EXCLUSIVE: Producer and promoter Je’Caryous Johnson, best known for stage productions of seminal Black films like New Jack ...

EXCLUSIVE: Producer and promoter Je’Caryous Johnson, best known for stage productions of seminal Black films like New Jack City and Set It Off, is launching a film studio. Je’Caryous Johnson ...

Cooper made his feature screenwriting debut with Mario Van Peebles’ “New Jack City,” which he co-wrote with Thomas Lee Wright. The film starred Wesley Snipes and Ice-T as a gang leader and a hardened ...

Cooper made his feature screenwriting debut with Mario Van Peebles’ “New Jack City,” which he co-wrote with Thomas Lee Wright. The film starred Wesley Snipes and Ice-T as a gang leader and a ...

With Cooper’s rewrites, notably changing the drug at the center of the film from heroin to crack, the script would become New Jack City, his first screenplay. Made for a budget of $8 million and ...

Cooper helped pen the screenplay of the iconic 1991 crime film New Jack City, starring Wesley Snipes as a drug lord opposite Ice-T as the detective on his case. He also wrote the 1994 film Above ...

The screenwriter behind 'New Jack City,' 'Sugar Hill,' 'Above the Rim,' and Spike Lee's 'She's Gotta Have It' TV series died on Tuesday in Baltimore at 66.

Subscribe now! Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed screenwriter behind New Jack City, once revealed an amazing fact about the film’s casting that few fans of the cult classic may know.

who’s menacing turn as crack lord Nino Brown in “New Jack City” was a career-defining and star-making role. The film was also a breakthrough for Chris Rock prior to his stint on “SNL ...

Released in 1991, New Jack City was a groundbreaking film. It combined gritty realism with a compelling narrative about drug lords, addiction, and redemption. Starring Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, and Chris ...