"I needed him right when he showed up, and it's a real tragedy he had to go so young," said Brewer, who said Singleton's function as a "mentor" helped fill the void left by the death of his father, Walter Brewer, who died of a heart attack in 1998 at age 49.Īs a result of this "real tragedy," Wednesday night's already scheduled 7 p.m. ![]() ![]() (The risk paid off when "Hustle" sold to Paramount /MTV Films at the Sundance Film Festival in what was a then-record $16 million deal.) That risk was not just artistic: Singleton used his Los Angeles home as collateral to secure the loan that enabled him to personally finance the $2.8 million production budget of "Hustle & Flow," the 2005 made-in-Memphis movie that launched writer-director Brewer's professional career.
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