which would become “New Jack City.” The 1991 film that tells the story of the fictional drug kingpin Nino Brown and the Cash Money Brothers. It would be Wesley Snipes’ breakout performance. Snipes ...

New Jack City (1991), on Feb. 6 at Clinton Street Theater. The first of Cooper’s “Harlem Trilogy” (which also includes Sugar Hill and Above the Rim), New Jack City made a street opera of the ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer known for 'New Jack City,' 'Sugar Hill' and 'Above the Rim,' has died at age 66. ...

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.

Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind movies like 1991's New Jack City, has died. He was 66. The Maryland Chief Examiner's Office confirmed Cooper's death to PEOPLE on Thursday ...

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 ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed screenwriter best known for his "Harlem trilogy" consisting of the films "New Jack City" (1991), "Sugar Hill" and "Above the Rim" (both 1994), died Wednesday of ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed screenwriter best known for his “Harlem trilogy” consisting of the films “New Jack City” (1991), “Sugar Hill” and “Above the Rim” (both 1994), died Wednesday of ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind the influential “Harlem Trilogy” of films New Jack City, Sugar Hill and Above the Rim and the man who coined the term New Jack Swing, has died. He was 66.