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First Blood topped the U.S. box office for three weeks in a row, [28] and its $6,642,005 opening weekend was the best October opening at the time. [9] The film ended as a significant financial success, with a total gross of $51 million domestically, the highest-grossing film of the fall, [ 29 ] and the 13th highest-grossing film of the year .
The five films are First Blood (1982), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), Rambo III (1988), Rambo (2008), and Rambo: Last Blood (2019). Its titular protagonist is a United States Army Special Forces veteran played by Sylvester Stallone , whose Vietnam War experience traumatized him but also gave him superior military skills, which he has used ...
The film, First Blood, was a major success, earning $125 million on a $15 million budget, and spawning an entire Rambo franchise. David Morrell wrote the novelization for Rambo: First Blood Part II and explained that he was bringing the character back because of the success of the movie.
William Theodore Kotcheff (born April 7, 1931) is a Canadian director and producer of film and television. [1] He is known for directing such films as the seminal Australian New Wave picture Wake in Fright (1971), the Mordechai Richler adaptations The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) and Joshua Then and Now (1985), the original Rambo film First Blood (1982), and the comedies Fun with ...
The first of the familiar black-and-white parental advisory sticker debuted on 2 Live Crew's "Banned in the U.S.A." The album was released on July 24, 1990 — almost five years after the RIAA ...
John James Rambo (born July 6, 1947) is a fictional character in the Rambo franchise. [1] He first appeared in the 1972 novel First Blood by David Morrell, but later became more famous as the protagonist of the film series, in which he was played by Sylvester Stallone.
Trautman first served in the Vietnam War as a First Division member of the Special Forces ("Green Berets") in 1964. He was first deployed to the Southern Vietnamese Theater May 1966. Four years later, he was promoted colonel in 1970. From 1970 to 1973, Colonel Trautman was unit commander of "Team Delta" that included his boot camp protégé ...
Rambo: The Force of Freedom (also known simply as Rambo) is a 1986 American animated series based on the character of John Rambo from David Morrell's book First Blood and the subsequent films First Blood (1982) and Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985). [1]