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Barrow
Entertainment

A film and television production company founded by Wayne Barrow — producing cinema that moves culture forward, from Brooklyn's corners to the world's screens.

Feature Productions

A selected filmography of projects produced and executive produced by Barrow Entertainment.

Notorious (2009) film poster
Biopic

The Brooklyn-born rhymer rises from corner hustler to platinum king — silenced by a single Los Angeles stoplight.

Notorious

2009 · Biopic · 2h 02m

Blue: The American Dream film poster
Drama

A weathered ex-fighter steps back between the ropes to settle one final debt with the son he abandoned.

Blue: The American Dream

2009 · Drama

Kicks (2016) film poster
Drama

In the East Bay underbelly, a fifteen-year-old saves for a pair of red Jordans — then has them ripped off his feet.

Kicks

2016 · Drama · 1h 27m

BIGGIE: I Got A Story To Tell Netflix documentary poster
Documentary

Told through the eyes of the men who rode shotgun with him — a Netflix portrait of the artist before the myth.

BIGGIE: I Got A Story To Tell

2021 · Netflix Documentary · 1h 37m

City of Lies (2021) film poster
Thriller

A dogged LAPD detective and a hungry journalist chase the ghosts the department buried in the Tupac and Biggie cases.

City of Lies

2021 · Thriller · 1h 52m

Tin Soldier (2025) film poster
Action

A broken Special Forces operator is pulled back in to infiltrate a cult leader's private army. De Niro, Foxx, Eastwood.

Tin Soldier

2025 · Action · 1h 40m

Featured Project

City of Lies

2021 · Crime Thriller · 1h 52m · Directed by Brad Furman

Two decades after the still-unsolved murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace, a dogged LAPD detective and a hungry journalist chase the ghosts the department buried. A noir procedural where every lead leads back to the badge — and the question no one in power wants answered: who shot Biggie?

Starring

Johnny Depp · Forest Whitaker

Based On

LAbyrinth by Randall Sullivan

The Founder

Wayne Barrow

Producer · Manager · Executor · Humanitarian

Wayne Barrow — Founder and CEO of Barrow Entertainment

Wayne Barrow

Founder · CEO

Wayne Barrow is an American film producer, talent manager, businessman and humanitarian — the Founder and CEO of Barrow Entertainment.

He produced the films Notorious (2009), Blue (2009), Kicks (2016), BIGGIE: I Got A Story To Tell (2021), City of Lies (2021) and Tin Soldier (2025).

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1965, Barrow served eight years in the U.S. Navy as a hospital corpsman before entering entertainment in 1991.

In 1998 he co-founded ByStorm Entertainment with Mark Pitts — a music and publishing company launched as a joint venture with RCA Records. Over three decades ByStorm has signed, managed, or shepherded the careers of The Notorious B.I.G., J. Cole, Miguel, Nas, Shyne, Ro James, Mali Music, Kardinal Offishall, and others.

Barrow managed The Notorious B.I.G. in life and has stewarded his estate alongside Voletta Wallace for over twenty-eight years. He serves as Vice Chairman of The Christopher Wallace Memorial Foundation and Executor and Trustee of the Voletta Wallace Will and Trust.

In Partnership With

Fox Searchlight Pictures Primary Wave Amazon Prime Video Netflix Biography A&E

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