Spike Lee threw some shade at Donald Trump during the Cannes Film Festival press conference for his latest joint "Highest 2 Lowest."

Lee's "re-imagining" of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime thriller 'High and Low' also stars Ilfenesh Hadera, Jeffrey Wright, Wendell Pierce and rappers ASAP Rocky and Ice Spice.

Deadline photo studio hosted talent at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival, as cast members of Cannes premiering films stopped by, including Spike Lee from Highest 2 Lowest; Paul Mescal and Oliver Hermanus from The History of Sound;

Movie director Spike Lee slammed Donald Trump at Cannes on Tuesday — without explicitly saying the president’s name. While promoting his new neo-noir crime thriller “Highest 2 Lowest,” longtime Trump critic Lee was asked if he thought social media is now compromising American values.

The sound system at the Carlton Beach was blasting out James Brown's “The Boss” while, incongruously, Spike Lee was engaged in a Rodgers and Hammerstein sing-along. "There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow,

Denzel Washington appeared to scream at a photographer on the red carpet for "Highest 2 Lowest" at the Cannes.

A$AP Rocky previously showed appreciation for Miu Miu when he attended the brand’s fall 2025 show in Paris in March. Not just a fan of fashion, Rocky is deeply immersed in the industry — he works with Puma in addition to serving as Ray-Ban’s creative director and helming his own brand, American Sabotage, through his creative agency AWGE.

As the boundary-pushing auteur prepares to debut his latest release, the Denzel Washington-led ‘Highest 2 Lowest’, at Cannes, we look back at his best work to date.