It came as kind of a slap for Antoine Fuqua – the idea that, despite his track record and a stellar cast, no studio was willing to take a chance on “Brooklyn’s Finest.”

So he took it as a challenge and found the money to make the movie independently – only to discover that the real challenge would be in finding a distributor.

“It was a statement about where the industry is,” Fuqua says in a telephone interview. (More…)