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Premiere contains an article entitled “They Wuz Robbed!” which compares the results of two polls [one with 25 film professionals such as QUENTIN TARANTINO; and the other with 2,000 film fans] of who should have won Academy Awards during the last 25 years. The piece is accompanied with some spectacular artwork by ROBERTO PARADAshowing Rocky putting Travis Bickle in a headlock while Ghandi and ET look on! There’s also of SLY and ELIE SAMAHA
On Friday, March 30, 2001, Cinescape.com posted a very positive piece on “Driven.” The article featured several quotes from director RENNY HARLIN who talked about the problems that he and SLY had getting the movie started and why they teamed up to get it made.
HARLIN also says that his “goal was trying to do to car racing what “Matrix” did to hand-to-hand combat and that type of action movies – so the audience [would see] something that they don’t get on TV, but really use the the technology to make the film almost like a video game in the sense that when we are in the racing sequences the audience really feels like they are sitting in the car and they are steering the car and they really get what the driver gets. And then in the crash sequences, finding points of view and ways of showing that would hopefully be pretty mind-blowing for the audience.”
As to SLY, HARLIN states, “[STALLONE] didn’t want to make it a STALLONE racing movie like “Rocky” or something like that where he is the center of the story… I thought it was very interesting that he took that approach and very smart I think. HARLIN went on to say that the response to SLY in test screenings “scored through the roof because you really, really feel for him.”
– Craig Zablo
SLY STALLONE and his wife JENNIFER FLAVIN attended the premiere of Exit Wounds on Tuesday, March 13, 2001, in Los Angeles.
Sylvester Stallone and his wife Jennifer Flavin attended the red carpet premiere of the new film “Exit Wounds,” on Tuesday, March 13, 2001, in Los Angeles.
On March 8, 2001, Sly Stallone joined director Renny Harlin and co-stars Christian de la Fuente and Kip Pardue at a Warner Bros. luncheon to promote Driven. The luncheon was held at the Paris Las Vegas hotel-casino in Las Vegas.
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) – It’s not often Salman Rushdie is seen at an L.A. movie premiere (and until recently he wasn’t seen almost anywhere, what with a death sentence hanging over his head), but the novelist was at the Century City Cineplex for New Line’s “15 Minutes” premiere Thursday.Though there was joking in the crowd as he searched for a seat (”Lord, please not next to me” was the general tone), afterward at the Century Club party Rushdie said he was “a great admirer of De Niro” and thought the film was “very well performed.” He added he was in L.A. to work on a screenplay adaptation of his novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet for Gemini Films.Among those on hand were writer-director John Herzfeld, stars Edward Burns, Robert De Niro, Kelsey Grammer and Melina Kanakaredes; plus guests Albert Brooks, Don Cheadle, Vin Diesel, Robbie Robertson, Sylvester Stallone and Christy Turlington.
– Craig Zablo (February 24, 2001)
SYLVESTER STALLONE and his wife JENNIFER FLAVIN attended a tribute to BARBARA STREISAND for the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award in Beverly Hills, California on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2001.
The February 23, 2001 issue of Entertainment Weekly has an article titled “The Best of the Best” in which EW ranks the 72 Best Picture Oscar winners. Here’s what they had to say about Rocky:
43 ROCKY 1976
Directed by JOHN G. ALVIDSEN Starring SYLVESTER STALLONE, TALIA SHIRE Nominations 9 Wins 3 Stiffest Competition Taxi Driver, Network
A likable triumph-of-the-underdog tale, but why this boxing fable and not SCORSESE‘s Raging Bull four years later?
Let me begin by pointing out a small error… did you catch it? The listing says that “Rocky” was nominated for 9 Oscars but the right number is 10! I’ve already e-mailed them about the error – so let’s talk about the article…
Articles like these are written to encourage discussion about the subjective rankings of personal favorites. So let me say that, personally, I feel that “Rocky” should be in the Top 10 and without a doubt the Top 20 — I am happy to see that the editors of the piece ranked “Rocky” higher than many past winners [even if they didn’t “get it exactly right.”].
– Craig Zablo
Cinescape.com posted a report today quoting RENNY HARLIN as saying that Driven tested so well in a advance screening that Warner Bros. sees no reason for further testing. HARLIN says that the film tested extremely well and that he “…was surprised women rated it even higher than men!”
For full details click |HERE|.– Craig Zablo (February 22, 2001)
SLY STALLONE and his wife JENNIFER FLAVIN-STALLONE attended the film premiere of “3000 Miles To Graceland” at the Mann Chinese Theater in Hollywood on February 20, 2001.