection by purchasing 13 items associated with his favorite team in a recent auction. The family of late Knicks coach Red Holzman sold off 35 items that netted $319,341, according to SCP Auctions, which handled last week’s sale. Among Lee’s acquisitions […]
Only two months after the premiere of the show’s second season, Netflix has decided to cancel Spike Lee’s series She’s Gotta Have It. This was Lee’s first ever television project, which ran for a total of 19 episodes. Even though Netflix is out of the picture, Lee–who directed every episode himself–is expected to search for a new home […]
