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Academy Lifetime Honoree Jackie Chan Sends His Regards

Actor and legendary action cinema auteur Jackie Chan’s recent achievement with the Academy’s Honorary 2016 Governors Award has beem no easy feat to accomplish. A good look at his history will tell you that with respect to the challenges he’s faced both in front and behind the camera, and to no affect at all is he stopping any time soon with the current production of new sci-fi actioner, Bleeding Steel. Chan took to social media today to announce his gratitude in the wake of his latest announcement, marking yet another career milestone as well as a first for the Oscars. As per his Facebook post, read either language below, and by all means, feel free to fawn and remimisce over some nifty footage with Chan on screen by way of WatchMojo. It’s been 56 years since I filmed my first movie when I was six, and I’ve worked on over […]

Call To Action: Stunt Industry To Rally In Beverly Hills For An Oscar Category On Wednesday

Lee B. Golden III

Photo from the set of Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Courtesy Of Joel Kramer) Good stories and good acting are key to making any film or TV show notable and watchable. The same goes for action movies, and in that respect, even greater action and stunt work is what’s required to sell an action product. Without it, most of our habits wouldn’t exist today. More specifically, it’s a field that influenced my interest in online independent action by inspired filmmakers back in the early 2000s as many of the people I’ve written about on this blog have risen to some major career successes in the field. It’s why we enjoy a lot of the Marvel and DC films we see today and enjoy some of the smaller scale productions like Sakamoto Koichi’s Broken Path or Dennis Ruel’s recently released Unlucky Stars, a fact that still raises a lot of questions among […]