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Author: Craig
Hollywood Collectibles: Rambo Sneak Peak
Mark, from Hollywood Collectibles, contacted me last night with the following e-mail:
Hey Craig,
How are you? Well I hope!
Thought you might like to be the first to show this teaser pic of the painted Rambo 4 Quarter scale statue. Pretty cool huh!
Stands approx 20″ tall (with base) to the top of his head, ie. not including the extra height the bow adds.
Hope you like it, when we officially announce it we can do a discount for your guys as before.
Thanks,
Mark
Thanks for the sneak peak, Mark. My guess is that many SZoners will start saving now, because they’ll want to own one of the new Rambo statues. You guys at Hollywood Collectibles always put out great products and this piece will make a great addition to any Stallone fan’s collection. Thanks for keeping us in the loop!
Fatima Camiloza’s Jack Carter
This week we have a watercolor piece of Sly as Jack Carter by Fatima Camiloza. I saw Fatima’s art here and noticed that she was doing ten dollar 4″x6″ watercolor pieces. I liked Fatima’s art enough to give it a go and the piece above is the end result.
I’m extremely pleased to have a piece by Fatima in my collection… and perhaps there will be more in the future!
Imagine Sly as Superman
On April 21, 2010, Ilya Salkind was interviewed by Tom MacLean for Newsarama,com about the Superman movies. One of the areas discussed involved the casting of the man of steel. Here’s a taste of who Salkind said was considered:
More well-known actors considered for the part included Sylvester Stallone, who Salkind says was “a little bit difficult to imagine” in the role, as well as James Caan, Burt Reynolds and Robert Redford.
Others given consideration for the role included Salkind’s ex-wife’s dentist, Bruce Jenner, Jon Voight and even Neil Diamond!
It’s an interesting interview and you can read it in its entirety here.
“Victory” Scores Again
On April 20, 2010, The Spoiler posted the piece The Spoiler’s 10 Best Movies About Football. Victory made the cut and here’s what they had to say about it:
Once a Christmas staple, Escape to Victory literally has it all – Sly Stallone playing some kind of John the Baptist figure, preempting the later surge of US goalkeepers into the UK. Britain’s greatest living actor – Michael Caine – putting in the thirteenth or fourteenth best performance of his entire career. And moving turns from Pele, Bobby Moore, and Ossie Ardiles. It’s the old story of prisoners putting one over on the baddies, with the help of Rambo in goal. Uplifting.
You can see the original trailer for Victory and read the entire article by going here.
Charisma Carpenter: Sly & The Expendables
Charisma Carpenter was interviewed by Jarett Weiselman for The New York Post on April 20, 2010. Part of the interview focused on her work in The Expendables. Here’s a bit of what Ms. Carpenter had to say about Sly and The Expendables:
It’s a really fast-paced action movie and I think America is just going to love it. Sly’s kind of a genius. I know that he’s done a lot of work – but this is nothing like that. This isn’t Rambo, it isn’t Rocky. I seriously have so much respect for how many hats he was wearing. He wasn’t just acting and directing, but he was physically throwing himself into it. Every night after filming he’d go to the emergency room to basically have a cut on his hand sewn up, or his ankle broken or strained – he just goes and goes and goes. He really is kind of like Rambo!
You can read the whole interview by clicking here.
Sly & Arnold Marks the Return?
On April 18, 2010, The Los Angeles Times took a look at Arnold’s cameo in The Expendables and asks the question: Does this mark the return of the Governator to movies?
You can read the full article right here.
Scoring The Expendables
On April 19, 2010, The New York Times posted an article titled: Summer Blockbusters Present Musical Challenges. Although the article focused on the challenges of creating a new musical score for Iron Man 2, there was this interesting tidbit about scoring The Expendables:
“At one of our test screenings, we put a rock song over a big action sequence as an exercise and on the cards it got completely trashed,” notes Brian Tyler, composer of Sylvester Stallone’s upcoming “The Expendables.” “People really hated it and asked why were we trying to make this into a rock video. We replaced it with orchestral music and the numbers for the film shot up and the notes on the music were great.”
You can read the whole article here.
Sly & Barney II
While filming Killing Kharma in New Orleans, Michael Rappaport decided to adopt a dog used in one of the scenes. The dog was on loan from the local animal welfare society. This marks the second time this an actor has adopted a rescue dog used in filming in the Big Easy. The first involved Sly Stallone adopting a dog he named “Barney” while filming The Expendables. We reported on it here and this is what the Rappaport article had to say about Sly:
Last summer, Sylvester Stallone adopted a Catahoula leopard dog while shooting the action film “The Expendables,” which lands in theaters Aug. 13. The name of Stallone’s pup: Barney — a name he shares with Stallone’s character in the film.
You can read the full piece here.
EW Previews “The Expendables”
The Entertainment Weekly Summer Movie Preview issue takes a full page look at The Expendables. Here’s some of what they have to say…
“It [the scene with Sly, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger] took probably eight months to pull off because of everyone’s schedules,” says Stallone who also directed and co-wrote the $55 million throwback to he-man classics like The Dirty Dozen and The Dogs of War. “With Arnold especially, we’d plan a date and then there’d be a fire or a budget crisis and he’d have to go back to Sacramento.”
Jason Statham is quoted: “What I like about this story is that Sly doesn’t want characters who are superhuman heroes.”
As for the rating, Stallone promises a hard R. After all, just look at the cast, he says. “These guys are born a hard R!”
For Stallone fans, the article on The Expendables will be worth the price of the issue without even taking into account the other 95 summer movies that Entertainment Weekly profiles. The issue is due to hit newstands next week.