Meet The Entrepreneurs Behind Spike Lee’s New ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Film
The post Meet The Entrepreneurs Behind Spike Lee’s New ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Film appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Jason Michael Berman, Denzel Washington, Elijah Wright, Jeffrey Wright, Aubrey Joseph, Ilfenesh Hadera, Spike Lee, A$AP Rocky, Wendell Pierce and Alan Fox attend the “Highest 2 Lowest” red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 19, 2025 in Cannes, France. Getty Images Come August 15 in theaters and streaming September 5 on Apple TV+, audiences will be able to witness the fifth and possibly final time that veteran Hollywood heavyweights Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for a cinematic storytelling with Highest 2 Lowest, their latest drama from A24 and Apple Original Films. Based off of the 1959 book King’s Ransom, which was then adapted into famed Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film titled High and Low, Highest 2 Lowest follows longtime music producer mogul David King (Washington), whose world is turned upside down when his teenage son is kidnapped and a hefty payout is demanded for his release. Things get tricky when the kidnapping goes wrong, as loyalty between loved ones is ultimately put into question. Before Highest 2 Lowest officially got in the filmmaking hands of Lee and Washington, producer Jason Michael Berman and screenwriter Alan Fox helped orchestrate this project into motion. Jason Michael Berman and Alan Fox attend the “Highest 2 Lowest” New York Premiere at Brooklyn Academy of Music on August 11, 2025 in New York City. A/Vantage Pictures Sitting down with Fox and Berman, I wondered what the early process was like, in getting this film one step closer to the screen. Berman said, “When we got the rights to the original Kurosawa film from the 1960s – we got the rights back in the summer of 2019 – it felt like it’s something that could definitely happen. It was dealing with a shoe business and it…
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Jason Michael Berman, Denzel Washington, Elijah Wright, Jeffrey Wright, Aubrey Joseph, Ilfenesh Hadera, Spike Lee, A$AP Rocky, Wendell Pierce and Alan Fox attend the “Highest 2 Lowest” red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 19, 2025 in Cannes, France. Getty Images Come August 15 in theaters and streaming September 5 on Apple TV+, audiences will be able to witness the fifth and possibly final time that veteran Hollywood heavyweights Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for a cinematic storytelling with Highest 2 Lowest, their latest drama from A24 and Apple Original Films. Based off of the 1959 book King’s Ransom, which was then adapted into famed Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film titled High and Low, Highest 2 Lowest follows longtime music producer mogul David King (Washington), whose world is turned upside down when his teenage son is kidnapped and a hefty payout is demanded for his release. Things get tricky when the kidnapping goes wrong, as loyalty between loved ones is ultimately put into question. Before Highest 2 Lowest officially got in the filmmaking hands of Lee and Washington, producer Jason Michael Berman and screenwriter Alan Fox helped orchestrate this project into motion. Jason Michael Berman and Alan Fox attend the “Highest 2 Lowest” New York Premiere at Brooklyn Academy of Music on August 11, 2025 in New York City. A/Vantage Pictures Sitting down with Fox and Berman, I wondered what the early process was like, in getting this film one step closer to the screen. Berman said, “When we got the rights to the original Kurosawa film from the 1960s – we got the rights back in the summer of 2019 – it felt like it’s something that could definitely happen. It was dealing with a shoe business and it…
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