Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer who co-wrote the blaxploitation ’90s classic “New Jack City” and finished his “Harlem trilogy” writing “Sugar Hill” and “Above the Rim ...

There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael Cooper, the Harlem, New York, born-and-raised journalist turned screenwriter who penned “New Jack City,” ...

We got word that Michael Green had been enlisted to write Midnight Sons last summer, but according to scooper MTTSH, his "take didn't click" and he has now parted ways with the project.

A biopic about the complicated legacy of Michael Jackson was always going to be an ambitious undertaking. The planned release of the film, starring Jaafar Jackson as his late uncle, has been moved ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the journalist and screenwriter behind films like "New Jack City" and "Above The Rim," died this week. The Harlem native chronicled New York City's highs and lows.

EXCLUSIVE: Monarch Media has enlisted Michael Notarile to write Bune, a dark comedy inspired by the true story of a cannabis ...

With songs like “Drive” and “Everybody Hurts,” R.E.M. used delicate instrumentation to say something powerful. But on the follow-up, Monster, the Athens, Georgia, band chose to get loud. However, for ...

Hollywood writer and producer Barry Michael Cooper, who scripted a string of beloved 1990s movies, has died in Baltimore at the age of 66. Cooper helped pen the screenplay of the iconic 1991 crime ...

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 ...

Barry Michael Cooper, an investigative reporter ... On Instagram the junior Cooper lauded his father as an “author of compassion,” an “icon” and a “super hero.” ...