On May 11th Entertainment Weekly OnLine ran a piece by WILLIAM KECK which quoted SYLVESTER STALLONE as saying that he's finished a script for "Rocky VI" and would like to begin work on it as soon as he's finished filming "Champs." The only hold up at this point is whether or not MGM is willing to greenlight the film at the budget STALLONE needs ($22 million). SLY wants to do the film soon noting that "It's already been ten years since Rocky V. It's now or never."

The news that SLY himself was talking about making a sixth Rocky also appeared at Cinescape, Ain't It Cool News, and Dark Horizons.

As it stands now we know for certain that SLY wants to do a sixth "Rocky." MGM was already interested. SLY and MGM should be able to reach an agreement on the budget. Twentytwo million doesn't seem unreasonable, especially consider ing that "Rocky V" made $41 million (the lowest of amount in the series), and that was in 1991 dollars!

-Craig Zablo