Hollywood's 3-Film Love Affair With Pablo Escobar

New York Times:

As "Entourage," television's fictionalized Hollywood chronicle, wrapped its season last month, the agent extraordinaire Ari Gold saw his client's dream movie about the Medellín drug cartel hammered by the audience and would-be buyers at the Cannes Film Festival.

Maybe Mr. Gold was working the wrong market.

At the American Film Market, which begins here on Wednesday, no fewer than three prospective movies about the cocaine cartel and its kingpin, Pablo Escobar, are expected to vie for attention.

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Comments

[hip dibler]

travolta ala vinnie barbarino would make a good escobar...gimme drugs,gimme drugs,gimme drugs

[rektruax]

Escobar is my favorite example for Big money doesn't equal good.

You know the argument... Whether it's about music or some other product when someone truly bankrupt in the debating skills eventually breaks out "well it certainly makes a lot of money".

I like to remind them that if Escobar were still alive, he could buy Microsoft or any of the big three auto makers with cash.

[Wilsonfisk89]

Entourage is garbage, its essentially a male sex in the city. Dude looked like Norbit dressed in the Pablo fatsuit. Gimme a break. Big Love, Curb, Conchords rock- Entourage= LAME

[hip dibler]

yet DEADWOOD gets cancelled, go figure.

[steamboat]

Because they are probably some of Escobar's biggest clients (LOL)