Spike Lee announced Thursday that his upcoming film, “Highest 2 Lowest,” his fifth collaboration with Denzel Washington, will debut out of competition at Cannes.

The Oscar-winning New Yorker, 68, shared the news on Instagram, captioning a photo of a fabric patch that reads, “Highest 2 Lowest 2 Cannes.” The annual festival kicks off May 13 and will run until May 24.

“Bon Jour. Good Morning. Whaddup?” Lee wrote. “Da New SPIKE LEE JOINT – HIGHEST 2 LOWEST Starring My Brother DENZEL WASHINGTON Has Been Invited To Da 2025 CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (In The Out Of Competition Category).”

Cannes confirmed in a statement to Deadline that the film will premiere at the festival on May 19, adding that it had not been announced as part of the festival lineup Thursday morning “due to one final piece of information we were awaiting — the confirmation of Denzel Washington’s presence at Cannes.”

The project reunites Washington and Lee for a “reinterpretation” of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime thriller, “High and Low.” Kurosawa’s film centers on a shoe company executive in Japan who’s extorted as part of an abduction gone awry.

“In our film, Denzel Washington is a music mogul with his own label and his reputation as the best ears in the business. So, this is the fifth film with the dynamic duo,” Lee previously told Deadline.

The newest collaboration, which also stars Jeffrey Wright, Dean Winters and ASAP Rocky, comes roughly two decades after Washington and Lee last made movie magic together, on the 2006 crime thriller “Inside Man.”

They first collaborated on 1990’s “Mo, Better Blues,” reuniting two years later for “Malcom X” — nominated for two Oscars, including Washington’s third best actor nod — and again in 1998 for “He Got Game.”

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