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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

Seeing Double: Meet Jumanji’s Real Ruby Roundhouse—Stunt Performer Jahnel Curfman

The second Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle trailer dropped around a month ago, showcasing an action-packed sequel to the beloved 1995 original. From what we can tell, audiences can expect crazy chases, fight scenes, and impressive visual effects. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle sees four teenagers discover an old video game console (much like how the kids in the original found an old board game) and are literally drawn into the game’s jungle setting becoming the adult avatars they choose.The use of video game avatar characters amplifies the intensity of the action this time around,

By  |  October 24, 2017

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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

Meet the Courageous Amputee Who Stunt Doubles Paul Rudd on Ant-Man and the Wasp

Stunt performer Brett Smrz is living proof that one of the film industry’s most difficult jobs attracts the very best people. When Smrz was 16, he lost his lower left leg in a trampoline accident. Yet today, Smrz is a professional stunt driver and one of two of Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man stunt doubles. When you watch the upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp, you’ll be seeing the work of one of Hollywood’s most courageous stunt performers.

By  |  September 26, 2017

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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

See how this Insane Stunt in Atomic Blonde Was Pulled Off

Director David Leitch is one of the film world’s premiere stunt choreographers. The former stunt coordinator made his name helming the first John Wick, and he brought his talents for creating mesmerizing, death-defying stunts to his next film, Atomic Blonde. Starring Charlize Theron as an MI6 agent who is sent alone into Berlin to retrieve a priceless dossier, while the city is becoming completely destabilized (the wall is about to come down) and just about everyone she comes into contact with wants to kill her.

By  |  July 31, 2017

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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

Stunt Performer Annabel Wood is a Real Life Wonder Woman

When she hears the word action, Annabel Wood’s job is to take the command literally. She very often makes her living dying. All in all, Wood has died more times than she can count – and she keeps coming back from more. She’s a stunt performer, and one of the best in the business. She leaps off cliffs and castle walls, dodges speeding cars and motorcycles, and, dons prosthetics to become an ice zombie and charge into a camp prepared to do her worst.

By  |  July 2, 2017

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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

Tom Cruise has Done a Year of Prep for Mission: Impossible 6 Stunt

Fearless, ageless and relentless, Tom Cruise is at it again. 

Yesterday we shared this video of Cruise and co-star Annabell Wallis doing a stunt in zero gravity for their upcoming film The MummyLittle did we know we'd find out only a day later that he's cooking up an even more impressive stunt for Mission: Impossible 6

Never one to shy away from a difficult stunt that most other actors would opt to delegate to a stunt double,

By  |  March 21, 2017

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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

See how They Filmed in Zero Gravity for The Mummy

We’ve long admired Tom Cruise’s insane commitment to performing his own stunts. When we interviewed stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood about Cruise's work on Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation, he talked about all the ways in which Cruise is the most prepared actor he’s ever worked with. This is a necessary attribute when the stunts you’re performing are as extreme as Cruise’s have been. Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol,

By  |  March 20, 2017

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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

How John Wick: Chapter 2‘s Stunt Coordinator Challenged Keanu Like Never Before

Keanu Reeves thrilled action fans three years ago when his title character killed 141 bad guys in John Wick. For John Wick: Chapter 2, opening Friday, stunt coordinator J.J. Perry faced a formidable challenge: How do you take somebody who’s already played a super-lethal hit man and make him even more deadly? "The obvious way to make the movie better was to make Keanu better,

By  |  February 8, 2017

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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

La La Land‘s Choreographer Puts the Pep in the Musical’s Steps

Mandy Moore, 40, a four-time Emmy nominee lauded for her routines on the talent competition show So You Think You Can Dance, is one of the most in-demand choreographers working today.  She just finished Season 23 of Dancing With the Stars and is currently in rehearsals for the touring version, which kicks off Dec. 16. And she is film director David O. Russell’s go-to dance guru, overseeing the fancy footwork performed by Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in 

By  |  December 7, 2016

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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

Tom Cruise’s Most Insane Stunt Yet: the Zero Gravity Scene in The Mummy

We've written about the insane dedication Tom Cruise has put in to accomplishing the most ambitious practical stunts, rivaling some of the work of the very best stunt performers. When we interviewed stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood about Cruise's work on Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation, he talked about all the ways Cruise is consistently prepared and extremely hard working. What Cruise wants is to make the audience feel as if what they're watching is real,

By  |  December 6, 2016

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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

How the Trainer for Bleed For This Whipped Miles Teller into Shape

Boxing coach Darrell Foster had eight months to transform Will Smith into his Oscar-nominated version of Muhammad Ali for the 2001 bio pic Ali. With the fact-based Bleed For This (Nov. l8), he only had a few weeks to teach Miles Teller how to fight like five-time world champion Vinny Pazienza, who severed his spine in a 1991 car crash, then made an astonishing come back and reclaimed his championship belt.

By  |  November 1, 2016

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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

See how they Filmed the Fight Scene Between Captain America and the Winter Soldier

There were a lot of big, bruising brawls in Captain America: Civil War, but none are more personal than when Cap fights his best friend (of 80 years!) the Winter Soldier, aka Bucky Barnes. In this behind-the-scenes clip unveiled by Marvel, directors Joe and Anthony Russo show us how they built this fight early in the film. 

Fight coordinator James Young explains that the key to crafting a believable, emotional fight is to remember that these brawls need to be "character moments."

By  |  September 2, 2016

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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

Watch Assassin’s Creed Stunt Performer’s Historic 125 Foot Free Fall

It's actually hard to watch. Michael Fassbender's stunt double in Assassin's Creed pulls off one of the highest free falls in almost 35 years. Stunt performer Damien Walters is one of the best in the business, which is why they trusted he could pull off this death-defying feat successfully. Director Justin Kurzel wanted to ground the action of Assassin's Creed in reality as much as possible, which meant that the "Leap of Faith,"

By  |  August 16, 2016

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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

Chatting With Daredevil’s Emmy-Nominated Stunt Coordinator Philip J. Silvera

Stunt coordinator Philip J. Silvera is one of the best in the business. In recent years, he's put his touch on one of the greatest fight scenes in recent memory (the bruising final beat down in Deadpool), helped make Iron Man 3 the best Tony Stark film of the bunch, and, applied his martial arts expertise to the animated series Star Wars: The Old Republic. Recently, Silvera has helped turn Marvel's 

By  |  August 10, 2016

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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

Check out the Incredible Stunts in Captain America: Civil War

You know what's even cooler than watching how some of the stunts were done in Captain America: Civil WarWatching them in slow motion. Especially the truck flipping over—and through—a bridge. 

The gang at Screen Slam were on the set of Civil War and got this incredible footage of some of the stunt work that went into the film. Some of the coolest stuff is watching the incredibly talented Heidi Moneymaker,

By  |  April 18, 2016

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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

New Captain America: Civil War Behind-the-Scenes Footage

At some point today, Marvel is going to drop a new Captain America: Civil War trailer on us, with the juiciest rumor being that Spider-Man will be featured heavily. While we await the trailer's release, there's a lot of new stuff already out there, including this behind-the-scenes look at the filming of the movie by Entertainment Tonight. 

This look at the production of Civil War 

By  |  March 10, 2016

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Actor Director Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

How Quentin Tarantino Protege Zoe Bell Traded Stunts For Acting

It’s not easy to switch from movie “staff” to acting, and Zoe Bell credits being “deluded” or at least “clueless” for her move from stuntwoman to actress. Quentin Tarantino deserves some credit, too. After working with Bell as Uma Thurman’s stunt double in Kill Bill, he went on to cast her in 2007’s Death Proof, her first acting role and one she took reluctantly. This year,

By  |  November 18, 2015

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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

A Bond Unbroken: Spectre Stunt Coordinator Gary Powell Carries Family Legacy

Working on a Bond film isn’t anything new to Gary Powell, the stunt coordinator of Spectre. His family has been working on the series since the Sean Connery days.

“It was follow around in the family tradition or get kicked out,” Powell told The Credits about his choice to get into the movie stunt business, delivering the deadpan line with a British accent. Both his father and uncle were stuntmen on the early Bond movies with Sean Connery.

By  |  November 4, 2015

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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

Mission: Impossible Stunt Coordinator on Tom Cruise’s Feats

Tom Cruise is famous for his tenacity when it comes to performing his own stunts, but now that he’s in his fifties he would be forgiven for taking things a little bit easier. But that just isn’t Cruise’s style. If anything, he’s pushing himself harder than ever. Take the opening scene of Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. During the four minute, 10-second sequence, Cruise- as secret agent Ethan Hunt- hangs off the side of an Airbus A400M during its steep vertical takeoff.

By  |  August 4, 2015

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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

The Two Most Intense Stunts in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

When it comes to stunts and action set pieces in franchise films, we want them bigger, better, faster, and more insane in each new film. From Fast & Furious to The Avengers have to deal with a monster of their own making—how to one up the last thing they did, which was often, at the time, what they thought was near the limit of what was possible. For franchises in the Marvel universe,

By  |  July 30, 2015

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Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

10 New Photos From Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Reveal Epic Stunts

As we've discussed before, Tom Cruise became an action star largely due to his incredible stunt work in the Mission: Impossible series.  Recently, CineFix even put together this "Art of the Scene" detailing how Cruise's vault heist scene in the very first Mission: Impossible (his Ethan Hunt needs to still a CIA cover list from their HQ) made him an action star and changed his career in the process:

Cruise has been a major creative force in the 

By  |  July 23, 2015