The creative partnership between Spike Lee and Public Enemy has hit the jackpot again.

Critics have been saying that Spike Lee is back in full effect with his new movie "He Got Game," and theater-goers seem to agree as the film with the PE soundtrack opened at number one at the box office last weekend after raking in more than $8 million.

The basketball drama, which features a Public Enemy soundtrack and stars Denzel Washington and NBA star Ray Allen, marks the first Lee/PE collaboration since 1989's "Do The Right Thing," which also scored in critics' columns and at the box office.

Public Enemy's Chuck D talked with MTV News recently about the similarities he sees between how Spike Lee works and his writing process with PE.

"Spike puts more into a film that reflects," Chuck D said, "I guess, the time and the sensibilities and the souls of the particular time and peoples. And it's something similar to how I like to put together music to try to capture the time and the element and say more than what the eye can see or what the ear can hear." [600k QuickTime]