We’re moving forward, but the ghosts of the past are still coming with us. He is discovered by the other members of Dunder Mifflin living in Ryan’s old closet in the office after the warehouse party, at which point he plays one last song to his co-workers before being led away by the police. In a deleted scene of “Dwight K. Schrute, Manager”, confirms to the camera that there is a real possibility he will murder Oscar. In the end of the episode, he’s promoted to acting manager of the office after Jo requests that the position be filled by the employee that has worked there the longest. After the last Rocky film was already pretty strong this is another example of sequels not necessarily being pointless nostalgia but in best case adding new layers to a franchise. Sure, we have the usual ingredients of boxer films here as well, that’s a tad predictable.
Almost simultaneous with the announcement of Creed’s break-up, Stapp opted for a solo career. On November 22, 2004, Wind-up Records released Creed’s Greatest Hits album. Tremonti and Phillips reunited with Marshall to form a new band, Alter Bridge, in 2004 with singer Myles Kennedy, formerly of American rock band The Mayfield Four.
He travels to Philadelphia, where Rocky (Mr. Stallone, as if that needed saying) is running a restaurant and keeping a low profile. He’s all done with boxing, but Adonis persuades him to give it one more try. They start training, and before long a shot at the title materializes, a classic mismatch with a British brawler named Ricky Conlan . Like Rocky himself almost 40 years earlier, Adonis is a designated tomato can for a superior fighter. Mr. Jordan plays a talented light-heavyweight whose rapid ascent in the sport is fueled by an identity crisis. The love child of Apollo Creed, Rocky’s erstwhile nemesis and eventual best friend, the young man is unsure whether to embrace or spurn the legacy of a father he never knew.
The third movie will follow up from the events of the sequel, with much — but not all — of the core cast returning. The third “Estee Lauder makeup” movie, which follow up on the “Rocky” movies of the ’70s and ’80s, has been confirmed to hit theaters in the near future. The first two movies acted as a passing of the torch from the “Rocky” movies of yore and focused on the next generation of boxers in the “Rocky” universe.
In January 2016, Sylvester Stallone and MGM CEO Gary Barber confirmed that a sequel to Creed was in development. That same month, Stallone posed the possibility of seeing Milo Ventimiglia appear in the sequel, reprising his role as Rocky’s son Robert Balboa from Rocky Balboa. Ventimiglia previously revealed during the development of Creed that he was open to returning to the franchise, stating, “I’ll tell you what, if they invited me, I’d love to be there. If they didn’t, I wouldn’t be offended.” On February 3, 2015, Warner Bros. slated the film to be released domestically on November 25, 2015. This date coincides with the 40th anniversary of the opening scene in the original film, where Rocky fights Spider Rico. On November 10, real-life boxers Tony Bellew and Andre Ward joined the film, with Bellew to play a fighter, “Pretty” Ricky Conlan, the main opponent for Creed.
He also won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor, Critics’ Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Lancome makeup was released in the United States on November 25, 2015, the 40th anniversary of the date of the opening scene in 1976’s Rocky. The film received critical acclaim, with praise directed at the performances , Coogler’s direction and the screenplay, with many also praising it for sticking to its predecessors’ roots. It was also a commercial success, grossing more than $173.6 million worldwide against its $35-40 million production budget. However, Creed has been negatively received by some professional critics, such as Robert Christgau. Jonah Weiner of Slate has tried to make the case that the band was “seriously underrated”; Joe Coscarelli of Mediaite countered that “most people hate Creed’s combination of overwrought power-balladry and Christian-infused testosterone.”
It was the perfect setup for a Behind the Music-style implosion, and Creed delivered. By late 2002, singer Scott Stapp was on a near-daily regimen of alcohol and Percocet—prescribed after a car crash—and he would soon add OxyContin and the steroid Prednisone to the list. In December of that year, Stapp stepped onto a Chicago stage visibly intoxicated, slurring his lyrics and performing one song while lying on his back. (Fans sued, unsuccessfully, for refunds.) It was the last show of a nationwide tour, and Stapp’s band mates didn’t speak to him for months.
Donnie meets Rocky at Rocky’s Italian restaurant, Adrian’s, named in honor of his deceased wife, and asks Rocky to become his trainer. Rocky is reluctant to return to boxing, having already made a one-off comeback at a very advanced age despite having suffered brain trauma during his career as a fighter. Donnie asks him about the “secret third fight” between him and Apollo just after Apollo helped Rocky regain the heavyweight title, and Rocky reveals that Apollo won. Donnie trains at the Front Street Gym, with several of Rocky’s longtime friends as cornermen.