Sylvester Stallone News

 Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) and Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures (MGM) have partnered to develop a live action motion picture based on Mattel's classic American Girl® line of books and dolls.

The nominees for the 50th NAACP Image Awards were exclusively announced today at the Television Critics Association's (TCA) TV One's joint press conference with Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP and Alfred Liggins, Chairman and CEO of TV One. The winners will be revealed during the Two-Hour LIVE TV special airing on TV One on Saturday, March 30, 2019.

Voting opens today for the 50TH NAACP IMAGE AWARDS a?" NAACP ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR Award, the winner to be revealed during the two-hour special airing live on TV One, Saturday, March 30, 2019 from the Dolby Theatre.  The five nominees are: Beyoncé, Chadwick Boseman, Ryan Coogler, Regina King, and LeBron James.

Drayton Entertainment announces casting for Rocky: The Musical. This adrenaline-fueled musical based on Sylvester Stallone's Academy© Award-winning film will launch the 2019 Season at the Hamilton Family Theatre Cambridge. The production will run for four weeks from March 6 to March 31.

Emmy-nominated actor and comedian Billy Gardell starred in the CBS hit television series, Mike & Molly as Officer Mike Biggs from 2010-2016. Gardell brings his stand-up comedy to the State Theatre for a show on Friday, October 4.

Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures (MGM) announced today acclaimed stage director Liesl Tommy, the first black woman to earn a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Play, is set to direct Respect, a feature film based on the life of music icon Aretha Franklin. As previously announced, Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA and Grammy Award winner Jennifer Hudson was personally handpicked by Ms. Franklin to portray her on the big screen.  Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Callie Khouri (Thelma & Louise, creator of Nashville) will pen the screenplay following the rise of Ms. Franklin's career, from a child singing in her father's church's choir to an iconic and international superstar. The announcement was made today by Jonathan Glickman, President, Motion Picture Group.

Legendary actress and author Jamie Lee Curtis will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 56th Annual International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) Publicists Awards celebrating her prolific acting career spanning four decades and still going strong. The awards luncheon returns to the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Friday, February 22, 2019.

The 50th NAACP Image Awards will air LIVE on TV One, a division of Urban One, Inc., on March 30, 2019. For the first time ever, the telecast will take place from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California. The announcement was made today by NAACP National Board of Directors Chairman Leon W. Russell, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, Urban One, Inc. & Chairman/CEO, TV One Alfred Liggins and TV One General Manager Michelle Rice.

Corinne Foxx, Sistine Stallone, the daughters of Jamie Foxx and Sylvester Stallone, respectively, will be making their film debuts in 47 Meters Down — Uncaged. The sequel to box office breakout 47 Meters Down, will star John Corbett (Sex In The City), Nia Long (Empire), Sophie Nelisse (The Book Thief), Foxx, Stallone, Brianne Tju (Scream TV series), Davi Santos (Polaroid) and Khylin Rhambo (Teen Wolf), according to Deadline.

The historic Drexel Theatre today announced the lineup for its 2019 America's Greatest Films series, made possible through a generous gift from PNC Bank. Launched in 2017 as a thank you to the community, the series offers free screenings of some of the nation's most beloved classic films on the first Tuesday of each month with a pre-screening introduction and post-screening Q&A.

Celebrity Autobiography, the award-winning hit comedy show in which celebrities act out other celebrities' jaw-dropping memoirs verbatim, begins its extremely limited holiday run next Monday at Broadway's Marquis Theatre (210 West 46th Street). After a decade of playing Off-Broadway and across the globe, the show conquers Broadway on Monday, November 26 with a company including Lewis Black, Mario Cantone, Rachel Dratch, Susan Lucci, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel and Cecily Strong and more! Click herefor photos.

Totem Pole Playhouse, America's beloved summer theatre located in Caledonia State Park between Gettysburg and Chambersburg, PA, has announced the opening of the Totem Pole Playhouse Academy. The new performing arts training center will be housed in the Playhouse's recently renovated rehearsal space named after Totem Pole's former Artistic Producer and Directors, Carl Schurr and Wil Love.

Award-winning Venezuelan Actress-Director-Producer, Founder and Co-Owner of True Form Films, Yeniffer Behrens will be guest-starring in the highly acclaimed prime-time Television series Grey's Anatomy. 

They are coming from across the pond and across the country to strut their stuff, show their art and pay homage to the last music the Beatles created as a group - The White Album. It's fifty years later and the music still sings like yesterday.

Vice has teamed up with global multi-platinum recording artist Jason Derulo for their brand new collaborative single “Make Up” featuring rising pop songstress Ava Max – available now on all DSPs via Atlantic Records. Arriving today with an equally high energy and sultry video companion, the track fuses Derulo's silky falsetto with Max's irresistible vocals for the ultimate “kiss-and-make-up” anthem. PAPER Magazine has already called the collaboration a “bop” describing the song and video as a “mix of sultry and upbeat pop funk.”

Global multi-platinum recording artist Jason Derulo today released the official video for his latest single “Goodbye” with David Guetta featuring Nicki Minaj and Willy William. Watch the video below!

Totem Pole Playhouse, America's beloved summer theatre located in Caledonia State Park between Gettysburg and Chambersburg, PA, has announced the opening of the Totem Pole Playhouse Academy. The new performing arts training center will be housed in the Playhouse's recently renovated rehearsal space named after Totem Pole's former Artistic Producer and Directors, Carl Schurr and Wil Love.

Space Oddity - The Ultimate David Bowie Experience is a live, multi-media spectacle that takes you on a musical journey through the constantly metamorphosing career of Rock and Roll's most celebrated innovator, starring David Brighton who inhabits the mind, body and soul of David Bowie and his amazing Space Oddity band. I guarantee you will experience a stunning note-for-note theatrical concert event which transports audiences back in time through some of the most exciting moments in the history of Rock music. From the moment the concert begins, you will experience Bowie's miraculous transformation from space-aged rock idol to polished mainstream media star via his timeless classics that forever changed the face of pop culture. David Brighton's salute to the most electrifying performer of our time will have you believing you are in the presence of Bowie reincarnated.

Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures present TRAILER II and a new poster for CREED II. The film, directed by Steven Caple Jr., stars Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone and Tessa Thompson.

Starting this month, Verna Everitt has taken over the leadership reins as the Executive Director of the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts (WICA).