Sylvester Stallone Launches Balboa Productions For New Film Projects

Sylvester Stallone is launching a new production company for motion picture and television set projects , and he ’s calling it Balboa Productions , named forhis role from theRockyfranchise .

After kick off his work career in the 1974 political thrillerNo Place to enshroud , Stallone finally made his title to fame two years later inRocky , which he star in and write . The movie go on to earn 10 Academy Award nomination , include Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay nods for Stallone , and win three , including Best Picture . Since then , there have been four lineal sequels , as well as the spinoffCreed , which earned Stallone his second nomination for the same character . Now , as a nod to the character that made him a household name , Stallone is launching a celluloid and idiot box production company that straight off references theRockyfranchise .

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According toTHR , Stallone has partner with Braden Aftergood , whose producing credits includeHell or High Water , Lone Survivor , andWind River , to create Balboa Productions . The budding company is also partner with Starlight Culture Entertainment for growth support , with whom Stallone enter into a multi - year batch . And even though the partnership was just latterly put into burden , Balboa Productions is already in the process of developing its first labor : a biopic based on the very first African - American heavyweight box admirer Jack Johnson . Production on the flick is being overseen by MGM ’s motion mental picture group president Jonathan Glickman and executive vice president of production Adam Rosenberg .

While the boxing narration seems meet for a yield party named after one of cinema ’s most iconic fancied boxers , there is an even deeper element connecting Jack Johnson ’s sprightliness story to Stallone . In 1913 , Johnson was nab for traveling with his livid girl across state lines , which was see as an illegal and racially motivated act ; 72 year after after Johnson ’s death in 1946 , Stallone successfully help in convincing US President Donald Trump to formally pardon the late pugilist .

Even though Stallone is often associated with pulpy activity fare like theRamboandExpendablesseries , his life history was fundamentally launched out of one of the most beloved underdog news report in moving picture chronicle . So , with that being the vitrine , it ’s fitting that the first motion picture from his own production caller would reflect similar themes . Balboa Productions could prove to be yet another successful venture for the Hollywood ikon , gearing him up for the sort of prize - friendly material that in the first place plunge his life history .