The story behind “Rocky” is really well known. Not only is it the film that launched the acting career of Sylvester Stallone, but the actor is also responsible for writing and directing the film.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone found success in Hollywood with iconic roles in popular films, and with similarities in their careers and action-packed productions, the pair also found themselves competing against each other while at the top of their fame.Sylvester Stallone wants Ryan Gosling to be the new ‘Rambo’: ‘He loves the character’Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals he’s recovering from surgeryArnold Schwarzenegger’s most iconic role could have been played by OJ SimpsonDuring their latest joint interview with TMZ, the pair discussed their rivalry and shared some insight about their careers, where they compared how deep their competition went, including machine guns and even body fat.“We ended up kind of like, ‘Well, you killed 28 people in the movie; I killed 32,’” Arnold said during the interview, with Sylvester sharing his thoughts at the time; “I got to top that.” The two actors also discussed their appearance and how they competed for the best physique in the business.“It was now the body count and then it was kind of, like, ‘Well, what was your body fat? ‘I was down to seven percent,’ Sly said. And then I said, ‘I was down to 10 percent,’” Arnold added, “So it became a competition with the body.”“And then he started using machine guns that were kind of, like, huge machine guns.
I was running after him, he was not running after me,” the ‘Terminator’ star admitted. “So I said, when we did ‘Predator’ … ‘I’ve got to have a bugger machine gun than Sly used in “Rambo.” So this is how it went.“The pair went on to become friends and their friendly competition continued as they became more successful.
“I was running after him, he was not running after me,” Arnold said, praising Sylvester. Arnold
.The story behind “Rocky” is really well known. Not only is it the film that launched the acting career of Sylvester Stallone, but the actor is also responsible for writing and directing the film.
Brent Lang Executive Editor “Green Book” director Peter Farrelly will take audiences behind-the-scenes on the unlikely and tumultuous production of “Rocky,” the boxing drama that catapulted Sylvester Stallone into stardom. “I Play Rocky,” the upcoming film, will follow Stallone long before his action hero days. Here, he’s a struggling actor whose partially paralyzed face and a speech impediment hasn’t left him in demand by Hollywood.
Oscar winner Peter Farrelly will direct and former Warner Bros Motion Picture Boss Toby Emmerich will produce I Play Rocky, a film about how Sylvester Stallone bet on himself to play the star-making title role in Rocky. CAA Media Finance and FilmNation are selling at Cannes.
Brent Lang Executive Editor “Green Book” director Peter Farrelly will take audiences behind-the-scenes on the unlikely and tumultuous production of “Rocky,” the boxing drama that catapulted Sylvester Stallone into stardom. “I Play Rocky,” the upcoming film, will follow Stallone long before his action hero days. Here, he’s a struggling actor whose partially paralyzed face and a speech impediment hasn’t left him in demand by Hollywood.
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Bachman-Turner Overdrive released their iconic smash single “Takin’ Care Of Business.”You’ve likely heard the classic rock radio staple at countless NBA and NFL games or on TV in “The Wonder Years,” “The Simpsons,” “The Sopranos,” “Arrested Development” and commercials.However, the timeless track didn’t materialize overnight. In fact, it was originally called “White Collar Worker” and lingered in singer Randy Bachman’s proverbial drafts folder for six years, left over from his stint with The Guess Who.Then, lightning struck.“One night I’m driving to a gig in Vancouver and a guy comes on the radio station,” Bachman told the New York Post in an exclusive interview.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Sylvester Stallone revealed on the TMZ special “Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons” (via The Daily Mail) that a near career-ending injury in the lead up to “Rocky II” threatened to end the boxing franchise before its first sequel got off the ground. Stallone was training with bodybuilder Franco Columbu about a month and a half before the “Rocky 2” shoot when he ripped his pec muscle right off the bone. “So, I go down, and it’s maybe only 200 [lbs].
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Arnold Schwarzenegger has made some claims that could have greatly altered the history of pop culture. In various interviews, he’s revealed that O.J. Simpson, who died last week, was being considered for one of Schwarzenegger’s biggest roles.Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals he’s recovering from surgeryArnold Schwarzenegger shares funny update of ‘FUBAR’ season 2The role that Simpson was up for discussion was “The Terminator,” one of Schwarzenegger’s biggest and most important roles of his career.
Tulsa King star and executive producer Sylvester Stallone has broken his social media silence since allegations he and one of the show’s directors had disparaged some background actors who were working on the Paramount+ drama.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Pierce Brosnan will star with Amir El-Masry in the sports drama “Giant,” based on the true-life story of British-Yemeni boxer Prince Naseem “Naz” Hamed and his rags to riches ascent to a world championship under the tutelage of his Irish-born boxing trainer Brendan Ingle. El-Masry will play Naz and Brosnan is set to portray Ingle. The film will be written and directed by Rowan Athale (“The Rise,” “Gangs of London,” “Strange But True”), and produced by Mark Lane of Tea Shop Productions and Kevin Sampson of White Star Productions.
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Lily Gladstone, creator Quinn Shephard and executive producer Samir Mehta joined Deadline’s Contenders TV to discuss their Hulu series Under the Bridge. Based on Rebecca Godfrey’s account of the murder of Reena Virk, all three said they were careful not to sensationalize Virk’s death.
who died Wednesday at 76, had a varied career in Hollywood as an actor and a pitchman before his trial for double murder in the 1994 deaths of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.The former Buffalo Bills star with marquee good looks, nicknamed “The Juice,” was at the epicenter of pop culture for his movie, TV and commercial roles throughout the ’70s, ’80s and early ’90s. It seemed, during those days, that you couldn’t turn on your TV without seeing one of Simpson’s Hertz commercials where — as a spokesman for the rental car company — he ran and careened through airports, nor ignore his big-screen work, most notably in the “Naked Gun” movies starring Leslie Nielsen.Simpson was a big enough star, in fact, that he was pitched to the “Terminator” director James Cameron to star in the 1984 action movie — a suggestion that Cameron said later, in an interview with Chris Wallace, he immediately dismissed.
EXCLUSIVE: It didn’t bother Thomas Mooneyham that he saw Sylvester Stallone glancing more than once at him, or how he was asked to leave a bar scene so he could be replaced with a younger cowboy and a “good-looking cowgirl.”