From the Hollywood Reporter:
Spike Lee is not feeling the love from Hollywood's money men. "I haven't made a feature film in three years," said Lee. Lee has lately focused on documentary work with two films about post-Katrina New Orleans for HBO. But he had designs on biopics about Jackie Robinson - the Brooklyn Dodgers slugger who broke baseball's color line - and soul icon James Brown. And he was in discussions a while back for a sequel to thriller Inside Man, which starred Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster. But he's been unable to secure financing.
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