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[UPDATE] French Action Revisits Familiar Territory In The New Full Trailer For BRICK MANSIONS

UPDATE: You can now watch two trailers for the film, including an international version of the trailer at the very bottom. Within hours of the exclusive ET debut of the first footage of Luc Besson protege Camille Delamarre‘s directorial debut, Brick Mansions, the new trailer arrived online which you can check out below. Fans may recognize several glimpses in the shots throughout the trailer as the film is modeled off of it’s initial incarnation, the 2004 French action hit, Banlieue 13, which fans may enjoy depending on how they see remakes as of late. Brick Mansions sets the latest precedent for actor David Belle (Babylon A.D.) who reprises his role from the first film and its sequel, Banlieue 13: Ultimatum, starring as a streetwise insider on a mission to take down a notorious drug dealer. Joining him is late actor Paul Walker in his final completed performance, in place of […]

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BRICK MANSIONS Teases Its Way Online

This week, French actor and parkour pioneer David Belle’s Hollywood rendition of his previous role in director Pierre Morel’s 2004 hit thriller, Banlieue 13 can now be seen in Entertainment Tonight’s exclusive premiere of the new quick teaser for Camille Delamarre‘s directorial debut, Brick Mansions. The film is one of just a few more films left in the repetoire between now and next year for fans of late actor Paul Walker who takes the reigns of actor Cyril Raffaelli’s character from the previous film, opposite actor RZA with a script by Luc Besson and Bibi Naceri. Brick Mansions hits North American theaters on April 25, 2014. Stay tuned for more info. SYNOPSIS: Chicago Suburbs: Nobody has control over Brick Mansions. Damien, an undercover cop, is facing an extreme mission: a mass-destruction weapon was stolen by Tremaine, the most powerful drug dealer in the Ghetto and Damien needs to infiltrate the […]

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BRICK MANSIONS Gets A Release Date

BRICK MANSIONS Gets A Release Date

The aftermath of late actor Paul Walker continues to draw a bittersweet level of anticipation fans still have a few films to look forward to, one of which includes director Camille Delamarre‘s upcoming action thriller, Brick Mansions, which is getting a theatrical release in Belgium and France on April 23, 2014. Deadline has reported the film’s newly announced North American release date set for April 25, 2014, with freerunning trendsetter and action hero David Belle and actor RZA co-starring. The film is an English-language revival of Pierre Morrel’s 2004 French freerunning action thriller, Banlieue 13, written by Luc Besson and Bibi Naceri for an American audience, and sees Walker reliving one of two lead roles previous played by action star Cyril Raffaelli, as a cop who infiltrates a walled-in ghetto to put an end to a crimelord’s reign of terror with the help of a streetwise insider, played by Belle […]

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Jonny Caines Dominates THE MONKEY VAULT!

Action fans can look forward to what Canadian stunt performer and Team 2X member Jonny Caines has in store for his upcoming reel, in addition to his expected appearance in the crowdfunded action comedy shortfilm, Fist Plus Face, among other things. To add to his visual resumè this week however, folks can now check him out in high-flying fashion in his latest group fight practice performance from independent filmmaker Leo Kei Angelos. The video was filmed at a parkour training facility in Toronto, The Monkey Vault (hence the title) where Caines takes the liberty of showcasing one of several interesting ways one could feature action choreography in a gym designed specifically for dynamic stunt performance, aided by great camerawork from Angelos who is currently in Canada planning some other things as well to kick off the new year. Check out the clip below, also featuring (in order of appearance) Aaron Jones […]

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Watch Team Tempest Grant This Kid The Best Christmas Ever

After receiving a poignant and heartfelt letter of appreciation from a Louisiana mother in the name of her fourteen-year old son, Malachi (a.k.a 9 Lives), an aspiring traceur, Tempest fan and survivor of numerous and harrowing life-threatening illnesses and injuries, Tempest members Jessie La Flair and Cory DeMeyers decided to pay a surprise Christmas visit… The rest is history. Enjoy!

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Explosive Freerunning Action And Adventure Sets The Tone In The New Shortfilm, JUMPSTART

Looking to kickoff your weekend with a little action and adventure? Well, if you’re a regular subscriber to the official YouTube channel for Flow, you’re pretty much in the right place where you can now catch independent filmmaker, producer, stunt coordinator and USA Parkour founder, Robbie Corbett‘s latest 14-minute crowdfunded action shortfilm, JumpStart. A production of Balls 2 The Wall and PMV Entertainment, JumpStart marks UK freerunning sensation Ben “Jenx” Jenkins‘ debut as an actor after moving his base of operations to America in 2012, in additon to highlighting Corbett‘s debut as a filmmaker with the goal of spread the gospel of movement through translating the language of parkour and quality fight action on film. Featuring elaborate stunt coordination by co-stars, SubOverHype’s own Caine Sinclair and Solomon Brende, JumpStart proves itself to be an exciting new venture for any fan of action who enjoys solid fight choreography without the frenetic […]

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Tempest Goes For A Beach Run In BAD DOOD

A little bit of classic Muhammad Ali audio gets featured in Tempest Freerunning’s latest video edit this week, Bad Dood. The new short video, shot on location at Venice Beach showcases two of its own, Gabriel Nuñez and Luci Romberg, with fellow freerunning pro-athlete and stuntman Pasha Petkuns, who hails all the way from Thailand by way of Team Farang. It is pretty much what it is-three of the world’s most highly acclaimed performers doing what they love in a sport that continues to cultivate its way through the mainstream, by way of TV, film, and for some, as a way of life. You can find more of these videos in the following channel below where you can subscribe. And in case it needed noticing, that photo above goes straight to Tempest’s official Instagram. Have fun!

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Watch Toby Segar Take Flight And Go BERSERK!

Watch Toby Segar Take Flight And Go BERSERK!

I don’t get to cover a lot of Parkour and tricking on my site, as much as I should. The kind of things that freerunners are capable of never fail to blow minds, particularly in the case of Flow’s latest video featuring UK freerunner and filmmaker, Toby Segar, who’s been running leaps and bounds since the age of eleven. Now, at nineteen, it’s safe to say that Segar has become quite exceptional at his craft, something that has turned out to be beneficial for the folks at Parkour clothing apparel company, Take Flight. And with Eminem as the backdrop of this energizing music video, you’ll be sure to grant your Saturday morning a proper start. Watch the video below, and if you haven’t subscribed to Flow’s YouTube channel yet, waste no further time and subscribe away.

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Peipei Alena Yuan Fights The System In The Upcoming Fan Film Short, EDGE OF FAITH

Poster Credit: Jonathan Tran Lifelong athlete, aspiring actor, stunt coordinator and independent filmmaker Andrew J. Neis is already going viral for a new shortfilm coming this November titled Edge Of Faith. Inspired by the 2008 first person action adventure video game, Mirror’s Edge, Neis‘s shortfilm is based on an old screenplay he wrote titled “Lover’s Leap: A Parkour Love Story”. But instead, Neis wanted to crank it up a notch and chose to make a dual-purpose shortfilm that would further manifest his love for gaming, indie action and film culture, as well as showcase the eclectic talents, ANP Stunts, a multi-faceted drama, movement and screenfighting film team he founded with his brother, Peter Neis. Filmed in select areas of downtown Los Angeles as his backdrop, Neis and his team sought to replicate the same atmosphere and style in order to create a fan film that pays homage to Mirror’s Edge. […]

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Freerunner Ben "Jenx" Jenkin Gets The Run Of His Life In The New Shortfilm Trailer For JUMPSTART

In case the world still hasn’t taken notice, there is an area of the athletic world that aspires to share its community through film and finally make the transition to much bigger feature-length vehicles unlike much of what is seen in Hollywood. For five year freerunning veteran and independent filmmaker, co-writer/producer Robbie Corbett, similar sentiments could not be more clearer for his latest crowdfunded directorial shortfilm debut, JumpStart. A production of Balls 2 The Wall & PMV Entertainment, JumpStart looks like it has all the trimmings of a great piece of indie film with suspense, espionage, action and screenfighting. Most importantly, it bares mentioning with Parkour as its centerpiece, courtesy of Corbett‘s longtime friend and English freerunning expert Ben “Jenx” Jenkin, who moved to Los Angeles in November of 2012 in the pursuit of a career in entertainment, prior to ultimately landing in Corbett‘s project as the lead. Once JumpStart […]

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Syndicate Shoutout: JESSE LA FLAIR In "UNFOUND"

Syndicate Shoutout: JESSE LA FLAIR In "UNFOUND"

I always write about movies on my site, but I also like to take a moment to share the appreciation a lot of us have for the gifted athletes it takes to execute some of the brilliant stunts we so often see in films through various formats. In this case, meet Jesse La Flair, an internationally known pro-athlete and American Ninja Warrior representing a new generation of traceurs for the new millenium. To his credits, La Flair is also a Hollywood actor and stunt performer. He is slated to appear in the romantic action thriller Run, the martial arts comedy, Bloody Sport and the 2014 epic sequel adventure, 300: Rise Of An Empire. La Flair has a new video out this week shot by Tempest Freerunning creative director, Chad Bonnano titled Unfound, featuring the 28 year old parkour expert showcasing his elite skills on location in Santa Monica, California. As […]

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Covert Urban Ninja Warfare Rules The Streets Of Liverpool In The New Trailer For SHINOBI CODE

The Action Elite posted a new trailer today for an upcoming film that features an ensemble cast listing of award-winning, competitive freerunning athletes and martial arts performers called Shinobi Code from Airborn Entertainment. The film was an independent production and team effort led by prodigal student filmmaker, screenwriter and cinematographer Terry Cheung who directed the film a couple of years ago with no budget and a three man crew. With production now complete, only time will tell when the film will see an official release. The film stars Liverpool-native Ryan Doyle, a veteran traceur and an international champion martial artist and freerunner who served as the film’s co-editor, as well as the stunt/fight coordinator. Co-starring is Anthony Doyle and Jean-Paul Jesstiece who also co-wrote the screenplay and served as executive producers. Craig McGrath, Jack Lowry, Mark Slater, Del Ronan, Kevin Stokes, Gareth Taylor, Kingsley Ngenda and production designer Michael Purcell round […]

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SPRING IN MOTION: An Interview With KID HARU

Over the latter half my weekend, I got the opportunity to talk to 22-year old native Los Angelean, Devin White. On YouTube, viewers and fans know him as KidHaru – vlogger, tricker, gymnast, freerunner and indie filmmaker. You might be wondering what a name like “Kid Haru” means anyway. Well, I got that covered: KH: Kid is part of a long running gaming handle. My usernames were always Kid___. Haru is Japanese for spring. When I first created it, I thought it meant fire. I liked the element fire. So yeah. Now its funny since spring has nothing to do with me considering I was born in the winter. Aside from doing his own stuff, he also collaborates with other filmmakers and teams. His latest creation features martial arts actor and filmmaker Brendon Huor in the new shortfilm, “YouTube Self Defense“. In it, Huor stars as a parody of himself giving […]

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THE TAKEOVER Has Begun!

Director Victor Lopez is behind the latest pilot of a new slate projects featuring freerunners from all over the world. The short film is called The Takeover , which features a unique collaboration of 14 freerunning teams/40 professional athletes showing off highly coordinated feats of gynmastics, tumbling and parkour through an airplane junkyard. This installment is the first of a dynamic new campaign launch to promote freerunning as a sport, through the creation of illustrious and visionary shortfilms, roundtable discussions and seminars delving into freerunning’s real-world impact, and live public jam sessions featuring music, photo ops, autograph signings and more. To learn about the Pro Takeover and upcoming events, visit the official website. Click HERE if the embed fails to load. THE TAKEOVER

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Tempest Academy To TAKEOVER This Sunday

The Tempest Freerunning Academy is an athletic recreational school in California headlined by a team of athletes and instructors that some of the most talented athletes in today’s TV and film stunt industry, including Narayana Cabral, Rich King, and Lucy Romberg who will be performing stunts in the upcoming 2014 film, Ten starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Joe Manganiello and Sam Worthington. On Sunday, Feb 24th, Tempest Freerunning Academy will host the TEMPEST TAKEOVER PRO JAM, a live event tomorrow at 12:00pm featuring performances in parkour and freerunning, as well as exclusive interviews from professional athletes gathered from around the world. Follow Team Tempest using the hashtag #TempestProTakeover to get in on the action. If you wish to contact the team, you can email them here. ADDRESS/TELEPHONE: Tempest Freerunning Academy 19821 Nordhoff Place. #115 Los Angeles, CA 91311 Phone #: (818) 717-0525 Be sure to subscribe to their official Youtube channel where […]

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Cordelia Storm Sets Fire To The Rain In GIRL IN FLAMES

Cordelia Storm Sets Fire To The Rain In GIRL IN FLAMES

(This article was originally shared on 1/30/13) Say hello to Cordelia Storm. She is a four-year parkour veteran and a two-year coach at a Seattle-based freerunning school called Parkour Visions. And she’s also pretty gorgeous in my opinion. ^_^ In the years prior to her newfound love for performing amazing feats of freerunning that would make David Belle proud, she was a theater technician, played Dungeons and Dragons and studied at Vancouver Film School. She into such films as Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Tomb Raider and the Star Wars movies. Other than that, parkour has been her first and foremost her primary profession. I recently had the good fortune of seeing her in a facebook group I’m in dedicated to action films. She posted her video in the group, and being that I run a page dedicated to sharing this kind of stuff, I took the liberty of watching just […]

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Relativity Media To Co-Finance "BRICK MANSIONS" Starring Paul Walker & David Belle

  Deadline is reporting that Relativity Media will co-finance the upcoming film, Brick Mansions with a script by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen with Besson-protegè Camille Delamare set to direct. The film will be an American revision of Pierre Morrel’s orginal French-language 2004 international parkour hit, Banlieue 13 (a.k.a. District B13) and Patrick Alessandrin’s 2009 follow-up, Banlieue 13: Ultimatum and will star Paul Walker and Parkour founder, David Belle who co-starred with actor, freerunner and fight choreographer Cyril Raffaelli in the previous films. Walker will play an undercover cop who enlists the help of a street smart freerunner to recover a weapon of mass destruction from a major drug pusher within the ghetto known as “Brick Mansions”. The last known release date for the film included a 2013 release. Walker is soon set to star in the upcoming reboot of Xavier Gens’s 2007 videogame-based action spy thriller, Hitman in […]

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Freerunner Rich King Runs Around Naked In “AFTERSHOCK” Shortfilm

One of the things freerunner Rich “Dickie Boy” King wishes he could do is “Travel around the world for 1 year freerunning, surfing, skydiving, climbing mountains, and partying with indigenous people.” Well, somewhere in the world, Rich King was in the middle of an earthquake…naked. With no shorts. Good news is…HE FOUND SHORTS! And the rest is history. 🙂 Check him out in AfterShock in the embed below, with the backstory in the description. And don’t forget to subscribe to the Tempest Freerunning Community and Academy Facebook pages.

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FREERUNNER ALEXANDR GISYCH IN “ZLATOUST”

(Originally posted 2/8/13) Alexandr Gisych, (a.k.a. Shade) recently uploaded a new 17-minute short film titled, Zlatoust, based on the name of his home town in Russia. In the following film, he takes us on a journey, narrating his story while touring his beloved town with his younger brother, Alexey. Together, they film the vast and unique structures that set up an epic stage for Alexandr’s amazing stuntwork and parkour performance, running leaps and bounds between parks, graveyards, staircases, rocks, building rooftops, gaps, narrow platforms, and even living rooms. Through it all, Alexandr’s skills as a freerunner serve a much deeper narrative, illustrating how Zlatoust plays major role in defining the relationship between the city’s architectural and cultural past, and individual freedom.Through the film’s music and Alexandr’s athleticism, this short film is a beauty to see and listen to on his YouTube channel below, ShadeZlat. *Be advised, while the film is […]

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