ROCKY BALBOA LOSES TO BEN STILLER

As life imitates art, Rocky Balboa wasn’t good enough to top Ben Stiller’s Night At The Museum for top debut this week.

In the movie Rocky Balboa, an over-the-hill boxer shows that he can still compete but doesn’t have the skill to quite topple the younger challenger. The same was true at the Box office as the Stallone’s sixth installment of the Rocky series lost out to Ben Stiller’s Night At The Museum.

Stallone said that he doesn’t mind losing because the film is within the hitorical context of boxing, and it’s something he loves.

“This is based on a true story between Rocky Marciano and Muhammed Ali, which happened in 1970, and Rocky Marciano won. There was this great outcry, the computer has to be out of her mind. I thought, ‘This is interesting’ So we have a story based in truth. Rocky sees that and a lightbulb goes off. He goes, ‘Wow. I can do something I love. I’m not very good at it. I’d rather do something I love badly than feel badly about doing something I love.”

Rocky Balboa was filmed the movie in Philadelphia, where Balboa resides. Even though he’s second fiddle and a fictional character, Stallone says the residents won’t allow him to be anyone but Rocky.

“Going back there, it’s like a real person coming back to his neighborhood and showing respect to the city. So it was an extraordinary, extraordinary experience. Becuase, the people, they’re not yelling for Sylvester Stallone, believe me. It’s all, ‘Rocky, Yo Rock, Rock. There is no separation between the two identities. I have to sometimes be very aware that they don’t want me to act like Sylvester Stallone, they want you to be Rocky. They don’t want you to be a little flippant, they want you to be in character. So sometimes you’re performing all the time, even when the camera is stopped.”

The sixth and final installment of the Rocky Balboa movies grossed $6.2 in its first week at the box office.