Yo! Although he turns 60 next summer, Sylvester Stallone is getting back into the ring to play his dogged Philadelphia fighter character one more time in Rocky Balboa, the sixth movie in the series he originated in 1976.

It's been 15 years since Rocky V, and Stallone apparently has spent a great deal of time developing the script for the new movie. This time Rocky starts out lonely until he is tempted out of retirement for a few low-profile local fights and then is approached to take on reigning heavyweight champ, Mason "The Line" Dixon in a bout which, we are told, "ignites a media firestorm".

With the exception of Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, Stallone's movies have gone directly to video here since he appeared on our cinema screens in Copland (1997). "Rocky Balboa is about everybody who wants to participate in the race of life, rather than be a bystander," Sly says in a statement announcing the picture. "You're never too old to climb a mountain if that's your desire."