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Escape Plan 2: Hades gets a first trailer

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Ahead of its home entertainment release next month, Lionsgate has revealed the first trailer for Escape Plan 2: Hades, the upcoming sequel to the 2013 prison action thriller. Directed by Steven C. Miller, the film sees Sylvester Stallone reprising his role as security expert Ray Breslin alongside Dave Bautista, Curtis Jackson, Xiaoming Huang, Jesse Metcalfe, Jaime […]

Sylvester Stallone will follow Rambo V with The Expendables 4

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Earlier this month it was announced that Sylvester Stallone is set to reprise the role of John Rambo for a fifth instalment in the classic action franchise, which is being lined up to start production in September. The Rambo V news raised a few questions about the status of another of Sly’s action sequels, The […]

Sylvester Stallone and Dave Bautista take aim on Escape Plan 2: Hades poster

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Following the first trailer for Escape Plan 2: Hades [watch it here], two international posters have now arrived online for the action thriller sequel featuring Sylvester Stallone and Dave Bautista; check them out below… And here’s the domestic poster… Years after he fought his way out of an inescapable prison, Ray Breslin (Academy Award® nominee […]

Rambo 5 plot synopsis revealed, filming to get underway in September

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Last week it was announced that Sylvester Stallone has signed on for a fifth outing as Vietnam veteran and killing machine John J. Rambo, and now thanks to Screen Daily we’ve got an overview of the plot for the as-yet-untitled Rambo 5. The film will pick up with Rambo living on a ranch in Arizona, […]

Creed 2 casts Florian Munteanu as Ivan Drago’s son

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It might take more than a few shuttle runs up a set of Philly stairs for Michael B. Jordan’s Adonis Creed after he takes a look at his opponent in Steven Caple Jr’s Creed 2. Sylvester Stallone broke the news via his Instagram account that 27 year-old boxer Florian Munteanu would complete the headline bout as […]

Sylvester Stallone teases The Expendables 4 return

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Last April, it was announced that Sylvester Stallone had opted against a return as Barney Ross for The Expendables 4, exiting the all-star action franchise over creative differences with Millennium Films boss Avi Lerner. Well, it seems that Sly may now have had a change of heart, with the star taking to Instagram to share […]

Blu-ray Review – Paradise Alley (1978)

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Paradise Alley, 1978. Written and Directed by Sylvester Stallone. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Lee Canalito, Armand Assante, Anne Archer, Frank McRae, Joe Spinell, Terry Funk, Frank Stallone, and Tom Waits. SYNOPSIS: Three brothers in the slums of 1940s New York try to make their fortune by training the youngest sibling to become an underground wrestler. After […]

Sylvester Stallone completes Creed 2 script, confirms Drago’s return

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Rocky actor Sylvester Stallone has revealed through an Instagram post that he has completed a draft of his script for Creed 2, the sequel to 2015’s Rocky spin-off Creed, which followed Michael B. Jordan as Apollo Creed’s son Adonis. He also revealed, through the handwritten notes he showed off, that we’ll be seeing the return of Rocky IV’s Ivan Drago, the […]

Sylvester Stallone teasing Drago return for Creed 2

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Back in January of last year, Sylvester Stallone revealed that development was underway on a sequel to the acclaimed Rocky spinoff Creed, and while the project has been put on the back-burner due to director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B. Jordan’s adventures in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Black Panther, Sly has spent much […]