Writer and producer Barry Michael Cooper has died in Baltimore, Maryland. Cooper wrote a series of iconic 1990s movies, ...

Is New Jack City getting a remake? The 1991 crime drama is certainly ripe for one, especially in our reboot-riddled day and age — after all, Twisters just dropped, there is an upcoming ...

who had been working as an investigative reporter at The Village Voice beforehand — a tenure that produced the 1989 cover story “Kids Killing Kids: New Jack City Eats Its Young,” about the ...

Barry Michael Cooper, an investigative reporter turned screenwriter known for the films “New Jack City,” “Above the Rim” and “Sugar Hill,” has died. Cooper died Tuesday, a spokesperson ...

The first, “New Jack City” (1991), about a ruthless uptown drug lord (Wesley Snipes), presaged a wave of films from Black directors and screenwriters that touched on gang life in the 1990s.

It didn’t seem real.” In December 1987, he wrote the piece “New Jack City Eats Its Young” for The Village Voice, a searing piece that chronicled the rise and rise of street drug dealers in ...