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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:29 am Post subject: Rocky VI! |
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This will make it a more than thirty-year spread. That's more of a spread than the Star Wars saga.
I remember reading a Mad Magazine satire on the Rocky series in junior high: joking that he'd be making these movies as a senior citizen, fighing with a cane. Prophetic, that was...
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LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- Sylvester Stallone is signing on to reprise his role as boxer Rocky Balboa in the sixth installment of the long-running film series, which he wrote and will direct.
The film, titled "Rocky Balboa," will be co-produced and co-financed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios and will be distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Stallone has been trying to make a sixth movie for years and has been reworking a script. The latest version, which sources said is similar to the tone and grit of the first two movies, persuaded the studios to negotiate a deal.
"In many ways, the screenplay really took me back to the original 'Rocky,' " Revolution Studios founder Joe Roth said in a statement. "As a past champion, Rocky Balboa is once again a regular guy who has to find himself and deal with real life. This film brings Rocky's story full circle."
In the new installment, Rocky, lonely and retired in Philadelphia, comes out of retirement, intending to fight a few low-profile local fights. He's approached to fight a match with reigning heavyweight champ Mason "The Line" Dixon, and soon his comeback ignites a media firestorm.
" 'Rocky Balboa' is about everybody who feels they want to participate in the race of life, rather than be a bystander," Stallone said in a statement. "You're never too old to climb a mountain, if that's your desire."
Shooting is scheduled to begin in December in Los Angeles and Philadelphia.
Stallone received Academy Award nominations for starring in and writing "Rocky," and the 1976 MGM film won an Oscar for best picture, best director (John G. Avildsen) and best editing (Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad). The movie grossed $117.3 million at the domestic boxoffice, making Stallone a film star and creating one of cinema's most famous characters.
It also launched one of the most successful film series of all time. 1979's "Rocky II" grossed $85 million, and 1982's "Rocky III," which featured Mr. T, grossed $120.2 million. "Rocky IV," with Dolph Lundgren, made $125.4 million after its 1985 release. By the decade's close, however, audiences seemed to have tired of the character. "Rocky V," released in 1990, made only $40 million.
"Rocky Balboa" is the first film to be green-lit by MGM since it was acquired by Sony Corp. |
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/17/film.stallone.reut/index.html |
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Homer
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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Say it ain't so... 
The guy will already look like a clown when Rambo 4 releases...
Don't they get tired of microwave dinner movies?
How about trying something different here? |
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Dan The Chainsawman
Joined: 05 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| In rocky 5 wasn't he pretty much banned from legal boxing due to his head being squashed by drago? |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| On the numbering of films (movies) I understood that the film "The madness of King George III" had to be renamed in USA simply "The madness of King George" as it was felt that the potential audience would be confused into thinking they had missed the first two films .... |
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gypsyfish
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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Stallone needs to drive a stake through Rocky and Rambo's hearts. The first movies in the series were good (great, even, for Rocky), but the others (except maybe Rocky 2) stank on ice.
I like Stallone and think he can make a good movie, but he's got to stop these sequels. He won't, though. |
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gypsyfish
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
| On the numbering of films (movies) I understood that the film "The madness of King George III" had to be renamed in USA simply "The madness of King George" as it was felt that the potential audience would be confused into thinking they had missed the first two films .... |
Not true, according to Snopes. I've hear the rumor, too.
http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/george.htm |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
| On the numbering of films (movies) I understood that the film "The madness of King George III" had to be renamed in USA simply "The madness of King George" as it was felt that the potential audience would be confused into thinking they had missed the first two films .... |
Unfortunately, this is very plausible. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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thats kind of weird.. becuase he said during the contender when one of the guys asked him.. sly you gonna make a rocky 6?
and he replied.. who would rocky fight? a cardiac arrest...
no ...
ohh well.. anyway will be good to see.. I like rocky be good to see what he has been up to the last 15 years.. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
| On the numbering of films (movies) I understood that the film "The madness of King George III" had to be renamed in USA simply "The madness of King George" as it was felt that the potential audience would be confused into thinking they had missed the first two films .... |
I've heard an American producer has come up with a sequel to "Othello" starring Snoop Dogg. |
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hypnotist
Joined: 04 Dec 2004
Location: I wish I were a sock
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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| gypsyfish wrote: |
| Wangja wrote: |
| On the numbering of films (movies) I understood that the film "The madness of King George III" had to be renamed in USA simply "The madness of King George" as it was felt that the potential audience would be confused into thinking they had missed the first two films .... |
Not true, according to Snopes. I've hear the rumor, too.
http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/george.htm |
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| Secondly, the title of the film was not changed, nor was it titled differently in America than it was in other parts of the world. The film was always called The Madness of King George, and it bore that title everywhere it was exhibited. |
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Also Known As:
The Madness of George III (Australia)
The Madness of King George III (Australia) |
*shrug* |
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gypsyfish
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:28 am Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| Wangja wrote: |
| On the numbering of films (movies) I understood that the film "The madness of King George III" had to be renamed in USA simply "The madness of King George" as it was felt that the potential audience would be confused into thinking they had missed the first two films .... |
Unfortunately, this is very plausible. |
Certainly plausible if one already has an axe to grind with people from the USA.
On the other hand, I have gone to sequels when I hadn't seen the first movie, so ... maybe not so plausible. (I did skip Malcolm X because I hadn't seen the first nine episodes,though.  ) |
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Greekfreak
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, I believe it all right.
True story: when "Crocodile" Dundee was released in the states, the marketing geniuses decided to add exclamation marks because they thought that otherwise the public might think the movie was about a crocodile named Dundee. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Greekfreak wrote: |
Oh, I believe it all right.
True story: when "Crocodile" Dundee was released in the states, the marketing geniuses decided to add exclamation marks because they thought that otherwise the public might think the movie was about a crocodile named Dundee. |
And of course there's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, because, you know, philosophy is boooring.
Sparkles*_* |
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