Daily Dish (Free subscription) | yesterday
Meat/meet with Spike Lee: Have a hankering to discuss the recondite narrative mechanisms of "Girl 6" or the New York Knicks' defense? Filmmaker Spike Lee will join Andrew Siciliano and Mychal Thompson of 710 AM ESPN for a luncheon that...
VH1 Reality World (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yesterday, Sean “Diddy” Combs held a huge birthday celebration at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. And the big names were there to help him celebrate. The guest list was certainly impressive. I couldn’t possibly give you photos of all the celebrities that showed up, but some of the more notable ones were Kim Kardashian, Russell Simmons, Spike Lee, Regina King, Robin Thicke, Nelly,...
HipHopRX.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs turned 40 on November 4th but celebrated his birthday last night in the Grand Ballroom of the Plaza Hotel in New York City! Everyone and their momma showed up to celebrate Diddy’s 40th Birthday party at New York City’s Grand Ballroom at the Plaza Hotel. Guest stars Kim Kardashian, Martha Stewart, Spike Lee [...]
Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Continuing Brandon Wilson’s countdown of Spike Lee’s 10 Worst Female Characters, via his Twitter page… I posted #8 (Sloane Hopkins, played by Jada Pinkett Smith in Bamboozled), #9 (Clarke Betancourt, played by Cynda Williams in 1990’s Mo’Better Blues), and #10 (Betty Shabazz, portrayed by Angela Bassett in Spike’s 1992 magnum opus Malcolm X) earlier in the [...]...
SoulCulture.co.uk (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The latest issue of Wax Poetics [my favourite music magazine] is out now – with features on Curtis Mayfield and Spike Lee. The issue includes: Re:Discovery – Melvin Van Peebles, Manfred Krug, Marvin Gaye, Judgment Night OST, John Carpenter Roc Raida – The Grand Master Shadows And Phonographs – This sinister role of the turntable in Hollywood classics Brotherman [...]
The FanHouse - NBA (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
by Tom Ziller Filed under: Knicks , NBA Rumors Just a few days after the Grizzlies announced they'd cut loose disgruntled legend Allen Iverson , Howard Beck of the New York Times reports the Knicks do plan to pursue the guard . Beck has sources who indicate coach Mike D'Antoni is sold on the addition of the legendarily difficult scorer, and the Knicks plan to offer A.I. at least a minimum contract...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The men behind Precious and Shooter are going back in time, according to Variety : Having had wild success with Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire , Lee Daniels is itching to go historical for his next feature. He's in "advanced negotiations" to helm Selma , a big-buzz Civil Rights-era drama penned by Paul Webb ( Lincoln ). The film, which would team him with Slumdog Millionaire...
SOLE COLLECTOR: Sneakers (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The latest colorway of the Spike Lee masterpiece is on its way.
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Filed under: News Spike Lee Antoine Fuqua is set to direct the adaptation of the graphic novel 'Miss: Better Living Through Crime, ' with Spike Lee serving as executive producer. A new company, Vigilante Entertainment, is developing the project, which revolves around Nola and Slim, two unlikely partners in crime in the early 1900s in New York. Nola is a poor white girl who has learned to survive by...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Today's stars! Well not literally today 's but November 18th . Get a little history. Celebrate one of these cinematic entities today in whatever way occurs to you. Senors Gilbert, Hemmings and Infante 1836 W.S. Gilbert of 'Gilbert & Sullivan' legend. If you've never seen Mike Leigh's exceptional biopic of this creative giant, Topsy-Turvy , drop everything right now and do so. 1908 Imogene Coca...
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Spike Lee and Antoine Fuqua are heading together where many others have gone before: Graphic Novel adaptations. Probably in a bid to reignite both of their careers. And their fuel of choice is a French one, you're welcome. Vigilante Entertainment is mounting an adaptation of the French comic book "Miss: Better Living Through Crime" for Fuqua to direct and Lee to produce. Project is said...
Empire News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Thriller to be produced by Spike Lee
Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
My good man, cinephile, and once co-host of the previous incarnation of my podcast, The Obenson Report, the Genius Bastard himself, Mr Brandon Wilson, has decided to utilize Twitter to count down his list of Spike Lee’s 10 Worst Female Characters. And since Twitter only allows a 140-character limit per post, he had to keep [...]
Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A dream-team of sorts…? Per Variety, Antoine Fuqua will direct a big-screen adaptation of the graphic novel Miss: Better Living Through Crime, with Spike Lee executive producing., and John Ridley penning the script. Newly minted banner Vigilante Entertainment is developing the project, which revolves around Nola and Slim, two unlikely partners in crime in the early 1900s [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Film News: Vigilante Entertainment to develop project -- Antoine Fuqua and Spike Lee are going on a crime spree.
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