Overview

• The first full trailer debuted on August 4, offering a glimpse of the film’s modern take on Kurosawa’s kidnapping thriller set in New York’s music industry.
• Highest 2 Lowest premiered out of competition at Cannes earlier this year and earned positive early reviews for its energetic direction and Washington’s performance.
• Denzel Washington stars as a powerhouse music mogul caught in a life-or-death ransom plot, with A$AP Rocky portraying the kidnapper Yung Felon.
• Spike Lee directs his fifth collaboration with Washington, working from a screenplay by Alan Fox and featuring a supporting cast that includes Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, Dean Winters, Ice Spice and John Douglas Thompson.
• The film opens in limited U.S. theaters on August 15 and will begin streaming exclusively on Apple TV+ on September 5.