Grant Page, the larger-than-life Australian stunt performer famous for his jaw-dropping work in films including Mad Max, The Man From Hong Kong and Mad Dog Morgan, has died. He was 85.
Page died Thursday when the car he was driving near his home in Kendall on the coast of New South Wales hit a tree, his son Leroy Page told Daily Mail Australia.
Page worked with director Brian Trenchard-Smith on more than a dozen projects, including The Stuntmen (1973), King Fu Killers (1974), The Man From Hong Kong (1973) — where Page fights martial arts expert Jimmy Wang Yu in scenes using knives, cleavers and meat hooks — Deathcheaters (1976), Stunt Rock (1978) and Hospitals Don’t Burn Down! (1978).
And for the documentary Dangerfreaks (1987), Trenchard-Smith filmed Page standing on a ledge outside the perimeter fence on the observation deck of the Empire State Building in New York.
Page “successfully tampered with the laws of physics and probability,” Trenchard-Smith...
Page died Thursday when the car he was driving near his home in Kendall on the coast of New South Wales hit a tree, his son Leroy Page told Daily Mail Australia.
Page worked with director Brian Trenchard-Smith on more than a dozen projects, including The Stuntmen (1973), King Fu Killers (1974), The Man From Hong Kong (1973) — where Page fights martial arts expert Jimmy Wang Yu in scenes using knives, cleavers and meat hooks — Deathcheaters (1976), Stunt Rock (1978) and Hospitals Don’t Burn Down! (1978).
And for the documentary Dangerfreaks (1987), Trenchard-Smith filmed Page standing on a ledge outside the perimeter fence on the observation deck of the Empire State Building in New York.
Page “successfully tampered with the laws of physics and probability,” Trenchard-Smith...
- 3/15/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"Star Trek: The Next Generation" famously struggled creatively during its first season. The inaugural villains, the Ferengi, flopped (to the point actor Armin Shimmerman felt the need to repair their reputation when he returned to play Quark on the spin-off "Deep Space Nine"). So, the writers dug up some old foes with a storied history -- the Romulans. The Romulans returned in the season 1 finale, "The Neutral Zone," and became enduring enemies of the Enterprise-d.
The Romulans were once Vulcans but split off centuries ago after rejecting the path of logic and serenity. As a result, the Romulans share most of their cousins' physical features, such as pointed ears. In "Reunification," a two-part episode in "The Next Generation" season 5, Spock (Leonard Nimoy guest-starring) is working on Romulus to bring the Romulans and his people back together.
However, upon the Romulans' reintroduction in "The Neutral Zone," make-up Michael Westmore gave them some cosmetic surgery,...
The Romulans were once Vulcans but split off centuries ago after rejecting the path of logic and serenity. As a result, the Romulans share most of their cousins' physical features, such as pointed ears. In "Reunification," a two-part episode in "The Next Generation" season 5, Spock (Leonard Nimoy guest-starring) is working on Romulus to bring the Romulans and his people back together.
However, upon the Romulans' reintroduction in "The Neutral Zone," make-up Michael Westmore gave them some cosmetic surgery,...
- 3/10/2024
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
Gene Roddenberry’s vision of space-age utopia has always been one of idealism and intelligence, of peace and prosperity. From the start, he wanted Star Trek to showcase the best of humanity, confronting modern-day issues and appearing as an aspirational model for society. So, naturally, when it came time to hurl us 300 years into the future, he did it by building on stories from 400 years in the past.
Having cut his teeth writing on early Westerns and police procedurals, Roddenberry wanted to elevate his sci-fi weekly into something more than typical genre television – he wanted to appeal to intellectuals. And how better to appeal to the thinking person than with a library’s worth of bookish influences.
Classic literature was right there in Roddenberry’s original pitch: Captain Kirk was described as a Horatio Hornblower-type, while the show itself was referred to as Gulliver’s Travels in space. His sequel series,...
Having cut his teeth writing on early Westerns and police procedurals, Roddenberry wanted to elevate his sci-fi weekly into something more than typical genre television – he wanted to appeal to intellectuals. And how better to appeal to the thinking person than with a library’s worth of bookish influences.
Classic literature was right there in Roddenberry’s original pitch: Captain Kirk was described as a Horatio Hornblower-type, while the show itself was referred to as Gulliver’s Travels in space. His sequel series,...
- 5/18/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
In the third episode of the third season of "Star Trek: Lower Decks," called "Mining the Mind's Mines," the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos has been tasked with rescuing a team of geologists from a planet populated by silicon-based life forms called the Scrubble. Commander Ransom (Jerry O'Connell) bemoans the fact that Federation scientists often play fast-and-loose with safety, and it's always Starfleet who has to come clean up their research missions when they go afoul.
On the Scrubble planet, mysterious glowing crystal orbs read a victim's thoughts, briefly manifest their deepest desires in the real world, and then turn their victims into statues. Throughout the episode, characters will have to come up with quick, embarrassed excuses when some of their deepest desires appear in front of their peers. Ensign Mariner (Tawney Newsome), for instance, can't help but reveal that she's developed feelings for her Andorian co-worker Jennifer.
On the Scrubble planet, mysterious glowing crystal orbs read a victim's thoughts, briefly manifest their deepest desires in the real world, and then turn their victims into statues. Throughout the episode, characters will have to come up with quick, embarrassed excuses when some of their deepest desires appear in front of their peers. Ensign Mariner (Tawney Newsome), for instance, can't help but reveal that she's developed feelings for her Andorian co-worker Jennifer.
- 9/8/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Exclusive: CAA has signed The Umbrella Academy star Emmy Raver-Lampman for representation in all areas.
Raver-Lampman is best known for her role as Allison Hargreeves in Netflix’s Emmy-nominated series The Umbrella Academy, opposite Elliot Page and Tom Hopper. Season two had the longest #1 streak for any scripted show on Netflix, according to the streamer, and the series has been renewed for a third season.
On the big screen, Raver-Lampman will next be seen in Open Road’s Blacklight, starring opposite Liam Neeson. She is also set to star in Warner Media’s Gatlopp and recently wrapped production on MGM’s Dog with Channing Tatum. She recently starred in Nick Simon’s Untitled Horror Movie, a comedy-horror film shot entirely during lockdown with the entire writing, pre-production, and filming process taking place remotely.
Raver-Lampman also voices Molly Tillerman in Apple TV+’s hit animated series Central Park, alongside Josh Gad,...
Raver-Lampman is best known for her role as Allison Hargreeves in Netflix’s Emmy-nominated series The Umbrella Academy, opposite Elliot Page and Tom Hopper. Season two had the longest #1 streak for any scripted show on Netflix, according to the streamer, and the series has been renewed for a third season.
On the big screen, Raver-Lampman will next be seen in Open Road’s Blacklight, starring opposite Liam Neeson. She is also set to star in Warner Media’s Gatlopp and recently wrapped production on MGM’s Dog with Channing Tatum. She recently starred in Nick Simon’s Untitled Horror Movie, a comedy-horror film shot entirely during lockdown with the entire writing, pre-production, and filming process taking place remotely.
Raver-Lampman also voices Molly Tillerman in Apple TV+’s hit animated series Central Park, alongside Josh Gad,...
- 12/14/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The contemporary bunch of Star Trek TV shows have come under much scrutiny from fans for arguably creating plot holes when compared to previous series. Star Trek: Discovery, for instance, is set prior to The Original Series but made a lot of innovations to the Trek universe. Star Trek: Picard doesn’t have quite the same problem, as it’s set decades after The Next Generation, but it’s still playing fast and loose with what’s established on that show.
Fans being fans, it’s been noticed that one of Picard‘s revelations about Romulan society apparently conflicts with a line from Tng episode “The Defector.” In that installment, Admiral Alidar Jarok encounters Data and tells him, “I know a host of Romulan cyberneticists who would love to be this close to you.” And yet in Picard, we’ve learned that Romulans widely despise all forms of synthetic and artificial life.
Fans being fans, it’s been noticed that one of Picard‘s revelations about Romulan society apparently conflicts with a line from Tng episode “The Defector.” In that installment, Admiral Alidar Jarok encounters Data and tells him, “I know a host of Romulan cyberneticists who would love to be this close to you.” And yet in Picard, we’ve learned that Romulans widely despise all forms of synthetic and artificial life.
- 2/10/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
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