‘Song Sung Blue’ Director Craig Brewer Says Studios Kept Rejecting His Movie About a Midwestern Couple: Audiences Won’t ‘Like These People’

Song Sung Blue' director Craig Brewer on the regional bias he faces from studio executives and working with Kate Hudson and ...
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Spike Lee Asks Ryan Coogler Why Studios Turned Down ‘Sinners’ as the Duo Champion Movie Theaters, Michael B. Jordan and More: ‘I Believe in Cinema’

On a recent morning in midtown Manhattan, Spike Lee blows on an imaginary pair of dice before hurling them to the ground. It’s a gesture of respect for Ryan Coogler, the risk-taking director of ...