Rocky IV
film by Stallone [1985]
Learn about this topic in these articles:
Brown
- In James Brown

The Blues Brothers (1980) and Rocky IV (1985), and attained global status as a celebrity, especially in Africa, where his tours attracted enormous crowds and generated a broad range of new musical fusions. Yet Brown’s life continued to be marked by difficulties, including the tragic death of his third wife,…
Read More
discussed in biography
- In Sylvester Stallone: Action star: Rocky and Rambo series

Eight sequels (1979, 1982, 1985, 1990, 2006, 2015, 2018, and 2023) followed, with Stallone directing four and writing five of them. The 2015 installment, Creed, was directed by Ryan Coogler and starred Michael B. Jordan as a young boxer being trained by an aging Rocky Balboa. Stallone received his…
Read More