The Rocky franchise follows boxer Rocky Balboa's rise from underdog to champion, and later, Adonis Creed's journey to honor his father, Apollo Creed. The films chronicle Rocky's several rises and falls, and both it and the Creed series deal with their titular character's internal and external struggles both in the ring and out.
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The worst of the Rocky movies has been redeemed by the Creed trilogy, making a rewatch of the franchise’s release order a much better experience.
When it comes to Sylvester Stallone's original Rocky movies, which ones remain on top?
Will Sylvester Stallone return as Rocky Balboa? We explore his Creed III exit and future plans.
Ivan Drago's iconic fight with Apollo Creed is even better now, 39 years after Rocky IV was first released, thanks to Dolph Lundgren's comments.
Stallone's iconic Rocky character gets a much better ending in the Creed films than another one of his characters, Barney, receives in Expend4bles.
Michael B. Jordan is due to return for the 4th entry in the Creed saga, which gives the franchise the opportunity to do something Rocky never could.
Sylvester Stallone has starred in dozens of action movies, but only one can be crowned the king.
Creed IV runs the risk of following a similar problematic narrative path as the Rocky franchise, and it's related to Creed's role in the boxing world.
Creed is an amazing sports movie in its own right, but I will always be grateful that it made one of my favorite Rocky movies even better.
Rocky is ed as a feel-good underdog story, but as the sequels went on, the franchise got darker and darker (and I never realized it).
Story details for Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa prequel suggest that it could rewrite what happened in the original Rocky movie from 1976.
As good as a Rocky prequel might sound on paper, it is hard not to see how it could potentially cheapen the point of the first Stallone Rocky movie.
Sylvester Stallone shares an update on the announced Rocky prequel TV show, teasing what viewers can expect from the story and the characters.
Creed 4 and a Drago spinoff movie are both in the works, and one is far more exciting than the other.
The Rocky franchise has provided some of Hollywood's best boxing films, and while Creed 4 will be exciting, one other movie is even more enticing.
Florian Munteanu has promised his Drago spinoff will be darker than the Rocky and Creed movies, which could take the franchise in a new direction.
Creed 4 won't have to do much to make Rocky a $2 billion franchise but it could also become the highest-grossing live-action sports movie ever made.
EXCLUSIVE: Creed 2 star Florian Muteanu addresses the status of Drago, teasing when Dolph Lungren's Rocky spin-off will begin filming.
