'I Play Rocky' star Anthony Ippolito filmed his own audition before he even had the script

Anthony Ippolito was so excited to play Sylvester Stallone in a biopic about the making of "Rocky" that the up-and-coming ...
Men's Journal

This 1976 Film Almost Didn’t Get Made — Now It Is One of the ‘Greatest American Movies of All Time’

The American Film Institute has named the 1976 film, Rocky, one of the 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time, but it almost didn’t get made at all. After a series of risks and hard work, it ...
phillyvoice.com

Trailer for Sylvester Stallone biopic 'I Play Rocky' shows re-creations of some of 1976 film's most memorable scenes

Sylvester Stallone was a struggling actor pushing 30 and working odd jobs in Los Angeles when he wrote the screenplay for "Rocky" during a three-and-a-half day stretch in early 1975. He had one ...
AOL

'Rocky's' Most Famous Scene Was Totally Unscripted—And Filmed Without a Permit in 1976

In 1976, Rocky was the top movie of the year. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Burgess Meredith, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, andTalia Shire, the film about scrappy Philadelphia boxer Rocky Balboa ...
The Boston Globe

Filtering America’s 250th anniversary through the best picture nominees of its bicentennial year

On March 28, 1977, “Network,” “Rocky,” “Taxi Driver,” “All the President’s Men,” and “Bound for Glory” battled for the coveted best picture Academy Award on Oscar night. Each film was a cinematic ...