Hollywood Reporter. 10/2/2019, Vol. 425 Issue 32, p66-69. 4p. 8 Color Photographs.
Subjects
Employers' liability and Stunt performers
Abstract
Jackson, a 34-year-old veteran stunt performer, had been scheduled to film a fight scene. While Jackson was still in the coma, her husband, Dave Grant, a British stunt performer, had been talking to producer Bolt about specifics of his wife's medical coverage. Two years and six days after the accident, Jackson was stunned when her lawyers in South Africa notified her that the local production entity she had contracted with, an LLC tied to Anderson and Bolt, had no assets and was, according to her suit, "a shell company". With her avenues for compensation becoming exhausted, Jackson moved to sue in the U.S. Had she known that there was no insurance to cover her, Jackson's suit alleges, "she never would have agreed to perform in The Final Chapter, or alternatively, would have secured additional insurance". [Extracted from the article]
Hollywood Reporter. 10/31/2018, p66-69. 4p. 5 Color Photographs.
Subjects
Diversity in the workplace, Filmmakers, Stunt performers, and Stunt production
Abstract
The article focuses on the need to find a solution to safety of stunt performers in motion pictures. It discusses the rise in injuries and death of stunt performers due to haphazard hiring of people with not enough stunt experience, how even the talk of diversity in productions make the choice not based on experience, and how Screen Actors Guild�American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) is trying to put safety measures.
Popular Mechanics. Jun2019, p22-23. 2p. 5 Color Photographs.
Subjects
STUNT performers, HORROR films, SCENES (Motion pictures), and STUNT production
Abstract
The article discusses how stunts are filmed in a horror movie with reference to the forklift scene in the film "Child's Play." Topics include scenes involving heights look more real when they're filmed in the air than when they're filmed over a green-screen floor, and to make the noose look realistic one have to have some pressure on the performer's neck.
Popular Mechanics. Apr2019, p22-23. 2p. 3 Color Photographs.
Subjects
MOTION picture production & direction, STUNT performers, and HELLBOY (Fictitious character)
Abstract
The article reports on the use of a movable rig by key stunt rigger Francois Coetzer and his company, Blackrat Stunts, for the Lionsgate reboot of "Hellboy" in 2019. Coetzer thought it may be fun to make a movable rig that stunt double Ivailo Dimitrov and actor David Harbour, both playing Hellboy, could interact rather than trying to air-fight an invisible giant. The stunt double needed fighting skills and gymnastics and had to physically match the size of Harbour.
The article discusses how actor Mike Moh prepared for playing the role of martial-arts legend Bruce Lee in Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood" film.
Daredevils--United States--History and Stunt performers--United States--History
Abstract
Well before Evel Knievel or Hollywood stuntmen, reality television or the X Games, North America had a long tradition of stunt performance, of men (and some women) who sought media attention and popular fame with public feats of daring. Many of these feats—jumping off bridges, climbing steeples and buildings, swimming incredible distances, or doing tricks with wild animals—had their basis in the manual trades or in older entertainments like the circus. In The Thrill Makers, Jacob Smith shows how turn-of-the-century bridge jumpers, human flies, lion tamers, and stunt pilots first drew crowds to their spectacular displays of death-defying action before becoming a crucial, yet often invisible, component of Hollywood film stardom. Smith explains how these working-class stunt performers helped shape definitions of American manhood, and pioneered a form of modern media celebrity that now occupies an increasingly prominent place in our contemporary popular culture.
Stunt men and women -- Injuries, Stunt men and women -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Physical therapists -- Practice, Physical therapists -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Physical therapy -- Methods, and Therapeutics, Physiological -- Methods
Abstract
Hugh O'Brien has been shot, lit on fire, thrown off a building, fallen off a cliff, and in more car wrecks than a crash dummy. He's even had sword fights [...]
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