Category: 2000

“Get Carter” Gets No Respect — The Studio Dropped the Ball

Craig / / 2000, Get Carter

In the October 13th issue of Entertainment Weekly, the picture to the left appears in an article by Scott Brown titled, “Critcial Condition.” This article explores the recent trend of movie and music companies to not release their movies and albums to critics for review before the scheduled release date.

Sly‘s name also turns up in Jim Mullen‘s “Hot Sheet” in the same issue. “GET CARTER: Sylvester Stallone proves he is still willing to go out on a limb as an actor. Here he takes on a speaking role.”

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 I think it was a mistake not to give critics an early preview of “GET CARTER” to review. I believe this to be a mistake for three reasons:

1. GET CARTER IS A GOOD FILM. Not having the film available for early review by critics gives the impression that the studio has no faith in the film. This impression doesn’t just reach the critics, it also reaches the fans!

2. POSITIVE REVIEWS WOULD HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS AND PROMOTION. If the movie had been available for critics, sure, some of them would have knocked the film… but others would have praised it! Either way the critics would have been able to comment on the film because they had seen it. Now they can only comment on “why” the studio didn’t make it available for preview which creates…

3. MORE BAD PRESS FOR GET CARTER. Some newspapers/magazines/reviewers will make mention on the fact that although “GET CARTER” is at theaters now, the studio didn’t allow critics to review it… and then the speculation begins…

I really believe that the studio dropped the ball on this one.

– Craig Zablo (October 7, 2000)

STALLONEZONE EXCLUSIVE: Sly at PH NYC “Behind-the-Scenes”

Craig / / 2000, Get Carter, Planet Hollywood, Rocky

Joyce is a long-time SYLVESTER STALLONE fan and STALLONEZONE regular and is proud of it! She writes, “My family and friends know how much I care for Sly.” Joyce goes on to say that she is very close to her son and daughter-in-law and they fans but that that’s not all…

“My son has a German Sheppard. Whenever Dan and Shaz watch “Rocky” (which is quite often) no matter where the dog is, she runs into the living room lies down and listens to the “Rocky” music. See she is also a “Rocky” Fan. Joyce attended SLY‘S press conference at PLANET HOLLYWOOD NEW YORK. She sent in the following pictures and descriptions. Our thanks to Joyce for sharing! – Craig (October 7, 2000)

The Bulletin Board announcing Sly‘s arrival to Planet Hollywood and yes, that is me standing near it.

Setting up the stage with posters from “Get Carter.”

The Famous “Italian Stallion” Robe…

…and the “Get Carter” suit!

Sly in Planet Hollywood.

We’d again like to thank Joyce for caring enough to take the time to share her photos with us!


– Craig Zablo (October 7, 2000)

Stallone Appearances & “Get Carter” Premiere!

Craig / / 2000, Get Carter, TV

STALLONE APPEARANCES

Watch for SLY this week on:
TUESDAY

  • 7am ( EST ) Good Morning America
  • 12:35 am ( EST ) Craig Kilborn

WEDNESDAY

  • (Check Local Listings) Rosie O’Donnell
    THURSDAY
  • 9 am ( EST ) Live with Regis
  • 8 pm (EST) Live Chat with Sly @ entertaindom.com
  • also… The original GET CARTER on ENC @ 11:50 pm ( EST )

FRIDAY
GET CARTER PREMIERES
( Thanks to those that sent in the info! )
-Craig Zablo (September 30, 2000)

SZ Exclusive: New “Get Carter” Wallpaper!

Craig / / 2000, Get Carter, StalloneZone


 Hennie Blaauw is a 26 year old who works as a 2D/3D animator at a company called Wicked Pixels, in Cape Town, South Africa. He’s also a competitive bodybuilder, and unlike most bodybuilders, his inspiration has always been SLY, and NOT Arnold!
Click on the image above to get to the full-size wallpaper!
Thanks for sharing your talents once again, Hennie!
– Craig Zablo (September 30, 2000)

SZ Exclusive: Sly at Planet Hollywood to Promote “Get Carter”

Craig / / 2000, Get Carter, StalloneZone

On Monday, September 25th, SYLVESTER STALLONE made a live appearance at Planet Hollywood New York to promote “Get Carter.”

STALLONEZONE staffer Ernest “Jazzman” Resendes was there and sent in the accompanying pictures and text. Fellow SZ-staffer “Big” Beatty combined Jazz‘ pics and text to create this flash picture-book. Sadly flash is no longer supported. – Craig Zablo (2021)

“Get Carter” – Total Movie Coverage

Craig / / 2000, Celebs, Get Carter

The picture above appears twice [once in the table of contents and again as a TWO page spread] in the premiere issue of Total Movie. Here’s their take on

Get Carter

IN A NUTSHELL: Back on the screen for the first time since 1997’s Cop Land, STALLONE heads up this remake of the 1971 MICHAEL CAINE classic as Jack Carter, a bad-ass New York mob enforcer who travels to Los Angeles to kill the sons-of-bitches who murdered his brother. Heads are cracked, asses are kicked and bad guys throughly pummeled as Carter goes on a vengence-fueled rampage though LA’s criminal underworld.

POTENTIAL: The script’s written by TED LEWIS, who wrote the orginal, and DAVID McKENNA, who wrote American History X – a promising team. STEVEN SODERBERG‘s awesome The Limey proved that these old-school one-man-army thrillers can still pay off in spades, so our hopes are high. And yes, MICHAEL CAINE is back, too.

PITTFALLS: Even MEL GIBSON had a hard time getting audiences to root for the bad guy in the underrated Payback, so what chance STALLONE? In the 1990s he served up such crud as Judge Dredd, Assassins, Daylight, Oscar, The Specialist, and Cliffhanger (come on, it was crap) – not exactly encouraging evidence of his choices of material. Oh, and MICKEY ROURKE‘s in it.

TOTAL MOVIE SAYS: Go and rent the original for an idea about why we’re excited to see this one – STALLONE‘s stepped in a few turds lately, true, but we have a feeling this hard-edged crime caper will prove that he can still get it done.

The editors are pretty down on many of SLY‘s movies yet they still eagerly anticpate “Get Carter” – I think that says a lot about the potential of this movie. I’m looking forward to this as much as I did “Cop Land” and feel that it has the potential to be as good [or even better].

This is Total Movie‘s first issue and it is very impressive… enough so that I plan to subscribe. It’s worth checking out but be sure that if you purchase an issue it is still in a plastic bag with a dvd attached. The dvd contains over two hours of movie previews, behind the scenes material and more! The first store I went to had only opened copies and all the dvds were missing!

– Craig Zablo [September 23, 2000]

ROCKY ROAD

Craig / / 2000, Champs, Driven

The September 19, 2000 issue of STAR contains the following item in its STARPEOPLE section: SLY STALLONE is one driven guy, all right! He plays a race car driver in his new flick “Driven” and he insists on doing all his own stunts, including driving at speeds over 190 miles per hour. Studio heads have their fingers crossed that the daredevil doesn’t break his neck while the film is being shot. Luckily, Sly has the good sense NOT to do his own crash scenes. He’s leaving those to a body double.”- Craig Zablo (September 23, 2000)