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Boxer Florian Munteanu To Star As Ivan Drago’s Son In CREED 2

Warner Bros. Bringing rumors at long last full circle ahead of production start in March, leave it to Sylvester Stallone to update fans via Instagram with word of German-Romanian boxer Florian Munteanu for a starring feature debut in Creed 2. Munteanu will take the reigns as the son of long-defeated Ivan Drago as seen in the events of the 1985 film, Rocky IV, made at the height of the Cold War starring Dolph Lundgren as Drago opposite Stallone who starred and directed. Congratulations to Florian “ Big Nasty” Munteanu for getting the part as IVAN DRAGOS son! 27 years old , 6 feet four, 245 pounds of talent.#mgm #creed #creed2 A post shared by Sly Stallone (@officialslystallone) on Jan 15, 2018 at 5:59pm PST Stephen Caple Jr. is taking the reigns following Ryan Coogler’s 2015 hit film starring Michael B. Jordan in the title role spinning off the classic boxing […]

CREED 2 Sets Stephen Caple Jr. To Direct

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It was back in October that actor Sylvester Stallone, priming for a return to the screen with actor Michael B. Jordan for Creed II, announced he would direct. Fast forward to December this week on Monday as things appear to have switched gears with word that Stephen Caple Jr. would instead join the spin-off sequel at the helm. Caple Jr., who has won several awards for feature and short film credits such as last year’s The Land and 2014 fave, A Different Tree, will direct the film from a script by Stallone and Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker following the Winter 2015 hit helmed by Ryan Coogler who is currently in talks for an executive producer role. Most of the plot details are thin apart from Variety’s reporting cited as follows: The upcoming installment follows Adonis Creed (Jordan)’s life inside and outside of the ring as he deals with […]

Stallone To Go One More Round At The Helm For CREED Sequel

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Warner Bros. Pictures Just as he did with the second, third, fourth and sixth installments, Sylvester Stallone will direct the next installment of Creed following Ryan Coogler’s hit 2015 spin-off of the Rocky franchise. This comes as there’s also a possibility that this might even be Stallone’s last stint in the iconic role of Rocky that bore the emotive underdog boxing drama from helmer John G. Avildsen’s inaugural 1976 classic, Rocky. Actor Michael B. Jordan will reprise the title character continuing the story of Adonis Creed, the son of the co-starring role of Apollo Creed memorably played in Stallone’s initial three starring/directing credits of the franchise. Coogler’s film, following his 2012 pairing with star Jordan on the set of bio-pictoral drama, Fruitvale Station, earned more than $173 million dollars globally and earned a slew of wins and nominations with Stallone winning Best Supporting Actor at multiple film events. Looking forward […]

ESCAPE PLAN 3: DEVIL’S STATION: Stallone Welcomes Fans To ‘Club Dead’ As Production Starts; Bautista And Zhang, More Added To Cast

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Still to the surprise of many is the forthcoming second installment of the Escape Plan trilogy – Steven C. Miller’s Escape Plan 2: Hades, following Mikael Håfström’s initial 2013 hit pairing Sylvester Stallone with Arnold Schwarzenegger. A third was announced back in April and news this week now confirms the start of principal photography for upcoming threequel, Escape Plan 3: Devil’s Station with Death And Life Of Bobby Z and 15 Minutes director John Herzfeld at the helm. The new movie sees Stallone and actor Dave Bautista reprising their roles from a script by Herzfeld and screenwriter Miles Chapman which sees the two pairing up once again to break out one of their own from an inescapable prison. The two will be joined on screen by actor and martial artist Max Zhang whose credits span various facets in film from stunt double to principal actor with credits such as Crouching […]

ESCAPE PLAN 3 In The Works As Sequel Nears Completion

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Facebook The baffling nature behind actor Sylvester Stallone’s departure from franchises like Rambo and The Expendables is still something of a mystery. In the meantime, it’s become clearer and clearer that he’s ready to devote his time to the current potential now thriving in the upcoming sequel to Mikael Hafstrom’s Escape Plan which currently has Extraction helmer Steven C. Miller directing. Thus, follow Stallone on social media enough and you might be keen on any number of update which have so far included a teeny bit of teaser footage from the movie featuring Stallone and actor Dave Bautista, as well as shots at a robot like fixture on the set emulating what appears to be some form of A.I.. Actress Jamie Bell and reprising actor Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson also star in the film as do The Philly Kid star Wes Chatham and Ip Man 2 co-star Huang Xiaoming for […]

Sylvester Stallone Walks Away From THE EXPENDABLES Franchise

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Call it what you will, but the word now is that despite all earlier reports and hopes for a fourth Expendables movie, actor and franchise co-writer/director/star Sylvester Stallone has abandoned the franchise indefinitely. It wouldn’t be the first time either as it’s also the latest franchise dropped by the actor since the knife-twisting news of his departure from Rambo more than a year ago. Nu Image/Millenium head Avi Lerner is reportedly in denial of Stallone’s leave, telling Deadline, “We’ve got disagreements with Sly, but we’ve had them for over a year and a half,… “Right now, each one has opinion. We agreed on 95% of things, but there are certain things in production we don’t agree on. I don’t think it’s over, but what write whatever you want. In my opinion, it’s not dead.” Among those disagreements noted in the report are who would direct, how and where VFX handling […]

ESCAPE PLAN 2 Casts Dave Bautista

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Most of you have already plotted your moviegoing course for the May release of James Gunn’s Guardians Of The Galaxy: Vol 2, and you would be forgiven. Actor Dave Bautista has certainly garnered the attention a bit in the years since parting ways from wrestling and MMA and with a career ever flourishing it appears his upcoming role with a rumored cameo by actor Sylvester Stallone in the Marvel sequel won’t be all to their presence together on screen. This brings us to the latest report from THR regarding Emmett/Furla/Oasis’s upcoming China co-production with Beijing-based Leomus Pictures, Escape Plan 2 which is set to roll cameras in the Spring, and news confirming Bautista’s attachment to the film. Stallone, also poised for a fourth Expendables movie in the months ahead, is reprising the role of a prison security expert following his 2013 performance under helmer Mikael Hafstrom with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vincent […]

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Sylvester Stallone Is Confirmed For ESCAPE PLAN 2

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The jury is still out on the otherwise confirmed fourth Expendables movie that will see just some of Hollywood’s mightiest action heroes reprising their roles from the trilogy, including Sylvester Stallone. In the meantime, there is at least one other title well on the way following last year’s reporting on Chinese co-production attachments to a sequel to the 2013 hit, Escape Plan, announced next to another installment of the Now You See Me franchise for Lionsgate. Still in search of a director, Escape Plan 2, was last reported for a production start between a few weeks ago through March, although this week’s reporting from THR might suggest different. At any rate, new reports are confirming Stallone’s return to the role of Ray Breslin, a prison security expert who, in the first film, gets brutally duped into landing behind bars at a black site prison facility with a heavy-handed security system […]

ESCAPE PLAN 2 Is A Go; Stallone, Producers Returning

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It was last reported back in July that Lionsgate was up for advancing a sequel to the 2013 hit action film, Mikael Håfström’s Escape Plan. That film was led in a two-hander between cinematic action movie legends Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger which grossed $137 million globally, and the update at the time also gave mention to the possibility of it being a Chinese co-production. That detail still appears correct according to the latest update at Deadline which officially confirms the sequel now greenlit for production next year from Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films with Lionsgate Premiere handling its release. Stallone will reprise his role in a supporting capacity this time around while Escape Plan scribe Miles Chapman’s new screenplay will oversee an updated cast and story; The original film saw the legendary action star as a prison security expert fight his way out of an off-the-books prison facility headed by a courrupt […]

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Sylvester Stallone Is Back To Developing THE EXPENDABELLES

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A lot remains unanswered for the window of time between now and the last reports we’ve heard on various female-centric projects themed on actor Sylvester Stallone’s success with the Expendables trilogy. Dating back to 2012, folks like Dredd 3D producer Adi Shankar were said to be circling one such project while it was made clear a few years later that Killers helmer Robert Luketic would sit in the chair with Millenium Films for the aptly-named The ExpendaBelles. The latter project replaced its premise a day later with what read like a truly meaty action comedy contender for an all female cast, inspired by Stallone’s action franchise with our heroines forced to knuckle up when a rescue mission turns into a deadly fight to topple a mad dictator. Filming was expected to commence that summer with Stallone serving as one of the producers and actress Sigourney Weaver potentially up to star. […]

CREED 2 Could Arrive As Early As 2017

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Over the weekend, Sylvester Stallone won a Golden Globe award for his supporting role as an aged Rocky Balboa in his latest page-turning signature boxing drama, Creed, starring Michael B. Jordan. This, coupled with an onslaught of upworthy reviews and a box-office total of $105 million dollars, is all very reassuring of prospective talks for a sequel, and accordingly, MGM CEO Gary Barber is making it so. Barber confirmed to Variety in a new report on Monday that while an official date is not set in stone, a follow-up could arrive as soon as 2017 with Jordan returning as the son of Rocky cinematic mainstay, Apollo Creed who starred in the first four films of the boxing saga. The talk is also that in this case, the plan for a plot may well include having actor Carl Weathers portray him in some capacity according to ideas presented by Creed helmer […]

Sylvester Stallone Retires From Playing RAMBO

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Action star and actor Sylvester Stallone is not mincing words after this week. The 69 year old action hero is officially retiring from the role of Rambo according to a new interview with Variety “The heart’s willing, but the body says, ‘Stay home!,’” says Stallone. “It’s like fighters that go back for one last round and get clobbered. Leave it to someone else.” The character, based David Morell’s 1972 novel, “First Blood”, spawned four films with Stallone in the title role between 1982 and 2008, with the latter, Rambo, reinvigorating an already decades-hardened fanbase of R-rated action cinema. “You know when you realize there’s nothing more to pull out?” said the actor. “As an action film, I was very satisfied that it dealt with the Burmese situation. It had one foot in a current event, the longest civil war in history, 65 years at that time. It was […]

Stallone Exits Fox's RAMBO: NEW BLOOD Series

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It took a while to confirm but at least we know now that actor Sylvester Stallone is officially not attached to Fox’s new efforts to develop a TV series inspired by the Rambo movie franchise. Deadline reports as of Monday that Stallone, who was last said to possibly repirise role in Rambo: New Blood, is stepping back from the project entirely, but wishing its team well in the process. The show would have focused on Rambo’s iconic character, spawned from David Morell’s 1972 novel and the film series that followed through 2008, and his relationship with his son, J.R., an ex-Navy seal. The Fugitive and Die Hard scribe Jeb Stuart is tapped to pen the series with eOne and Millenium advancing the series while the long-awaited “No Country For Old Men-toned” Rambo V remains in limbo. However, with Stallone still attached to the development of an Expendables TV series based on the […]

Fox, eOne And Millenium To Produce RAMBO: NEW BLOOD For Television

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Courtesy Of Millenium Films Well, it’s official. Seven years after the 2008 film, Rambo, reinvigorated fans of the classic action franchise led by actor Sylvester Stallone, Deadline is now reporting that the languishing fifth film that’s been in developement for some time now is indefinitely on hold. Instead, eOne will be internationally representing the developement of a TV series that’s also been long in the works in the last few years and will produce along with Millenium Films. Stallone’s name is being circulated as the likely prospect of the new show titled Rambo: New Blood, marking a possible return to the character alongside an actor who will play ex-Navy SEAL, J.R., Rambo’s son. Fox reportedly closed the deal with The Fugitive and Die Hard scribe Jeb Stuart tapped to pen the series two years since eOne moved with a plan to advance a series with NuImage all while a fifth […]

CREED: Still A 'Rocky' Movie, But Packs A Punch All Its Own

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Today’s age of remakes and reboots is not without its share of criticisms. Some fans are hardliners and purists about their favorite franchises and largely choose not to have them reobserved in any way shape or fashion, which can both be a good and a bad thing despite many opinions. For the instance of the launch of the next installation of the Rocky saga, Creed, this is most certainly a good thing, notwithstanding its explosive opening weekend at the box office. The film takes its cues directly from that of its predecessors with a new face on the frontline and it does so in a way that respects its origins with an adherance to substance over style and a look ready to engage a new era of moviegoers. Michael B. Jordan, back once again with director Ryan Coogler following their accolades hugely earned in the 2012 biopictoral drama, Fruitvale Station, […]

And Now, A Word From Sly…

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Go see the film CREED this Thanksgiving! It’s wonderful. Michael B Jordon is great! The directing is brilliant… A video posted by Sly Stallone (@officialslystallone) on Oct 23, 2015 at 8:36am PDT Nuff said. Creed opens this Thanksgiving!

Watch A New Featurette For CREED

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I don’t know about anyone else, but I would like to think that the concept of the classic Rocky character, Apollo Creed, eventually had children who could later forsee an entrance into the Rocky saga. This is at least one thing mentioned in the latest featurette for the upcoming spin-off, Creed, reuniting star Michael B. Jordan with director Ryan Coogler, now joining franchise mainstay Sylvester Stallone who co-stars. The film aims to take viewers into a new layer in the storyline with Jordan in the role of the troubled son whose father dies in Rocky IV (honestly, that film came out thirty years ago and if you haven’t seen that film yet and feel spoiled by this entry as already given in the trailers, I don’t know what you’re doing with your life). Coogler‘s script also introduces a few new characters that even help fortify the younger Creed’s story, with […]

SP International Deals China Co-Prods For THE EXPENDABLES 4 And SECURITY

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Producer Steven Paul made a significant showing this year while on hand at Cannes with deals pertaining to forthcoming China co-productions, High Speed and an upcoming Tekken remake to name a few. This week he’s back in the headlines with word on two new titles now well on the way from Nu Image/Millenium. Variety reports that director Alain Desrochers’s $15 million dollar action thriller, Security, and the currently-developing fourth installment of The Expendables have equity backing as China co-productions following deals made on behalf by Paul’s SP International Pictures made on behalf of SSXH Beijing and Max Screen Film Distribution. Security has reportedly begun principal photography in Bulgaria with Antonio Banderas and Ben Kingsley starring, though plot, date and other cast info details currently remain unknown. Meanwhile, cast and crew info remain pending for The Expendables 4, following a five-year franchise that took off in 2010 with its third banking significantly larger in […]

CREED Is More Than A Name In The Brand New Trailer!

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Remaking, rebooting or sequelizing classic hit films can always feel like a gamey thing to try and achieve. However, a concentrated effort with central focus on all the right ingredients can lead to great things. Take this to heart when contemplating the last 39 years and what filmmaker John G. Avildsen and actor Sylvester Stallone accomplished with the breakout hit film, Rocky, a true underdog story at its core with boxing as its main centerpiece. The franchise that followed with five more movies up until 2006 embody just the kind of legacy a great film can carry for its fans; Symbolically, it’s the same amount of weight we now see being lived on through newly-added Michael B. Jordan now taking the lead under director Ryan Coogler for the new spin-off, Creed. We’ve already seen at least one trailer so far, so we now know what we’re in for and clearly […]

Is A Fourth EXPENDABLES Filming Later This Year?

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The trades haven’t said much, though international news outlets are being forwarded by Expendables fansite, Expendables Premiere, which suggest a fourth installment may commence filming as early as this November. Action star Sylvester Stallone is reportedly flying out to Colombia by then where principal photography will begin, with Bulgaria also slated through 2016 by way of NuBoyana Studios’s announcement. The 2010 film, The Expendables led to a trilogical resurgence of popular R-rated action on the big screen with exception to last year’s PG-13 affair, and there have been but a few stumbles in that regard; The latter film ended up being pirated over a month ahead of its official theatrical release, an act questionably related to the fan response over the film’s watered-down rating, although the film did manage a global box office comeback to the tune of over $206 million dollars to overcome its domestic shortfall. Other names mentioned […]