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On September 12, 2009, the DailyMail.uk posted some photos of Sly at the Venice Film Festival in a piece titled: Sly Stallone Raises Eyebrows… The piece says that although Sly wanted to look his best since he was the first American to receive the Jaeger-Lecoultre Glory To The Filmmaker award, perhaps he went about overboard.
Take a look at the photos and the piece and you can judge for yourself. Sounds to me, like the author of the piece wanted to see Rambo, but got Sly instead.
Sly spoke to reporters at the Venice Film Festival. Here’s some of what he had to say:
- On “The Expendable”: “Arnold, Bruce and I will be working together for the first time, maybe in two weeks, so I had to grow back my beard and get ready to film it in Los Angeles.”
- On “The Expendables”: “It’s very difficult to get us all together at the same time. It’s impossible to get all those egos in the same room.”
- On Rambo: “I don’t want to keep repeating myself and just doing films about war… This is a very psychological film about sophisticated man fighting primitive man.”
- On his career: “What’s very unusual in my life is that I’m now, at this age, starting to develop what I should have done 20 years ago which is more directing and writing and especially not the movies I am in.”
- On his career: “The key will be to direct other people and write for other people. Then that cycle will be broken.”
- On Movies: “The day of independent cinema is coming back. I think the young people in the audience are going to demand it. ‘Okay, we’ve seen enough fantasy, we’ve seen enough big spectacle, what about stories about us?'”
- On “The Expendables”: “I wanted to do a film that was more about men and just doing things that we did back in the ’80s and ’90s with films that were a little bit more men on men, and actual physical stunts and also a story that isn’t super-gigantic.”
For the entire reports check out:
U.S. actor Sylvester Stallone is flanked by actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta during the closing ceremony of the 66th Venice Film Festival September 12, 2009. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi (ITALY ENTERTAINMENT)
U.S. actor Sylvester Stallone makes a speech during the closing ceremony of the 66th Venice Film Festival September 12, 2009. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi (ITALY ENTERTAINMENT)
Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone signs a book while visiting La Fenice theatre in Venice September 11, 2009. Stallone will receive the Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday.
On September 11, 2009, Yahoo News posted this photo of Sly from Venice.
Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone leaves La Fenice theatre in Venice September 11, 2009. Stallone will receive the Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday.
REUTERS/Michele Crosera (ITALY ENTERTAINMENT)
On September 10, 2009, Variety.com posted a piece about films shooting in Louisiana and of course “The Expendables” leads the way. You can read the piece here.
On September 10, 2009, SFGate.com ran a piece about unusual names celebrities have given their children. Of course, Sage Moonblood Stallone’s name made the list along Apple [Gweneth Paltrow and Chris Martin], Moxie Crimefighter [Penn and Emily Jillete], Rocket Rodriguez [Robert Rodriguez and Elizabeth Avellan], Tu Morrow [Rob and Debbon Morrow].
You can check out the whole piece here.
A few days later Fashion.ie posted an even longer list of unusual celebrity names with “witty” commentary.
On September 9, 2009, Blic Online posted a piece by A. Novakovik about director Berry Avrich’s documentary “Amerika Idol,” which tells how folks in the small Serbian village of Zitiste erected a statue of Rocky Balboa to represent their underdog status. We’ve been following the story here at StalloneZone and thanks to the Blic Online piece we learn a bit more:
The 46-minute-long documentary Amerika Idol will feature the appearances of Sylvester Stallone, Thomas Schomberg – the sculptor behind Rocky’s original statue in Philadelphia, Croatian sculptor Boris Staparac, who made the statue in Zitiste…
To read the full piece click here. [Photo: Lj.Stupar]
Harry at AICN has scored again. This time he has a copy of the synopsis to “Rambo V: The Savage Hunt.” The plot does sound like an adaptation of the novel Hunter written [with Sly in mind] by James Byron Huggins. Since I’ve always pulled for Sly to make Hunter, I like the idea of adapting it to fit Rambo. I also like the Harry thinks that they should drop the “V” from the movie title [I suggested the same thing yesterday] and simply call the movie “Rambo: The Savage Hunt.”
You can read Harry’s full post here.
Mike Torrance is an artist who does it all — he pencils, inks and colors. Mike has been running a regular contest at Retro Cowboy Productions and his Deviant Art site. Each week he posts a subject and the first one to make request which fits the theme is the winner! I was one of two lucky winners for “Detective Week.”
Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable. Check him out.