Breaking: ‘Rocky Balboa’ Trailer Proves Movie Is Going To Be Totally Awesome

“What’s that from, the 80s?” “Probably the 70s.”

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‘Rocky Balboa’ on Yahoo! Movies [Yahoo!]

Leftovers: In My Day, Halfballs Cost A Nickel

• Hey, oldies! Remember halfball? No? Oh, wait, no, of course not. Well, to jog your memory, there’s a documentary being made about that, kick the can, jump rope, hopscotch and all those other games that we kiddies can’t believe actually existed. Photo by Kristin Wolak. [South Philly Review]

• The statue-inspiring film star himself, Sly Stallone, had his 60th birthday bash over the weekend. Sly would watch that halfball documentary and still have no idea what halfball is. (Rimshot.) [AP/Yahoo!]

• Could Johnny Brenda’s be replacing Johnny Goodtimes as the one and only savior of Metro? Time will only tell. [Foobooz]

• Sorry for being behind on the possible Philadelphia ban on foie gras proposed by Myspace City Councilman Jack Kelly. Here’s a big ol’ recap. [Politics Philly]

• If you’re wondering which senators and representatives are in favor of the anti-gay marriage amendment to the Constitution, here’s a helpful list. [AMERICAblog]

• Speedier cheap rail to New York City is possibly coming! Of course, by “cheap” they mean “still expensive, but not quite as bad as Amtrak or a plane.” [Inky]

• And, finally, America must not want the world to get too into our own brand of football, as we’ve sent Ivy Leaguers to Japan to them how it’s done. Actually, Ivy football is lots o’offense, not much defense, so this might work. [KYW 1060]

This movie’s a million-to-one shot

Yesterday’s Inquirer had a big front page story from Michael Klein about the new Rocky Balboa movie and how the series could possibly end. (Sylvester Stallone claims he’s not going to make a seventh film, but, hey, who knows.)

There are some good stories, but the best one is this: Sly was looking for a hard-edged girl for a bar scene, but couldn’t find one until he met Angela Boyd, 20, who he used for the scene and then hired her as a production assistant.

There’s also some discussion of the plot, which, in the interest of not spoiling it, I’ve discussed after the jump. As they say on these type of Internet stories, this contains SPOILERS. Click through for more.

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‘Rocky Balboa’ spreading to new areas

You can’t throw a stone in this town right now without hitting somebody filming Rocky Balboa. Not only has Frank Stallone been spotted doing research at the library, but last night the crew was filming the movie on the 2100 block of Walnut Street.

I have no idea what, exactly, Rocky’s going to be doing up there. Maybe Rocky has a hedge fund and an apartment off Rittenhouse in this one. Or maybe the 60-year-old Rocky needs to goto Wonderland to buy a bong for his medical marijuana. I don’t know.

Either way, when I was walking down Walnut last night, I had only one thought: Oh, man, is this going to make the bar more crowded?

Sylvester Stallone’s brother [snoscene]
Dear Sylvester Stallone [theycallmebitch]
Photo by CBS 3

Sly vs. Sly

When we last visited the Rocky Balboa Blog last month, the site wasn’t much more than a video and a bunch of unintentionally hilarious comments.

Now, the site has a new photo up, and a bunch more comments — my favorite is the one that starts “Dun. Dun dun dun. Dun dun dun dun. Risin up back on the street… EYE OF THE TIGER BABY! AAADDDRRRRIIIIIAAANNNNN!!!!!!” — and, I have to admit, Sly looks in pretty good shape for a 700-year-old or whatever he is (He’s 59). Not quite in as good shape as in the last movie, but, hey, he appears to be in better shape than I am.

The 700 Level has a very funny comparison of Rocky and Arnold, and, yikes, Sly’s way head of The Terminator.

Arnold vs. Rocky [The 700 Level]
Third photo from ‘Rocky Balboa’ [Rocky Balboa Blog]
Dec. 15, 2005: Gonna blog now

Possibly dirty headline of the day

Ew.

Inqlings | Stallone slurps first bottle of Sly Pure Glacial Water [Inky]

Oy, Adrian

KYW 3 puts up only the most flattering photos of Sly Stallone in its Rocky sightings feature.

Rocky sightings [KYW 3]

A newly-posted comment from the Rocky Balboa Blog, presented entirely without comment (from me)

TREEEEEEEEEMENDOUS!!!!!!

I have a king-size bed, and I was running around it today with my brother, and he was Clubber Lang and I was Rocky Balboa and he wouldn’t lose, so I punched him right in the face. And he started crying, so I explained to him how ROCKEY 3 went, and we watched it together, and he saw how Clubber Lang gets it in the end, and later, we went upstairs and he let Rocky win.

It’s moments like these that make me want to get in line and buy tickets for ROCKY BALBOA now, before it’s even done being made, because ROCKY brings people together. If it brings other families together the way it brought me and my brother Toomey together today, than it’s good movies.

PLEASE DON’T LET PAULY DIE THOUGH!!! HE is my favorite and please bring back the dancing robot. Good Times! YEAH! ROCKEY RULES USA & RUSSIA!!!

Production begins [Rocky Balboa Blog]

Gonna blog now

It seems like every time there’s a new product launched, it comes with — of course! — a blog. And the forthcoming 2007 film Rocky Balboa is, of course, no exception. Yes, RockyBalboaBlog.com is officially live for all the news on a movie that’s not even coming out next year.

Unlike most movie blogs, there’s actually some content on this one: a two-minute video of Stallone talking about shooting some of the scenes with Antonio Tarver, who plays Mason “The Line” Dixon. Sly says the boxing scenes are going to be ultra-realistic, “a true professional fight where you can’t tell the difference.” This movie sounds way strange and it’s been 15 years since the last Rocky movie, but, hey, they’re trying. And of course I’m going to see it. Everyone’s going to see it, even if just out of sheer curiosity.

While the video interview is interesting, nothing can top the comments so far. As I write this, there’s 88 comments on the first and only post, and I’m sure that number will grow into the hundreds soon. I don’t know if the comments are moderated or not, but it seems like all anyone does is gush. There are a ton of comments, but I believe this one is the best:

I love the Rocky Saga. I love the Rocky Antology. And now Sly is bring Rocky back to “the Roots”. Rocky One is a mythos, a classic Film. I also love the other Sequels (even Part V). Some People says they dont like the Tttel. I like it, i think its better than “Rocky VI” or a other version. The Title “Rocky Baloba” has somthing… i dont know… something final (concluding), something nostalgic. The Circel is now Complet. The End of a great Saga ends.

I havent seen the Movie yet, NOBODY HAS (it will sarts 2007) BUT I KONW it will be great. A Final End for one of the Greatest Saga of Time.

It has to be a joke. The misspellings — “Rocky Baloba” — the random capitalization, the explanation of the word “final” in a parenthetical note and an all caps explanation that nobody has seen the movie (that comes out in 2007) yet. Wow. I think I’m even more excited for this movie now.

Update: Here’s my second-favorite one:

Hey, I posted a little while ago about ROCKY BALBOA, and I just wanted to add that this afternoon, I was pretending that I was Rocky Balboa, in one of his big fights, and I almost ripped my pants throwing punches at an invisible Ivan Drago.

The Rocky Balboa Blog [via Bella Vista Social Club]

This movie just keeps getting better and better

Oh yea, Paulie? He’s in Rocky Balboa.

ESPN Photo Wire - Sylvester Stallone [ESPN.com]