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	<title>RopeofSilicon.com Movie News, Trailers, Reviews and More &#187; Spike Lee</title>
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		<title>Top Ten Working American Directors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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Top Ten Working American Directors
 A list like this is tricky to the point of madness. However, I&#039;m going to save you the trouble by saying it right here, right now: Most of the choices on this list are obvious. There&#039;s a reason why certain names continually pop up whenever conversation drifts toward great American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;Deathly Hallows&#039; News, &#039;Alice in Wonderland&#039; Set Pics and Clooney as Ranger</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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(clockwise from top left): Dark Knight Blu-ray art, Mia Wasikowska on set of Alice in Wonderland, The Lone Ranger, Roger Ebert, Iron Man concept art, MGM logo, Kick-Ass set pic, &#034;Deathly Hallows&#034; book jacket, Quentin Tarantino


A LOT of new sequels and remakes were announced this week, here&#039;s a list of a few of them with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;Inside Man 2&#039;, Cruise&#039;s Villainy and Alba is &#039;Invisible&#039;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inside Man 2 Begins Script Stage: A sequel to Spike Lee&#039;s Inside Man is moving forward at Universal, with Terry George in negotiations to write the screenplay and Lee coming back to direct. The film will pick up on the characters and dynamic but not the storyline of the original. The first Inside Man, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spike Lee Adapting &#039;Time Traveler&#039; and Sienna Miller Heads to &#039;Nottingham&#039;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spike Lee Adapting Time Travel Novel: Spike Lee will co-write and direct Time Traveler, a feature adaptation of a memoir by Ronald Mallett, one of the nation&#039;s first African-Americans to earn a Ph.D in theoretical physics. Lee acquired &#034;Time Traveler: A Scientist&#039;s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality&#034; with his own money and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clint Eastwood Tells Spike Lee to &#039;Shut His Face&#039;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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Photo: CaliforniaMuseum.org


At the Cannes Film Festival Spike Lee called out Clint Eastwood and his films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima saying:

&#034;There were many African-Americans who survived that war and who were upset at Clint for not having one [in the films]. That was his version: the negro soldier did not exist. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week in Review: Indy, McCain, Clinton, Kennedy and Cannes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 17:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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My apologies for no wrap-up from last week, but a bit of a sinus infection attacked me and I wasn&#039;t feeling too good and sinus headaches aren&#039;t exactly compatible with staring at computer screens. However, if you are a sinus sufferer as I am I cannot recommend the NeilMed Sinus Rinse any higher. If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spike Lee Condemns Clint Eastwood&#039;s &#039;Iwo Jima&#039; For Its Absence of Black Soldiers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 17:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting argument was brought forward (and ignored) at the Cannes Film Festival by director Spike Lee as the Times Online brings us news that in a press conference Lee brought up the fact that black soldiers were conspicuous by their absence from Clint Eastwood&#039;s Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima.

Lee is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cusack Set To Lead Emmerich&#039;s Apocalyptic Thriller</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 17:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emmerich&#039;s Apocalypse Kills Cusack: John Cusack has signed on to topline Roland Emmerich&#039;s apocalyptic thriller 2012 for Columbia Pictures. Chiwetel Ejiofor is in talks to join as well. The big-budget epic refers to the end days of human civilization as foretold by the ancient Mayan calendar. Story kicks off with a global cataclysm, which brings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spike Lee Takes the Nazi&#039;s to Tuscany</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/spike_lee_takes_the_nazis_to_tuscany</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two Spike Lee movies joints I am yet to see that I want to see and those are Malcolm X and 25th Hour. I have never been a huge Spike fan, but I did enjoy Inside Man and have been told 25th Hour is great and I want to see Malcolm X just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Brown Biopic in the Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After James Brown passed away early Monday morning it looks as if plans are already moving forward on a biopic centered on the &#034;Godfather of Soul.&#034;

Word out of Variety is that Spike Lee is aboard to direct the pic which could be in production by late next year, though 2008 is more likely.

Lee is already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spike Lee to direct &#039;L.A. Riots&#039;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is no surprise that Spike Lee would be the one set to tackle a film based on the April 1992 Los Angeles riots. Lee has never shied from a challenge and I have heard nothing but good things about his HBO documentary &#034;When the Levees Broke&#034; which I have unfortunately not been able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Carrey Getting &#039;Generation Award&#039; from MTV</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/jim_carrey_getting_generation_award_from_mtv</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 04:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MTV announced today that Jim Carrey will receive the MTV Generation Award for his career and acting roles at this year&#039;s MTV Movie Awards.  Tom Cruise was the first to receive the honor at last year&#039;s Movie Awards ceremony.  In addition, MTV will honor Spike Lee with the Silver Bucket of Excellence Award [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spike Lee is &#039;Selling Time&#039;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/spike_lee_is_selling_time</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2006 03:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spike Lee is rewriting Selling Time, a supernatural thriller for 20th Century Fox, but it is not set in stone that he will direct the pic.

Lee last directed Inside Man for Universal and is yet to choose his next project but he will be considering Selling Time, a story concerning a man who sells chunks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spike Lee Taking on TV Drama</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/spike_lee_taking_on_tv_drama</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CBS has tapped Spike Lee to take on their television drama &#034;Shark&#034; with James Woods set to star.

Imagine TV and 20th Century Fox TV are behind the pilot, which stars Woods as an L.A. celebrity attorney who decides to become a prosecutor instead.

Spike Lee just finished directing Inside Man for Imagine and Universal Pictures, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Denzel is Spike&#039;s &#039;Inside Man&#039;</title>
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		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/denzel_is_spikes_inside_man#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2005 07:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BlackFilm.com has landed quite the scoop detailing that Denzel Washington and Spike Lee will be working again in a movie apparently called Inside Man.
The news came during and afterparty at Washington&#039;s theater opening of Julius Caesar, Denzel mentioned that his next film would be with Spike Lee, and according to Lee, &#034;It’s called Inside Man, [...]]]></description>
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