Getting No Green Lights I Guess....

Director Spike Lee is expanding his reach beyond the States for his movie productions and moving towards foreign territory funding.

Lee says, "There's an untapped source of movie financing in the eastern Arabian Emirate Dubai that he plans to make full use of in the future."

"There is a ton of money in Dubai, so I've gotta get on a plane; I gotta start making connections. I don't want to do a film and the Hollywood studios don't want to make it, then it doesn't get made," Lee told ArabianBusiness.com "I gotta know that no can't be a final no. I gotta go to other sources of finance."