Cooper was more than a screenwriter. He was a storyteller whose pen immortalized Harlem’s struggles and triumphs. With New ...

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The film starred Van Peebles, Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne and Chris Rock. “New Jack City” grossed nearly $50 million at the domestic box office and helped set the stage for more films ...

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.

The film starred Wesley Snipes and Ice-T as a gang leader and a hardened cop, dodging one another amid a crack epidemic in Harlem. The production represented a career change for Cooper, who had been ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Wesley, an actor who played a vampire on The Vampire Diaries, is executive producing a series project about a vampire who wants to be an actor. The untitled comedy, which landed at ...

Will Smith in “Hitch,” Wesley Snipes in “White Men Can’t Jump,” and Dashiell “Dash” Parr from “The Incredibles.” Kimmel got a kick out of the image of a puffy-faced Smith in ...

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