Vodule editor Yong Kim has an excellent blog about making 3-D martial-arts movies and whether that’ll be a good or bad thing. Here’s an excerpt:
Hong Kong (where the martial arts film genre is taken seriously as an art form, and appreciated as such by the general public) is undoubtedly working on a 3-D [...]
There’s a cool little L.A. Times article about stunt coordinator Simon Crane’s work with Angelina Jolie on the upcoming action-thriller Salt. Here’s a little snippet from a Jolie quote:
“Simon is the best stunt coordinator in the business as he brings each character’s unique personality into the fight scenes,” Jolie says in an [...]
Last Sunday, I was invited to attend Diana Lee Inosanto’s DVD release party of her directorial debut, The Sensei.
For most martial artists, you’ll recognize the name. She is the daughter of martial arts legend Dan Inosanto and the “honorary niece” of one of the world’s biggest icons, Bruce Lee. But what you might not realize [...]
It’s about time. Check out this cool little ditty: a trailer for an CG-animation zombie movie.
It’s called A.D. and is directed by Ben Hibon, written by Haylar Garcia, and produced by Bernie Goldmann (300), Tarik Heitmann (The Sensei), and Renee Tab.
Looks pretty cool. I like the idea of taking the zombie genre into the digital [...]
Check out this live stunt-fighting demonstration that I helped facilitate at Black Belt Magazine’s website.
It was held at the recent International Mixed Martial Arts Expo in Los Angeles and features stunt coordinator John Kreng and his stunt crew explaining the differences between a realistic MMA-style self-defense situation versus an MMA-styled fight for the movies.
It features [...]