Experience Philadelphia's most iconic film franchise with the first-ever city-wide celebration of Rocky and the Philly sites made famous by the film!
Rocky Day, a new city holiday which celebrates the original film's release date in 1976 is December 3. RockyFest's city-wide events will run through Sunday, December 8 2024!
“The Statue” A new limited podcast from Paul Farber and WHYY
Why do millions of people each year from around the world visit Philly’s Rocky Statue? What does a statue celebrating a fictional boxer tell us about how we memorialize some stories over others? Monument Lab’s Paul Farber dives deep into the story of the statue to the greatest Philadelphian who never lived.
Available at WHYY (or wherever you get your podcasts)
Watch the latest CREED2 trailer at: https://www.creedthemovie.com/
In theaters in the US on November 21st!
A trip up the Rocky Steps is a must-do on a Philadelphia visit, but what makes that so? Here’s your chance to hear the story of how the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art got so famous from the people who made them that way!
“The Rise of the Rocky Steps” Features ROCKY Sculptor A. Thomas Schomberg, Steadicam Inventor Garrett Brown, Film Office Executive Director Sharon Pinkenson, and “Rocky Stories” Author Michael Vitez.
