1 day ago · Barry Michael Cooper in 1994 in Baltimore, where he lived. He wrote the screenplay for “New Jack City” (1991), which presaged a wave of films from Black directors and screenwriters that ...

6 days ago · Barry Michael Cooper, the influential screenwriter and filmmaker who wrote movies like 'New Jack City,' 'Sugar Hill' and 'Above the Rim,' has died, the Maryland Chief Examiner's Office confirmed ...

6 days ago · Barry Michael Cooper’s legacy . Before Cooper wrote influential early ‘90s films like “New Jack City,” he was a hard-hitting journalist who probed aspects of city life many mainstream ...

Barry Michael Cooper (June 12, 1958 – January 22, 2025) was an American writer, producer, and director, best known for his screenplays for the films New Jack City (1991), Sugar Hill (1994), and Above the Rim (1994), sometimes called his "Harlem Trilogy".

2 days ago · 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 ...

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," died in ...

5 days ago · The writer and producer behind classic Black films like "New Jack City" and "Above the Rim" passed away at age 66. Cooper made his directorial debut in 2005 with Blood on the Wall$, a low-budget ...