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New Jack City is a 1991 American crime action film directed by Mario Van Peebles (in his feature film directorial debut) and written by Thomas Lee Wright and Barry Michael Cooper, based on a story by Wright. The film stars Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne, Chris Rock, Judd Nelson, Bill Cobbs, Bill Nunn, and Van Peebles.
Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 11 Lionheart: Universal Pictures: Sheldon Lettich (director/screenplay); S.N. Warren, Jean-Claude Van Damme (screenplay); Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Page, Deborah Rennard, Brian Thompson, Lisa Pelikan, Ashley Johnson, Ash Adams, Voyo Goric, Michel Qissi, Tony Halme, Clement von Franckenstein, Abdel Qissi
The Hard Way opened in the United States on March 8, 1991, debuting at number 3 behind The Silence of the Lambs and New Jack City. [12] The film ended its domestic run with a lackluster gross of $25.9 million. [13]
"New Jack City" grossed nearly $50 million at the domestic box office and helped set the stage for more films about inner-city life featuring rappers in lead roles, Times critic Mikael Wood ...
There was Jon Singleton’s seminal 1991 drama Boyz n the Hood, followed by Mario Van Peebles’s New Jack City (1991), Ernest R. Dickerson’s Juice (1992) and Stephen Milburn Anderson’s South ...
The script also continued to gain attention. Martin found an agent interested in having him write a sequel to the successful film New Jack City. He finally found someone interested in producing his script for Finest, for which he received $200,000. [5] In an interview at the time of the movie's release, Martin described development of the film:
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 ...
Judd Asher Nelson (born November 28, 1959) is an American actor. His acting roles include Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime in The Transformers: The Movie, John Bender in The Breakfast Club, Alec Newbury in St. Elmo's Fire, Alex in Cybermutt, Joe Hunt in Billionaire Boys Club, Nick Peretti in New Jack City, Billy Beretti in Empire, and Jack Richmond in the television series Suddenly Susan.