Three-time Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Sylvester Stallone has signed with Independent Artist Group in all areas.

A major focus for the agency will be continuing to build Stallone’s production company Balboa Productions, which, among its many projects, produces his hit Paramount+ series “Tulsa King” alongside 101 Studios. With that goal in mind, it’s no surprise Stallone would be lured by IAG, which has successfully steered star clients like 50 Cent and Mary J. Blige into becoming powerhouse producers with their companies G Unit Film & Television and Blue Butterfly.

Stallone, a Hollywood icon for his roles in iconic franchises like “Rocky,” “Rambo” and “The Expendables,” is the only actor to have had a No. 1 film in six consecutive decades, from the 1970s to the 2020s.

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The actor became a star with his Oscar-winning 1976 boxing film “Rocky,” for which he also received Academy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor and Outstanding Original Screenplay (becoming one of only three artists in history to do so). That film went on to spawn eight successful sequels, with Stallone earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his work in 2015’s “Creed.”

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Stallone wrote and produced the upcoming Jason Statham action film “Working Man” for Amazon MGM Studios, where he currently has a first-look production deal. Balboa Pictures also recently produced the critically acclaimed documentary “Sly” for Netflix.

Last week, President Donald Trump named Stallone, alongside Mel Gibson and Jon Voight, as a Special Ambassador to Hollywood, with the goal of bringing back business lost to “foreign countries.”

The signing of Stallone is yet another agency milestone spearheaded by IAG CEO and Variety500 member Jim Osborne, who has long represented Gary Oldman and his producing partner Douglas Urbanski (both are behind the Emmy-nominated series “Slow Horses” on Apple TV+).

Since becoming CEO of IAG, Osborne transformed the agency by merging with Dennis Arfa’s music powerhouse AGI in June of 2023, and prior to that, bringing over 15 senior agents and more than 300 clients from ICM Partners when ICM was purchased by CAA. AGI brought with them such acts such as Billy Joel, Metallica, Def Leppard and Motley Crue, complementing the existing hip-hop and R&B focuses of the agency.

For Balboa Productions, Osborne and his team will work to leverage IAG’s media rights department, which has held as much as half of the New York Times best sellers list as clients this year, with the novel “Fourth Wing” charting on the list for 68 consecutive weeks.

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