Back in August, I wrote about how dismayed and annoyed I was that Spike Lee had turned to Kickstarter to fund his latest film.

I wasn’t alone, and in the coming weeks a number of other newspapers, magazines and websites took the director to task for using the crowd funding service which is usually the home of those without money or connections.

At this point, Lee was preparing to unveil Oldboy, his $30m remake of the excellent Korean gangster film, and this big release was used as part of the argument for why someone like him simply doesn’t need to use Kickstarter.

However, in the interim period, things haven’t really gone Lee’s way, and if they keep heading in this trajectory, he might end up legitimately needing Kickstarter.

First of all came the story that the excellent, inventive posters for Oldboy that sprung up across the internet were never paid for and were used against the original artist’s wishes. The artist in question, Juan Luis Garcia, wrote a lengthy, detailed, open letter to Lee, not blaming him, but simply asking for his support in making sure he is paid and recognised for his work.

Lee, however, claims that he has nothing to do with it, and responded with one terse tweet: “I Never Heard Of This Guy Juan Luis Garcia,If He Has A Beef It’s Not With Me.I Did Not Hire Him,Do Not Know Him.Cheap Trick Writing To Me.YO”

Let’s pass over the Unnecessary Capitalisation Of Every Single Word, what Lee is basically saying here is: “Not my problem.”

And that’s not good enough.

Oldboy is his film. And the posters are being used in an official capacity to promote his film.

Rather than handling the issue immediately, it was ignored, and nothing makes the internet more angry than someone in power messing with the little guy. Unsurprisingly, that anger seems to have translated into once-interested-parties boycotting the film when it was released at the cinema last week.

Thanksgiving weekend is one of the biggest times of the year to release a film in the US, but Oldboy took just $1.25m over a five day period. Compare that with Catching Fire taking $158 million over three days and it’s unlikely that Lee’s film will be in cinemas long enough to make it past the $3m mark, making it one of the biggest bombs in recent memory.

At present, neither Lee nor the ad agency has attempted to make things right, and the movie gods are showing their displeasure. If this is the end of Lee’s career, there’ll be no tears over here.

With a century of cinema behind us, people who made a mark on the movies pass away every day.

Influential cinematographers from the 1960s and dancers from the 1930s die without fanfare, but they are very often naturally reaching the end of their lives or have been struggling with illness for a long time.

And then there are deaths that are so unexpected, so out of the blue, that the news hits you in the gut. The death of Paul Walker is one of those.

Just 40 years old, the Fast & Furious actor died in a car crash last weekend while being driven home from a charity event. The driver of the Porsche (Roger Rodas, a friend of Walker’s) was also killed.

Walker was one of the rare Hollywood stars who used their celebrity and wealth to affect real world change. Rather than simply talking a good game, Walker set up the charity Reach Out WorldWide, a network of doctors, nurses, firefighters, paramedics, construction specialists, heavy equipment operators, and other disaster-survival specialists, who travel across the globe to provide help in disaster zones.

Walker himself led one of the first teams into Haiti after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2010 and helped rehome people following the tornadoes in Alabama earlier this year.

He was in the middle of shooting Fast & Furious 7, with a chunk of the film still to be completed, and he leaves a teenage daughter, Meadow.

Universal Studios, the company making Fast & Furious 7, said: “All of us at Universal are heartbroken. Paul was truly one of the most beloved and respected members of our studio family for 14 years, and this loss is devastating to us, to everyone involved with the Fast & Furious films, and to countless fans. We send our deepest and most sincere condolences to Paul’s family.”