This makes me laugh. The tv show Veronica Mars set kickstarter records, and they were originally told by the studio that there wasn’t enough interest in Veronica Mars. Spike Lee can’t raise hardly anything but he has studios willing to finanace all his white hate Crap. It blows my mind.
Not really. Spike's films--the ones that are really "his"--don't make much money and the studios aren't much interested. What he can do is work as a "director for hire" on big studio projects like "Inside Man" or the upcoming "Old Boy." But as far as his personal projects over the last decade, like "Miracle at St. Anna" or "Red Hook Summer," those aren't financed by the studios. They aren't that stupid.