Our POW [Picture of the Week] is of Sly from Shade. Click on the photo if you’d like to see a bigger version. – Craig
Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week:
- Sly Stallone’s Official Instagram: While giving a speech this young man, Cliff Berry, stepped…
Charisma Carpenter: Sly’s Work Ethic and Words of Wisdom

In an interview at ComicBook.com Charisma Carpenter had this to say about Sly’s work ethic and words of wisom…
“He’s the first one there and the last one to leave,” she shared. “He’s willing to do off-camera for other actors that aren’t able to be there. He knows what he wants, he knows how to get it, he won’t settle for less… It was such an education. I remember him asking me at one point in time when I was on the set, ‘How do you want to be remembered? Because this is literally a time capsule, so you’re going to look at this film 20 years from now and you’re going to go, is this the way I want to do it, is this the way I want to look, is this the way I want to be wearing. You want to be aware of these things. You have to think big picture, long term.’ That was educational to me.”
Click over and check out Charisma Carpenter Recalls Working with Ryan Murphy, Sylvester Stallone, Jeremy Renner, and More.
POW – “Avenging Angelo”
Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week:
- Sly Stallone’s Official Instagram: “…Any prediction for the fight?“
- ScreenRant: Star Wars: 10 Actors Who Almost Played Iconic Roles…
- Patch: Sylvester Stallone Stops For Lunch In Morristown…
- NJ.com: Sylvester Stallone Knocks out lunch at N.J. Restaurant…
- Film News: Sylvester Stallone cut scenes he ‘really loved’ from new Rambo movie…
- Guardian: Rambo and the Terminator: the cold war warriors are back…

Awesome “Cobra” Art by Nick Dragotta

Check out this cool Cobra drawing by Nick Dragotta. You can see a larger version on Nick’s Twitter feed!
“Rambo” Trivia

Thanks to Military.com today we have 8 Even More Incredible Facts About ‘Rambo’. Check out three of my favorites before clicking over to all eight.
4. Stallone hated the first cut of First Blood.
The first time Stallone saw the edit for “First Blood,” he hated it. It was three and a half hours long, and Rambo’s dialogue was terrible. At first, Stallone wanted to buy the film so he could burn it. Instead of that, he re-cut the film to 93 minutes with most of his dialogue removed, which is what you see when you watch it today.
5. Without ‘Rambo’ there would be no ‘Predator’
When Rocky Balboa took on Ivan Drago in “Rocky IV,” no one in Hollywood was quite sure who Rocky’s next opponent could possibly be. The joke was made that Rocky would have to fight some kind of Alien in “Rocky V.” After a while, Screenwriters Jim and John Thomas began to take the idea seriously and wrote a Rocky-Rambo Hybrid movie that we call “Predator.”
3. Rambo wasn’t a killer – originally.
John Rambo never actually kills anyone in “First Blood.” There is only one death in the entire movie, and that happened as an accident when an overzealous cop falls from a helicopter while shooting at Rambo. (This refers to the movie “First Blood” not the novel on which the film was based. – Craig)In subsequent movies, that all changes of course. Rambo’s body count is 76 in “First Blood: Part II,” and 132 in “Rambo III.” In “Rambo,” he appears to kill the entire Burmese Army with one .50-cal.
POW – “Eye See You”
Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week:
- Sly Stallone’s Official Instagram: A great journey through time. I loved playing this character…
- Film Threat: Rambo: Last Blood Movie Review…
- Bloody Disgusting: ‘Eye See You’: Have YOU Seen Sylvester Stallone’s Only Horror Movie?…
- CBR: Stallone, Lundgren Team for New TV Series, The International…
- CinemaBlend: Stallone And Lundgren’s New TV Show Just Took A Big Step Forward…
- ScreenRant: Sylvester Stallone & Dolph Lundgren Action Drama Series Lands at CBS…
- Moviehole: Stallone-Lundgren series lands at CBS…
- AV Club: Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren making TV pilot…
- Variety: Lundgren, Sylvester Stallone Action Drama Lands at CBS With Put Pilot Order…
- SYFYWire: PAUL REUBENS SAYS SLY STALLONE WAS HIS INSPIRATION…
- Deadline: Lundgren-Sylvester Stallone Action Drama ‘The International’ Lands At CBS…
- Muscle & Fitness: ALL ABOUT SLY STALLONE AND DOLPH LUNDGREN’S ACTION SERIES…
CBS Wins Stallone & Lundgren’s “The International”

Sly Stallone and Dolph Lundgren’s The International, a one-hour on-going series will appear on CBS. Lundgren is set to serve as star and Producer with Stallone taking the role of Executive Producer and the series coming from Stallone’s Balboa Productions.
Lundgren plays…
…Anders Soto, described as a one-man covert black-ops team working for the U.N., who is called in to find asymmetrical solutions to the world’s most delicate and complex problems. He is part negotiator and part international spy….
Fans are hopeful that Stallone will make an appearance(s) and perhaps direct some of the episodes.


