Category: Nighthawks

Andrew Charipar: Nighthawks

Craig / / 2009, Craig's Sly Art, Nighthawks

This is the second piece of Stallone art that I’ve gotten from Andrew Charipar. You may remember the Cobra piece that he did at FX. A few months later, Andrew was sketching at the Florida SuperCon and so I hit him up for another piece.

Andrew worked up this very cool shot of Deke from “Nighthawks.” Love the design and how Andrew went back in with the colored pencil for highlights. When I picked up the piece Andrew said he already had an idea for his next Stallone drawing, and I can’t wait to see what it is. Until then we have Andrew’s blog and his DA site to hold us over.

Sly Movies Part of Encore Special

Craig / / 2006, Demolition Man, Judge Dredd, Nighthawks

Sly Movies Part of Encore Special

If you receive the Encore movie channel you may want to tune in to “Shooting the Police: Cops on Film,” premiering July 1st at 8:00 p.m. The original half-hour special takes a look at the cop film phenomena and how the heroes have changed over the years. The special was produced as part of Encore’s “Summer Heat: 31 Days of Cop Movies,” a month-long festival of cop films every night at 8:00 p.m., all month in July.

Clips from “Nighthawks”, “Die Hard”, “Heat”, and many other movies will appear as filmmakers such as Larry Cohen (“Phonebooth”), Carl Franklin (“Out of Time”), Steven de Sousa (“Die Hard”) and others discuss the popularity and changes the genre has experienced.

Sly films represented during the month arre “Nighthawks” [July 3rd and July 19], “Judge Dredd” [July 20], and “Demolition Man” [July 29th].

For more details click HERE.

– Craig Zablo

“Nighthawks” 1st Buddy-Cop Movie

Craig / / 2003, Celebs, Honors, Nighthawks

Phil Villarreal of the Arizona Daily Star takes a look at the genre of Buddy-Cop movies and has this to say about “Nighthawks”:

The movie often credited as being the first buddy-cop film was the solemn “Nighthawks” (1981), which teamed Billy Dee Williams and Sylvester Stallone as two New York City cops who are transferred to an elite anti-terrorism unit.

For the full report, click HERE. – Craig