After we spent a week at 87eleven, Alvin Hsing and I came away with this video to show what came of our efforts – a pre-viz (choroegraphed and shot rough version) for the final knife fight in A Good Day…
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The Running Man Still Predicted An Optimistic Future
In The Running Man the future is depicted as an authoritarian police state with a broken economy. When our man Richards (Schwarzenegger) faces airport security and has no travel pass, he rummages through his bag until a line of anxious tourists…
Tagged with: airport security, arnold schwarzenegger, dystopia, economics, future, game show, orwell, running man, tsa
Posted in Action Kickback, United States
Posted in Action Kickback, United States
Art Films Masquerading as Action Films
I have a theory that art films are starting to masquerade as action films because in a globalized economy, producers can’t pick any contemporary villains, so characters’ conflicts end up being directed internally. Hence, we get a slew of boring…
Tagged with: action films, art films, entertainment, globalism, globalized economy, hollywood and europe
Posted in United States
Posted in United States
Return of the Arnold – Expendables 2, Last Stand, and The Tomb
The late Total Recall massacre reminded us all how vital it is to the health of cinema that Arnold Schwarzenegger return to the big screen. Thank God he’s back. The Last Stand The Tomb And of course
Tagged with: action, arnold schwarzenegger, expendables 2, fan, last stand, stallone, the tomb, total recall
Posted in Film News, United States
Posted in Film News, United States
Indie Action Weekly-ish Roundup – August 14, 2012
Hiroshi Adachi’s Shoreline Operation with Emmanuel Manzanares Sleeping Dogs, action by EMC Monkeys, funded by Enix themselves! Reddit article here. Green Jade by Movie-Do
Tagged with: church, emc monkeys, enix, green jade, Japan, movie-do, sleeping dogs, sogya, square, tokyo, xin
Posted in Action Kickback, Indie, Japan, United States, Video
Posted in Action Kickback, Indie, Japan, United States, Video
New trailers to Skyfall
International Trailer US Trailer
How Science Fiction Lost Its Edge – A Genre Study
While working on a science fiction concept I’m developing, it’s been interesting to study how the genre itself functions. Science Fiction has two key responsibilities: Predicts the logical ends of a technological trajectory and sets it up as the conflict.…
Tagged with: action kickback, ak, genre, Indie, science, science fiction, scifi, v for vendetta
Posted in Action Kickback, United States
Posted in Action Kickback, United States
Death Grip Kills It with James Lew at Ric Meyers’ Superhero Kung Fu Extravaganza Panel
Ric Meyers showed Death Grip at his kung fu movie panel, and I had the opportunity to meet James Lew before the panel. It was awesome. Though the crowd was an entirely different demographic than the one that attended our…
Tagged with: comic con, comics, eric roberts, expendables, international, james lew, kung fu, martial arts, panel, ric meyers, richard meyers
Posted in Comic-Con, United States
Posted in Comic-Con, United States
First Impressions of an Indie Action Exhibitor at Comic-Con 2012 – Bigger and Better than Ever
When we walked into the exhibit hall today to begin our Comic-Con 2012 adventure, the initial impression was: holy sh*t. Not only is Comic-Con bigger, but it’s louder, thicker, longer, and faster. Legendary is two hundred yards from us with…
Tagged with: action pact entertainment, comic con, convention, exhibitor, inception, international, legendary, ric meyers, stunt people
Posted in Comic-Con, Death Grip, Marketing, United States
Posted in Comic-Con, Death Grip, Marketing, United States
4th trailer to The Dark Knight Rises arrives
Featured is the music that could be heard on the exclusive footage shown at this year’s MTV Movie Awards. Speaking of music, the soundtrack drops on July 17.
Posted in Film News, United States
