Peter Farrelly's I Play Rocky, on Stallone's fight to star in Rocky, opens
The gist
I Play Rocky, Peter Farrelly's film about Sylvester Stallone writing Rocky, opened in limited release on Nov. 6.
It arrives as Rocky turns 50, retelling how a broke actor refused to sell his script.
How it unfolded
- 1976Rocky, made for just a little over a million dollars, became the biggest box-office hit of 1976 and won best picture at the 1977 Oscars.
- Sep 12, 2026I Play Rocky premiered at TIFF (the Toronto International Film Festival).
- Nov 6, 2026I Play Rocky entered limited release, with a wide release to follow on Nov. 20.
Key terms
- limited release
- A film distribution strategy of releasing a movie in only a few cinemas, usually art houses in major cities.
- TIFF
- A major annual publicly attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Canada.
- best picture
- The top annual Academy Award, given to the producers of the year's best film.
Source: Wikipedia