“Expendables 3” Motion Poster and News for the Week

Craig / / 2014, Expendables 3

 

“Scarpa” News for the Week…

Craig / / 2014, Scarpa

Word that Sly Stallone would play Greg Scarpa, a hitman known as “the Grim Reaper” in a film tentatively titled “Scarpa” continues to be big news…

15 Things You May Not Know About “Lock Up”

Craig / / 2014, Celebs, Lock Up

IFC recently posted 15 Things You May Not Know About Lock Up.  Although the majority of readers here will know most, there may be a few surprises.  Here are two that I didn’t know or had forgotten…

 

11. Frank McRae Had NFL History

McRae was a solid choice for the football scene – he’d actually spent a short stint as an NFL defensive tackle, playing six games for the Chicago Bears during the 1967 season.

12. Danny Trejo Is in the Movie

Danny Trejo makes an appearance as one of the gang members led by the character Chink Weber (played by actor Sonny Landham).

 

“Reach Me” News for the Week

Craig / / 2014, Reach Me

“Reach Me” News for the Week…

 

The Top Ten Sylvester Stallone Movies

Craig / / 2014, Assassins, Demolition Man, Expendables, Expendables 2, Grudge Match, Oscar, Rocky 4, Rocky 5, Rocky Balboa
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…
  1. Rocky
  2. Assassins
  3. Demolition Man
  4. The Expendables
  5. Rocky IV
  6. Rocky V
  7. Rocky Balboa
  8. Grudge Match
  9. Oscar
  10. 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??

Sly’s Next Role as “The Grim Reaper”?

Craig / / 2014

On July 2, 2014, Richard Johnson at the New York Post’s Page Six posted Stallone’s New Tough Guy-Role?  Here’s a taste… check out the article for full details!

Sly would play Greg Scarpa, a hitman known as “the Grim Reaper.”

The screenplay by Nick Pileggi, who wrote “Goodfellas” and “Casino,” will gloss over Scarpa’s involvement in 20 murders, and focus on his career as a T.E., a top echelon informant for the FBI, who secretly solved the “Mississippi Burning” case…

Pileggi told me, “It’s a fabulous story. Stallone is interested. He likes the script.” Irwin Winkler, of “Rocky” fame, would produce with Avi Lerner, who produced “The Expendables” and its sequels.