ROCKY IV (Sylvester Stallone, 1985)

[dolphage]

Those are incredible!

(click to enlarge)

[Jox]

http://www.skuzzles.com/blogs/news/1630 ... n-edmiston

We are incredible excited to be releasing our new limited edition screen print movie poster, Rocky IV by Jason Edmiston. Jason masterfully developed this concept full of symbolism featuring Drago as an insurmountable mountain in the red Russian sky. The amount of propaganda in this movie is only rivaled by the ever inspiring series of montages. Its almost impossible to look at this print without your mind firing up Hearts on Fire.

With the variant, we wanted to offer the fans the full experience, as though the poster was transported straight from Russia.

Once again Jason developed this print in a totally unique style of screen print design that takes nothing away from his painting approach. Anyone who owns Jason's (sold out) Killer Klowns from Outer Space limited edition screen print poster knows how incredible Rocky IV will look in person. The Rocky IV screen print is a total of 10 colours, but the pics will show you how incredible the printing was executed.

Rocky IV - Regular - $50
Size 24" x 36"
Edition size of 150
10 Colors
Printed by DL Screenprinting
Artwork by Jason Edmiston

Pokkn 4 - Russian Variant - $60
Size 24" x 36"
Edition size of 75
10 Colors
Printed by DL Screenprinting
Artwork by Jason Edmiston

On sale on Boxing Day - Friday Dec 26th at 3 PM EST on our homepage.

[Jox]

SOLD OUT before in a few minutes or even seconds before you could place an order...

[Jox]

http://instagram.com/rockybalboa_/

[Jox]

The robot (custom) "action figure"!

If you want your own custom-made figure:
http://dawnoconnell.com/Little_Buddies_ ... Order.html

[Jox]

Never heard of this omitted scene that Tony Burton talks about, where the lord visits Apollo Creed and tells him he has to sacrifice himself in order to impact the fight between Rocky and Drago, It's not in the two drafts I own of the screenplay (but Sly might have toyed with the idea for two seconds and scrapped it?)...

[shooby]

8 rares pics I've just added in my flickr account :

[bomaz]

Haven't watched it in a while (and I mean like 5/6 years, to say the least) til I caught it on french TV.
It helped a lot to watch the Rocky IV arte documentary right after

[Jox]

Weirdest promo item:

[Jox]

[Jox]

Has annybody seen that Drago figure with this packaging before?

[Jox]

So it's a new one by Kasual Friday who also have some new sportswear...
http://www.kasualfriday.com/collections ... ivan-drago
http://www.kasualfriday.com/products/dr ... -days-only
http://www.kasualfriday.com/products/co ... athers-day
http://www.kasualfriday.com/products/iv ... psi-hoodie




yellow trunks:

[Jox]

http://www.popmatters.com/feature/19249 ... tic-heart/

[Jox]

Pro wrestler Nikita Koloff talks being one of the last three contendents up for the part of Ivan Drago:

They flew me out to LA. It was myself, Dolph Lundgren and some other guy. It came down to the three of us as to who would get the final cast of Ivan Drago. So we were on the set with Stallone and I read through my lines a couple of times and Stallone said “lets do one together”. He says; “Let’s go side by side and finish your lines, stare at me in the face and we will have a stare down and we’ll cut”. So we do it and halfway through we are eye to eye and nose to nose he yells cut and asks the director how was it? Sly, in real life is in great shape but he is about 160lbs and 5’6 dripping wet with rocks in his pocket legitimately. He is a small guy, a lot of actors are. Keep in mind, I fly out there and I’m 285lbs with a 34 inch waist and 8% body fat, so when we do that scene and we turn towards each other the way the lighting was in the studio when he yells cut, the director says “well it was pretty good until you turn towards each other and he casts a shadow on you and we lost you”. I’m not the brightest guy in the world but I knew this almost immediately that wasn’t good for his ego or my opportunity. A few weeks later they called and said you were unbelievable, however even for Hollywood your size differential would be too unbelievable that even for Rocky that he would be able to come back and beat you as big as you are. I was humbled by the opportunity to even be considered as one of the three finalists.

Funny he's mentioning height when you know how tall Dolph is (and taller than Koloff according to Wikipedia), but we also know Dolph was originally rejected by the casting director Sasha Stallone for being too tall at the first audition.

[Jox]

R.I.P. producer Robert Chartoff.

Robert Chartoff, Producer of 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull,' Dies at 81
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/r ... ing-719777

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/10/enter ... ging-bull/