MGM and Revolution Studios have devised an inspired strategy for marketing , the sixth, not exactly long-awaited installment in the saga of cinema's most celebrated, cauliflower-eared pugilist: dispatching Sylvester Stallone to influential media outlets equipped with quotes depressing enough to both distract potential audience members from the ridiculousness of a premise involving a sexagenarian boxer making a comeback based on an X-box fighting simulation and to recast his participation as a valiant struggle against an industry that forces early retirement upon its aging stars. A melancholy Stallone tells the , in hopes of inspiring some guilt-induced ticket purchases: "People were saying the parade had gone by, and who was I to try and bring it back again?" Mr.
"I just felt that I've had a lot of regrets in the past 15 years, and I had to go back and rid myself of this regret." [..
.] An artist dies twice, and the second death is the easiest one," Mr. Stallone said in speaking of his long fall from Hollywood's pinnacle.
"The artistic death, the fact you are no longer pertinent -- or that you're deemed someone whose message or talent has run its course -- is a very, very tough piece of information to swallow." [..
.] latest by boxing_helena_montana Producer New Line, distributor MGM, and Peter Jackson are locked in an epic battle over who has control over after Jackson declares that he's not willing to talk about directing the film until New Line coughs up the Lord of the Rings profits they've allegedly screwed him out of, while New Line counter-threatens to press on without him, a move that would almost certainly result in global fanboy riots. At the International Emmys, "very concerned" parent Steven Spielberg warns that semen-splattered corpses on and people being sliced in half on might not necessarily be the best things for children to watch.
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