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STUNTS, FANDOM & ACTION: A Word With Jonathan Eusebio And Can Aydin

The first weekend of April this year was an excellent time for me. I got to meet up with a fellow movie friend to see Furious Seven on opening night, and what’s more, I got to meet up with two of the most awesome people anyone could hang out with, and it’s definitely another milestone I’ve set for myself as a film enthusiast. Honestly, you watch movies and you see the people in them, and you never suspect you will ever meet these guys in real life. But when it does, part of you feels most of its surrealness while the other parts of you settle with the fact that you’re in a room with said people and you need to compose yourself lest you hyperventilate or cause your head explode. Thankfully though, neither of those happened on the evening of Sunday, April 5 when I went to The Centurion […]

Michael Jai White Teases A Possible Title For NEVER BACK DOWN 3

Lee B. Golden III

Mixed martial arts as a sport has played a pivotal role in the evolution of the martial arts action genre over the last decade or so. One of the more mainstream attempts at this was director Jeff Wadlow’s 2008 coming-of-age action drama, Never Back Down, which did pretty well at the box office. The film evidently led to its direct-to-DVD smaller-scale follow-up in 2011, Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown, with martial arts action superstar Michael Jai White co-starring, as well as debuting his first feature as director. Despite a miniscule budget of only $3 million with barely half the time it took to rehearse and film than its predecessor, the film ultimately earned the appeal of fans and left the potential for a third. A lot more time has passed since then, and with fans still clamoring for more of what they saw in White’s continuance, it wasn’t until […]