2. "Cool, but shitty that it has to come to this..." In response to In response to 0
Filmmakers with the pedigree of Spike Lee shouldn't have to scrounge around for nickels and dimes to make a presumably low budget indie.
A studio somewhere couldn't break him off $5M in hopes that between boxoffice, home video, cable, etc. that they'd clear, like, $10M? Shit, it's peanuts in movie money, but it's still a 100% profit...