A24 and Apple Original Films celebrate the New York premiere of “Highest 2 Lowest” with director Spike Lee and stars Denzel Washington, A$AP Rocky, Jeffrey Wright and more!

Today, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Harvey Theater in New York, A24 and Apple Original Films hosted the world premiere for the highly anticipated feature “Highest 2 Lowest,” premiering exclusively in theaters on August 15 before streaming globally on Apple TV+ on September 5.

Attendees at the world premiere event included stars Denzel Washington, A$AP Rocky, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, Elijah Wright, Aubrey Joseph, Wendell Pierce, Dean Winters, John Douglas Thompson, LaChanze, Aiyana-Lee, Jensen McRae and Ice Spice, as well as director Spike Lee, screenwriter Alan Fox, producer Jason Michael Berman, and executive producers Katia Washington and Chris Brigham. Additional attendees included cinematographer Matthew Libatique, production designer Mark Friedberg, editor Allyson C. Johnson, composer Howard Drossin and more.

When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely known as having the “best ears in the business,” is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Brothers Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the fifth time in their long working relationship for a reinterpretation of the great filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller “High and Low,” now played out on the mean streets of modern day New York City.

From A24 and Apple Original Films, “Highest 2 Lowest” is directed by Lee and written by Alan Fox. “Highest 2 Lowest” is produced by Jason Michael Berman through Mandalay Pictures and Todd Black through Escape Artists. Lee for 40 Acres and a Mule, Peter Guber of Mandalay Pictures, Matthew Lindner, Katia Washington and Chris Brigham of Juniper Productions, alongside Ko Kurosawa and Kana Idetsu Broadhurst, serve as executive producers. 

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