Sylvester Stallone has revealed that he didn't make a penny from Rocky back in 2006.
The actor returned to the role for a sixth movie in the franchise, a film he also director as well as wrote, sixteen years after Rocky V hit the big screen in 1990.
In an interview with GQ magazine the actor said: "I haven't seen a dime yet. [It made] nearly $200 million. That's life, eh? That's how it works these days.
"They have this thing called 'back end'. Or 'Watch my back end move into the horizon as you lie there, shackled in naivety'. You can make a movie for $12 million that makes $250 million, but it still ends up in the red.
"The studios say they added $50 million in publicity in the Ukraine or somewhere, and you're like, 'What?'"
But Stallone is back later this month with his new movie The Expendables, which once again sees him in behind the camera as well as in from of it.
It's the first movie, acting or directing, for Stallone since Rambo back in 2008.
The Expendables is released 20th August.
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