The Sofia Echo posted the photo above with a profile of Sly, Chuck Norris, Jason Statham and Dolph Lundgren.
Sly’s Philly Police Protection
That’s a rare photo of Sly [with his friend, Tony Munafo, to the far right] taken when Sly was in Philly for Rocky II. The police officer in the photo is Warren Messing who often worked with celebrities who came to town. You can see a larger version of the photo above and read more about the celebrities that Officer Messing worked with at this Philly.com article.
Real Steel Director a Rocky Fan
Shawn Levy, the director of the robot boxing movie, Real Steel, which stars Hugh Jackman, looked to the Rocky movies for inspiration. Levy told Film-News…
“I didn’t go into it, thinking of paying homage to one particular movie. I love sports movies and I always have, certainly the Rocky movies. One and two especially…”
Bootleg Expendables 2 Footage on Bulgarian TV
A Bulgarian TV channel [Nova Televizia] could be facing a lawsuit after it aired bootleg footage taken during the filming of The Expendables 2 by someone on set using a phone camera. You can read more about the situation here.
Evan Bryce Knows the Cure
Today we have the return of Evan Bryce and his riff on Sly as Cobra. I’ve been a fan of Evan’s art for a few years now and we’ve become friends via the internet. We’d met just once at Heroes Con in 2009 and I got a cool Sly from The Expendables sketch.
Evan didn’t make it back to Heroes in 2010 and he wasn’t supposed to be there this year. However he surprised everyone and made the trip. I asked for a Stallone character sketch of his choice and he went with Cobra and threw in the car and cityscape background as a bonus.
Evan is an exciting artist and one to keep an eye on. You can see more of his work at his blog or his Deviant Art site. Plan to spend a while.
Rocky in Sweats Statue
Mark from Hollywood Collectibles contacted me…
Hi Craig,
I hope this finds you well!
This is our latest Sly statue;
http://hollywood-collectibles.com/rocky_statue2.html
Our “Rocky in Sweats” statue.
As usual your members can grab a 10% discount if they place an order by using the discount coupon “sweats” at checkout.
Thanks!
Mark
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Thanks to Mark and the folks at Hollywood Collectibles! They always give us a discount on the price and a heads-up as soon as a new Stallone product is ready for production. – Craig
Sly & David Spellerberg
That’s a nice photo [and there’s more] from an interesting page sent to us by SZoner, Didier.
The Expendables 2 Filming Starts
On September 28, 2011, Haute Living posted a piece about The Expendables 2 cast arriving in Bulgaria to being filming.
Sly in Bulgaria for Expendables 2 Filming
On September 29, 2011, Novinite.com posted three photos of Sly arriving in Bulgaria to begin filming on The Expendables 2. Sly was quoted as saying…
The fight scenes in this movie will be much bigger and better than those in the first part. The scale of production is much larger, so it will get people in Bulgaria feel very proud. I want to tell them that we will have a great time and will spend lots of money here, which will help the economy. At the end everyone will be a winner.”
You can see the full report here.
Sly Stallone Owned Paintings for Sale
Would you like to buy some paintings once owned by Sly Stallone? You can if you’re the high bidder in an October 12th auction at Christie’s in New York. You can find out more at Examiner.com’s Sylvester Stallone’s Paintings in Christie’s Sale article.