Brittany Murphy (”Sin City”) and David Zayas (TV’s “Dexter”) have been cast in “The Expendables,” an upcoming action feature directed and written by Sylvester Stallone.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the two will appear alongside a generation-spanning who’s who of tough-guy actors, including Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture and Stallone himself.
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Sylvester Stallone is the new face of Russian Ice vodka.
According to E! News, the Russian vodka producer Synergy has signed the action star to a one-year contract. Stallone will appear in print and TV ads for the company’s Russian Ice line of vodka beginning September 1.
“The advertising campaign concept was based on the fact that the actor has Russian roots,” Synergy explained in a statement.
According to Russia’s federal law, companies are prohibited from advertising alcoholic products on federal TV channels, meaning the star’s commercial will air only on the nation’s cable stations come this fall.
The endorsement deal is said to be roughly worth $1 million.
Sylvester Stallone owes his bulging biceps and tremendously toned 61-year-old physique to human growth hormones – a substance better known as HGH.
“HGH is nothing. Anyone who calls it a steroid is grossly misinformed,” Stallone told Time magazine, E! Online reports.
The muscle-enhancing drug is legal but has been highly scrutinized and banned by the majority of professional sports.
Stallone returned to the big screen Friday with the fourth installment of Rambo, a role the action star originated in 1982. It took the Oscar-winner 41 pounds of prescription-HGH-enhanced muscle to get back into Rambo form and reincarnate the famous character.
“Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older,” Stallone said, “Everyone over 40 years old would be wise to investigate it, because it increases the quality of your life. Mark my words. In 10 years, it will be over the counter.”
Stallone was recently fined more than $10,000 in Australia for bringing a large amount of synthetic hormone into the country without a permit. The actor defended the possession of said hormones and told reporters that he has taken HGH “for years”.
SYLVESTER STALLONE declined a request by MIKE TYSON to star as his opponent in latest sequel ROCKY BALBOA, because he is “still too young to die.”
The 60-year-old actor didn’t fancy getting into the ring with the former heavyweight boxing champion.
He says, “Mike wanted to fight me in this film but I thought it was a bad idea. I know I’m not that young, but I’m still too young to die.
“I said, ‘Thanks, but I don’t think that would be a very good idea. Thank you very much.’
“But he kept calling the office saying he wanted to be in the film fighting me. Eventually, I relented and said he could be in the audience. Then I never heard from him. Suddenly, when I turn up in the ring he’s there at the side.
“I turned round and said to the crew, ‘Can you make sure you keep that son of a bitch out of the ring. If he gets in he’ll kill me.’ The man’s a killer.”
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SYLVESTER STALLONE has sparked controversy by plotting to direct a film adaptation of controversial book THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH, which describes the alleged Turkish massacre of its Armenian community in 1915.
The book by Austrian author FRANZ WERFEL is controversial in Turkey, where the claimed genocide has never been wholly accepted as a historical fact.
And the Association On Struggle Against Armenian Genocide Acknowledgement is urging Stallone not to make the film.
Chairman SAVAS EGILMEZ fumes, “The book is full of lies, since the author got his information from nationalist and radical Armenians. We have already sent necessary documents about the mentioned days to the producer of the film. Our allies will urge the producer not to produce the film.”
Stallone says the film would be “an epic about the complete destruction of a civilization. (But) talk about a political hot potato. The Turks have been killing that subject for 85 years.”
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Sylvester Stallone will don the boxing gloves once again in a sixth Rocky film.
The 59-year-old actor has confirmed plans to direct and act in the movie, which will begin production in December.
“There is a script but it has yet to get the green light,” said a spokesperson for Stallone’s agent.
Early reports have Rocky Balboa as a restaurant owner, grieving over the death of his wife. Balboa decides to return to the ring to fight off his loneliness. When a reigning heavyweight champion, Mason Dixon, hears of Balboa’s return, he offers him a big pay off if he’ll return to the ring for the fight of all fights.
Revolution Studios, who will co-produce and finance the film, released a statement saying the sixth Rocky movie will bring fans back to the days of the original.
“As a past champion, Rocky Balboa is once again a regular guy who has to find himself and deal with real life. This film brings Rocky’s story full circle,” said Studio founder Joe Roth.
Stallone will be 60 by the time the film is released.
