Exclusive: We are getting word from sources that Warner Bros is rebooting its 1991 neo-noir gangster film New Jack City, and that multi-hyphenate Snowfall actor and filmmaker Malcolm M. Mays is writing.
The original movie, directed by Mario Van Peebles and written by Thomas Lee Wright, boasted a star cast that included Wesley Snipes, Ice-t, Chris Rock, Flavor Flav, Allen Payne, Judd Nelson and Peebles. Snipes played arrogant New York City drug lord Nino Brown during the 1980s crack epidemic. Ice-t portrayed Scotty Appleton, a detective who goes undercover in Nino’s gang, the Cash Money Brothers, to bring down the drug lord for taking the life of his mother. Rock was “Pookie” Benny Robinson, a former stick-up kid who becomes homeless and poor after Appleton shoots him in the ankle. Pookie becomes a crack addict and eventually a police informant and infiltrates the Cash Money Brothers.
New Jack City, made...
The original movie, directed by Mario Van Peebles and written by Thomas Lee Wright, boasted a star cast that included Wesley Snipes, Ice-t, Chris Rock, Flavor Flav, Allen Payne, Judd Nelson and Peebles. Snipes played arrogant New York City drug lord Nino Brown during the 1980s crack epidemic. Ice-t portrayed Scotty Appleton, a detective who goes undercover in Nino’s gang, the Cash Money Brothers, to bring down the drug lord for taking the life of his mother. Rock was “Pookie” Benny Robinson, a former stick-up kid who becomes homeless and poor after Appleton shoots him in the ankle. Pookie becomes a crack addict and eventually a police informant and infiltrates the Cash Money Brothers.
New Jack City, made...
- 9/23/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Snowfall regular Malcolm M. Mays has signed with ICM Partners.
The multi-hyphenate actor-filmmaker is also starring in the upcoming Sept. 27 Anna Kendrick IFC feature The Day Shall Come produced by See-Saw Films. Mays is known for playing the role of Kevin Hamilton for two seasons on FX’s Snowfall. He also starred in Antoine Fuqua’s boxing movie Southpaw and the Cuba Gooding Jr.-Dennis Haysbert film Life of a King.
Mays is set to direct and produce the feature Flint for Overbrook Entertainment, which stars John Ortiz and T.I. The pic is described as a modern day Chinatown set against the Flint, Michigan Water Crisis in which a converted ex-con who’s found peace in the Tao, finds himself embroiled in a murder mystery set upon by his ex-lover and young mentee that unravels the fabric of the Water Crisis afflicting the community he grew up in.
The multi-hyphenate actor-filmmaker is also starring in the upcoming Sept. 27 Anna Kendrick IFC feature The Day Shall Come produced by See-Saw Films. Mays is known for playing the role of Kevin Hamilton for two seasons on FX’s Snowfall. He also starred in Antoine Fuqua’s boxing movie Southpaw and the Cuba Gooding Jr.-Dennis Haysbert film Life of a King.
Mays is set to direct and produce the feature Flint for Overbrook Entertainment, which stars John Ortiz and T.I. The pic is described as a modern day Chinatown set against the Flint, Michigan Water Crisis in which a converted ex-con who’s found peace in the Tao, finds himself embroiled in a murder mystery set upon by his ex-lover and young mentee that unravels the fabric of the Water Crisis afflicting the community he grew up in.
- 9/3/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Stranger Fruit, the documentary into the controversial police shooting of Michael Brown that became headline news following its festival debut in 2017, has been picked up by Gravitas Ventures.
The company has acquired U.S. rights to the film. It's directed and written by Jason Pollock and features interviews with Brown's lawyers and family, including mother Lezley McSpadden and father Michael Brown Sr.
Stranger Fruit held its world premiere at SXSW 2017 and quickly became a major topic of conversation due to Pollock releasing new evidence he had discovered after moving to Ferguson in 2015 to conduct his investigation. New footage showed Brown...
The company has acquired U.S. rights to the film. It's directed and written by Jason Pollock and features interviews with Brown's lawyers and family, including mother Lezley McSpadden and father Michael Brown Sr.
Stranger Fruit held its world premiere at SXSW 2017 and quickly became a major topic of conversation due to Pollock releasing new evidence he had discovered after moving to Ferguson in 2015 to conduct his investigation. New footage showed Brown...
- 3/22/2018
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Warner Bros. is developing a movie about Michael Brown “that is tonally and thematically similar to ‘Crash.'” The news comes courtesy of the Tracking Board, who report that the studio has acquired the rights to Lezley McSpadden’s memoir “Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown.” “Crash,” which won Best Picture in 2006, used a cross-cutting narrative to explore racism in Los Angeles — an approach that remains controversial even now.
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Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in August of 2014, leading to ongoing unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. The Tracking Board further reports that Warner Bros. is seeking a writer of color to adapt McSpadden’s book, which was published last year.
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Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in August of 2014, leading to ongoing unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. The Tracking Board further reports that Warner Bros. is seeking a writer of color to adapt McSpadden’s book, which was published last year.
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- 6/17/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
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