Overview

• Early reviews single out Denzel Washington’s commanding turn as music mogul David King under Lee’s vibrant New York lens.
• The film reimagines Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, adapted from Ed McBain, within the contemporary New York music business.
• A mistaken abduction triggers a $17.5 million ransom demand that tests the protagonist’s ethics without revealing outcomes.
• Production design showcases reproductions from Spike Lee’s personal art collection—Basquiat, Kehinde Wiley, Warhol, Gordon Parks—defining the Kings’ Dumbo penthouse.
• Following a May premiere at Cannes, the film opened in select U.S. theaters on August 15.