EXCLUSIVE: Balboa Productions, the company founded by Sylvester Stallone and Braden Aftergood, has brought on Kourosh Taj to head Unscripted Development and Digital Enterprises where his focus will be on identifying unscripted and branded content opportunities for the next-generation media company to produce. In his…

EXCLUSIVE: In what was said to be a competitive bidding situation, MGM has acquired the original spec script, Samaritan, from screenwriter Bragi F. Schut and Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions.  As Deadline previously reported, Stallone is attached to star in the film, which was announced as part of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Balboa Productions, the recently formed shingle led by Sylvester Stallone and producer Braden Aftergood, has solidified its project lineup, some of which will be starring vehicles for Stallone, who will also produce the projects with Aftergood. Likely to be first in the pipeline is Samaritan, written by…

Sylvester Stallone has launched Balboa Productions, a new company where he’ll hatch film and TV projects. He’s set the first timely pic at MGM on Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight champion. Stallone is currently in the ring with MGM, reprising Rocky Balboa alongside Michael B. Jordan in Creed…