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...Blake's car near a restaurant where the pair had just eaten; after a three-month trial in which Blake did not testify; in Van Nuys, Calif. Jury foreman Thomas Nicholson called the circumstantial evidence "flimsy" and said prosecutors, who relied heavily on testimony from two Hollywood stuntmen with histories of drug abuse, "couldn't put the gun in his hand...
Director Francis Lawrence (from music videos, of course) shoots a scene from every possible angle--curbside, bird's-eye view--so that the cameramen have to be stuntmen. There's both eye and mind candy in this cleverly berserk spawn of Blade Runner...
...Induce Act (which is unlikely to get a full hearing before Congress this session, although Senate Judiciary chairman Orrin Hatch will probably bring it back next year). A public relations campaign to try to sway people from downloading movies illegally is also under way. Theatrical trailers show stuntmen, set builders and special-effects experts claiming they are the ones hurt by illegal downloads. And the industry has raised concerns over security dangers and privacy issues endemic to file sharing...
...Trousers: The Life of the Hong Kong Stuntmen...
That's why those fearless--or foolhardy--stunt folk aren't likely to be replaced by machines. "Stuntmen are more vital than ever to provide the impetus for the CG work," says McG. "In The Matrix Reloaded there's a lot of CG in the freeway chase, but that scene probably employed more stuntmen for a longer period than any action sequence in the history of cinema." Besides, CG is expensive. "Given the amount of time and money that it takes to get it right in the computer," says Jonathan Mostow, director of Terminator 3, "you might as well have...