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Sly Stallone's Art Wynns Big Money
3 December 2009 2:50 AM, PST
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There is actually something Sylvester Stallone can make these days besides tired sequels ... expensive art.The 63-year-old muscle head unleashed his inner Picasso and sold one of his paintings to Vegas casino kingpin Steve Wynn in Miami on Wednesday. Wynn splurged $40K on an abstract piece, while a self-portrait of Sly from the '70s was bought by an art gallery for $50K.
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Sylvester Stallone sues car company owner
2 December 2009 3:17 AM, PST
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London, Dec 2 (Ians) Action star Sylvester Stallone has sued the owner of a car company over a vehicle that he insists was stolen from him 15 years ago.
Stallone is demanding $3 million because the car company’s website allegedly used his name and image to promote the auction without proper permission, reported contactmusic.com
The “Rocky” star claims the custom-built 1950 Mercury, which featured in his movie “Cobra”, was driven away from a storage garage in 1994. Stallone never saw the car again until recently.
The car is now in the possession of a collector who rents out vehicles for movies.
In the legal papers, filed in Los Angeles, Stallone claims he asked the car’s current.
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Stallone Sues Over Stolen Car
1 December 2009 5:36 PM, PST
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Sylvester Stallone is suing the owner of a car company over a vehicle the movie star insists was stolen from him 15 years ago.
The Rocky star claims the custom-built 1950 Mercury, which featured in his movie Cobra, was driven away from a storage garage in 1994 and Stallone never saw the car again - until recently.
Ironically, the Cobra car is now in the possession of a collector who rents out vehicles for movies.
In legal papers, filed in Los Angeles, Stallone claims he asked the car's current owner to hand over the keys - but he has refused.
In the suit, obtained by TMZ.com, the actor/director claims he came across his stolen car while looking at vehicles up for auction on the internet. He claims the one-off vehicle is worth more than $250,000 (£156,250).
As well as the return of the car, Stallone is demanding $3 million (£1.9 million) because the car company's website allegedly used his name and image to promote the auction without proper permission.
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Sylvester Stallone Speaks On A 'Death Wish' Remake And Edgar Allen Poe
2 October 2009 7:30 AM, PDT
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You've gotta love Sylvester Stallone. The guy was a dominant force in '80s cinema, particularly with his iconic Rocky Balboa and Rambo characters. Not to mention debatable classics like "Nighthawks," "Cobra," "Over the Top" and "Tango & Cash." He lost some luster over the next decade, but returned to the public eye once again -- ironically -- when he revisited the roles that made him in "Rambo" (2008) and "Rocky Balboa" (2006).
Now that's he's firmly reestablished himself, the Italian Stallion is turning his attention to other possibilities. We already know he's set to star in director Robert Rodriguez's "The Expendables." Now, speaking to Empire, Stallone also revealed that he's interested in remaking the Charles Bronson-starring classic "Death Wish" in addition to a long-gestating biopic on Edgar Allen Poe.
"I'm thinking about ['Death Wish']," Stallone said. "It's a classic morality tale, where you take a civilized man and take away everything that
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- Adam Rosenberg
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Religious Sects Collide in Crown of Thorns' "Rock Ready" Video
25 September 2009 2:01 PM, PDT
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Fangoria readers might recognize Jean Beauvoir as the composer behind the theme songs for Mary Lambert's Pet Sematary and Wes Craven's Shocker. Outside of his filmic work (which also includes "Feel the Heat" from 1986's Cobra), the one-time member of The Plasmatics is known for pushing the creative envelope - something he continues to do with his latest project, Crown of Thorns.
Fangoria Musick just got a hold of the risqué new music video for "Rock Ready" off Crown of Thorns' latest record Faith, which can be viewed below.
Alluding to the album title, the "Rock Ready" video is set in a church; however, Voodoo symbolism is displayed throughout - a nod to Beauvoir’s Haitian roots. With heavy guitars and thumping drums, the band sings of worshiping no God other than rock itself while a sultry, fire-breathing "Betty" lies at the altar.
Faith is the first
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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Updated: 'Rambo 5' Story Details Different than Originally Reported
5 September 2009 12:40 PM, PDT
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Update: Ain't It Cool News now delivers what is described as the official synopsis for Rambo V: The Savage Hunt. Here is what is reportedly being faxed around:
John Rambo (Stallone) could track anyone - or anything - on earth. Now the military desperately needs him for a mission that his ultra-sensitive instincts tell him he should refuse. A beast is loose somewhere north of the Arctic Circle. It has already decimated a secret research facility and annihilated a squad of elite military guards. And the raging creature is headed south toward civilization, ready to wreak bloody devastation.
It's a job that Rambo and his 22-year-old hunting partner, Beau Brady, can't turn down, but they and a highly skilled special forces team discover the prey is a terror beyond their wildest imagination, a half-human abomination created by a renegade agency through a series of outlawed genetic experiments. It has man's cunning,
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- Brad Brevet
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Lesbian Vampire Killers Director is a Badass for Hire
21 July 2009 6:56 AM, PDT
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I have to admit, for a director whose first movie bored the hell out of me, British bloke Phil Claydon has certainly got my attention after the funny and spectacularly campy “Lesbian Vampire Killers”. Apparently he’s also gotten the attention of other people, like producers Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson, who have hired Claydon to direct “Dan Mintner: Badass for Hire” for New Line Cinema.
According to THR, “Dan Mintner” is a light-hearted take on the action movies of the ’80s ala “Cobra” and “Missing in Action”. Actually, probably not so much the latter, as the titular character is described as “a tight-jeans-wearing, matchstick-chewing man stuck with an ’80s mentality.” I don’t remember Chuck Norris fitting that bill, but that’s basically Sylvester Stallone’s character from “Cobra”.
In any case, “Badass for Hire” was a spec script by Chad Kultgen, who sold it to Flynn and Vinson.
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Our Favorite Summers: 1986
21 June 2009 8:33 PM, PDT
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The summer of 1986 is memorable to me as a time of intense highs, and sad, sorry lows. The highs: Hands Across America, the reopening of the refurbished Statue of Liberty, Greg LeMond winning the Tour de France, and the videos for Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach" and Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer." Intel introduced the 386 processor. Gas was 89 cents a gallon, and Pee-Wee's Playhouse made for great, hungover Saturday morning TV.
The lows: Ronald Reagan was President. Peter Cetera, Klymaxx and Survivor got seemingly endless radio play. Kids were entranced with those creepy Cabbage Patch Kids, and that even creepier Teddy Ruxpin. Ronald Reagan was President. Benny Goodman, Vincente Minnelli and Ted Knight died. And Ronald Reagan was President.
Summer movies ran a similar gamut, from the resplendent to the abysmal. To wit:
May 23: Memorial Day weekend, not yet considered a tentpole release date, kicked off the summer with the dreadful Sylvester Stallone action flick Cobra,
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- Dawn Taylor
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The Pull List Comic Reviews: ‘Wolverine’, ‘G.I. Joe: Origins’ and ‘Uncanny X-Men’
12 June 2009 11:15 AM, PDT
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For yesterday’s Pull List Comic Reviews, go here. Otherwise, read on for today’s.
Wolverine #74 - Marvel - $2.99
Score: 7.0
Wolverine #74, the final issue before the series becomes Dark Wolverine and focuses on Wolverine’s son Daken, concludes the two stories started in the previous issue. The first is a story about an old biker friend of Wolverine’s by the name of Horrorshow who has asked a favor of Wolverine, to find and help his son who is believed to have killed members of Horrorshow’s biker club and set the wheels in motion for a war between two gangs. While other leaders of the gang pressure Horrorshow in to declaring war, Wolverine appears back at the bar to let his friend know that his son is dead.
Obviously not happy about this news, Horrorshow takes his anger out on Wolverine. As Wolverine is knocked unconscious from the attack
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- John Carle
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New Official Trailer For ‘Killshot’
14 January 2009 10:07 AM, PST
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Today we have the new official trailer for Killshot, an action-thriller with a big cast that should have come out years ago.
Killshot, based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard, is the story of a woman who witnesses a crime and as a result is put into Witness Protection with her husband. The plot thickens as they start to find out they may not be so well protected while the hitman from the earlier crime and a psychopathic killer target them.
The film is directed by John Madden (Proof, Shakespeare in Love) and stars Mickey Rourke, Tom Jane, Diane Lane, Rosario Dawson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The film has gone through years of production issues and while filmed way back in 2005, it is now finally arriving for its official theatrical debut after a series of test-screenings and re-edits.
Killshot has a solid cast but it’s not
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- Rob Keyes
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Top-10 Most Anticipated Scores of 2009
3 January 2009 4:45 AM, PST
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Upcoming Film Scores lists the ten most exciting, promising and anticipated film scores of 2009, according to its editor Mikael Carlsson who can't wait to hear what will come out musically of these projects:
1. Avatar (James Horner)
Director James Cameron and composer James Horner are of course best known for the multi-zillion-whatever-megahit Titanic, but they also gave us Aliens in 1986 which stands out as one of the most exciting nailbiter scores in sci-fi history. On that film, Cameron gave Horner a pretty hard time as judging from the composer interview on the special edition DVD, and basically what you hear in the film is the result of a composer writing under enormous pressure. On Avatar, the situation is the complete opposite. A luxury in film scoring today, the total time given to the scoring process on this film will probably exceed one year! Horner is currently working exclusively on this film,
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- noreply@blogger.com (Mikael Carlsson)
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