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Who got signed, promoted, hired or fired? The Hollywood Reporter’s Rep Sheet rounds up the week in representation news. To submit announcements for consideration, contact rebecca.sun@thr.com.

Docs in the Box?

Documentary filmmaker Billy Corben and his Miami-based production company, Rakontur, have signed with Black Box Management. Corben's documentaries tend to be set in the world of sports, Miami or both, including the ESPN 30 for 30 episodes "Broke," "The U" and its follow-up; Cocaine Cowboys; Dawg Fight; Screwball; and Magic City Hustle. He is now directing a doc about pro wrestling icon "Macho Man" Randy Savage for A&e....

Who got signed, promoted, hired or fired? The Hollywood Reporter’s Rep Sheet rounds up the week in representation news. To submit announcements for consideration, contact rebecca.sun@thr.com.

Docs in the Box?

Documentary filmmaker Billy Corben and his Miami-based production company, Rakontur, have signed with Black Box Management. Corben's documentaries tend to be set in the world of sports, Miami or both, including the ESPN 30 for 30 episodes "Broke," "The U" and its follow-up; Cocaine Cowboys; Dawg Fight; Screwball; and Magic City Hustle. He is now directing a doc about pro wrestling icon "Macho Man" Randy Savage for A&e....

"Cuckoo-crazy!" Wow this looks totally nuts. Greenwich Entertainment has debuted an official trailer for a documentary titled Screwball, which is not associated with the other baseball documentaries with similar titles including Fastball and Knuckleball. This Screwball doc is about Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and his steroid scandal. Filmmaker Billy Corben dives deep in this true-crime dramedy investigating the Mlb's infamous doping scandal involving a nefarious clinician from Florida and his most famous client: Alex Rodriguez. It's described as "a madcap Floridian crime comedy in the vein of Elmore Leonard or the Coen Brothers" that "raises serious questions about the ethics of professional sports. Powerful interests would be happy to let this story slip from memory, but Screwball makes it unforgettable." Sounds good, looks nuts. Casting kids for the reenactments is hilarious, but this whole thing looks so crazy. Here's the new official trailer for Billy Corben's documentary Screwball, direct...

The documentary work of Billy Corben could be best be described like a story your colorful uncle tells you as a kid that’s just too weird to be true. Later you come to find out through multiple witnesses that he wasn’t lying–maybe just embellishing a few of the details. Corben and his Miami-based production company Rakontur don’t have to look far for great stories, choosing to highlight eccentric characters in Cocaine Cowboys, Square Grouper, The U, Dawg Fight, and their latest documentary, Screwball.

The film slices the Major League Baseball doping scandal through the lens of the colorful “Doctor” Tony Bosch, a self-proclaimed growth hacker who found himself as a human growth hormone concierge to those that seek out an edge. His clients include Miami bodybuilders, cops, and athletes in every level from high school to professional. The Mlb scandal essentially blows up when the organization...

Oh to be a fly on the wall of the pitch meeting for Billy Corben’s upcoming documentary “Screwball.” How do you pitch a hard-hitting expose tackling the recent Ped controversy surrounding superstar Alex Rodriguez and his relationship with the infamous Biogenesis featuring re-enactments starring little kids? It sounds batshit crazy. But I guess when you’re the director behind docs like “Cocaine Cowboys,” “The U,” and the underrated “Dawg Fight,” you just get that sort of green light.

Continue reading ‘Screwball’ Clip: Tiff World Premiere Doc Uses Child Actors To Recreate The Recent Mlb Steroid Scandal at The Playlist.

Known for his hard-hitting award-winning documentaries "Raw Deal: A Question of Consent" and "Cocaine Cowboys," filmmaker Billy Corben isn't one to shy away from difficult subject matters. His latest film, "Dawg Fight," is no exception. A brutal exposé on underground backyard Mma fighting in one of Miami's toughest and poorest neighborhoods, "Dawg Fight" is unflinching in its depiction of the dark side of the American dream. It's so dark, in fact, that two of the fighters featured in the film are now dead. Read More: What Does Netflix's Investment in Documentaries Mean for Filmmakers? "To me, it's continuing in our tradition of telling stories that are twisted takes on the American dream," Corben recently told Indiewire. Given the subject matter, which involves desperate men beating each other to bloody pulps for money, Corben realized early on that it might not be an easy sell for distributors. "Everybody is...

Exclusive: Documentary maker Billy Corben has been mining Miami for tough-minded material for nearly two decades, including notable projects such as Cocaine Cowboys and Espn’s two The U docs about the University of Miami’s rogue athletic program. He also produced and directed Raw Deal: A Question of Consent, which had a spot at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001. But he’s never had a film like Dawg Fight, nor a more complicated response from would-be distributors. “Of all…...

Billy Corben is a bit of a badass in the documentary game. Through his Miami-based media studio Rakontur, he produces down-and-dirty docs on everything from college sports to cocaine. His latest, Limelight, chronicles the astronomic rise and fall of New York nightclub kingpin Peter Gatien. I really dug it, and you will too, so see it at New York's Landmark Sunshine Cinema while you still can.

I was an Nyu student, I graduated in 2008. I never lived in Palladium, but I had several friends who did. I remember hearing, "Oh, it used to be a night club," but the cultural significance was never really expressed to me. Do you think the university has tried to downplay the importance of the location?

Well, they do still call it The Palladium. It's just a Google away. I believe that was the venue, when Peter owned it, that was the site of Moby's first ever solo gig.

You may be familiar with Billy Corben. The prolific Cocaine Cowboys director premiered his marijuana doc Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja at SXSW and has Dawg Fight coming later in the year, but in between he premiered Limelight at the fitting Tribeca Film Festival. His latest documentary follows Peter Gatien, better known as the “King of New York Clubs.”

In our Tribeca review I praised the film for its “exhilarating Goodfellas-esque approach on the fame, money, and lifestyle that came with opening the four biggest clubs in NYC.” Our director introduces a set of “real-life eclectic characters that could easily be found in Scorsese’s masterpiece. With a focus on the 80s and 90s club scene, specifically Limelight, we learn how Gatien climbed the ladder and was then hit with legal trouble due to the drug-fueled frenzy in the clubs.” We can now get a glimpse at the madness...

Documentary director Billy Corben is in the midst of a prolific 2011. The Cocaine Cowboys director premiered his marijuana doc Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja at SXSW (where we reviewed it and interviewed him). He has Dawg Fight coming later in the year, and he recently debuted Limelight at the Tribeca Film Festival. The doc follows Ontario-born Peter Gatien on his rise and fall as the “King of New York Clubs.”

Taking an exhilarating Goodfellas-esque approach on the fame, money, and lifestyle that came with opening the four biggest clubs in NYC, Corben introduces a set of real-life eclectic characters that could easily be found in Scorsese’s masterpiece. With a focus on the 80s and 90s club scene, specifically Limelight, we learn how Gatien climbed the ladder and was then hit with legal trouble due to the drug-fueled frenzy in the clubs.

Gatien’s slick and engaging demeanor make him the perfect doc subject.