Rocky tells the tale of down-on-his-luck Philadelphia fighter Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone, who also penned the script), who gets a chance to fight heavyweight champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers). While he’s not expected to put up much of a fight, Balboa’s determined to go the distance, with the help of cantankerous trainer Mickey (Burgess Meredith), his best friend Paulie (Burt Young), and his new girlfriend Adrian (Talia Shire). The movie became a surprise hit and won three Oscars, including Best Picture; it also spawned a host of sequels and rocketed Stallone to superstardom.
The iconic film turns 50 this year, and you can celebrate with a new book full of gorgeous art inspired by it. The Fine Art of Rocky: An Artistic Tribute From Screen to Canvas hits shelves this fall, and it’s almost as good as a ringside seat to the creation of 1976’s Rocky. Today, Collider is proud to present an exclusive look at the dazzling art you’ll find inside The Fine Art of Rocky.
The Fine Art of Rocky is penned by John Rivoli, the official artist for MGM’s Rocky franchise. The book, which comes from Insight Editions, features art inspired by all five movies of the original Rocky series. It also features an all-new introduction written by Stallone. It will be available in both a standard edition and an exclusive deluxe edition limited to 300 individually numbered copies; the limited edition will be released in a bespoke clamshell box and will be personally signed by Rivoli. It will also come with an exclusive cover and four exclusive 16-by-20 Rivoli prints. Both standard and limited editions can be pre-ordered now, and will be available in stores this October.
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Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
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⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
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Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
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🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
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You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
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You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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How Else Is ‘Rocky’s 50th Anniversary Being Celebrated?
This fall, you can see where Rocky began in the new biopic I Play Rocky. Directed by Peter Farrelly, the film chronicles the quest of an unknown Sylvester Stallone (Anthony Ippolito) to get his script made into a movie, with the important caveat that he plays Rocky. It also stars AnnaSophia Robb, Toby Kebbell, Stephan James, Tracy Letts, and Jay Duplass, and will premiere on November 6,
Both the limited edition and the trade edition of The Fine Art of Rocky: An Artistic Tribute From Screen to Canvas can be pre-ordered now, and will be available in stores in October. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
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