Hustle is a British television drama series made by Kudos Film & Television for BBC One in the United Kingdom. The comedy is also provided by their antics with respect to Eddie. Hustle follows their fortunes and inter-personal relationships. The Paramount Classics film will also be shot in Memphis.An action-packed show blended with humour and intrigue, following the fortunes of a gang of expert con-artists on the loose in London. “ so fabulous,” Allain added.īrewer’s next project, “ Black Snake Moan,” will also be produced by Allain and Singleton and will star Samuel L. “We felt like this was the one night we had been waiting for,” Brewer said. In the end, Paramount Classics/ MTV Films acquired “Hustle & Flow” for $9 million (part of a bigger $16 million package deal). And it just spread and everybody started calling,” he said.įollowing the opening-weekend premiere at Sundance, where the film won this year’s audience award, an intense bidding war began. ‘I’ll see you on the mountain at Sundance.’ And it was driving people insane - It was masterful in a real, ghetto type of way.” One studio even made a blind offer of more than $3 million for the film, Brewer said, but Singleton said no. “And John was like, want to see the movie? And they were like, absolutely.,” Brewer recalled. Shortly before Sundance, Singleton decided to have a rough-cut screening for a bunch of people in L.A. They submitted the film to Sundance last fall, and the festival loved it, she said.

“We were all so inspired to be together and do this thing that we knew no one else wanted to do, but that we loved and believed in,” Allain said. With a budget of around $3 million, they spent a month shooting in Memphis during the summer. “He was high rolling after doing ‘ 2 Fast 2 Furious,'” she said and after reading the script, Singleton called “flipping out.” However, Brewer, Allain and Singleton still couldn’t raise the money they needed and after one more frustrating year, Singleton decided to green light the project himself, from his own bank account. After a fruitless two-year film financing search, Allain approached John Singleton whom she had discovered while an exec. “It was going nowhere,” said Allain, who sold her house to get some cash to stick with the project. Following the completion of that film, Brewer’s wife became pregnant and he started working on the script for “Hustle & Flow.”Ī scene from “Hustle & Flow.” Image provided by Paramount Classics.Įven with Allain onboard however, they were unable to get the funding they needed to make the movie. Shot on digital video in Memphis, the film is about a car thief who starts to feel guilty about his chosen profession. With money from his inheritance, Brewer completed his first movie, “ The Poor and Hungry” for $20,000 in 2000. At the same time, the lifestyle started to rob our souls a little bit.”Īround the same time, Brewer’s father, who had always encouraged his son’s film career, died. “We started to roll with a very different element. (One of the characters in “Hustle & Flow” is a stripper and several scenes take place in a local strip club.) “Part of me thought, wow, this will be an adventure,” said Brewer. Jodi, a costume designer, started making outfits for strippers for extra cash, then worked as a waitress at a strip club and later began stripping there. “My wife and I were really struggling,” said Brewer. When he and his wife Jodi moved to Memphis in the mid-1990s, they didn’t have any money. Much of “Hustle & Flow” is based on experiences from Craig Brewer’s own life. Joanna Arnow Wants to Make Being Submissive Powerful, and, Yes, Funny Again with Her BDSM Feature Debut

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