“With his beloved New York Knicks Leading ITS NAT PLAYOFFS MATCHUP WITH the Boston Celtics After A 119-81 Victory this Weekend, Spike Lee Doesn’t Need. But The Hollywood Reporter and Threads Gave the Veteran Auteur One More by Hosting An Early Evening Celebration for His Cannes Film Festival”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Set to make a triumphant return Monday to the palais for the World Premiere of His Apple Original Feature in Partnership With A24, LEE GOT BUZ GOING EARLY – IN COCK Turning up to the Beach-Set Bash Accompanied by His Family, Including Wife Tonya Lewis Lee and Their Children Satchel and Jackson Lee.
Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee Hold Up His Thr Cover. (Photo by Victor Boyko/The Hollywood Reporter Via Getty Images)
The Lees Turned Up Just 6 Pm to the Party, Whore Some of His Colllabotories Were Already On Hand Apple and A24. But Even Before Lee Touched Down, His Presence Was Visible Thanks to Plentify Copies of Thr’s Cannes Issue Featuring Lee on the Cover (with An Interview by Senior Film Editor Rebecca Keegan), Complete with Striking Yellow and Black Specacles. Hyde Beach by Campari Was Blanketed by the Brand’s Striking Signature Red. Digitized Covers Also Featuring Lee’s Face Also Added to the Anticipation of His In-Real-Life Arrival.
Highest 2 Lowest is a “reinterpretation,” per Lee’s Own Words, of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 Police Procedural High and Low. Its Frequent Collaborator Denzel Washington as A Music Mogul Who Becomes The Target of A Ransom Demand that Forces Him Into A Moral Dilemma, Between Life and Death. Jeffrey Wright, A $ AP ROCKY, WENDELL PIERCE AND ILFESH HADERA Round Out the Cast. Hadera and Pierce Also Attached the Bash, As Did Boldfaced Names Like Guillaume Thevenin, Diamant Blazi, Sally, Paola Locatelli, Mateo Sinet and Netflix’s Albert Tello, Mateo Sinet.
“This is my First Time in Cannes,“ Pierce Told Thr in the luxe Campari Lounge. “I Always SAID THAT I WOURT WHEN I WAS PART OF A MOVIE THAT WAS SPECIAL, AND THIS MOVIE IS VERY SPECIAL.” In more Ways than one. The Veteran Actor Has Worked with Lee Before, Dating Back to His 1996 Film Get on the Bus.
“SPIKE AND I Go All The Way Back to Brooklyn. I Remember WHEN HE STARDED: I LIVED IN FORT GREEENE A BLOCK AWAY FROM HIS OFFICE AND I WOURT SEE SEE HIM ON A REGULAR BASIS “I’M Just SO HAPPY TO ADTH HIS JOUURNY BECAUSE I THINK HE IS EMBLEMATIC OF THE AMERICAN AESTHETIC OF FREEDOM WITHIN FORM. HE UNDERSTANS HAONIA Expressive As He Can Be, For You Guys Here at The Hollywood Reporter to Honor Him That Way, It Marks His Legacy. ”
Pierce Continued: “The fact that we’re here for his film on the lovely french riviera, it shows you the more than special professional you are in your art, the more universal youor you. Specific as he is in all his films, it have universal appeal, and that’s reflected here on the riviera and the Cannes film festival. ” And that is yet another reason to raise a glass.
From Left: Jackson Lee, Satchel Lee, Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee.
From left: Producer Jordan Moldo, Highest 2 Lowest Writer Alan Fox, Producer Jason Michael Berman and Untitled’s Faisal Kanaan. (Photo by Victor Boyko/The Hollywood Reporter Via Getty Images)
Spike Lee and The Film’s Ilfenesh Hadera. LEE RETURNED TO CANNES AFTER HAVING DEBUTED HIS FILMS DO The RIGHT THING, JUNGLE FEVER, GIRL 6, TEN MINUTES OLDER an Blackklansman at the Festival. (Photo by Victor Boyko/The Hollywood Reporter Via Getty Images)
The Hollywood Reporter’s CO-EDIOR-INCHIESF MAER ROSHAN, WHO WAS JOINED at the Event by Executive Vp and Publisher Lori O’ConNor. (Photo by Victor Boyko/The Hollywood Reporter Via Getty Images)
Alex Cohen. (Photo by Victor Boyko/The Hollywood Reporter Via Getty Images)
General View of Hyde Beach by Campari. (Photo by Victor Boyko/The Hollywood Reporter Via Getty Images)