Category Archives: Stallone news

Cool Video: Jean Claude Van Damme explains why he turned down the “Expendables”…

Jean Claude Van Damme was at some unknown press conference here, doing a Q&A thing with the press and of course, somebody had to ask him why he turned down Stallone’s movie, “The Expendables”. Simply the reason, because Sly wouldn’t give details on the character Van Damme was supposed to play. Van Damme asked many times what the character is and Sly just kept saying it’s going to be a great action movie that will make him lots of money.

I’m a huge fan of Sly and all but if what Van Damme said is true, Sly needs to be a profesional if he wants to be a director. It’s the directors job to explain to the cast what the characters are. Kudos to Van Damme for being real.

Kev

Report: Sylvester Stallone confesses Steve Austin broke his neck while filming, “The Expendables”…

In the upcoming, new Stallone flick, “The Expendables”, set to release in August 2010… Sly admits to FHM magazine that he had a serious injury while filming a real fight scene with Stone Cold Steve Austin (former WWE superstar). Sly revealed that he was taken to the emergency room. He had major surgery and says he now has a metal plate in his neck.

He also revealed that Dolph Lundgren almost killed him when Sly ordered him to knock him out for a scene.

Read this shocking story here:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/movies/sylvester-stallone-reveals-he-broke-neck-needed-metal-plate-on-set-of-the-expendables/story-e6frf9h6-1225816543505

Geez, Sly. How much longer are you going to keep doing action films doing your own stunts? Sly is doing “Rambo V” next and I wonder if he’ll keep doing real fighting in the next Rambo movie? Probably.

Sly is going to kill himself doing this, lol!!!!

Kev

Sylvester Stallone meets “Heroes” star, Hayden Pannettiere

What did Sylvester Stallone do on his Christmas day? Yep, that’s right. Instead of spending his day with family, he spent most of it, watching the L.A. Lakers game at the Staples Center. Here he is at the arena, chatting it up with “Heroes” star, Hayden Pannettiere. Hayden seems to be really into him ’cause notice how close she’s standing to him.

Wonder if Sly is asking her for a part in the next Rambo film? Hope Sly’s wife is cool with this.

Kev

Report: Stallone sells his paintings to a fan at Art Gallery in Miami, FL…

Stallone and his wife, Jennifer Flavin, both attended an art gallery show where people sold their art work. Other than making movies, Sly does other hobbies for fun. Besides working out in the gym and collecting old cars, Sly is also a painter.

Sly showed off his work that he did himself at the art gallery and he sold them to a fan named, Steve Wynn.

Check out Sly’s work here:

http://craigzablo.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=SlyTalk&action=display&thread=9480

Sly doesn’t want to be famous and well known for his art work, he never publishes his art work for the public to see. He just does it as a hobby, plain and simple. It’s what he does when he is not working on film.

Kev

Report: Stallone still fighting to get his Cobra car back after all these years…

Sylvester Stallone is still on the hunt for the old Cobra car that Stallone drove from one of his popular films simply titled, “Cobra”. Well, Stallone himself found it. He saw it being sold on an internet auction for classic cars that was held by a movie car company (noticing TMZ left the company name out of the article so TMZ won’t get sued).

In Sly’s suit, he is, of course, asking for his car back and asking for 3 million for infringing his name and image without permission. Sly wrote the lawsuit in style, by beginning it with “Crime is a disease, meet the cure”, hilarious!

http://www.tmz.com/2009/12/01/sylvester-stallone-cobra-stolen-car-mercury-lawsuit/

It’s no secret that Sly loves cars. He’s a car collector big time, especially the vintage vehicles. It be badass to see Sly drive the Cobra car again, so hope he gets it back successfully!

Kev

Thought: Just an observation on why Sly is following advice from fans online…

So you see Sly reading feedback and following fans advice for his films on the internet. He’s been doing this for his last couple of films with “Rocky Balboa” and, “Rambo”. You wonder why he is only concentrating on directing his own movies that he stars in?

I think I am starting to figure this out.

When Sly tries to work on films that are made by other directors, they fail in the box office, with movies like “Get Carter”, “Driven”, and others. After those films, Sly made a few straight to DVD movies, (“Shade”, “Avenging Angelo”, and “D-Tox”). That’s when everyone thought Sly’s movie career is just about dead.

Then he signed on to Robert Rodriguez’s, “Spy Kids 3D: Game Over”, playing the main villain in that film. That movie became a huge hit and did very well in the box office. It helped Sly get back in the mainstream again. He then announced he was going to bring back “Rocky” and “Rambo” both to the big screen. Both became very successful.

Sylvester Stallone is now a well-known star again like he was back in the 80’s.

I think he is simply listening to fans ’cause he simply doesn’t want to make the same mistakes he made in the past. He doesn’t want to see his career tank again. This is why he is listening to his fans, giving what they want so his films can become successful. I can’t blame him for doing this.

Sly is obviously listening to the fans. We always wanted a movie where Sly stars in a film with all of these action star tough guys, he gave us that in the “Expendables”. We always wanted to see Sly, Bruce and Arnie star in a film together, he also gave us that in the “Expendables” movie.

It is showing that Sly cares for his fans and shows that he makes the movie for us. He’s not just doing it for the money and fame. He wants to give us good action entertainment. He should be respected for making fans happy. Thanks Sly and keep up the great work!

Kev

Report: Sly will NOT be doing the silly sci-fi plot where Rambo hunts down an inhuman beast…

Sylvester Stallone, wrote an open letter to Stallonezone fans, announcing that he has changed the story to, “Rambo V”. Sly says to his fans that he won’t be doing the plot mixed with sci-fi, where Rambo hunts down this half human and half monster.

Sly is doing the plot where Rambo goes to a border to find missing women that disappeared from America. He’s going back to the plot idea he had before.

Read it here:

http://stallonezone.com/wordpress/?p=1847

Sly obviously reads the internet, quite a lot if he is sitting here reading feedback by people. Sly said in the letter he is a supporter of the Stallonezone fan site, so he obviously reads the message board daily, noticing he says, “Szoners”.

I like the finding missing women plot better than the sci fi idea. I like both plot ideas, but Rambo finding missing women seems more realistic though.

I’m glad Sly says there will be blood and it’s going to be a hard R rating like the last Rambo.

Sly’s a good man, he knows what his fans wants and I love how he pays attention to them!

Kev

Thought: Speaking of Dolph Lundgren

After seeing Dolph on Conan O’ Brien last night, briefly, I thought of something. Dolph is obviously most well known for playing Ivan Drago in “Rocky IV” which is why he got on “The Tonight Show” to begin with ’cause he knew the audience would give him a huge crowd reaction. When Dolph showed up on stage, you saw in that video that the crowd loved Dolph.

What I don’t understand is, if everyone still loves Dolph, why does the man continue to have a direct-to-DVD career? When he tries to do a theaterical release movie like “Masters of the Universe”, “Universal Soldier” or “The Punisher”, he fails in the box office at those movies. Dolph hasn’t had a theaterical release movie in a long time.

This is about to change, Dolph fans.

Stallone got Dolph in, “The Expendables”, and that movie is theaterical release WORLDWIDE, not direct to DVD. I’m sure “The Expendables” will be a box office smash and that film will help Dolph become a mainstream star again like he was back in his Rocky IV days.

After “The Expendables”, I’m sure that film will help Dolph’s film directing career big time. He won’t be a straight to DVD king anymore after that film is released.

I kind of feel bad for Dolph that he hasn’t had a good film career, but I still give him the respect that he kept working over the years. Dolph is a talented guy and he deserves a successful career. This will happen for him, after “The Expendables”.

Kev

Thought: Rocky 7??? I’d say bring it on Sly!!!

Rumours hit the internet that Sylvester Stallone is working on another Rocky, the 7th installment to continue from where it left off from, “Rocky Balboa”.

Of course, the public is shitting on it, accusing Sly that he’s too old to do another Rocky, the public don’t want another one, blah blah blah.

The rumours probably isn’t true, but if it is. Why not? The more Rocky, the better. “Rocky Balboa” was a really good movie, but it could have been made much better.

What plot would Sly have for “Rocky 7”? Would Sly train another boxer? No, that would be a repeat of Rocky V, since Rocky was a retired boxer training another fighter, that Tommy Gunn guy.

What if Rocky’s son, Robert Balboa Jr. dreams of becoming a boxer and Rocky tries to get his son a boxing career? Sounds like a good enough plot to me.

There are many ideas that could make another Rocky movie work and that people would like. Remember, back when Sly announced he was doing Rocky 6, everybody hated that idea too, but when the movie actually came out and it became, “Rocky Balboa”, Sly is all of a sudden respected by movie fans.

So don’t immediately assume that, “Rocky 7” would suck if Sly really did decide to work on it. This is called creative writing. Sly is always coming up with ideas.

If Sly is still doing action movies doing his own stunts in the “Expendables” and he will probably do his own stunts in “Rambo 5”, I don’t see why he can’t be physical for another Rocky. Why not?

I’d say do another one. I’m sure Sly will speak out on this soon, to say whether this news is true or not. Probably not, but it would be cool.

Kev

Report: Bruce, Arnold and Sly already filmed their scene for Expendables today!!!

Arnold, Sly and Bruce already completed filming their scene for the Expendables. They filmed in a church. Arnold plays a character named, Trench.

Read the full report by Sly’s publicist here:

http://ethelmae.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/wow/

Expect photos to hit net later tonight or tomorrow.

I expect paparrazi videos to hit youtube and of course TMZ as well.

Kev

Edit to add: The above photo is NOT a photo from the Expendables movie, it’s just a random google image, an older pic for this blog.