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‘I Play Rocky’ writer says rival studios balked at ‘advertising another studio’s franchise’
Sylvester Stallone first played Rocky Balboa 50 years ago this month. Now Anthony Ippolito is playing Stallone in I Play Rocky , a movie about the making of the original that began life without the studio that owns the franchise.
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Sylvester Stallone first played Rocky Balboa 50 years ago this month. Now Anthony Ippolito is playing Stallone in I Play Rocky , a movie about the making of the original that began life without the studio that owns the franchise. Directed by Peter Farrelly, the film follows Stallone’s hardscrabble push to write Rocky and his insistence on playing the title role himself.
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