In Gordon Parks, Jr.'s 1972 blaxploitation classic Super Fly, Harlem was portrayed as a dingy and lived-in place cluttered with trash and populated with both gentleman criminals and those of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walker gained notoriety for his role as “Juju” in the 2018 film. The movie was a 1972 remake and starred Trevor Jackson, Jason ...

Produced by Future and "The Matrix" alum Joel Silver, the July release is the first feature by music video visionary Director X. Director X shifted the film’s backdrop from Harlem to Atlanta, where ...

IndieWire spoke to the Canadian director, best known for overseeing music videos for Drake, Rihanna, Jay-Z, and more. When Sony Pictures asked Director X to remake 1972 blaxploitation classic “Super ...

A Los Angeles-based rapper who acted in the 2018 movie “SuperFly” was sentenced Monday to 50 years to life in prison after he was convicted of sexually assaulting seven victims — including three ...

Back then, the notion of a movie about a criminal — particularly a nonwhite one— who gets away with it still felt new. (Super Fly followed The Godfather into theaters by just a few months.) In the ...

Bonnaroo titans Jonathan Mayers and Richard Goodstone of Superfly on transcending their hippie roots and why it was time to team with Live Nation. By Ray Waddell On June 20, 2002, Superfly co-founders ...

“I know it’s a rotten game, but it’s the only one the Man left us to play.” With those words, spoken by one weary drug dealer to another, the 1972 film “Super Fly” offered up a soulful lament to go ...