NEWS ABOUT: Rambo
Rambo stories: 3 news briefs
Rambo takes close 2nd as 27 Dresses and Cloverfield tumble
Variety Jan 27, 08 6:19 PM CST
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Meet the Spartans outfought Rambo to claim top spot this weekend as both flicks knocked down last week's openers, Variety reports. Spartans , a 300 spoof, banked $18.7 million while Sly Stallone's pic scored $18.2 million. 27 Dresses crumpled to third with $13.6 million as horror pic Cloverfield toppled to fourth at $12.7 million, a crushing 68% fall from last week's number one spot.
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Stallone's fourth flick about mercenary is ultraviolent and artless
Rotten Tomatoes Jan 25, 08 10:55 AM CST
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Sylvester Stallone's latest, and last, film about Vietnam vet/mercenary John Rambo isn't short on violence. "Body parts go flying, blood gets applied with a fire hose, spleens decorate the trees," writes Andrew Wright of the Portland-Mercury. Unfortunately, the movie is short on everything else. "One would be hard-pressed to imagine a conventional narrative being any thinner than the one in Rambo ," says Dustin Putnam of MovieBoy.com.
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Action star draws fine for importing drugs without a prescription
The Australian May 21, 07 11:13 AM CDT
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Muscle-bound "Rocky" star Sylvester Stallone was hit with nearly $10,000 in fines and court costs today after being convicted of bringing body-building hormones into Australia without proper documentation. Customs officials busted him with human growth hormone and testosterone in February while he was promoting "Rocky Balboa" en route to Burma to make yet another "Rambo" film.
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