Principal Photography On Spike Lee’s 'Red Hook Summer' Complete

The below pic and info is from the blog for Spike Lee's company 40 Acres & A Mule - August 2, 2011



We've wrapped...

HALLELUJAH and can I get an AMEN? We have just wrapped The Principal Photography of The New Spike Lee Joint RED HOOK SUMMER.

We at 40 Acres are committed to building upon our Body of Work. I send you all a deep and sincere heartfelt Thanks for your Love, Support, Prayers and Blessings from Wayback in Da Wayback.

Peace and Love,

Spike Lee
Da Republic of Brooklyn

JOINTOGRAPHY

She's Gotta Have It 1986

School Daze 1988

Do The Right Thing 1989

Mo' Better Blues 1990

Jungle Fever 1991

Malcolm X 1992

Crooklyn 1994

Clockers 1995

Girl 6 1996

Get On The Bus 1996

4 Little Girls (DOC) 1997

He Got Game 1998

Summer of Sam 1999

The Original Kings of Comedy 2000

Bamboozled 2000

25th Hour 2002

Jim Brown All-American (DOC) 2002

She Hate Me 2004

Sucker Free City 2004

Inside Man 2006

When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (DOC) 2006

Miracle at St. Anna 2008

Passing Strange 2009

Kobe Doin' Work (Doc) 2009

If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise (DOC) 2010

Red Hook Summer 2012

Source: 40Acres.com

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Spike Lee is BACK- 2 Times, 2 Times

Spike Lee whose last feature was 2008’s Miracle at St. Anna, has spent the last several years working on TV documentaries and is now back making TWO narrative feature films.

From Blackfilm.com-

Blackfilm.com has exclusively learned that Spike Lee is currently working on a new feature film called ‘Red Hook Summer‘ with production slated to start this month. Details on the plot is limited, but a close source has informed us that the story centers on a adult from Atlanta who comes and spends the summer in Red Hook section of Brooklyn, NY. The kicker to this story is that Lee will be reprising his role as Mookie, the character he played over twenty years ago in his most famous film, 1989′s ‘ Do the Right Thing.’

*According to Twitter Spike has started Principal Photography on Monday, July 11, 2011! - Cool Black

UPDATE: August 2, 2011: Principal Photography is COMPLETE. Read about it here

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Spike Lee To Direct 'Oldboy' For Mandate

By THE DEADLINE TEAM
Monday July 11, 2011 @ 11:42am PDT

Mandate Pictures just announced that Spike Lee will direct Oldboy, a remake of the cult 2003 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook that won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Mark Protosevich has adapted the screenplay and will co-produce; Roy Lee and Doug Davison will produce via Vertigo Entertainment with Lee's 40 Acres & A Mule. Mandate president Nathan Kahane will executive produce. Lee and Protosevich are repped by CAA. Dan Freedman, SVP business affairs, negotiated the deals for Mandate.

This is the project that Steven Spielberg and Will Smith were looking to collaborate on back in 2008, with DreamWorks seeking the remake rights at the time. The film originally was set up at Universal before Mandate took over. The story centers on a man who is kidnapped on his daughter's birthday and held for 15 years in solitary confinement without explanation. He is eventually released and sets out on a path to take revenge on those who destroyed his life.

Cool Black's Mad Commentary: While I'm happy to know Spike Lee will make another film in Brooklyn not exactly excited that he will be revisiting a character from my favorite "Joint" Do The Right Thing. I prefer for all of those characters to be frozen in time. Oh well. It's his thing.

As far as Oldboy this sounds like an interesting film to be remaking. I only hope the studio doesn't interfere too much which happens on a lot of foreign remakes. They never turn out to be any good.

Update: August 17, 2011: I recently saw and reviewed the original OldBoy. Read that review here

External links-

You can read more about the original OldBoy and its WILD plot here

Read the article and more comments about Oldboy remake at the great site Shadow & Act here

June 30, 2011- Hollywood Reporter
Spike Lee: Why I Haven't Made a Feature Film in Three Years
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/spike-lee-why-i-havent-207371

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