Flickering Myth

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Cannon’s Avengers: What If… Cannon Films Did the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

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Here in the Flickering Myth multiverse, we look at how a Cannon-produced Avengers epic may have been cast… The Marvel Cinematic Universe enjoyed an unprecedented run of success after Robert Downey Jr kicked off a major era in movies back with 2008’s Iron Man. Some might not have enjoyed the all-powerful grip that the MCU […]

Sylvester Stallone cautions actors against doing their own stunts following latest surgery

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Sylvester Stallone is telling actors that it might not be the best idea to do your own stunts. The action movie icon revealed during promoting for his reality show The Family Stallone that he underwent his seventh back surgery. Caused by his work doing an Expendables fight scene where he fractured his neck, Stallone reveals […]

Sylvester Stallone to hunt a serial killer in The Epiphany

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Sylvester Stallone is set to make his return to the streets of Philadelphia, the setting of the Rocky movies, as Deadline reports that the screen legend is set to star in the upcoming crime thriller The Epiphany from writer Will Eubank (Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin). Scripted by Katie Lovejoy and Russell Sommer, the film […]

Sylvester Stallone’s Cliffhanger 2 to shoot in summer 2024

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Sylvester Stallone is getting ready to return to the peaks as mountain search-and-rescue ranger Gabe Walker in a sequel to the 1993 action blockbuster Cliffhanger, and a new report from Screen Daily indicates that the film is set to shoot in Europe this coming summer 2024. As per Screen’s report, the sequel will see Sly […]

Cobra: Sylvester Stallone and Cannon Films Do Dirty Harry

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at Sylvester Stallone’s first fling with Cannon Films… Riding high from a year of box office domination in 1985 having released career high grosses with Rocky IV and Rambo: First Blood Part II, Sylvester Stallone had the world at his feet. He could have picked anything he wanted to […]

Are the Old School Action Veterans Headed Into Forced Retirement?

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With diminishing returns and a lack of interest from big-screen audiences, are old-school action heroes heading to the retirement home…? In the 1980s and 1990s, you couldn’t move for action heroes. Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger led a musclebound movement that led to younger, more grounded heroes like Will Smith, Keanu Reeves and Tom Cruise […]

Jason Statham and David Ayer to reteam for Sylvester Stallone-scripted Levon’s Trade

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David Ayer and Jason Statham are set for a quickfire reunion with the news that they are teaming up for Levon’s Trade, an action movie which has been scripted by Sylvester Stallone.  The director/star duo have just worked on The Beekeeper, which is set for release in January 2024, and now Deadline report that they […]

Sylvester Stallone to return for Samaritan sequel from Amazon

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Sylvester Stallone is set to return in a sequel to Amazon MGM Studios’ streaming smash Samaritan.  Directed by The Pope’s Exorcist‘s Julius Avery, Samaritan became the number one film on the Prime Video streaming service for three consecutive weeks when it was released back in 2022, so it comes as little surprise that they are […]

Meet the man behind the hero in trailer for Sylvester Stallone doc Sly

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You know him as Rocky Balboa, John Rambo, or Sgt. Joe Bomowski from Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, but a brand new documentary hopes to show you the man behind the hero, and Netflix has just released a first trailer for Sylvester Stallone retrospective, Sly.  Directed by Elvis Presley: The Searcher filmmaker Thom Zimny, […]

Essential Films from The Expendables 4 Cast

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With Expend4bles on the way, we look at ten essential films from its stars… It seems like a long old time since we last saw the Expendables crew in action. After a period of false starts and the small matter of a pandemic, (as well as a release that got pushed back) we’re finally going […]