Exclusive: Rakontur has wrapped production on The Last of the Cocaine Cowboys, a four-part documentary miniseries on Medellín Cartel co-founder Carlos Lehder.
Described by the U.S. Department of Justice as “the Henry Ford of the cocaine industry,” Lehder co-founded Colombia’s infamous drug cartel alongside Pablo Escobar, Jorge Ochoa and Jose Rodriguez Gacha in the 1970s. He conspired with heads of state to corrupt entire nations and open cocaine smuggling routes in the Bahamas, Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua and Mexico, also buying his own Bahamian island, Norman’s Cay, and transforming it into an air and sea cocaine shipping hub. Lehder simultaneously rose to political power in Colombia as head of the National Latin Movement and helped elect Pablo Escobar to Parliament, with the cartel at its peak smuggling 300 kilos of cocaine per day, and generating 20 billion a year.
Lehder in 1987 became the first Medellín Cartel leader to be captured and extradited to the United States,...
Described by the U.S. Department of Justice as “the Henry Ford of the cocaine industry,” Lehder co-founded Colombia’s infamous drug cartel alongside Pablo Escobar, Jorge Ochoa and Jose Rodriguez Gacha in the 1970s. He conspired with heads of state to corrupt entire nations and open cocaine smuggling routes in the Bahamas, Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua and Mexico, also buying his own Bahamian island, Norman’s Cay, and transforming it into an air and sea cocaine shipping hub. Lehder simultaneously rose to political power in Colombia as head of the National Latin Movement and helped elect Pablo Escobar to Parliament, with the cartel at its peak smuggling 300 kilos of cocaine per day, and generating 20 billion a year.
Lehder in 1987 became the first Medellín Cartel leader to be captured and extradited to the United States,...
- 9/7/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The only non-murdered man who either dated or married a notorious killer is warning HBO -- trash talk him in the biopic starring Jennifer Lopez and he's suing your asses. First, the backstory ... Charles Cosby infamously dated Griselda Blanco -- a Colombian drug lord dubbed the Cocaine Godmother who's tied to hundreds of murders, including the deaths of every man she ever dated, except Cosby. J Lo's playing Blanco for HBO. Cosby wants Nothing...
- 8/15/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Drug dealers and tormented thieves will be scoring on the big screen in two indie pickups.
Magnolia Pictures has nabbed worldwide rights to Billy Corben's documentary Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustlin' With the Godmother, a sequel to his 2006 crime docu, for its Magnet Releasing genre label.
Fellow genre film distributor After Dark Films has acquired North American rights to Xavier Gens' French horror film "Frontier(s)," the story of a band of thieves who find refuge in a motel, only to discover that it's run by Neo-Nazis from hell. Samuel Le Bihan (Brotherhood of the Wolf) stars.
Magnolia released the original Cowboys, which followed the crime-ridden Miami drug scene of the 1970s and '80s, inspiring several upcoming narrative films. The sequel follows Oakland, Calif.-based dealer Charles Cosby and his personal and professional relationship with Cocaine Godmother Griselda Blanco in the '90s.
Both pickups are driven by the films' DVD potential. "Frontier(s)" will have a limited theatrical release May 9, followed four days later by a DVD release through After Dark's output deal with Lionsgate.
Magnolia Pictures has nabbed worldwide rights to Billy Corben's documentary Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustlin' With the Godmother, a sequel to his 2006 crime docu, for its Magnet Releasing genre label.
Fellow genre film distributor After Dark Films has acquired North American rights to Xavier Gens' French horror film "Frontier(s)," the story of a band of thieves who find refuge in a motel, only to discover that it's run by Neo-Nazis from hell. Samuel Le Bihan (Brotherhood of the Wolf) stars.
Magnolia released the original Cowboys, which followed the crime-ridden Miami drug scene of the 1970s and '80s, inspiring several upcoming narrative films. The sequel follows Oakland, Calif.-based dealer Charles Cosby and his personal and professional relationship with Cocaine Godmother Griselda Blanco in the '90s.
Both pickups are driven by the films' DVD potential. "Frontier(s)" will have a limited theatrical release May 9, followed four days later by a DVD release through After Dark's output deal with Lionsgate.
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