Rocky Balboa fights Jack LaMotta in Grudge Match, the Warner Bros. comedy starring Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro. The first trailer for the film, which will be released Christmas Day, has just been revealed. Check it out below. Here's the trailer. Peter Segel (Get Smart) directs the film and, from the trailer, it doesn't…
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For his boxing comedy Grudge Match, Peter Segal rounded up two legends of silver-screen boxing: Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro. Granted, the two aren't quite in the fighting shape they were three decades ago, but the allure of watching Rocky Balboa face off against Jake LaMotta in the ring can't be denied. But that…
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Warner Bros. has taken a bit of time to shift around its release schedule, and there's both good news and bad news for film fans. On the plus side, the studio has set Andy and Lana Wachowski's Jupiter Ascending for a coveted summer 2014 release date, which reads as a vote of confidence in the film. Not…
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Two silver-screen boxing icons are currently filming a boxing comedy for Warner Bros. and your first view of them comes via a basketball player. Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone star in Grudge Match, director Peter Segal's comedy comedy about two over-the-hill boxers who return to the ring for one last match. We haven't seen…
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Briefly: Audiences are now, officially, going to see Rocky Balboa fight Jake LaMotta. Warner Bros. has just greenlit the long gestating Grudge Match, directed by Peter Segal, which is a comedy about two over the hill boxers (Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro) who comeback for one last match. Kevin Hart has been cast as the…
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A couple of years ago, around the time that Peter Segal (Get Smart) signed on to direct Warner Bros.' boxing pic Grudge Match, rumors began spreading that Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone were circling the project. Without a reliable source, however, it seemed like it could just be unsubstantiated chatter from fans eager to see Rocky Balboa…
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We still don't know who might star in Grudge Match, the film in development at Warner Bros. that will put two aging former boxing rivals back in the ring for one last match. Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro have been rumored, but it's very likely it's a completely unsubstantiated rumor, no matter how entertaining…
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Briefly: In May, we heard that Warner Bros. had picked up a pitch from Tim Kelleher to write a film called Grudge Match, about "retired boxers Billy “The Kid” McGuigan and Henry “Razor” Sharp, lifelong bitter rivals who are coaxed out of retirement and into the ring for one final grudge match — 50 years…
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Briefly: It isn't often that you hear that a film seeks to emulate the tone of the 2000 Clint Eastwood film Space Cowboys. A studio making a movie featuring characters who are over 25? Insanity! And yet here's Grudge Match, a writer's pitch that Warner Bros. bought and will develop as a feature. Tim Kelleher…
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