CHIRAQ (new Spike Lee Joint w/ Sam Jackson, John Cusack, Wesley Snipes (dec '15)

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This will be the first original Film from Amazon studios.
It will be released in theaters this December to have a qualifying run at the Oscars .

Directed by: Spike Lee
Written by : Spike Lee & Kevin Willmott
Director of Photography: Matthew Libatique (Noah, Iron Man 1&2 , Requiem for A Dream, The Fountain , Inside Man , Pi, Black Swan)

Cast: Teyonah Parris, John Cusack, Common, Jeremy Piven, Angela Basset, Samuel L. Jackson, Wesley Snipes, D.B. Sweeney, Jennifer Hudson, Nick Cannon, Dave Chappelle


http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015...original-movie

"Streaming service Amazon will follow rival Netflix in releasing its first home-produced film, Spike Lee’s Chiraq, in time for next year’s Oscar race.

Lee’s feature, which he finished shooting last week, is a musical comedy set in violent inner-city Chicago and follows a woman (Teyonah Parris) who goes on sexual strike to protest against black-on-black gun violence, in a narrative based on Aristophanes’s Lysistrata.

The film, which also stars Wesley Snipes and Jennifer Hudson, will be released in the US in December, allowing it to qualify for the 2016 Oscars. Amazon Studios, Amazon’s original film arm, plan to release their titles in theatres before making them available via their streaming service."