On July 29, 2014, Darrick Thomas at Zimbio posted The 50 Most Bad Ass Action Hero Names of All Time. Sly played or had a connection in creating 7 of them! – Craig
Category: Expendables
The 12 Craziest Character Names Created by Sylvester Stallone
On July 6, 2014, Entertainment Tonight recognized Sly’s birthday and posted The 12 Craziest Character Names Created by Sylvester Stallone.
The Top Ten Sylvester Stallone Movies
On July 5, 2014, The Celebrity Cafe, posted their choices for The Top Ten Sylvester Stallone Movies. Click over for full details, but for the record their choices were…- Rocky
- Assassins
- Demolition Man
- The Expendables
- Rocky IV
- Rocky V
- Rocky Balboa
- Grudge Match
- Oscar
- Expendables 2
It’s their list, but how could you not include at least one of the Rambo movies or Cop Land or Nighthawks… and Rocky didn’t make the cut??
Drew Moss Prelim of Sly as Barney Ross
Today we have a work in progress of Sly as Barney Ross by Drew Moss. Here’s what Drew tweeted when he posted the piece:
WIP. didn’t like cutting off the hand. Reworked. Gun belt is higher. That tattoo done. Inks soon. 🙂
If you’d like to see more of Drew’s art, you can here. – Craig
6 Stallone Action Movies To See Before Expendables 3
On May 12, 2014, Wall Street Cheat Sheet posted 6 Stallone Action Movies To See Before Expendables 3.
They included: Death Race 2000, Nighthawks, First Blood, Rambo 2, Cobra and Demolition Man.
Oh, and you might want to check out Expendables 1 and 2, don’t ya think?
Elliott Fernandez is Expendable
Elliott Fernandez makes his second, but not hopefully not last appearance in our Stallone Sketch Gallery with his take on Sly as Barney Ross.
You can see more of Elliott’s art here and here. If you want to keep up with Elliott’s latest, you can follow him on Twitter.
Appeals Court Rules for Sylvester Stallone…
A New York appellate court has ruled in favor of Sylvester Stallone and the producers of The Expendables in a the lawsuit that claimed copyright infringement . – Craig
- Variety: Appeals Court Rules for Sylvester Stallone…
- Hollywood Reporter: Sylvester Stallone Lands Knockout Punch…
- New York Law Journal: Circuit Finds…
Sylvester Stallone’s ‘Expendables’ Launches Nasty Writers Battle
On January 30, 2014, The Hollywood Reporter posted Sylvester Stallone’s ‘Expendables’ Launches Nasty Writers Battle by Eriq Gardner.
I really like the art by Kyle T. Webster that accompanies the piece. – Craig
Update on “Expendables” Screenplay Suit
On December 31, 2013, Entertainment Law Digest posted a piece titled, “Here’s Hollywood! Credits…Money… Truth.”
The piece is about the lawsuit Millennium Films filed against screenwriter, David Callaham and the Writers Guild, “claiming the Guild falsely gave him (Callaham) sole credit for the story and top credit for the screenplay of the 2010 movie “The Expendables,” though Sylvester Stallone was its primary writer… Stallone is not a party to the lawsuit.
This will be interesting to see how it plays out.
“Expendables” Authorship Lawsuit News
Producers of the 2010 Sylvester Stallone film claim that one of the credited writers withheld e-mails in a secret fight over authorship.
- The Hollywood Reporter: ‘The Expendables’: Writers Guild Tribunal Evolves Into Fraud Lawsuit…