Rocky Balboa is the final installment in the Rocky movie franchise. Sylvester Stallone wrote, directed, and starred in this 2006 American sports drama movie. The film, starring Stallone as an underdog boxer is a follow-up to the 1990 film Rocky V and the sixth entry in the Rocky franchise, which began thirty years ago with the Academy Award-winning Rocky.
The movie depicts an elderly Balboa in retirement, a widower living in Philadelphia, and the owner and operator of ‘Adrian’s,’ a local Italian restaurant named after his late wife. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia Pictures, and Revolution Studios released the movie on December 20, 2006, 30 years post-Rocky (1976), and it exceeded box office forecasts while receiving mostly positive critical reviews.
For its home media release, it was released in a variety of formats, with DVD sales exceeding $34 million. It was followed by Ryan Coogler’s Creed, which was released in 2015, and Steven Caple Jr.’s Creed II, which was released in November 2018. Creed III, directed by Michael B. Jordan, will be released in 2022 as the third installment.
In December 2005, filming began in Las Vegas, Nevada. It relocated to Los Angeles, California, in 2006, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 2007. The Philadelphia Art Museum and South Philadelphia were used as backdrops for scenes in Philadelphia, but Center City was given more prominence due to Rocky Jr.’s employment as an attorney.
Total box office receipts in the United States were $70,269,899, with an overseas gross of $85,959,151, for a total worldwide gross of $156,229,050.
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