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Peter Farrelly’s I Play Rocky to tell the story of how Sylvester Stallone made iconic film

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Green Book filmmaker Peter Farrelly is set to tackle the iconic story of Rocky and the behind-the-scenes production drama that made Sylvester Stallone a star as Variety reports that I Play Rocky, Farrelly’s new film, will soon enter production from a screenplay by Peter Gamble. The upcoming film will follow “Stallone long before his action-hero […]

Frank Grillo joins Sylvester Stallone in Tulsa King season 2

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Frank Grillo is heading to Oklahoma with the actor signing on to star alongside Sylvester Stallone in the second season of Taylor Sheridan’s crime drama series Tulsa King. Grillo – best known for his roles in The Purge franchise as the MCU – is set to take on the role of Bill Bevilaqua, a Kansas […]

Cannon’s Avengers: What If… Cannon Films Did the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

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Here in the Flickering Myth multiverse, we look at how a Cannon-produced Avengers epic may have been cast… The Marvel Cinematic Universe enjoyed an unprecedented run of success after Robert Downey Jr kicked off a major era in movies back with 2008’s Iron Man. Some might not have enjoyed the all-powerful grip that the MCU […]

4K Ultra HD Review – First Blood (1982)

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First Blood, 1982. Directed by Ted Kotcheff. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, and Brian Dennehy. SYNOPSIS: First Blood, the movie that kicked off the Rambo phenomenon, returns to 4K Ultra HD in a new SteelBook edition that’s exclusive to Walmart. Collectors will want to snap this one up, but keep in mind that the transfer […]

Tulsa King Season 2: What To Expect as Sylvester Stallone Returns to Oklahoma

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Billy Oduory on what we know about Tulsa King season 2… Paramount renewed Taylor Sheridan’s Tulsa King for a second season just three episodes into the first season. The series stars Sylvester Stallone in the lead role of Dwight ‘The General’ Manfredi, a former mafia capo for the New York-based Invernizzi crime family, as he […]

10 Actors Quentin Tarantino Needs In His Final Film

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With Tom Cruise rumoured to be in line to make his Quentin Tarantino debut in the filmmaker’s final film The Movie Critic, who else should pop their Tarantino cherry? Here’s Tom Jolliffe with ten suggestions… When it comes to master filmmakers the one thing you can rely on is the eclectic range of talent filling […]

Sylvester Stallone cautions actors against doing their own stunts following latest surgery

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Sylvester Stallone is telling actors that it might not be the best idea to do your own stunts. The action movie icon revealed during promoting for his reality show The Family Stallone that he underwent his seventh back surgery. Caused by his work doing an Expendables fight scene where he fractured his neck, Stallone reveals […]

Sylvester Stallone to hunt a serial killer in The Epiphany

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Sylvester Stallone is set to make his return to the streets of Philadelphia, the setting of the Rocky movies, as Deadline reports that the screen legend is set to star in the upcoming crime thriller The Epiphany from writer Will Eubank (Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin). Scripted by Katie Lovejoy and Russell Sommer, the film […]

Five More Sylvester Stallone Movies That Need a Sequel After Cliffhanger

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With Sly returning as Gabe Walker in a Cliffhanger sequel, we look at five other Sylvester Stallone films that need a sequel… Sylvester Stallone is going to hit the mountains in a surprising and long awaited sequel to Cliffhanger with filming having been set for summer 2024. The Die Hard in the Snowy Mountains hit […]

Sylvester Stallone’s Cliffhanger 2 to shoot in summer 2024

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Sylvester Stallone is getting ready to return to the peaks as mountain search-and-rescue ranger Gabe Walker in a sequel to the 1993 action blockbuster Cliffhanger, and a new report from Screen Daily indicates that the film is set to shoot in Europe this coming summer 2024. As per Screen’s report, the sequel will see Sly […]