Disney has reportedly washed its hands of the controversial Spike Lee movie Summer of Sam — at least in the U.K. Carlton Communications’ Popcorn Internet site is reporting that Buena Vista International, the Disney U.K. distributor, has sold distribution rights to the film, which deals with Son of Sam serial killer David Berkowitz, to Downtown Pictures, a small company that has previously never released product from any of Hollywood’s major studios. When the film was first shown to the MPAA ratings board last March, it was slapped with an NC-17. Lee has reportedly been working on the film ever since to gain an R rating. Disney Studios chairman Joe Roth told the Los Angeles Times in April, “Let’s judge it when it’s finished…Lee’s got stuff in there that is rougher than I would make. I’m hoping at some point he will trim it out.”