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Recently Released In Theaters Reviews
2012 Twilight: New Moon Planet 51 The Blind Side Mammoth Red Cliff Dare The Messenger Pirate Radio Precious The Fourth Kind The Box A Christmas Carol Men Who Stare at Goats The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day Recently Added Spotlights Paul Rudd Jason Segel Nicolas Cage Rose Byrne Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore Jared Padalecki Amanda Righetti Clive Owen Naomi Watts Joaquin Phoenix Steve Martin Renee Zellweger Liam Neeson Maggie Grace Dustin Hoffman |
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 The lack of a resolution to post-Katrina New Orleans means that Lee isn’t leaving the story alone just yet. ‘We wanna stick with this’ Lee states, ‘Hopefully take a cue from Michael Apted and revisit what has happened.’ As well as some sort of follow-up documentary, Lee also intends to turn the story into a TV series. ‘We’re in development at NBC’ Lee reveals ‘It’s a slow process working with network television’. ‘It would be New Orleans post-Katrina’ he tells, ‘It would be the aftermath. We’re not dealing with people drowning, we’re dealing with the so-called rebuilding of the city and people’s lives’. Despite the recent success of 9/11 movies United 93 and World Trade Center, Lee is adamant not to follow in their footsteps. ‘Don’t wanna do it’ he stresses, ‘I will not be doing a narrative film about the breaching of the levees.’ Even though over a year has passed since the tragedy, there’s still a long way to go. Lee is passionate about what he wants to happen in New Orleans. ‘I want people to be able to begin their lives again’ he says, ‘I want the many hundreds of thousands of people who are dispersed amongst the other 46 states to be given a means and a way to come back home. But I also want them to come back home to schools, to jobs, to schools, to work. That’s asking a lot, that’s a big Christmas’ The problem now however is that a lot of people have become settled in places other than New Orleans. ‘Some people don’t wanna go back’ Lee tells, ‘Some people have found new lives. They’ve found better jobs, better living conditions, better schools for their children.’ When it comes to future projects, other than the Katrina TV series, there’s another big movie on the cards. This year Spike Lee achieved his biggest commercial success in his 20-year career with Inside Man which grossed $88 million in the US alone. There has already been rumors of an Inside Man 2 in development and it’s something Lee is excited to be involved in. ‘If it happens I’m gonna be directing it’ he reveals. There is a script which Lee claims is ‘good but it’s gotta get better’. When it comes to assembling the dynamite cast of the original Lee shares that ‘Denzel wants to do it too. Everybody’s ready.’ In a year where Spike Lee had the most box office success in his entire career, he also managed to create one of the most defining documentaries of recent years. It may not have made any concrete changes in Government but it’s got people thinking. After all, Lee smiles, saying ‘They can’t say it wasn’t true!’ |
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