Red Dwarf Feature Shot Down for Being “Too Marketable”

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My Interview with Far East Films about Death Grip and The Stunt People

Phil Mills of Far East Films has posted an interview with me where I talk about Death Grip and The Stunt People .

Check out the interview at www.fareastfilms.com/customPage/74.htm. Thanks Phil!

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Eric the Redneck’s Tutorial on Stunt Falls – Watch now!

Whenever I find myself alone at our weekly stunt practice, I make an independent film. Independent in the sense that there’s only one of us makin it. I’m the director, star, and cameraman. And I do all my own stunts, so here’s my tutorial on stunt falls. Careful, don’t go doin’ these at home.

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Some More Death Grip Behind the Scenes Videos – Plus an Update

Color: 98% – Finish on Friday.

Sound: 95% – Finish next week.

Music: Done.

Behind the scenes featurette: 40%. Finish by June 13th. This is taking the bulk of my time right now.

DVD and BD authoring: 10% (art only). Finish by June 15th.

Commentary: 0% , but will only take a total of 4 hours. I’d like to do a more technical track with Rebecca while Drew i...Read more

Edward Kahana Releases Relic Hunt Trailer – Indiana Jones with Martial Arts

Relic Hunt

Edward Kahana, Alvin Hsing, Bryan Cartago and Lucas Okuma of The Stunt People have released a trailer to their latest action-adventure flick.

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Special Identity – New BTS stills

Mtime has released new BTS stills of the film. There’s no release date yet but it’s estimated to be out during late fall or in early winter.

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Final Thoughts from An Action Filmmaker In Cannes – European Film Financing and The Future of Action Film

The journey home from Cannes was long, but it gave me some time to evaluate the whole trip. The most shocking realization was how little we knew about the European film industry simply because we live in the USA. Even attending the American Film Market didn’t prepare us for what Cannes was all about. The focus at AFM was on making a marketable independent film, while Cannes was about how to co-produce with other countries and get in tight with film fund ...Read more

Navigating the Action Film Industry of the Future

In my last post I used Cannes and AFM to take a snapshot of the action industry and predict what the climate will be like in a couple years. Impossible? Maybe, but using some basic principles I think we can be pretty accurate, within fifty percent. So how does it relate to us as indie genre filmmakers? And what’s to be done?

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An Action Filmmaker in Italy – Part of the Cannes 2012 Trip

Tuesday, May 22 – Our time in Italy was short but sweet, punctuated with our sound designer Matteo and a stunt team called D-Unit. We went into the fashion capital of Milano, where we went to the only coffee place that resembled Starbucks called Arnold Coffee. Italy is the only European country that doesn’t have Starbucks, so instead they have Arnold Coffee, where they sell huge drinks and pancakes and all that crap. Like France, Italy doesn’t seem to offer “large” coffee sizes, or...Read more

Special Identity – Update on the Yen/Zhao scandal

Things looks to have been neutralized as both Donnie Yen and Vincent Zhao are very busy doing promotion and shooting their respective projects – Donnie currently shooting a romance film titled Together starring Bosco Lam and Michelle Chan and Vincent promoting the upcoming kung fu drama Wu Dang . Last that happened was that Mainland director Tan Bing came out on April 6 and spoke out about Donnie’s unfaithful work ethics and arrogant behavīor which further caused heat betw...Read more