An
"action director" is someone responsible for coordinating and directing thrilling and intense scenes in movies or TV shows. They design and supervise stunts, fight sequences, and other action-packed moments to make them exciting and visually striking for the audience.
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John McTiernan (Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October) made his mark as one of the
best action directors of the 1980s with Predator, a unique and very skillfully made mash - up of guerilla action flick and science fiction backbone.
Credited as
action director on the film (there's an impressively designed fencing match as the movie begins) is Ching Siu - tung, who served in the same capacity on All About Ah - long.
Blade of the Immortal boasts a fun and familiar plot, bloody battles, top of the line visuals, a great cast, and one of the best
action directors of all time - there's little reason to not be hyped for this film.
The Hong Kong director is, after all, arguably the strongest
action director working in the region today, his recent output excelling and finding...
His last movie, THE FAMILY, was shockingly inept and virtually unwatchable, a depressing turn for a guy who used to be considered one of the best
action directors in the world.
«What we need is to accelerate a just transition plan to ensure workers are prepared for jobs in the new green energy economy — not a dangerous deal that puts millions of people in the greater New York City metropolitan area and Western NY at risk,» said Manna Jo Greene, environmental
action director for the Hudson River advocacy group Clearwater.
These are camera tricks of hack
action directors who think that by substituting these for harder to set up, yet easier to visually follow action sequences, they can trick the audience into believing that something cool has just happened — even if they weren't able to see it clearly.
Legendary Hong Kong
action director John Woo was also reported to be developing the project, but it has been dormant for well over a decade.
Veteran
action director Yuen Bun recaptures the style of gravity - defying wire - fu that Tsui helped popularize in the early»90s, enhanced with 3D that works seamlessly in the fight scenes, but proves effective in the blurry underwater sequences.
Regardless, Core (surely the
most action director name out there) is now on to make the thriller, which finds a single father looking to divest himself of the criminal sins of his past while having to battle the mysterious claims of a couple who claim his kidnapped daughter is theirs.
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veteran action director, McTeigue shoots individual fight scenes well enough, but never provides any modulation or sense of escalating terror — at no point is anyone allowed to crack a smile, and even when the children are threatened with imminent death, the film's pace never seems to quicken.
The Hurricane Heist home entertainment release goes on a wild behind - the - scenes ride with special features that include deleted scenes, two never - before - seen featurettes, a VFX reel showing the impressive skill involved with creating a computer - generated Category 5 hurricane, and an audio commentary with
legendary action director Rob Cohen.
Prolific
action director Michael Bay is being eyed to direct his first - ever superhero movie, «Lobo,» which DC and Warner Bros. hope could be their answer to «Deadpool,» multiple insiders told TheWrap exclusively.
Marshall knows how to work with a star studded casts, and his handle on action cinema is impressive, opting for choreography over shaky cam theatrics or CGI heavy fight sequences (as many first
time action directors tend to do).
Unfortunately — and here's where we get to the bad stuff — first - time
live action director Andrew Stanton (Wall - E, Finding Nemo) can't maintain that tone throughout the film.
Murphy, alas, is pinchhitting for Andrew Davis, a top
flight action director who, along with the dynamic acting duo Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey, added welcome zest to «Under Siege.»
But if you do get lost in the labyrinth every now and again, don't worry — the next world - class fight sequence will be along in a minute, further confirming our theory that the Welsh ex-pat is the
finest action director working today.
As the opening night film of the Sydney programme accompanied by the appearance of the helmer and producer Kang Hye - jeong, the former contemplates the consequences of crime and corruption in both the law and order sides of the justice system, with the
prolific action director demonstrating his flair for hard - boiled mayhem.
British action director Matthew Vaughn («Layer Cake») gave the series a much - needed jolt of adrenaline with this prequel, taking us back to the beginning of the story and showing how a young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) joined forces before tragically parting ways and pursuing differing philosophies.
In theaters everywhere is Kingsman: The Secret Service, the new movie from
action director Matthew Vaughn, introducing us to a brand new super spy organization.
I get a visceral, guilty - pleasure enjoyment out of many of Harlin's films, and I admire his tenacity; he has seen it all, going from A-list
Hollywood action director and tabloid magnet (during his high - profile marriage to Geena Davis) to box - office poison and back, only to keep working and reinventing his career domestically and internationally on the big and small screen.
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proven action director with Road to Perdition, Mendes has a full playground thanks to an escalated budget, and uses it wonderfully.
With the release of
famed action director Ridley Scott's «Exodus: Gods and Kings» Friday, gone are the long beards, flowing robes, and authoritative gravitas of the Hollywood biblical epics of yore.
September 14, 2013 Based on Tonino Benacquista's novel «Malavita», opinions on this strange little dark comedy — which marks a comedic departure for famed
French action director Luc Besson — will likely be rigidly parked in one or the other of two camps.
Based on Tonino Benacquista's novel «Malavita», opinions on this strange little dark comedy — which marks a comedic departure for famed French
action director Luc Besson — will likely be rigidly parked in one or the other of two camps.
The most successful animator - turned - live -
action director since Frank Tashlin, Burton's demeanour on set is simultaneously boyish and possessed; the strength of this docu is in just letting us watch him guide his rogues» gallery through its paces without annoying «cut - ups» or junket - style interviews.
The Judges for 2014 were: Obi Amadi, Lead Professional Officer, UNITE / CPHVA, Patti Rundall, Policy Director, Baby Milk Action & Jane Neesam (Baby
Milk Action Director and BfN Registered Tutor and Supporter)
Landmine Action director Simon Conway made the claim days before a major conference in Dublin, when world leaders will finalise the text of an international treaty to ban the use and stockpiling of cluster munitions.
A martial - artist - turned - filmmaker, Florentine (born Yitzhak Florentin) has carved out a niche in the direct - to - video world as an old -
school action director with a knack for choreographing and composing fight scenes.
Irwin Allen, the Busby Berkeley of natural disasters and other people's troubles, teams up with John Guillermin, a competent if
undistinguished action director.
Of course, «The Peacemaker's» real selling point is action, and Leder proves herself a
crackerjack action director, with some seriously intense set - pieces — a train wreck that opens the film, a horrifying nuclear blast, a car chase in a crowded plaza, a foot chase through the streets of New York and, best of all, a nail - biting standoff on a bridge between a truck armed with nuclear weapons and military helicopters.
Gray knows how to sell the idea of unalterable destiny with a car chase: That's the mark of a
real action director.
Shirley Jackson's classic 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House gets the full effects - laden, end - of - the - century treatment from
action director De Bont (Speed, Twister), which essentially means more computer - generated phantasms and a much, much louder audio track than Robert Wise's superlative 1963 version.
Over in Berkeley, the Pacific Film Archive has two subversive series, on Japanese bad boy Shohei Imamura («The Insect Woman,» «History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess») and
American action director Walter Hill («The Warriors,» «Streets of Fire»).
Han was one of Sammo Hung's primary mentors: the two of them collaborated on
action director duties for Mao's The Angry River; Han had also directed the action for Bruce Lee's debut film.