Feb. 5—Carl Weathers never won an Academy Award for acting. Actors Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young and Burgess Meredith were all nominated for "Rocky" in 1976. All were shut out. That ...

Former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Apollo Creed's son, Adonis. These films are both spin-offs and sequels to the Rocky film series.

Munteanu will play the son of Ivan Drago, the ruthless Soviet boxer from Rocky IV, which was made at a high tension point during the 1980s Cold War. Drago killed Apollo Creed in the fourth film - ...