Editing Rocky (section)

==Release==
===Theatrical===
The movie began with two premieres in New York, starting with the world premiere for Rocky, which would take place at [[Paramount Theatre (New York City)|Paramount Theatre]] in New York City on Saturday, November 20, 1976, by United Artists and the other on the day after Sunday, November 21, 1976, by United Artists at Cinema II in New York City. The Los Angeles premiere took place at the Plaza in Westwood Village on December 1, 1976. This was then followed by a full official release on December 3, 1976, all throughout North America in the United States and Canada.<ref name=open>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title='Network,' $49,721, Sutton; N.Y. Slow Ahead of Turkey Day; 'Tycoon' Posts Sinewy $45,000|page=10|date=November 24, 1976}}</ref>

===Home media===
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* 1980 UK video release by Intervision [[Betamax]], [[VHS]] (Rental Only)
* 1982 – [[Capacitance Electronic Disc|CED Videodisc]], [[Betamax]] and [[VHS]]; VHS release is rental only; [[20th Century Fox Home Entertainment|20th Century Fox Video]] release, [[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment|Warner Home Video]] has rest of the World rights
* October 27, 1990 ([[VHS]] and [[LaserDisc]])
* April 16, 1996 (VHS and LaserDisc)
* March 24, 1997 ([[DVD]])
* April 24, 2001 (DVD, also packed with the Five-Disc Boxed Set)
* 2001 (VHS, 25th anniversary edition)
* December 14, 2004 (DVD, also packed with the Rocky Anthology box set)
* February 8, 2005 (DVD, also packed with the Rocky Anthology box set)
* December 5, 2006 (DVD and [[Blu-ray Disc]] – 2-Disc Collector's Edition, the DVD was the first version released by Fox and was also packed with the ''Rocky'' Anthology box set and the Blu-ray was the first version released by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)
* December 4, 2007 (DVD box set – ''Rocky'' The Complete Saga. This new set contains the new ''Rocky Balboa'', but does not include the recent 2 disc ''Rocky''. There are still no special features for ''Rocky II'' through ''Rocky V'', although ''Rocky Balboa''{{'}}s DVD special features are all intact.)
* November 3, 2009  (Blu-ray box set – ''Rocky'' The Undisputed Collection. This release included six films in a box set. Previously, only the first film and ''Rocky Balboa'' were available on the format. Those two discs are identical to their individual releases, and the set also contains a disc of bonus material, new and old alike.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=2716 |title=MGM Preparing Rocky Collection on Blu-ray |publisher=Blu-ray.com |access-date=2010-10-05 |archive-date=December 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212083238/http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=2716 |url-status=live }}</ref>)
*May 6, 2014 - Blu-ray re-release with an all new 4K remaster and the previous special features of the old release.<ref>{{Citation|title=Rocky Blu-ray Release Date May 6, 2014|url=https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Rocky-Blu-ray/91738/|access-date=2021-02-15|archive-date=June 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611143922/https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Rocky-Blu-ray/91738/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* October 13, 2015 – Blu-ray box set, ''Rocky'' Heavyweight Collection 40th Anniversary Edition. All six films plus over three hours of bonus material, including the 4K remaster of the first film.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Rocky-Heavyweight-Collection-Balboa-Blu-ray/dp/B00HF98SJY |title=Rocky: Heavyweight Collection |website=Amazon |access-date=March 6, 2018 |archive-date=July 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717221058/https://www.amazon.com/Rocky-Heavyweight-Collection-Balboa-Blu-ray/dp/B00HF98SJY |url-status=live }}</ref>