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Jun 11, 2015 · Born in Depression-era New York City, Chartoff had been a movie producer for nearly a decade when he found his career-defining hit in 1976’s “Rocky,” the small-budget movie starring and written by Sylvester Stallone that became a blockbuster and won three Academy Awards including best picture.
Aug 11, 2022 · Stallone — who wrote the screenplay for the film in three days, before selling the rights to producers Winkler and Robert Chartoff — said his anger came from the fact that the original deal...
- Wilson Chapman
Jun 10, 2015 · In 1975, Chartoff and Winkler took a meeting with then-unknown actor Sylvester Stallone, who pitched them a movie he was writing about a determined Philadelphia club fighter named Rocky...
Jul 18, 2022 · “Rocky” co-producers Irwin Winkler, left, and Robert Chartoff, right, with Sylvester Stallone after receiving Golden Globes at the Academy Awards in 1977. (Associated Press) The 76-year-old...
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Jun 12, 2015 · From left, Irwin Winkler, Sylvester Stallone and Robert Chartoff in 1977. ABC, via Photofest. By Bruce Weber. June 12, 2015. Robert Chartoff, half of the powerful Hollywood producing...
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Jun 12, 2015 · The two shot Sylvester Stallone’s story about Rocky Balboa in 28 days. Resisting studio pressure to cast a bigger name than the relatively unknown Stallone as Rocky, they spent $950,000....
Nov 19, 2021 · Realizing that they didn't want to bum audiences out further, Winkler and his producing partner, Robert Chartoff, asked Stallone to write a new ending — the one that fans now know by heart....
