Image Entertainment Joins Forces With 40 Acres And A Mule Filmworks For Spike Lee’s RED HOOK SUMMER

Image Entertainment has announced that it has joined forces with 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks to distribute Spike Lee’s coming-of-age film, RED HOOK SUMMER. The agreement covers all North American rights, besides theatrical, including VOD, digital, Blu-ray™/DVD and broadcast and will be released under Image’s One Village label. With a slated theatrical release of August 10^th through Variance Films, Image Entertainment anticipates a Q4 home entertainment release.“Spike Lee is hands down one of the greatest working filmmakers we have today. RED HOOK SUMMER personifies the type of films we release on our One Village label and I am personally honored that Spike has chosen Image to distribute it”

“I’m very happy with my new friends and partners at Image Entertainment,” said Spike Lee. “They are helping me bring RED HOOK SUMMER to the World.”

“We’re excited about the opportunity to work with Spike Lee and his team,” stated Bill Bromiley, Chief Acquisitions Officer for Image Entertainment. “He’s the quintessential independent filmmaker and we look forward to collaborating with him on distributing the film through the various platforms available to us.”

“Spike Lee is hands down one of the greatest working filmmakers we have today. RED HOOK SUMMER personifies the type of films we release on our One Village label and I am personally honored that Spike has chosen Image to distribute it,” commented Brett Dismuke, Sr. Vice President of Acquisitions at Image Entertainment. “RED HOOK SUMMER will be our tent pole film of 2012 and we know audiences will love the film as much as we do.”

The latest in Spike Lee’s Chronicles of Brooklyn (which also include She’s Gotta Have It, Do The Right Thing, Crooklyn, Clockers, and He Got Game), RED HOOK SUMMER tells the story of Flik Royale, a sullen young boy from middle-class Atlanta who has come to spend the summer with his deeply religious grandfather, Bishop Enoch Rouse, in the housing projects of Red Hook. Having never met before, things quickly get off on the wrong foot as Bishop Enoch relentlessly attempts to convert Flik into a follower of Jesus Christ. Between his grandfather’s constant preaching and the culture shock of inner-city life, Flik’s summer appears to be a total disaster–until he meets Chazz Morningstar, a pretty girl his age, who shows Flik the brighter side of Brooklyn. Through the love of his new found friend and his grandfather, Flik begins to realize that the world is a lot bigger, and perhaps a lot better, than he’d ever imagined.

The deal was brokered by CAA and Artie Indursky and Robert Strent of Grubman Indursky Shire & Meiselas, PC on behalf of Lee and 40 Acres and a Mule with Bill Bromiley, Brett Dismuke and Michael Bayer of Image Entertainment.

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(L-to-R), Tony Lysaith as Chazz Morningstar, Clarke Peters as Bishop Enoch Rouse, and Jules Brown as Flik Royale  in a scene from Spike Lee’s RED HOOK SUMMER. (Photo by Winter Coleman, courtesy 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks)

40 Acres And A Mule Filmworks is the production company of Spike Lee. Founded in 1986 in his childhood neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York, it has produced feature films, documentaries, commercials, music videos and short films. 40 Acres has been a training ground for young unknown black talent, both in front of and behind the camera, who have gone on to make their mark in Hollywood today.

Launched in 2007, One Village Entertainment is a division of Image Entertainment devoted to the development, production and acquisition of feature films, comedy specials, stage plays, documentaries and music content targeting the African-American consumer and urban market. The programming is distributed across multiple platforms including theatrical, broadcast, Blu-ray™/DVD, digital streaming and downloading. Among the more than 90 titles that carry the One Village imprimatur are live stand-up performances featuring Kevin Hart and Charlie Murphy; documentaries 2 Turntables and a Microphone: The Life and Death of Jam Master Jay and I Ain’t Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac; the feature films American Violetstarring Oscar™-nominee Alfre Woodard, All Things Fall Apart featuring 50 Cent and the acclaimed theatrical romantic comedy Russ Parr’s 35 & Ticking. Bestsellers include the stage play production of What My Husband Doesn’t Know by David E. Talbert, who is described by Variety as “the acknowledged kingpin of urban musicals.”

Image Entertainment, Inc. is a leading independent licensee and distributor of entertainment programming in North America, with approximately 3,700 exclusive DVD titles and approximately 300 exclusive CD titles in domestic release and more than 450 programs internationally via sublicense agreements. For many of its titles, the Company has exclusive audio and broadcast rights, as well as digital download rights to approximately 2,200 video programs and approximately 500 audio titles containing more than 5,700 individual tracks. The Company is headquartered in Chatsworth, California. For more information about Image Entertainment, Inc., please go to www.image-entertainment.com.