Author: Craig

Sly and Heart of a Child

Craig / / 2004, Sly's Art
Angelwear is an organization which raises funds for various charities through donations of artwork designed by celebrities for clothes, greeting cards, etc. Sylvester Stallone has created artwork for a greeting card which will exclusively benefit The Heart of a Child Foundation.

Order a set for your collection and help one of Sly’s favorite charities at the same time. How cool is that?

– Craig Zablo

PS – The StalloneZone gets nothing from any sales through our site, but it’s for a great cause so we’re glad to do our part.

Yo! Reality!

Craig / / 2004, The Contender, TV

Sly is pictured on the cover of today’s USA Today ( July 12, 2004 ). Inside there is an article titled ‘ NBC steps into the ring with fall reality programs’ with another picture of Sly.

Here’s an except…” but Sylvester Stallone who will serve as the Donald Trump of The Contender, offered his own version of Trump‘s signature line: ” You’re unconscious.”

Thanks to Ernest “Jazzman” Resendes for the scan!

– Craig Zablo [July 12, 2004]

AMC’s RockyFest Scores a Knockout!

Craig / / 2004, Rocky, Rocky 2, Rocky 3, Rocky 4, Rocky 5, TV

SZoner, JPolli1034, e-mailed to say that AMC‘s recent Rockyfest brought AMC some of the highest ratings that it’s had all season.

Here’s what MediaWeek.com had to say:

Ratings Box: What’s Hot/What’s Not

-AMC’s RockyFest Scores a Knockout:


AMC’s RockyFest: 5 Titles in 5 Nights from June 28-July 2 lifted the cable network to increases of 42 percent in households (.84 to 1.2), 92 percent in adults 18-49 delivery (380,000 to 728,000), and 80 percent in adults 25-54 delivery (384,000 to 722,000) over the June 2004 time period average. RockyFest, which averaged a 1.2 household rating, is now the second highest rated stunt on AMC this season to-date.

This just proves what we’ve known all along. People still love and, more imortantly, want to see Rocky. The time is right for Rocky VI.

– Craig Zablo [July 11, 2004]

Two Stallone Film Rumors

Craig / / 2004, Celebs, Unmade Films

Two really cool film project rumors are floating around today and both involve Sly.

The first film rumor about Sly is that James Cameron has a part for him in Cameron‘s next movie which is starting to gear up. Sly‘s part may just be a cameo but according to what’s being said Brian Cox and Arnold Schwarzenegger will also have roles and the film will be shot in 3D. For full details click HERE or HERE.

The second is a stop motion project [think Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas] called AUTOMATONS. The story involves two killer robots designed by the US during WWII to kill Hitler. When it appears that Hitler has taken his own life the robots are left on the ocean floor… only the robots didn’t “die” and have for the last sixty years been looking for Hitler on the bottom of the ocean.

Wait! It gets crazier because Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini have been in a Top Secret Cryo-Chamber… and when they are thawed out decide that they were really wrong with “that whole rule the world thing, so Adolphdecides to put on the greatest play version of YOU’RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN…”

So how does Sly fit into all of this you ask? It seems that he will voice Mussolini. Jack Black and John C Reilly will voice the killer bots, John Cleese provides Hitler‘s voice and there are voice roles for Billy Bob Thorton, William H. Macy and Holly Hunter as well. According to Harry at AICN [and who has seen some of the film work], most of the voice work is done!

This is one film too crazy NOT to be true. For full details click HERE.

– Craig

“Victory” Named Greatest Soccer Movie of All Time!

Craig / / 2004, Honors, Victory

Escape to Victory thrashes rivals [from Ananova.com, June 20, 2004]

Escape to Victory has been named the greatest football movie of all time.

The 1981 film starred Brazilian football legend Pele, England‘s 1966 World Cup captain Bobby Moore and actors Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone.

They played allied PoWs preparing for a match against a German team in Nazi-occupied Paris while French Resistance and British officers make plans for the team’s escape.

British comedy Bend it Like Beckham, starring Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley, came second in the poll.

The most recent soccer movie Football Factory, about football hooliganism, which was criticised for scenes of explicit violence, came 10th in the UCI Cinema poll with only 1%.

Fever Pitch, based on Nick Hornby‘s best selling semi-autobiography, came third, followed by When Saturday Comes, the 1996 movie starring Sean Bean and Emily Lloyd, about a hard-drinking brewery worker who has a trial at Sheffield United.

Other films in the top 10 include Cup Fever (1965), in sixth place, starring Manchester United manager Matt Busby.

Mean Machine (2001), which starred Vinnie Jones as a soccer star who leads a match against prison guards after being jailed for assault, came ninth.

UCI Cinemas spokeswoman Lianne Butterfield said: “As a nation we love football and films about our favourite passion have always been popular with cinemagoers.

“Escape to Victory and Bend it Like Beckham are great feel-good films that everyone can enjoy, even if they don’t understand the offside rule.”

– Craig