Spy Kids is an American media franchise centered on a series of spy action comedy films created by Robert Rodriguez . The plot follows various children, who discover that their respective parents are spies and become involved in an espionage organization when their parents go missing. The films include Hispanic themes, as Rodriguez is of Mexican descent.
150-610: Spy Kids was influenced by elements of the James Bond movies, through the genre of family films . Rodriguez has stated that the first movie was "a fusion of Willy Wonka and James Bond ", while the second was the " Mysterious Island and James Bond mix". The spy organization in the films is called the OSS. These initials are from the Office of Strategic Services , a former U.S. intelligence organization during World War II which later evolved into
300-501: A GPS encoder on the black market. Bond encounters Chinese agent Wai Lin , who is also investigating the matter, and the two agree to work together. They discover that Carver had used the GPS encoder to push the British ship off course and into Chinese waters to incite a war for ratings. With the British fleet on their way to China, Bond and Wai Lin find Carver's stealth ship, board it and prevent
450-506: A casino . Bond follows her to Hong Kong, where he witnesses the murder of Gibson and the theft of the Solex agitator. Bond is subsequently assigned to retrieve the agitator and assassinate Scaramanga. Bond meets with Hai Fat, a wealthy Thai entrepreneur suspected of arranging Gibson's murder, and is captured, but subsequently escapes. He tracks Scaramanga to an island in Red Chinese waters, where
600-464: A double agent , attacks M, enabling White to escape. Bond traces the organisation to Haiti and a connection to environmentalist Dominic Greene. Bond uncovers a plot between Greene and an exiled Bolivian General, Medrano, to put Medrano in power in Bolivia while Quantum is given a monopoly to run the water supply to the country. Bond ascertains that Quantum is damming Bolivia's supply of fresh water to force
750-433: A prisoner of war involved in a Nazi propaganda soccer game. That same year, he starred in the thriller Nighthawks , in which he plays a New York city cop who plays a cat-and-mouse game with a foreign terrorist, played by Rutger Hauer . In 1982, Stallone starred as Vietnam veteran John Rambo , a former Green Beret , in the action film First Blood , an adaptation of the eponymous novel by David Morell , though
900-570: A Rocky sequel and prequel are in development. Producer Irwin Winkler said "We're very high on it" and that negotiations are underway for Stallone to write and star in the feature. "We're very anxious to make it." Stallone said the plot of the film would be about Rocky befriending a young fighter who is an undocumented immigrant. "Rocky meets a young, angry person who got stuck in this country when he comes to see his sister. He takes him into his life, and unbelievable adventures begin, and they wind up south of
1050-506: A beloved classic was met with disapproval by Variety and horror by top critic Roger Ebert . Cannon opted to make the action film Cobra which was released in 1986 and became a box-office success. It led to the setting up of his production company White Eagle Enterprises. In 1987, he starred in the family drama Over the Top as a struggling trucker who tries to make amends with his estranged son and enters an arm wrestling competition. This
1200-404: A box-office success. In preparation for these roles, Stallone embarked upon a vigorous training regimen, which often meant six days a week in the gym and further sit-ups in the evenings. Stallone claims to have reduced his body fat percentage to his all-time low of 2.8% for Rocky III . In 1983, he directed Staying Alive , the sequel to Saturday Night Fever , starring John Travolta . This
1350-507: A clinical allergy-research institute atop Piz Gloria in the Swiss Alps . Bond soon establishes that Blofeld is brainwashing his patients to distribute bacteriological warfare agents throughout various parts of the world. Bond escapes from the clinic after Blofeld identifies him as a British agent. Bond arranges a raid on the clinic using men from Draco's organisation. The raid is a success, although Blofeld escapes. Bond marries Tracy, but she
1500-588: A different character to the one she portrayed in Machete , with Trejo additionally reprising his role alongside her. James Bond (film series) James Bond is a fictional character created by British novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. A British secret agent working for MI6 under the codename 007, Bond has been portrayed on film in twenty-seven productions by actors Sean Connery , David Niven , George Lazenby , Roger Moore , Timothy Dalton , Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig . Eon Productions , which now holds
1650-431: A diversion which allows him to open the hatch, letting in the ninjas. During the battle, Osato is killed by Blofeld, who activates the base's self-destruct system and escapes. Bond, Kissy, Tanaka and the surviving ninjas escape through the cave tunnel before it explodes, and are rescued by submarine. While searching for Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE, Bond (played by George Lazenby ) saves Tracy di Vicenzo ( Diana Rigg ) on
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#17328767388401800-550: A film studio named Balboa Productions with Braden Aftergood in March 2018, where Stallone will serve as co-producer for each of their projects. The studio signed a multi-year collaboration deal with Starlight Culture Entertainment to develop projects for film and television. In May 2018, a fifth installment in the Rambo franchise was announced, and in August 2018, Adrian Grünberg was confirmed as
1950-469: A former MI6 agent who was captured and tortured by Chinese agents. Blaming M for his imprisonment, Silva sets in motion a plan to ruin her reputation before murdering her. Bond saves M and attempts to lure Silva into a trap, and while he is successful in repelling Silva's assault, M is killed. Bond returns to active duty under the command of the new M, Gareth Mallory. Following her death in Skyfall , M sends Bond
2100-490: A genius gadget inventor and Juni helps to redeem a TV show host named Fegan Floop ( Alan Cumming ). Together, Carmen and Juni thwart the plan of Floop's notorious second in-command Alexander Minion ( Tony Shalhoub ) to develop an army of androids resembling young children (including Carmen and Juni themselves) for a mastermind named Mr. Lisp ( Robert Patrick ) and his partner Ms. Gradenko ( Teri Hatcher ). The robots based on Carmen and Juni became part of Floop's show. As agents of
2250-674: A grand total in excess of $ 20 billion. The films have won six Academy Awards : for Sound Effects (now Sound Editing) in Goldfinger ( at the 37th Awards ), to John Stears for Visual Effects in Thunderball ( at the 38th Awards ), to Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers for Sound Editing , to Adele and Paul Epworth for Original Song in Skyfall ( at the 85th Awards ), to Sam Smith and Jimmy Napes for Original Song in Spectre ( at
2400-467: A guide to fitness and nutrition as well as a candid insight into his life and works from his own perspective. The book also contained many photographs of Stallone throughout the years as well as pictures of him performing exercises. After a three-year hiatus from films, Stallone had a comeback in 2006 with the sixth installment of the Rocky series, Rocky Balboa , which was a critical and commercial hit. After
2550-553: A jewelry-seller as his love interest. The film was re-cut and retitled Rebel years later, this second version featuring Stallone as its star. In 1990, this film was re-edited with outtakes from the original film and newly shot matching footage, then redubbed – in the style of Woody Allen 's What's Up, Tiger Lily? – into a parody of itself titled A Man Called... Rainbo . Stallone's other first few film roles were minor, and included brief uncredited appearances in M*A*S*H (1970), as
2700-438: A lawsuit which was eventually settled with Stallone for an undisclosed amount. Other possible inspirations for the film may have included Rocky Graziano 's autobiography Somebody Up There Likes Me , and the film of the same name . Stallone attempted to sell the script to multiple studios, with the intention of playing the lead role himself. Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff became interested and offered Stallone US$ 350,000 for
2850-409: A limited fashion but was praised by critics. He was also attached to star and direct a film tentatively titled Rampart Scandal , which was to be about the murder of rappers Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. and the surrounding Los Angeles Police Department corruption scandal. It was later titled Notorious but was shelved. In 2005, alongside Sugar Ray Leonard , he was the co-presenter of
3000-467: A local industrialist. Bond follows the trail to Blofeld's island headquarters and spaceport , while the spacecraft, Bird One , attacks a Soviet capsule . Blofeld explains to Bond that his plot is to fake in front of each superpower that Bird One is an enemy spacecraft to transform the Cold War into World War III . Tanaka's ninja troops attack the island, while Bond manages to distract Blofeld and create
3150-528: A local library, and became interested in the works of Edgar Allan Poe . In 1972, Stallone was on the verge of giving up on having an acting career; in what he later described as a low point, he tried and failed to get a job as an extra in The Godfather . Instead, he was relegated to a background role in another Hollywood hit, What's Up, Doc? , starring Barbra Streisand . Stallone is hardly visible in his two appearances. Stallone happened to be acting in
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#17328767388403300-451: A maniacal Timekeeper ( Jeremy Piven ) attempts to take over the world. In order to save the world, Rebecca and Cecil must team up with Marissa. The fifth installment titled Spy Kids: Armageddon , served as a relaunch of the franchise, involves a plot that centers on a multicultural family. Robert Rodriguez is again writer/director, while the project is a joint-venture production between Skydance Media and Spyglass Media Group . The film
3450-465: A mission locating a British scientist, Gibson, who has invented the "Solex agitator", a device to harness solar power , thereby solving the energy crisis . The bullet signifies Bond is a target of assassin Francisco Scaramanga and Bond sets out unofficially to find him. From a spent golden bullet, Bond tracks Scaramanga to Macau , where he sees Scaramanga's mistress collecting golden bullets at
3600-461: A negative effect on relationships. The first film also deals extensively with sibling rivalry and the responsibility of older children. There is also a strong sense of Latino heritage. The other films were shot with High Definition digital video , parts of the third film using an anaglyphic process to create the 3-D effect. Audiences were given red/blue 3D glasses with their tickets in movie theatres. Four sets of these glasses were also included in
3750-601: A personalized children's book based on Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams . Between 2003 and 2004, Disney-Hyperion released ten novels of a book series titled Spy Kids Adventures , written by Elizabeth Lenhard. From 2001 to 2004, children's anthology magazines Disney Adventures and BBC Magazines ' Disney's Comic published over a dozen syndicated short comics that accompanied the first three films as well as additional stories for Disney's Comic . They were written by Steve Behling and/or Michael Stewart, penciled and inked by Christine Norrie , colored by John Green (with
3900-490: A play that a friend invited him to partake in, and an agent in attendance thought that Stallone fit the role of Stanley, a main character in The Lords of Flatbush , which had a start-stop schedule from 1972 to 1974 over budget issues. Stallone, around mid-1973, achieved his first proper starring role, in the independent film No Place to Hide , playing a man who is associated with a New York–based urban terrorist movement, with
4050-739: A posthumous message that leads him to thwart a terrorist attack in Mexico City. Gareth Mallory takes Bond off active duty for his illegal operation, but Bond continues his investigation off the books. The trail leads him first to Rome, where he learns of a sinister terrorist organisation known as Spectre , and later to Austria. There he finds former adversary Mr. White, who has become terminally ill after being poisoned by Spectre. White asks Bond to protect his daughter Madeleine Swann from Spectre and its leader, Franz Oberhauser, before committing suicide. Sylvester Stallone Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone ( / s t ə ˈ l oʊ n / ; born July 6, 1946)
4200-480: A result, he was bullied in his childhood, with which he coped by getting into bodybuilding and acting. A guidance counselor once told Stallone's mother: "Your son is suited to run a sorting machine or to be an assistant electrician, primarily in the area of elevator operations"; nevertheless, Sylvester aspired to be an actor and a screenwriter.” Stallone spent part of his infancy in foster and boarding care, rejoining and moving back with his family to Maryland when he
4350-566: A retired Rocky mentors former rival Apollo Creed 's son Donnie Creed . The film brought Stallone widespread praise and his first Golden Globe Award, as well as a third Academy Award nomination, having been first nominated for the same role 40 years prior. Since 2022, he has starred in the Paramount+ crime series Tulsa King . Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone was born in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City's Manhattan borough on July 6, 1946,
4500-425: A rich playboy, Emilio Largo , who is soon discovered to be SPECTRE's Number Two, ordered by the secretive Number One to direct the operation, and search the area around his yacht and then the area where they think the yacht may have travelled. After finding the plane—but without the nuclear devices on board—the two agents arrange for Largo's yacht to be tracked and ambushed once the bombs are being moved by Largo. 007
4650-512: A script for a sequel to Creed , with a plot including the return of Ivan Drago from Rocky IV . That year, Stallone was featured in Derek Wayne Johnson 's John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs , a documentary about director John G. Avildsen . Creed II went into production in March 2018, with a scheduled release on Thanksgiving 2018. Stallone was originally slated to direct before
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4800-529: A sequel the following year. Rodriguez explained that Armageddon incorporated a new family because so much time had passed since All the Time in the World , and so he wanted to incorporate a new set of characters before returning to what came before; confirming that he intends to bring back "legacy characters" from the previous installments in future movies. An animated series based on the films, Spy Kids: Mission Critical ,
4950-522: A social drama in which he plays a warehouse worker, very loosely modeled on James Hoffa , who becomes involved in labor union leadership. In 1979, he wrote, starred, and directed (replacing John G. Avildsen ) in Rocky II . The sequel became a major success, grossing US$ 200 million. In 1981, he starred alongside Michael Caine and soccer star Pelé in Escape to Victory , a sports drama in which he plays
5100-452: A soldier sitting at a table; Pigeons (1970), as a party guest; Woody Allen 's Bananas (1971), as a subway thug; in the psychological thriller Klute (1971), as an extra dancing in a club; and in the Jack Lemmon film The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975), as a youth. In the latter film, Jack Lemmon's character chases, tackles, and mugs Stallone, thinking that Stallone's character
5250-428: A spin-off-sequel film, Creed , which focused on Adonis "Donnie" Creed, the son of his deceased friend/rival, Apollo Creed , becoming a professional boxer, played by Michael B. Jordan . The film, directed by Ryan Coogler , received critical acclaim. Portraying the iconic cinematic boxer for the seventh time in a span of 40 years, Stallone's portrayal of the character received widespread acclaim and accolades, including
5400-520: A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1984. Stallone continued his established roles in Rocky Balboa (2006) and Rambo (2008) before launching The Expendables film franchise (2010–present), in which he starred as the mercenary Barney Ross . In 2013, he starred in the successful film Escape Plan and appeared in its sequels . In 2015, he returned to Rocky again with Creed , in which
5550-496: A steadily declining critical reception with each film. Novelizations of the films Spy Kids , Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams , and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over were released by Disney-Hyperion . They were adapted by Megan Stine, Kiki Thorpe, and Kitty Richards. The posters and end of the credits for each film say "Read the Talk/Miramax Books", telling the viewers to read the print retelling. In 2002, KD Novelties made
5700-419: A suspicious tanker owned by Stromberg and establish it is responsible for the missing submarines; the submarine in which they are travelling is also captured by Stromberg. Stromberg plans to destroy Moscow and New York, triggering nuclear war, and to then establish a new civilisation. Bond escapes, freeing the submariners captured from the other submarines, and follows Stromberg to his headquarters, where he shoots
5850-459: A villainous role in the third installment of the Spy Kids series: Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over , which was a huge box-office success (almost US$ 200 million worldwide). Stallone also had a cameo appearance in the 2003 French film Taxi 3 as a passenger. Also that year, Stallone started to regain prominence for his supporting role in the neo-noir crime drama Shade which was only released in
6000-679: A wealthy woman who leads the Octopus cult. Bond finds out that Orlov has been supplying Khan with priceless Soviet treasures, replacing them with replicas, while Khan has been smuggling the real versions into the West via Octopussy's circus troupe. Bond infiltrates the circus and finds that Orlov replaced the Soviet treasures with a nuclear warhead primed to explode at a US Air Force base in West Germany . The explosion would trigger Europe into seeking disarmament, in
6150-590: A worldwide tally of US$ 113 million. Despite the film's poor box-office performance, Stallone signed a three-picture deal with Universal Pictures for $ 60 million, making him the second star after Jim Carrey to receive $ 20 million per film. The deal expired in February 2000 without him making any films, however, so he received no payment. That year, he also appeared in the thriller Assassins with Julianne Moore and Antonio Banderas . That same year, Stallone, along with an all-star cast of celebrities, appeared in
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6300-500: Is a CIA agent. Bond travels to the Amazon looking for Drax's research facility, where he is captured. He and Goodhead pose as pilots on one of six space shuttles being sent by Drax to a hidden space station. There Bond finds out that Drax plans to destroy all human life by launching fifty globes containing the toxin into the Earth's atmosphere. Bond and Goodhead disable the radar jammer hiding
6450-600: Is a pickpocket. He had his second starring role in 1974, in The Lords of Flatbush . In 1975, he played supporting roles in Farewell, My Lovely ; Capone ; and Death Race 2000 . He made guest appearances on the TV series Police Story and Kojak . He is also supposedly in Mandingo . It is often said that his scene was deleted. Stallone gained worldwide fame with his starring role in
6600-479: Is actor and musician Frank Stallone . Many biographies of Stallone indicate that his birth name is "Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone" and his mother explained in an interview that she originally named him "Tyrone" because she admired the actor Tyrone Power , but Stallone's father changed it to "Sylvester". His nickname as a child was "Binky" but he chose to go by the nickname of Mike/Michael after schoolmates began calling him "Stinky". His middle name "Gardenzio"
6750-650: Is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades , including a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Award , as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and two BAFTA Awards . Stallone is one of only two actors in history (alongside Harrison Ford ) to have starred in a box-office No. 1 film across six consecutive decades. Struggling as an actor for a number of years upon moving to New York City in 1969, Stallone found gradual work in films such as The Lords of Flatbush (1974). He achieved his greatest critical and commercial success starting in 1976 with his iconic role as boxer Rocky Balboa in
6900-493: Is an alteration of the Italian given name " Gaudenzio " and he usually shortened it to "Enzio". Complications during Stallone's birth forced his mother's obstetricians to use two pairs of forceps while delivering him, accidentally severing a nerve in the process. This caused paralysis of the lower left side of his face (including parts of his lip, tongue, and chin) which gave him his signature snarling look and slurred speech. As
7050-506: Is employed by Milos Columbo, Kristatos' former organised crime partner. After Ferrara is murdered—and the evidence points to Columbo—Bond is captured by men working for Columbo. Columbo then explains that Locque was actually hired by Kristatos, who is working for the KGB to retrieve the ATAC. Bond and Melina recover the ATAC but are captured by Kristatos. They escape and follow Kristatos to Greece, where he
7200-490: Is hijacked by Goldfinger, but Bond struggles with him and shoots out a window, creating an explosive decompression, killing Goldfinger. Bond investigates the hijacking of an Avro Vulcan loaded with two atomic bombs, which had been taken by SPECTRE. The organisation demands a ransom for the return of the bombs. Bond follows a lead to the Bahamas, where he meets up with his CIA counterpart and friend Felix Leiter . The pair suspect
7350-414: Is home to Romero ( Steve Buscemi ), an eccentric scientist who attempted to create genetically miniaturised animals, but instead ended up with his island inhabited by mutant monsters. Eventually, Donnagon is fired and Gary is suspended, and the transmooker is destroyed. Juni is offered his job back, but in order to take a break from the OSS, he retires to start his own private eye agency. After retiring from
7500-455: Is killed and the ATAC is destroyed by Bond. Bond investigates the murder of 009, killed in East Berlin while dressed as a circus clown and carrying a fake Fabergé egg . An identical egg appears at auction and Bond establishes the buyer, exiled Afghan prince Kamal Khan, is working with Orlov, a renegade Soviet general, who is seeking to expand Soviet borders into Europe. Bond meets Octopussy,
7650-499: Is later killed by Goldfinger's Korean manservant and henchman Oddjob after Bond seduces her. Bond is then instructed to investigate Goldfinger's gold smuggling operation and he tails the dealer to Switzerland. Bond is captured when he reconnoitres Goldfinger's plant and is drugged unconscious; Goldfinger then transports Bond to his Kentucky stud farm where he holds Bond captive. Bond escapes briefly to witness Goldfinger's meeting with US mafiosi, observing secretly as Goldfinger presents to
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#17328767388407800-563: Is murdered shortly afterwards by Irma Bunt, Blofeld's partner. Bond (played by a returning Sean Connery ) is tasked with investigating a major diamond smuggling ring which begins in Africa and runs through Holland and the UK to the United States. Disguised as professional smuggler and murderer Peter Franks, Bond travels to Amsterdam to meet contact Tiffany Case : he is given the diamonds and travels on to
7950-433: Is ordered to find out who hired Gonzales. While investigating, Bond is captured, but Gonzales is subsequently killed by Havelock's daughter Melina, and she and Bond escape. Bond identifies one of those present with Gonzales as Emile Leopold Locque and so follows a lead to Italy and meets his contact, Luigi Ferrara, and a well-connected Greek businessman and intelligence informant, Aris Kristatos. Kristatos tells Bond that Locque
8100-449: Is protecting the poppy fields by exploiting locals' fear of voodoo and the occult . Through his alter ego, Mr. Big, Kananga plans to distribute the heroin free of charge at his Fillet of Soul restaurants, which will increase the number of addicts. Bond is captured by Kananga, but he escapes, killing Kananga and destroying the poppy crop. After receiving a golden bullet with James Bond's code "007" etched into its surface M relieves Bond of
8250-504: Is scheduled for distribution on Netflix , making it the second Spy Kids project produced for the platform. Gina Rodriguez , Zachary Levi , Everly Carganilla and Connor Esterson were set to star, along with Billy Magnussen and D. J. Cotrona . The plotline for the film: "When the children of the world's greatest secret agents unwittingly help a powerful Game Developer unleash a computer virus that gives him control of all technology, they must become spies themselves to save their parents and
8400-463: Is sent to Japan to investigate the spacecraft theft and astronaut kidnapping in orbit of American Project Gemini spacecraft Jupiter 16 by an unidentified spacecraft. Upon his arrival, Bond is contacted by Aki , assistant to the Japanese secret service leader Tiger Tanaka. Bond established that the mastermind behind the hijacking is SPECTRE's Number One, Ernst Stavro Blofeld , in conjunction with Osato,
8550-426: Is sent to investigate the murder of three British MI6 agents, all of whom have been killed within 24 hours. The victims were all separately investigating the operations of Dr. Kananga, the dictator of a small Caribbean island, San Monique. Bond discovers that Kananga also acts as Mr. Big, a ruthless and cunning American gangster. Upon visiting San Monique, Bond determines that Kananga is producing two tons of heroin and
8700-472: Is shot, but Bond escapes from the facility as it explodes. Nine years later, Bond witnesses the theft by criminal organisation Janus of a prototype Eurocopter Tiger helicopter that can withstand an electromagnetic pulse . Janus uses the helicopter to steal the control disk for the dual GoldenEye satellite weapons, using the GoldenEye to destroy the complex with an electromagnetic pulse; there are two survivors of
8850-541: Is targeting Elektra King a second time and Bond is assigned to protect her; the pair are subsequently attacked. Bond visits Valentin Zukovsky and is informed that Elektra's head of security, Davidov, is in league with Renard: Bond kills Davidov and follows the trail to a Russian ICBM base in Kazakhstan. Posing as a Russian nuclear scientist, Bond meets American nuclear physicist Christmas Jones. The two witness Renard stealing
9000-637: Is unofficially given help by Q . Bond journeys to Sanchez's home in the Republic of Isthmus and is taken on to Sanchez's staff, where he manages to raise Sanchez's suspicions against a number of his employees. When Bond is taken to Sanchez's main base and drugs refinery, he is recognised by one of Sanchez's men and captured. He escapes, destroying the refinery in the process, and pursues Sanchez, killing him. In 1986, Bond (played by Pierce Brosnan ) and Alec Trevelyan —agent 006—infiltrate an illicit Soviet chemical weapons facility and plant explosive charges. Trevelyan
9150-608: The American College of Switzerland . He returned to the United States to study as a drama major at the University of Miami , from 1967 to 1969, but did not graduate. Decades later, after Stallone's request that his acting and life experiences be accepted in exchange for his remaining needed college credits to graduate, he was granted a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree by the University of Miami in 1998. Until 1969, he appeared on
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#17328767388409300-527: The British Intelligence (SIS) Station Chief in Jamaica, is killed. In response, British agent James Bond —also known as 007—is sent to Jamaica to investigate the circumstances. During his investigation Bond meets Quarrel, a Cayman fisherman, who had been working with Strangways around the nearby islands to collect mineral samples. One of the islands was Crab Key, home to the reclusive Dr. No . Bond visits
9450-583: The CIA . The character Donnagon Giggles was named after William Joseph Donovan , the director of the original OSS. The initials in the Spy Kids universe are never specified on screen, but, in one of the books, they stand for the Organization of Super Spies. One of the main themes of Spy Kids is the unity of family. The children have adult responsibilities, and a lesson is that keeping secrets from family members can have
9600-473: The DVD release. The third film was used as a test for a special Texas Instruments digital projector which can project polarized 3D, which does not require the red-blue lenses, later reused for The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (2005). After retiring from espionage for ten years, Gregorio and Ingrid ( Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino ) are pulled back into duty for their important assignment despite
9750-499: The GPS locator card and a half quantity of weapons-grade plutonium from a bomb and set off an explosion, from which Bond and Jones escape. Elektra kidnaps M after she thinks Bond had been killed and Bond establishes that Elektra intends to create a nuclear explosion in a submarine in Istanbul to increase the value of her own oil pipeline. Bond frees M, kills Elektra and then disarms the bomb on
9900-787: The Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor , and his third Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Supporting Actor . In 2017, Stallone appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 as Stakar Ogord / Starhawk , the leader of a Ravagers faction. In 2018, he co-starred in Escape Plan 2: Hades with Dave Bautista which was released straight to home-video. Upon wrapping production, he announced via his social media page that work on Escape Plan 3: Devil's Station began immediately thereafter. In July, Stallone announced that he had finished
10050-515: The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award . When Broccoli and Saltzman bought the rights to existing and future Fleming titles, the deal did not include Casino Royale , which had been sold to producer Gregory Ratoff for a television adaptation in 1954. After Ratoff's death, the rights passed to Charles K. Feldman , who subsequently produced the Bond spoof Casino Royale in 1967. A legal case ensured that
10200-510: The Jason Statham action film vehicle Homefront . The Expendables 3 , the third installment in the ensemble action film series, was released on August 15, 2014. The returning ensemble cast also added Wesley Snipes , Antonio Banderas , Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford . This film was negatively received by both critics and audiences and became the lowest-grossing film in the series . In 2015, Stallone reprised his role as Rocky Balboa in
10350-633: The NBC reality television boxing competition series The Contender . That same year he also made a guest appearance in two episodes of the television series Las Vegas . That year, Stallone also inducted professional wrestling icon Hulk Hogan , who appeared in Rocky III as a wrestler named Thunderlips, into the WWE Hall of Fame; Stallone was also the person who offered Hogan the cameo in Rocky III . In August, Stallone released his book Sly Moves which claimed to be
10500-702: The Rocky series led the area to be nicknamed the Rocky Steps , and the city has a statue of the Rocky character placed permanently near the museum. The character was also voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame . Stallone made his directorial debut and starred in the 1978 film Paradise Alley , a family drama in which he played one of three brothers who get involved in professional wrestling . That same year, he starred in Norman Jewison 's F.I.S.T. ,
10650-422: The Spy Kids films; Trejo claimed that the films depict "what Uncle Machete does when he's not taking care of the kids", while Rodriguez said in a Reddit AMA that they are alternate universes. Regardless, Rodriguez claimed that he was prompted by an incident on the set of the first Machete film to start envisioning a fourth film in the main Spy Kids film series, casting Jessica Alba as Machete's sister Marissa,
10800-632: The Stockholm International Film Festival Best Actor Award. In 1998, he did voice-over work for the animated film Antz , which was a success domestically. In 2000, Stallone starred in the thriller Get Carter , a remake of the 1971 British film of the same name , but the film was poorly received by both critics and audiences. Stallone's career declined considerably after his subsequent films Driven (2001), Avenging Angelo (2002) and D-Tox (2002) were also critical and commercial failures. In 2003, he played
10950-572: The Trey Parker and Matt Stone short comedy film " Your Studio and You " commissioned by the Seagram Company for a party celebrating their acquisition of Universal Studios and the MCA Corporation. Stallone speaks in his Rocky Balboa voice with subtitles translating what he is saying. At one point, Stallone starts yelling about how can they use his Balboa character, that he left it in the past;
11100-729: The first film of the successful Rocky franchise , which he also wrote. In 1977, he became the third actor in history to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor . He portrayed the PTSD -plagued soldier John Rambo in First Blood (1982), a role he would play across five Rambo films (1982–2019). From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, Stallone would go on to become one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors acting in action films such as Cobra (1986), Tango and Cash (1989), Cliffhanger (1993), Demolition Man (1993), and The Specialist (1994). He received
11250-464: The futuristic action film Demolition Man directed by Marco Brambilla , co-starring Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock . On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 60% based on 42 reviews, with an average rating of 5.43/10. The site's consensus reads: "A better-than-average sci-fi shoot-em-up with a satirical undercurrent, Demolition Man is bolstered by strong performances by Stallone, Snipes, and Bullock." The film debuted at No. 1 at
11400-403: The 1974 film Score by Radley Metzger . After moving to New York City, Stallone shared an apartment with his girlfriend, Sasha Czack, an aspiring actress who supported them by working as a waitress. Stallone took odd jobs around this time, including being a cleaner at a zoo, and a theater usher; he was fired from the latter for scalping tickets. He furthered his writing skills by frequenting
11550-620: The 1990s starring in the fifth installment of the Rocky franchise, Rocky V . This film brought back the first film's director, John G. Avildsen, and was intended to be the final installment in the series. It was considered a box-office disappointment and received negative reviews. Stallone next appeared in John Landis ' period comedy Oscar which was both a critical and box-office failure. In 1992, he appeared in Roger Spottiswoode 's action comedy Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot which
11700-455: The 88th Awards ), and to Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell for Original Song in No Time to Die ( at the 94th Awards ). Several other songs produced for the films have been nominated for Academy Awards for Original Song, including Paul McCartney 's " Live and Let Die ", Carly Simon 's " Nobody Does It Better ", and Sheena Easton 's " For Your Eyes Only ". In 1982, Albert R. Broccoli received
11850-480: The GoldenEye, concealing the theft and destroying Britain's economy. Bond and Simonova destroy the satellite facility, killing Trevelyan and Grishenko in the process. Bond investigates the sinking of a British warship in Chinese waters, the theft of one of the ship's cruise missiles , and the shooting down of a Chinese fighter plane. He uncovers a link to media mogul Elliot Carver which suggests that Carver had purchased
12000-476: The KGB, but has now gone rogue. Zorin unveils to a group of investors his plan to destroy Silicon Valley , which will give him a monopoly in the manufacturing of microchips. Bond uncovers Zorin's plan is to detonate explosives beneath the lakes along the Hayward and San Andreas faults, which will cause them to flood. A larger bomb in a mine will destroy a "geological lock" that prevents the two faults from moving at
12150-453: The Mr. Olympia competition. That meant two workouts a day, six days a week. Both films were major financial successes. It was around 1985 that Stallone was signed to a remake of the 1939 James Cagney classic Angels with Dirty Faces . The film would form part of his multi-picture deal with Cannon Films and was to co-star Christopher Reeve and be directed by Menahem Golan . The re-making of such
12300-408: The OSS after fighting with Gary over a smaller version of the transmooker, a device that can shut off all electronic devices even though it was Gary who started the fight. Juni loses his spot for the best spy kid of the year award, while Donnagon plans to steal the transmooker to take over the world. On their second mission, Carmen and Juni follow the trail to the mysterious island of Leeke Leeke which
12450-453: The OSS, Carmen and Juni try to save the daughter ( Taylor Momsen ) of the President of the United States ( Christopher McDonald ) while facing a particularly hard competition with Gary and Gerti Giggles ( Matt O'Leary and Emily Osment ), the two children of a double-dealing agent Donnagon Giggles ( Mike Judge ), whom Carmen and Juni helped to rescue them from the first film. Juni gets fired from
12600-483: The OSS, Juni is thrust back into service when an evil mastermind named Sebastian "The Toymaker" ( Sylvester Stallone ) creates a fictional video game called Game Over , which hypnotizes its users. Carmen was sent on a mission to disable the game, but disappeared on Level 4. With the help of his maternal grandfather, Valentin Avellan ( Ricardo Montalban ), who uses a wheelchair, Juni is sent after Carmen and helps her to disable
12750-481: The Stone in order to make Rhinestone instead, a decision he later regretted. In 1985, Stallone continued his success with the Rocky and Rambo franchises with Rocky IV and Rambo: First Blood Part II . Stallone has portrayed these two characters in a total of 13 films. Stallone met former Mr. Olympia Franco Columbu to develop his character's appearance for the film Rocky IV , just as if he were preparing for
12900-618: The US box office. The figure marked the biggest opening weekend in Stallone's career. In summer 2010, Brazilian company O2 Filmes released a statement saying it was still owed more than US$ 2 million for its work on the film. In 2011, Stallone provided the voice of a lion in Kevin James ' comedy Zookeeper . The Expendables 2 was released August 17, 2012; the sequel received a positive critical reception of 67% on Rotten Tomatoes , as opposed to
13050-413: The US box-office intake was significantly less than the $ 139.5 million earned by Saturday Night Fever , the film nevertheless ranked in the top ten most financially successful films of 1983. During the 1980s, Stallone was considered one of the biggest action film stars in the world, along with Arnold Schwarzenegger . The Schwarzenegger-Stallone rivalry continued for years; they attacked each other in
13200-542: The US, where he is met by Felix Leiter. Bond moves through the chain, which leads to the Whyte House, a casino-hotel owned by the reclusive billionaire Willard Whyte. Bond follows the diamonds to a pick-up by Bert Saxby, Whyte's head of security, and then onto a research laboratory owned by Whyte, where he finds that a satellite is being built by a laser refraction specialist, Professor Dr. Metz. Suspecting Whyte, Bond tries to confront him, but instead meets Blofeld, who captures
13350-499: The action thriller Escape Plan , along with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Caviezel , and in the sports comedy drama Grudge Match alongside Robert De Niro , harkening back to the Rocky franchise. Stallone was reported to be developing an English-language remake of the Spanish film No Rest for the Wicked , though the project was shelved. That year Stallone was credited as writer for
13500-435: The adaptation rights to all of Fleming's Bond novels , made all but two films in the film series. In 1961, producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman purchased the filming rights to Fleming's novels. They founded Eon Productions and, with financial backing by United Artists , produced Dr. No , directed by Terence Young and featuring Connery as Bond. Following its release in 1962, Broccoli and Saltzman created
13650-486: The aftermath, questions are raised over M's ability to run the Secret Service, and she becomes the subject of a government review over her handling of the situation. The Service itself is attacked, prompting Bond's return to London. His presence assists MI6's investigation in uncovering a lead, and Bond is sent to Shanghai and Macau in pursuit of a mercenary named Patrice. There, he establishes a connection to Raoul Silva ,
13800-404: The agent and explains to him that the satellite can blow up nuclear missiles. Blofeld admits that he intends to auction it to the highest bidder. Bond escapes and frees the captive Whyte and they establish that Blofeld is using an offshore oil rig as his base. Bond attacks the rig, stopping Blofeld's operation and dispersing his organisation. James Bond (played by Roger Moore in his first outing)
13950-478: The appointment of Steven Caple Jr. , in his feature film directorial debut. Creed II was released in the United States by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on November 21, 2018. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and it went on to debut to $ 35.3 million in its opening weekend (a five-day total of $ 55.8 million), marking the biggest debut ever for a live-action release over Thanksgiving. On July 23, 2019, in an interview with Variety , Stallone said that
14100-476: The attack, the programmers Natalya Simonova and Boris Grishenko. Bond investigates the attack and travels to Russia where he locates Simonova and learns that Trevelyan, who had faked his own death, was the head of Janus. Simonova tracks computer traffic to Cuba and she and Bond travel there and locate Trevelyan, who reveals his plan to steal money from the Bank of England before erasing all of its financial records with
14250-551: The beach from committing suicide by drowning, and later meets her again in a casino. Bond then receives information from Marc-Ange Draco, the head of the European crime syndicate Unione Corse and Tracy's father, about Blofeld's Swiss solicitor. Bond breaks into the solicitor's office and establishes Blofeld is corresponding with the London College of Arms . Posing as an emissary of the college, Bond meets Blofeld, who has established
14400-406: The belief that the bomb was an American one that was detonated by accident, leaving the West's borders open to Soviet invasion. Bond deactivates the warhead and then he returns to India, joining an assault on Khan's palace. Bond investigates millionaire industrialist Max Zorin , who is trying to corner the world market in microchips . He establishes that Zorin was previously trained and financed by
14550-527: The best debut of the franchise. The film grossed $ 91 million worldwide against a production budget of $ 50 million. In late 2020, Stallone lent his voice as Rambo to the fighting video game Mortal Kombat 11 , as part of the game's 2nd Kombat Pack. In 2021, he voiced King Shark in the DC Extended Universe film The Suicide Squad . In 2022, Stallone starred in Samaritan , a dark interpretation of
14700-432: The border. It's very, very timely." Stallone said. Stallone also said there are "ongoing discussions" about a Rocky prequel television series, which he hopes will land on a streaming service and the series will likely follow a young Rocky Balboa as a professional boxing hopeful. Stallone said producer Irwin Winkler is hesitant on making the series saying that "There was some conflict there, yes. He felt in his mind that "Rocky"
14850-543: The box office. Demolition Man grossed $ 58,055,768 by the end of its box-office run in North America and $ 159,055,768 worldwide. His string of hits continued with 1994's The Specialist co-starring Sharon Stone and directed by Luis Llosa , which opened in the U.S. on October 7. While the critical reception was overwhelmingly negative, the film was a commercial success. In its opening weekend it made $ 14,317,765 and ended up making back its budget with $ 57,362,582 at
15000-647: The countries through force. Bond disables the Icarus controls, kills Moon and stops the invasion. This serves as a reboot of the series, with Bond (played by Daniel Craig ) gaining his 00 status in the pre-credits sequence. Bond tracks down and kills a bomb-maker and takes his mobile phone. Searching through the phone, Bond discovers a text message which he traces to Alex Dimitrios, and then on to terrorist financier Le Chiffre , who short-sells stock in successful companies and then engineers terrorist attacks to sink their share prices. Bond foils Le Chiffre's plan to destroy
15150-514: The critical and box-office failure of the previous installment Rocky V , Stallone had decided to write, direct and star in a sixth installment which would be a more appropriate climax to the series. The total domestic box office came to US$ 70 .3 million (and US$ 155.7 million worldwide). The budget of the film was only US$ 24 million. His performance in Rocky Balboa has been praised and garnered mostly positive reviews. That year,
15300-513: The development Death Wish remake began, when Stallone announced that he would be directing and starring in a remake of the 1974 film . Stallone said, "Instead of the Charles Bronson character being an architect, my version would have him as a very good cop who had incredible success without ever using his gun. So when the attack on his family happens, he's really thrown into a moral dilemma in proceeding to carry out his revenge." He later told
15450-399: The director. Rambo: Last Blood began filming by September 2018, with a script co-written by Stallone, who also reprised his role as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. The plot centers around Rambo infiltrating a Mexican drug cartel to rescue a family friend's daughter. The film, which was released on September 20, 2019, in the United States, grossed $ 18.9 million in its opening weekend,
15600-423: The domestic box office while making another $ 113,000,000 overseas, giving it a worldwide gross of $ 170,362,582. In 1995, he played the title character (from the British comic book 2000 AD ) in the science fiction action film Judge Dredd . His overseas box-office appeal saved the domestic box-office disappointment of Judge Dredd , which cost almost US$ 100 million and barely made its budget back, with
15750-445: The domestic box office, grossing $ 33 million, but did better overseas and grossed a total of $ 158 million worldwide. In 1997, Stallone was cast against type as an overweight sheriff in the crime drama Cop Land in which he starred alongside Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta . The film was critically well-received and was a modest success at the box office, earning $ 63 million on a $ 15 million budget, and Stallone's performance earned him
15900-421: The drugs, Bond destroys them. Koskov is subsequently arrested by Pushkin, while Bond kills Whitaker. Bond aids Felix Leiter in the capture of drugs lord Franz Sanchez, who escapes and maims Leiter, killing Leiter's wife. Bond swears revenge, but is ordered to return to duty by M. Bond refuses, and M revokes his licence to kill , causing Bond to become a rogue agent. Although officially stripped of his status, Bond
16050-412: The elder son of women's professional wrestling promoter Jacqueline "Jackie" Stallone (née Labofish; 1921–2020) and hairdresser Francesco "Frank" Stallone Sr. (1919–2011). His mother was an American from Washington, D.C. , with Breton French and Ukrainian Jewish ancestry, while his father was an Italian immigrant from Gioia del Colle who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. His younger brother
16200-582: The exception of the April 2002 issue's comic The Big Drop, which was colored by Atomic Paintbrush, and the Disney Adventures Comic Zone first issue's comic Tomorrow Trouble, which was colored by Hi-Fi Color Design), and lettered by Michael Stewart. In July 2003, McDonald's published a six-issue limited series based on Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over . It was distributed in McDonald's Happy Meals to promote
16350-503: The fact they were out of practice, and were captured. Their two children, Carmen and Juni ( Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara ), stay with their uncle Felix Gumm ( Cheech Marin ) and discover the truth of their parents' past, which they had neglected to tell them because they were afraid that if they knew, they would picture danger at every corner; and decide to rescue them. On their first mission, Carmen and Juni manage to bring around their estranged uncle, Isador "Machete" Cortez ( Danny Trejo ),
16500-590: The film rights to the novel Thunderball were held by Kevin McClory , as he, Fleming and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham had written a film script on which the novel was based. Although Eon Productions and McClory joined forces to produce Thunderball , McClory still retained the rights to the story and adapted Thunderball into 1983's non-Eon entry, Never Say Never Again . Distribution rights to both of those films are currently held by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures , which distributes Eon's regular series. Strangways,
16650-462: The film, bundled with Happy Meal toys as well as anaglyph 3D glasses made for the comics. Isador "Machete" Cortez, who appeared in all four Spy Kids film series as a supporting character , additionally had a series of two stand-alone films: Machete and Machete Kills , also written and directed by Robert Rodriguez. However, the Machete films share little in common with the Spy Kids films thematically and are not considered direct spin-offs ,
16800-465: The firing of a British cruise missile at Beijing. They blow a hole in the ship, exposing it to radar, leading to its sinking and thus averting war between Britain and China. Bond recovers money for Sir Robert King, a British oil tycoon and friend of M, but the money is booby-trapped and kills King shortly afterwards. Bond traces the money to Renard, a KGB agent-turned-terrorist, who had previously kidnapped King's daughter Elektra . MI6 believes that Renard
16950-553: The first film instead being an adult-oriented action exploitation film , with the second film introducing science fiction elements; both films additionally share several cast members and characters with the Spy Kids films. The idea for a Machete film came from a fake trailer promoting the Grindhouse double-feature by Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino . Trejo and Rodriguez have made two conflicting statements regarding its canonicity to
17100-521: The game in order to save the world. It is revealed that Sebastian was the one who disabled Valentin in the first place. Instead of avenging his former partner, Valentin forgives Sebastian who is redeemed. The OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has become defunct. Marissa ( Jessica Alba ), a retired spy, is thrown back into the action along with her two stepchildren, Rebecca and Cecil ( Rowan Blanchard and Mason Cook ), when
17250-558: The gangsters his plans to rob Fort Knox by using materials they have smuggled to him and later kills them to avoid paying his dues. Bond is recaptured after hearing the details of the operation, but he subsequently seduces Pussy Galore , Goldfinger's private pilot, and convinces her to inform the American authorities. Goldfinger's private army breaks into Fort Knox and accesses the vault, where Bond fights and kills Oddjob, while American troops battle with Goldfinger's army outside. Bond's plane
17400-615: The holding company Danjaq to ensure future productions in the James Bond film series . The Eon series currently has twenty-five films, with the most recent, No Time to Die , released in September 2021. With a combined gross of $ 7.8 billion to date, it is the fifth-highest-grossing film series in nominal terms. Adjusting for inflation, the series has earned over $ 19.2 billion in 2022 dollars from box-office receipts alone, with non-Eon entries pushing this inflation-adjusted figure to
17550-461: The island, killing No and blowing up his compound in the process. SPECTRE's expert planner Kronsteen, known as "Number Five", upon order of the organisation's Number One, devises a plot to steal a Lektor cryptographic device from the Soviets and sell it back to them while exacting revenge on Bond for killing their agent Dr. No ; ex-SMERSH operative Rosa Klebb , SPECTRE's Number Three, is in charge of
17700-584: The island, where he meets a local shell diver, Honey Ryder . The three are attacked by No's men, who kill Quarrel using a flamethrowing armoured tractor; Bond and Honey are taken prisoner. Dr. No informs them he is a member of SPECTRE , the Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, and he plans to disrupt the Project Mercury space launch from Cape Canaveral with his atomic-powered radio beam. Bond and Honey escape from
17850-481: The manner that detonates its tear gas booby trap, allowing Bond to attack and kill him. Bond and Romanova escape with the Lektor to Venice. Rosa Klebb, disguised as a hotel maid, attempts to steal the Lektor and kill Bond, but ends up being shot by Romanova. Bond is ordered to observe bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger . He suspects Goldfinger of cheating at cards and foils his scheme by distracting his female accomplice, who
18000-746: The mission. She recruits Donald "Red" Grant as an assassin and Tatiana Romanova , a cipher clerk at the Soviet consulate in Istanbul , as the unwitting bait. Bond travels to Turkey and meets Ali Kerim Bey, the MI6 officer in Turkey. Between them, they obtain the Lektor, and the three escape with the device on the Orient Express . However, they are followed by Grant, who kills Kerim Bey and a Soviet security officer. Grant pretends to be another British agent and meets Bond. Over dinner Grant drugs Romanova, then overcomes Bond. Bond tricks Grant into opening Bond's attaché case in
18150-674: The money and Bond is tortured. Le Chiffre is subsequently killed by Mr. White, a liaison between Le Chiffre and a number of his clients. Bond learns that his poker winnings were never repaid to the Treasury, which Lynd was supposed to have done, and establishes that she was a double agent. Bond pursues her and is attacked by members of White's organisation: he survives, but White takes the money and Lynd sacrifices herself to save Bond, as he later finds out from M. Bond subsequently finds and captures White. Along with M, Bond interrogates Mr. White regarding his organisation, Quantum . M's bodyguard, Mitchell,
18300-401: The narrator calms him with a wine cooler and calling him "brainiac." In response, Stallone says, "Thank you very much." He then looks at the wine cooler and exclaims, "Stupid cheap studio!" In 1996, he starred in the disaster film Daylight as a disgraced former emergency services chief who attempts to rescue survivors of an underground tunnel explosion. Daylight also underperformed at
18450-536: The original's 41%. As well as returning cast members from the first film, the ensemble cast also included Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris . That year, Stallone co-wrote the book for the Broadway musical adaptation of Rocky . In 2013, Stallone starred in the action film Bullet to the Head , directed by Walter Hill , based upon Alexis Nolent's French graphic novel Du Plomb Dans La Tete . Also in 2013, he starred in
18600-529: The press, and tried to surpass the other with more on-screen killings and larger weapons. Stallone occasionally attempted, albeit unsuccessfully, roles in different genres. In 1984, he co-wrote and starred alongside Dolly Parton in the comedy film Rhinestone , where he played a wannabe country music singer. For the Rhinestone soundtrack , he performed a song. Stallone turned down the lead male role in Romancing
18750-470: The price up. With help from Bolivian secret agent Camille Montes , Bond attacks the hotel where Greene and Medrano are finalising their plans and leaves Greene stranded in the desert with only a tin of engine oil to drink. Bond then finds Vesper's former lover and member of Quantum, Yusef Kabira, bringing him to justice. After an operation in Istanbul ends in disaster, Bond is missing and presumed to be dead. In
18900-461: The prototype Skyfleet airliner, which forces Le Chiffre to set up a high-stakes poker tournament at the Casino Royale to recoup his fortune. Bond is instructed to beat Le Chiffre and is aided by a member of HM Treasury , Vesper Lynd . Bond beats Le Chiffre at the poker table, but Lynd is kidnapped by Le Chiffre after the game, as is Bond, who is captured while pursuing them; Lynd is ransomed for
19050-460: The publication that he was no longer involved. In a 2009 interview with MTV , though, Stallone stated that he was again considering the project. However the role went to Bruce Willis with Eli Roth as director. Stallone partnered with a beverage company producing an upscale bottled water brand called Sly Water. In 2008, Stallone reprised his other famous role as Rambo with the fourth installment of his other successful film franchise which
19200-425: The rights, but they had their own casting ideas for the lead role, including Robert Redford and Burt Reynolds . Stallone refused to sell unless he played the lead character – and, eventually, after a substantial budget cut to compromise, it was agreed he could be the star. Upon its release, critic Roger Ebert stated that Stallone could become the next Marlon Brando . In 1977, at the 49th Academy Awards , Rocky
19350-462: The safe-house and Bond is ordered to kill Pushkin. Bond tracks down Milovy and establishes she is Koskov's girlfriend and that the defection was staged. He subsequently finds out that Koskov is a friend of the arms dealer Brad Whitaker . After meeting Pushkin and faking his assassination, Bond investigates a scheme by Koskov and Whitaker to embezzle KGB funds and use them to purchase diamonds, which they then use to purchase drugs. After Koskov purchases
19500-423: The same time. Bond destroys the bomb, and subsequently kills Zorin. Bond (played by Timothy Dalton ) aids the defection of KGB officer General Georgi Koskov, by wounding a female KGB sniper, Kara Milovy, a cellist. During his debriefing Koskov alleges that the KGB's old policy of Smiert Spionam , meaning Death to Spies , has been revived by General Leonid Pushkin, its new head. Koskov is subsequently abducted from
19650-462: The script was significantly altered by Stallone during the film's production, which was both a critical and box-office success. Critics praised Stallone's performance, saying he made Rambo seem human, as opposed to the way he is portrayed in the book of the same name. It launched the Rambo franchise . That year Rocky III was released in which Stallone wrote, directed, and starred. The second sequel became
19800-467: The smash hit Rocky (1976), a sports drama about a struggling boxer, Rocky Balboa , taking on heavyweight champion Apollo Creed . On March 24, 1975, Stallone saw the Muhammad Ali vs. Chuck Wepner fight. That night Stallone went home, and after three days he had completed the first draft of Rocky . Stallone subsequently denied that Wepner provided any inspiration for the script; however, Wepner filed
19950-474: The stage under the name Mike Stallone; in 1970, he started using the stage name Sylvester E. Stallone. While attending the University of Miami, Stallone had a role in the drama That Nice Boy (aka The Square Root ), filmed in 1968. Moreover, he and John Herzfeld worked together in 1969 on a low-budget self-produced film called "Horses". Stallone had his first starring role in the softcore pornography feature film The Party at Kitty and Stud's (1970). He
20100-469: The station from Earth and the US sends a platoon of Marines in a military space shuttle . During the battle, Bond kills Drax and his station is destroyed. After a British spy boat sinks, a marine archaeologist, Sir Timothy Havelock, is tasked to retrieve its Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator (ATAC) communication system before the Russians do. After Havelock is murdered by Gonzales, a Cuban hit-man, Bond
20250-502: The submarine, where he kills Renard. Bond investigates North Korean Colonel Tan-Sun Moon, who is illegally trading African conflict diamonds for weapons. Moon is apparently killed and Bond is captured and tortured for 14 months, after which he is exchanged for Zao, Moon's assistant. Despite being suspended on his return, he decides to complete his mission and tracks down Zao to a gene therapy clinic, where patients can have their appearances altered through DNA restructuring. Zao escapes, but
20400-588: The trail leads to British billionaire Gustav Graves. Graves unveils a mirror satellite, "Icarus", which is able to focus solar energy on a small area and provide year-round sunshine for crop development. Bond discovers that Moon has also undergone the gene therapy and has assumed the identity of Graves. Bond then exposes Moon's plan: to use the Icarus as a sun gun to cut a path through the Korean Demilitarized Zone with concentrated sunlight, allowing North Korean troops to invade South Korea and reunite
20550-497: The two men fight and Bond kills the assassin. Bond is tasked with investigating the disappearance of British and Soviet ballistic missile submarines and the subsequent offer to sell a submarine tracking system. Bond works alongside Major Anya Amasova of the KGB . The pair track the plans across Egypt and identify the person responsible for the thefts as shipping tycoon, scientist and anarchist Karl Stromberg . Bond and Amasova follow
20700-430: The tycoon and a torpedo destroys the base. A Drax Industries Moonraker space shuttle on loan is hijacked and Bond is ordered to investigate. Bond meets the owner of the company, Hugo Drax and one of Drax's scientists, Dr. Holly Goodhead. Bond follows the trail to Venice, where he establishes that Drax is manufacturing a nerve gas deadly to humans, but harmless to animals. Bond again meets Goodhead and finds out that she
20850-443: The world". Production of the film wrapped in late August 2022, and was released on Netflix on September 22, 2023. Though the movie does not include other characters from the franchise, Rodriguez confirmed that it takes place in the same continuity as the previous installments. In September 2023, Rodriguez confirmed that Netflix intends to develop additional Spy Kids movies, with the filmmaker expressing hope to begin production on
21000-507: Was also both a critical and box-office disaster. Stallone signed onto the film based on rumors that Schwarzenegger was interested in the lead. Schwarzenegger said that, knowing the script's quality was poor, he publicly faked interest in starring for producers to lure Stallone. In 1993, he made a comeback with Renny Harlin 's action thriller Cliffhanger , which was a success in the US, grossing US$ 84 million, and worldwide, grossing US$ 171 million. Later that year, he starred in
21150-701: Was announced on December 7, 2010, that Stallone was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the non-participant category. Also that year, Stallone wrote, directed and starred in the ensemble action film The Expendables . The film, which was filmed during summer/winter 2009, was released on August 13, 2010. Joining him in the film were fellow action stars Jason Statham , Jet Li , and Dolph Lundgren , as well as Terry Crews , Mickey Rourke , Randy Couture , Eric Roberts , and Stone Cold Steve Austin , and cameos by fellow '80s action icons Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger . The film took US$ 34,825,135 in its opening weekend, going straight in at No. 1 in
21300-473: Was at the end – the very end – of my rope". The film was released several years later as Italian Stallion , in order to cash in on Stallone's newfound fame (the new title was taken from Stallone's nickname since Rocky ). Stallone also starred in the erotic off-Broadway stage play Score which ran for 23 performances at the Martinique Theatre from October 28 to November 15, 1971, and was later made into
21450-811: Was five. In the early 1950s, his father moved the family to his mother's native Washington, D.C. to open a beauty school. In 1954, his mother opened a women's gym called Barbella's. He initially stayed with his father following his parents' divorce when he was 11, but joined his remarried mother in Philadelphia when he was 15. At one point, Stallone's teachers voted him "Most Likely To End Up In The Electric Chair"; nevertheless, Stallone attended Notre Dame Academy and Abraham Lincoln High School in Philadelphia , and Charlotte Hall Military Academy in Charlotte Hall, Maryland , prior to attending Miami Dade College . He spent two years, from September 1965 to June 1967, at
21600-655: Was nominated for ten Oscars , including Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay nominations for Stallone. The film went on to win the Academy Awards for Best Picture , Best Directing , and Best Film Editing . Rocky has since been inducted into the National Film Registry and had its props placed in the Smithsonian Museum . Stallone's use of the front entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in
21750-540: Was paid US$ 200 for two days' work. Stallone later explained that he had done the film out of desperation after being evicted from his apartment and finding himself homeless for several days. He has also said that he slept three weeks in the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City prior to seeing a casting notice for the film. In the actor's words, "it was either do that movie or rob someone, because I
21900-488: Was poorly received by critics and was a box-office failure. In 1989, he co-starred alongside Kurt Russell in the buddy cop action film Tango & Cash , which did solid business domestically and overseas, grossing US$ 57 million in foreign markets and over US$ 120 million worldwide. Stallone became a boxing promoter in the 1980s. His boxing promoting company, Tiger Eye Productions, signed world champion boxers Sean O'Grady and Aaron Pryor . Stallone began
22050-411: Was primarily a feature film, and he didn't see it as being translated for cable, so there was a big bone of contention." That year, Stallone hand-picked Derek Wayne Johnson to direct and produce a documentary on the making of the original Rocky , entitled 40 Years of Rocky (2020). The documentary features Stallone narrating behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the film. Stallone formed
22200-417: Was released on Netflix in 2018. The first and second seasons both consist of 10 episodes and is produced by Mainframe Studios . Robert Rodriguez was one of the executive producers on the show. This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in franchise. 1 hour 31 minutes (Special Edition/Blu-ray version) Though the first and second film received positive reviews, the series experienced
22350-465: Was the only film Stallone directed that he did not star in. Staying Alive was universally panned by film critics. Despite being a critical failure, Staying Alive was a commercial success. The film opened with the biggest weekend for a musical film ever (at the time) with a gross of $ 12,146,143 from 1,660 screens. Overall, the film grossed nearly $ 65 million in the US box office against its $ 22 million budget. Worldwide it grossed $ 127 million. Though
22500-506: Was titled simply Rambo ( John Rambo in some countries where the first film was titled Rambo ). The film opened in 2,751 theaters on January 25, 2008, grossing US$ 6,490,000 on its opening day and US$ 18,200,000 over its opening weekend. Its box office was US$ 113,244,290 worldwide with a budget of US$ 50 million. In July 2009, Stallone made a cameo appearance in the Bollywood film Kambakkht Ishq , where he played himself. It
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