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It's late afternoon and the offices of Rakontur are filled with the rat-tat-tat chatter of principals Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman. The director/producer team behind the Cocaine Cowboys phenomenon has just moved into new digs, a picturesque 1927 Mediterranean on upper Alton Road, and, save for a couple of movie posters and the leather sectional in the living room-turned-reception area, the space is pretty bare. In the half-empty room, their rapid-fire banter pops like an AK-47 in the hands of one of their celluloid protagonists. "Cuban coffee?†Spellman offers a visitor, before pouring himself a shot. "How many projects have we got going on now?†asks Corben. Nine, his partner tells him. Nine? "Nine.â€
It's hard even for them to keep up these days. Since the premiere three years ago of the original Cocaine Cowboys—a blood-soaked, white-powdered documentary assemblage of interviews with drug pilot Mickey Munday, dealer Jon Roberts and hit man Jorge "Rivi†Ayala, along with vintage South Florida news footage—Corben and Spellman, both 30, have been riding a growing wave of success. What began as an attempt by the two University of Miami alums to chronicle the city's shoot-'em-up, blow-'em-up cocaine wars of the early 1980s has morphed into a lucrative branding operation.
First came the follow-up to CC, Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin' With the Godmother, which expanded on the story of the most memorable character from the original film, Griselda Blanco, the "Black Widow†of the '80s Miami drug trade, who built her empire on the bulletriddled corpses of those stupid enough to underestimate a woman with a temper and a cadre of devoted hit men. Now there's a third CC film in the works, along with an HBO series, a remixed version of the original CC, an animated series for the Adult Swim cable network and even a coffee-table book.
According to Spellman, that was the plan all along. "With Cocaine Cowboys,†he declares, "we knew right from the beginning that it was going to be a cottage industry—action figures, cartoons, comic books.†The reason, he says, is that when it comes to Miami's cocaine wars, truth was not only stranger than fiction, but it was also more entertaining. "People thought they had seen how overthe- top the Miami drug scene was with Scarface, but they really hadn't.†Corben concurs: "The most shocking thing about working on Cocaine Cowboys is that nobody had done a documentary like this before.â€
Corben and Spellman, who had only one previous film to their credit—Raw Deal, a 2001 Sundance entry about an alleged rape at the University of Florida—debuted CC at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2006. The exposure led to a distribution deal with bad-boy billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban's Magnolia Pictures.
It was an auspicious start, but the first indication that CC might really blow up came when Corben and Spellman were told that bootleg copies of their film, which had yet to be officially released on DVD, were being sold at the Carol City Flea Market, a popular urban emporium in North Miami-Dade. When they went to the neighborhood to investigate, Corben and Spellman made an even more surprising discovery. "We go into this barbershop,†remembers Corben, "and they have these two TV sets and Cocaine Cowboys is playing on a loop. All day. These guys in the barbershop know all the dialogue—and the film hasn't even been released!†CC, with its celebration of violence, fast money and the kill-or-bekilled ethos, was an instant hit with the hip-hop demographic.
The producers saw the potential for a branding breakthrough. "Hiphop had embraced street-team marketing,†Spellman says. "Why couldn't we do the same?†Highprofile Miami rappers were some of the film's biggest fans and, according to Spellman, "it became important for them to say they had seen it,†so Corben and Spellman shot video testimonials with the likes of Trick Daddy, Pitbull and Cool & Dre and posted them on YouTube. It was only a matter of time before wannabe gangstas, white 20-somethings too young to actually remember the '80s, and the rest of the Facebook set were scrambling to get their copies ofCC.
Since then, fervent fan interest has fueled the franchise. "We always knew it was going to be a series of films,†says Corben. "After Cocaine Cowboys, people came to us and said, 'Bro, you didn't get the whole story. Bro, you didn't do this, you didn't do that.'â€
Hence, CC II, which the boys released in July 2008, and now CC: Remix, due out this spring. Remix, like the original CC, will be structured in three acts—drugs, money, murders—but with completely different content. "We shot 150 hours of interviews for Cocaine Cowboys,†says Spellman. "That's what the remix is about—all this stuff that's really good that didn't make it into the [first] film.†Then, exhibiting a producer's practiced flair, he adds, "Rivi is going to solve a cold case from 1981. Rivi is going to tell you what happened in the Kendall 6 killings!†The remix will coincide with Cocaine Cowboys: An Explicit History of Miami's Drug Rush, an MTV book containing photos, police memos and other bloodstained tidbits from Miami's "paradise lost†days.
A third installment in the CC series, about the prosecution of legendary Miami drug dealers Willy Falcon and Sal Magluta, is also currently in production. "It's the biggest drug case in the history of this country,†says Corben, speaking of the series of federal trials that ended with Falcon getting 20 years and Magluta a quasibiblical 195. "For 10 or 15 years, Willy and Sal financed the legal profession in Miami.â€
Corben and Spellman seem primed to keep Hollywood awash in CC-related product for almost as long as Willy and Sal kept Miami swimming in snow white. A chance meeting in 2008 with rap mogul Pharrell Williams has led to the development of an animated series for Cartoon Network sister channel Adult Swim. The show, about two dope-peddling brothers in '80s Miami, is to be titled Square Grouper, after the local nickname for the bales of marijuana that used to regularly wash up on Florida beaches.
But the biggest score for Corben and Spellman appears to have come through their talent agency, William Morris, which put them in touch with another of its clients, director Michael Bay (Bad Boys, Transformers). The initial phone call did not seem promising. "The first thing [Bay] says to me is, 'I hate documentaries,'†remembers Corben. "Then, after a pause, he says, 'But I love Cocaine Cowboys.'â€
Bay asked them how they would envision a dramatization of the documentary. "I told him I thought the story of the smugglers would make for a great ongoing story,†says Corben. "Cocaine Cowboys is an ensemble piece, which is also what a TV series is. So he says, 'Okay, let's pitch it as a TV series and, if that doesn't work out, we could always make the movie instead.'†Corben laughs. "Only somebody like Michael Bay would see a $200 million movie as a fallback.â€
Soon after, Bay roped in megaproducer Jerry Bruckheimer (CSI: Miami, Pirates of the Caribbean), who successfully pitched the series to HBO. Corben and Spellman will serve as executive producers on the show, which is scheduled to premiere next year. Their chief responsibility, they say, will be quality control. "Our job is to get the setting right, make sure the city is accurately represented,†stresses Corben. "There's going to have to be scenes at Miami Jai-Alai and on the Miami River.†(Each figured in a memorably grisly killing back in the day.)
Corben and Spellman aren't the only ones cashing in on the success of CC. Jon Roberts, whose drug-dealing adventures supplied the original film with much of its narrative fireworks, has secured a deal of his own. Working through another Hollywood talentagency heavyweight, Endeavor (since merged with William Morris), he sold the rights to his life story to Paramount Pictures, which is currently developing a film version directed by Peter Berg (The Kingdom, Hancock). Mark Wahlberg and Leonardo DiCaprio reportedly have already signed to play Roberts and Mickey Munday. Roberts' money is on Salma Hayek to land the role of Griselda Blanco.
Sitting in a Miami Starbucks and sporting camouflage shorts, a tan T-shirt and black sneaks, Roberts looks more like the suburban dad next door than one of Miami's most infamous ex-drug dealers. That is, until he starts hyping his latest project. "This film is going to blow everybody's mind,†exclaims Roberts. "Cocaine Cowboys was just about Miami, which was a little operation.†Roberts promises the new movie will detail his much more extensive operation out of Louisiana, as well as his undercover dealings with the United States government, which he claims recruited him to fly weapons to the Contras in Nicaragua in the '80s. Writer Evan Wright of Generation Kill fame is writing both the movie script and a book based on Roberts' experiences.
There has been talk of a falling-out between Roberts and Rakontur—the competing projects might have something to do with it—but Corben and Spellman, for their part, wish Roberts well. "I'm very happy that Jon was able to parlay his appearance inCC into something,†says Corben. "He and Mickey have this icon status, which is great for us.â€
Corben and Spellman can afford to vibe magnanimous. No one, it seems, can get enough of Rakontur's street-level stories about Miami's outlaw ways. The U, about the University of Miami football team's rise to glory and notoriety in the '80s, aired in December as part of ESPN's 30th-anniversary celebration. Dawg Fight, about Miami's illegal backyard fight circuit, is in post production and will be released this summer, as will Limelight, on the rise and fall of the great New York club scene of the 1980s.
While not, strictly speaking, a South Florida film (though this being a Rakontur production, you just know there will be a connection), Limelight nevertheless reflects the producing duo's abiding interest in that other famed Miami industry—clubland. In 2008, Spellman, along with nightlife maven Keith Paciello, opened Bella Rose, a laid-back, loungy throwback to the early days of South Beach. "The plan was to build it just like Cocaine Cowboys,†explains Spellman. "People open clubs and invite stars from out of town and pay them. We just invited our friends, and it grew from there.â€
It certainly did. Though temporarily closed for relocation, Bella Rose has become a draw for hipsters, A-listers and CCgroupies. "We get a lot of attention because of it,†says Spellman. "It's an extension of the Rakontur brand.â€
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By Eddie Pells, AP National Writer
The NBA has 92 employees working in four cities in China, a country where 300 million people - the population of the entire United States - play basketball.
The NFL is trying to find a niche in China's huge group of 18-to-34-year-old men, figuring they'll love fantasy football, video games and online updates as much as young American guys do.
Major League Baseball wants to find its Yao Ming, hoping someday to bring a star or two to America and give Chinese fans someone to cheer.
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China has 1.3 billion people and a rapidly growing economy. Disposable income has grown by 11 percent annually since 1995, according to one study, and the size of the middle class is growing by 18 percent.
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Of America's three biggest sports leagues, the NBA clearly has the biggest foothold. The NBA makes about $300 million from overseas each year, and China is the biggest contributor toward that figure.
"The NBA is unique in that, the very best players in the world aspire to play in our league," said Heidi Ueberroth, NBA Entertainment's president of global business operations and the daughter of U.S. Olympic Committee chairman Peter Ueberroth. "The Chinese see the NBA not as an American sport, but as a global sport. It's something people around the world have aspirations for."
Indeed, part of the NBA's success comes because the Chinese have been playing and watching basketball for a long time. American missionaries brought the sport to China in the 1890s. The NBA has had a presence in China since 1979, when the Washington Bullets traveled there to play the Chinese national team.
NBA games are broadcast on 51 television networks, and the league's Chinese Web site is the most popular sports internet site, averaging 12 million views a day.
And Yao's jersey sales rank sixth in China behind Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, LeBron James, Tracy McGrady and Dwyane Wade - perhaps a sign that basketball has legs beyond the country's biggest star.
Still, many experts believe giving Chinese fans someone to follow is a big part of the equation for success there.
"That's how it opens up," Tuchman said. "When you have a player who can capture the excitement of a country, that's when they can get drawn into a sport."
The Yankees and Mariners each recently signed two Chinese prospects, recognizing the vast potential if they can identify the country's first baseball star. Boston Red Sox president Larry Lucchino visited China recently and saw what could happen if a Chinese player makes it in America and fans connect with him.
"The transformation of the society is creating a middle class with leisure time and money for sports," he said, answering an e-mail question about his trip. "There is a history there of baseball. The new media opportunities are gigantic."
It also helps if a sport's familiar, a part of the culture of a country that loves its recreation. That's a model with which the NBA has found success, co-sponsoring a series of 2-on-2 tournaments being played in 112 cities this summer.
"Baseball has to be played day in and day out," said Jim Lefebvre, manager of the Chinese Olympic team, in a recent interview. "When we play four or five games in a row, the players break down and get hurt. If China wants to compete, they have to play day in and day out and realize who they are competing with."
Football might have the longest way to go, though the NFL is trying to catch up.
To most people outside North America, football is an ungainly mess, filled with long breaks between the action, strange position names and complicated strategy.
The NFL planned to stage a Patriots-Seahawks preseason game in China this year but awkwardly canceled those plans a few months after scheduling the game.
Mark Waller, senior vice president-international for the NFL, conceded the league might have put too much on its plate in trying to work the China game in along with the upcoming regular-season meeting between the Dolphins and Giants at Wembley Stadium.
"I personally believe that following the Olympics is better than preceding it," Waller said. "I believe there will be more fan space, fan attention and government interest in how to fill stadiums."
While the NFL prepares to play a preseason game in China by 2009, it's busy trying to build its brand. The league has sponsored a school-age, flag-football league for about 5,000 players, and an NFL game is shown each week on state-run TV. The league also opened its first Chinese office in June, recognizing the need to establish a physical presence in China.
With live-action football in short supply, the NFL also is trying to find a way to market the game to fans through fast-moving highlight packages, video games, fantasy football and other internet-driven products.
"Our emphasis is going to be around how much we can deliver to fans in a technological way," Waller said. "It's a sport that looks great on TV, looks great on the internet. We can do a lot around video gaming. It will be a technological-based modern approach underpinned with the ability for a limited number of people to play."
Tuchman said finding business opportunities in China is the No. 1 project these days at his company, which caters to companies looking for sports-marketing investments around the world.
But it takes more than simply showing up.
"Things would be going a lot more quickly right now if there were more of a guarantee when dealing with China that things will go as planned," Tuchman said. "Buying companies over there, getting data and the things that you need to have guaranteed before you make an investment is very difficult."
One project to note might be NBA commissioner David Stern's goal of establishing an NBA-operated league in China. Stern has said forming such a league was a project much closer to fruition than expansion in the current NBA or even his so-called 20-year plan of having five franchises in Europe.
But the 12-year-old Chinese Basketball Association, which produced Yao and Milwaukee draft pick Yi Jianlian, is well entrenched.
"Entirely unworkable," is what Duke professor Grant Farred calls the NBA's plan to establish a league in China.
Farred wrote a recent book discussing the difficulties of assimilating different cultures into basketball. He recognizes the potential of the American sports projects in China but doesn't think the partnerships will evolve so seamlessly.
"Can you imagine the Chinese government saying it's OK for an American conglomerate to run the CBA? How unthinkable is that?" Farred said. "Also, is there a market for these games? On the one hand, lots of people will wake up at ungodly hours to watch Yao Ming play for the Houston Rockets. He's great. But how many are going to pay good money to watch a bunch of also-ran Chinese?"
And indeed, money is an issue.
One thing that struck Tuchman on his recent visit was the poverty. For all the reports of an improving economy and growing middle class, Tuchman said he still saw a very poor, developing city in many places.
"You see all the billboards of Yao wearing his Rockets jersey," Tuchman said. "You can bring in a lot of fans like some of the leagues are going to do, but when you want to convert fans into customers, you've got to have people with TVs and money."
Where money exists, the Chinese seem willing to spend it on basketball.
The NBA says the branded sports apparel market in China is expected to grow 20 percent annually to $2.5 billion in 2010. About 20,000 Chinese stores carry NBA merchandise.
Despite the inherent roadblocks and his own skepticism, Farred acknowledges there is, indeed "a profound fascination, particularly with their growing middle class, in things American."
"There's always going to be money to be made in China," he said. "Nobody would deny that."
The Associated Press


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and cross objection filed by the respondent being in support of the impugned order is also disposed of. - ST/404/10-Mum - A/87087-87088/16/STB - Dated:- 30-3-2016 - Shri M.V. Ravindran, Member (Judicial) and Shri C.J. Mathew, Member (Technical) Shri R.K. Das, Dy. Commissioner (A.R.) for Appellant Shri H.G. Dharmadhikari, Advocate for Respondent ORDER This appeal is filed by the Revenue against Order-in-Appeal No. AGS(89)49/2010 dated 17.05.2010 passed by the Commissioner of Central Excise & .....
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