Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel isn’t too pleased with the title of Spike Lee’s upcoming Amazon Studios movie, Chiraq. During a meeting on Wednesday, Emanuel said that he spoke with Lee about the movie, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Followed by mothers who have lost children to gun violence, director Spike Lee came to the city's South Side to defend his upcoming film, "Chiraq." Mayor Rahm Emanuel and some ...

One can only assume, with the title Chiraq (Chicago + Iraq = Chiraq), that Spike Lee’s upcoming Amazon.com-released film will delve into Chicago. Chicago was nicknamed Chiraq because of the murders ...

Spike Lee thinks that people from Chicago hate the movie Chiraq. During an interview on V-103 Atlanta about his new film Highest 2 Lowest, Lee said the 2015 musical is one of the movies he’s made that ...

*Spike Lee’s determination to keep the title of his upcoming film “Chi-raq” untouched … continues to rub local officials in Chicago the wrong way. In an interview with Chicago magazine, Lee spoke on ...

The film was criticized for comparing gun violence in Chicago to war in Iraq. — -- Spike Lee's upcoming project, "Chiraq," a film about gun violence in Chicago whose title merges the city's name ...

Spike Lee has turned his camera on Chicago. The director's past films include "Do The Right Thing," about a racially fractured New York City. Now he plans to explore a real and troubled neighborhood ...