Rolling Stone magazine's Peter Travers praised Stallone's performance: " His performance builds slowly but achieves a stunning payoff when Freddy decides to clean up his town ... Freddy awakes to his own potential, and it's exhilarating to watch the character and the actor revive in unison.

* Cleve Dean-World Arm Wrestling Champion featured in Sylvester Stallone's 1987 movie, Over the Top.

In December 2009, several internet movie websites had indicated that Sylvester Stallone had or was about to make an approach to Walker to come out of retirement to play the father of John Rambo in Stallone's forthcoming film Rambo V.

His status in the arm wrestling world earned him a role in Sylvester Stallone's arm wrestling movie, Over the Top.

It was Stallone's third highest grossing movie at the box office in the 1990s and the second highest overall gross next to Cliffhanger.

In Stallone's words: " It was either do that movie or rob someone because I was at the end-at the very end-of my rope.

Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas was unhappy to share the screenwriting credit with the film's star Sylvester Stallone, as he felt that Stallone's input had been minor, while Stallone claimed to have basically rewritten the whole script.

Criticism was also drawn from the film's ending, claiming following Stallone's last minute decision not to kill Rocky, the film's build-up and narrative was lost.

Through his father Blackie, who was also struggling acting, Kiedis, who worked under the stage name, Mike Chester, landed his first acting role appearing as Sylvester Stallone's son in the 1978 film, F. I. S. T .. That same year he would land two more acting jobs one being on a ABC Afterschool Special and the other an appearance on a short lived show, Jokes My Folks Never Told Me.

He was set to play the role of a cop in Sylvester Stallone's hitman action pic ' Headshot ,' but then he was deemed not " ethnic " enough and let go.

Stallone's understated performance against type — he gained considerable weight for the role — was praised by critics and he received the Best Actor award at the Stockholm International Film Festival.

Or My Mom Will Shoot, Stallone's previous high-profile attempts at branching out of the one-dimensional action star roles, both of which ultimately ended up commercially unsuccessful, critically panned, and often ridiculed, Cop Land with its star-studded heavyweight ensemble cast was met with high expectations as a multifaceted story based around corruption on the New York City police force.

*" Mother " was used in Sylvester Stallone's sports drama Driven.

Original screenwriter Phil Alden Robinson was so offended by Stallone's reworking of his original screenplay that he briefly considered having his name removed from the film's credits.

The Specialist opened in the U. S. on October 7, 1994 and was one of Stallone's few box office hits in the 1990s.

It was Sylvester Stallone's first film, and also his first starring role, for which he worked two days and was paid $ 200.

One is of a small anchor to symbolise his and Lee's trip on a tall ship to Tasmania, which was modified by placing the letters ' FR ' to the left of the anchor producing the phonetic sound ' Franchor ' in honour of Frank Stallone's Birthday.

GLOW was originally created by David B. McLane as an aftermath of Jackie Stallone's physical fitness gym for women only, Barbarella's.

Jackie Stallone ( Sylvester Stallone's mother ) was the figurehead owner and manager of the Good Girls, and Aunt Kitty ( Kitty Burke ) was the manager for the Bad Girls.

The fifth film in the Rocky series, it stars Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Stallone's real life son Sage, and real life boxer Tommy Morrison as boxer Tommy Gunn, a talented yet raw boxer.

* Bob ' Bull ' Hurley, fictional character ( armwrestler ) from Sylvester Stallone's film Over the Top

Series star Robert Loggia, an actor with a long history of film and television credits, went on to star in a number of high-profile hit Hollywood films including The Tom Hanks hit film Big, the sci-fi film Independence Day, An Officer and a Gentleman, Scarface, and Sylvester Stallone's Over the Top.

He played the original Eaglebaur in the 1979 film Rock ' n ' Roll High School ; appeared as the head usher in Get Crazy ; a Southern-fried college football fan in The Waterboy ; a father of one of the main characters in Uwe Boll's Heart of America ; Played Slinky as Sylvester Stallone's cellmate in " Tango & Cash "; a radio DJ in That Thing You Do!

He is best known for his Academy Award-nominated role as Sylvester Stallone's brother-in-law and best friend Paulie in the Rocky film series.

Bob Graham of the San Francisco Chronicle said the film " is murkier than it needs to be, through no fault of Stallone's ".

Following a minor part as Tina Tech in the musical film Flashdance, Rhodes played the role of Jackie, an ensemble dancer, bar band singer, and character Tony Manero's ( John Travolta ) love interest in Sylvester Stallone's film Staying Alive, the poorly received sequel to the hit film Saturday Night Fever.

Sylvester Stallone's Cobra and Judge Dredd shares many elements with Dirty Harry, a cop with an obsession for justice, a law system that is more concerned about the criminal than the victim, and a psychotic killer.

Also included is documentation of $ 500, 000 in payments to Sylvester Stallone for promoting B & W products in five of Stallone's films.

Its staff consists of nearly identical copies ( save for greyish hair for some older managers ) of M. Sylvestre, an executive wearing a suit and a tie, all with Sylvester Stallone's head.

In his review for the San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle also liked Stallone's work: " His transformation is more than a matter of weight.

Rutherford, who was 70 years old when the first film was made, insisted that she wear her own clothes during the filming of the movie, as well as having her real-life husband, Stringer Davis appear alongside her as the character ' Mr Stringer '.

For example, the Canadian province of Quebec, which is French-speaking, has its own system of French-speaking television, movie and music celebrities.

Other celebrities such as Tyler Perry, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg have become successful entrepreneurs through starting their own film production companies and running their own movie studios.

Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks ( 1990 – 1991 ); he also created a cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ), a road movie, Wild at Heart ( 1990 ), and a family film, The Straight Story ( 1999 ) in the same period.

With a $ 10 million dollar investment, Paramount built their own chain of first-run movie theaters after a secret plan to merge with First National failed.

He was not Paramount's first choice to direct the movie ; Italian director Sergio Leone was initially offered the job, but declined in order to direct his own gangster opus, Once Upon a Time in America.

" Glazer describes how " John's accidental transformation from drifter to national figure parallels Capra's own early drifting experience and subsequent involvement in movie making ... Meet John Doe, then, was an attempt to work out his own fears and questions.

Hawks's own functional definition of what constitutes a " good movie " is revealing of his no-nonsense style: " Three great scenes, no bad ones.

Russell Mulcahy was disappointed with the movie as originally released, and later made his own " Renegade Version " director's cut with a proper sequencing of various scenes, and the filmmakers ' explanation for why the movie turned out as it originally did.

In 1999, Marrow starred in the HBO movie Stealth Fighter as a United States Naval Aviator who fakes his own death, steals a F-117 stealth fighter, and threatens to destroy United States military bases.

Frankenheimer is quoted in Champlin's biography as saying that his alcohol problem caused him to do work that was below his own standards on Prophecy ( 1979 ), an ecological monster movie about a mutant grizzly bear terrorizing a forest in Maine.

Their children, James Haven ( born 1973 ) and Angelina Jolie ( born 1975 ), would go on to enter the film business, Haven as an actor and producer, and Jolie as a movie star in her own right.

Von Koenigsegg got the idea to build his own car after watching the Norwegian stop-motion animated movie Pinchcliffe Grand Prix in his youth.

The following year she was the voice of the title character, Kiki, a 13-year-old apprentice witch who leaves her home village to spend a year on her own, in the anime movie Kiki's Delivery Service ( 1998 ).

This led to the Supreme Court decision United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. ( 1948 ) holding that movie studios could not also own movie theater chains.

These associates, made up of Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dawn Steel and Don Simpson would each go on and head up major movie studios of their own later in their careers.

Though the movie does explain what a Sampo is, the MST3K characters are talking during the explanation and miss it, and are therefore confused throughout the film as to what exactly a " Sampo " is, and argue about it their own theories throughout the rest of the episode.

In the 1983 movie The Star Chamber, Michael Douglas, playing an idealistic Los Angeles Superior Court judge frustrated about having to free obviously guilty criminals merely because of legal technicalities, learns from his mentor about a secret cabal of judges — a Star Chamber — that metes out its own brand of justice against those it determines have wrongly been set free.

A long-time comic book buff, he then attempted to adapt " The Shadow " into a movie, but was unable to secure the rights, so he created his own super-hero, Darkman ( 1990 ).

Popular titles included Sega's own series, notably Sonic the Hedgehog ; Disney movie extensions, such as The Lion King ; and 3rd-party developer games like Shaq Fu.

The Sega Game Gear was prominently featured in the 1993 movie " Surf Ninjas " ( which subsequently received its own Game Gear video game as well ).