Stunt

June 6th 2024

The Academy Might Finally Add a Stunt Category to the Oscars

Stunt professionals have long deserved recognition at Hollywood's most prestigious awards ceremony—and now, that might actually happen.

Movies Cheryl Eddy Jun 6

May 9th 2024

The Numbers Behind Furiosa: A Mad Max Story Are Mind-Blowing

From the shooting days and stunt performers to all the make-up and wigs, everything about it was epic.

Movies Germain Lussier May 9

July 27th 2023

A Stunt Performer Set Himself on Fire on the SAG-AFTRA Picket Line

A double for Harrison Ford, Eric Dane, and John Hurt, Mike Massa is on strike to protest the poor contract offered by AMPTP.

Corporate Culture Linda Codega Jul 27

July 18th 2023

SAG-AFTRA’s Rejected Contract Demands Seem Beyond Reasonable

The Screen Actors Guild is on strike following the breakdown of negotiations as the AMPTP trips on streaming, AI, and equity.

Corporate Culture Linda Codega Jul 18

May 1st 2023

Watch the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Cast Show Off Their Stuntwork

This io9 exclusive from the upcoming digital release shows a between-the-wires look at how the actors were flung around on set.

Movies Linda Codega May 1

April 20th 2023

Marvel Star Elizabeth Olsen Is Just Fine Not Doing Her Own Stunts

The Scarlet Witch actress says that asking her to do stunts is a "waste of time" because trained stunt performers do it better.

Movies Linda Codega Apr 20

December 19th 2022

Watch Tom Cruise Repeatedly Try to Kill Himself for Mission: Impossible 7

The actor literally goes above and beyond on this behind-the-scenes look at Dead Reckoning 's biggest stunt.

Movies Rob Bricken Dec 19

April 25th 2022

A Power Rangers Stunt Artist Reflects on Nearly 30 Years of Mighty Morphin’ Action

Akihiro Yuji Noguchi looks back on decades of work helping bring the superhero action of Power Rangers and Super Sentai to life.

Television James Whitbrook Apr 25

November 11th 2021

Mulan Stunt Double Ashlee Fidow Gives Advice to Aspiring Performers

"Know your limitations" is a big one when dealing with the demands of a stunt career.

Movies Cheryl Eddy Nov 11

November 4th 2021

Meet the Marvel Stunt Performer Who’s Helped Shape Kickass Superhero Fights

"I'm definitely a multi-hyphenate," Janeshia Adams-Ginyard says. "I act, and I do stunts."

Movies Cheryl Eddy Nov 4

September 16th 2021

Sounds Like Keanu Reeves’ Stunt Double on The Matrix Had a Hell of a Time

Neo's coolest bullet-time moves were way more difficult than they looked.

Movies Rob Bricken Sep 16

August 26th 2021

Mission: Impossible 7 Will Have Maybe the Biggest Stunt in Movie History

Tom Cruise trained an entire year to film just one shot for the May 2022 release.

Movies Germain Lussier Aug 26

June 5th 2018

Man Presumed Dead After Tragic Mount Everest Cryptocurrency Stunt

A Sherpa man who helped lead a team up Mount Everest as a part of an ASKfm cryptocurrency publicity stunt is presumed dead. In an effort to promote their initial coin offering, the social media platform ASKfm sponsored four “crypto enthusiasts” on their climb of Mount Everest, so they could bury $50,000 worth of the…

Tech News Jennings Brown Jun 5

May 11th 2017

Game of Thrones’ Craziest Stunt Flamebroiled 20 People in a Single Day

Game of Thrones isn’t one to shut away from gutsy stunts, whether it’s the epic horse skirmish in “Battle of the Bastards,” or that stupid thing where we all watched ice melt to find out when season seven was coming. But all of them pale in comparison to what may be considered GoT’s craziest stunt,…

Television Beth Elderkin May 11

December 5th 2016

Watching This Dude Sit and Spin on the Edge of a Building Is So Nerve Wracking

This is very probably one of the scariest places you can park your bum: at the very edge of a corner of a very tall building in downtown Toronto. To make it even worse, Oleg Cricket, the guy in the video, decided it would be a perfect time to start spinning around while he’s sitting…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 5

August 26th 2015

Watching these crazy guys do tricks off a 40-story building made my knees disappear

I might have cried. I don’t know for sure because I’m unable to process emotion or feel my face after seeing these two guys, Ilya Bagaev and OlgaCricket, tease death by pulling tricks on the roof and even on the side of a 40-story building. I stopped the video multiple times because I just couldn’t…

Sploid Casey Chan Aug 26

May 19th 2015

KFC Puts Keyboards In Trays So Greasy Chicken Fingers Can Keep Texting

Kentucky Fried Chicken in Germany just cooked up the weirdest fast-food techno-marketing stunt. For a week, restaurants lined their serving trays with disposable Bluetooth keyboards instead of paper liners. Not even joking. The idea is that you sync the keyboard to your phone before eating a plate of fried chicken, granting you the ability to…

Tech News Sean Buckley May 19

March 27th 2015

Video: Car crosses a river over a high-wire in epic stunt

Jaguar unveiled their new car model to the world—the #NewXF—making it cross the Thames river, in London, over a two-inch-wide (34 mm) and 787-foot-long (240 meters) high-wire. The car made it successfully to the other side establishing a insane but, nonetheless, extraordinary new world record. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Mar 27

December 23rd 2014

Man Reenacts Up By Tying 90 Helium Balloons To A Lawn Chair

It’s not as impressive as lifting a house into the air, but daredevil Erik Roner had a miniature Up moment when he was lifted 8,000 feet into the air with the help of 50 tanks of helium and 90 enormous balloons. Roner also brought a gun with him so that he could pop the balloons…

io9 Lauren Davis Dec 23

December 22nd 2014

Watch Airbus’ mad stunt with $1.5 billion worth of airplanes

I have to give kudos to Airbus for having the guts to do this using five test A350-900 XWB airplanes, its newest wide-body airliner. I know the stunt was well calculated and the pilots—all of them ex-military aviators—knew exactly what they were doing, but the entire thing still looks insane. Especially when one of the…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Dec 22

Stunt

The Academy Might Finally Add a Stunt Category to the Oscars

The Numbers Behind Furiosa: A Mad Max Story Are Mind-Blowing

A Stunt Performer Set Himself on Fire on the SAG-AFTRA Picket Line

SAG-AFTRA’s Rejected Contract Demands Seem Beyond Reasonable

Watch the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Cast Show Off Their Stuntwork

Marvel Star Elizabeth Olsen Is Just Fine Not Doing Her Own Stunts

Watch Tom Cruise Repeatedly Try to Kill Himself for Mission: Impossible 7

A Power Rangers Stunt Artist Reflects on Nearly 30 Years of Mighty Morphin’ Action

Mulan Stunt Double Ashlee Fidow Gives Advice to Aspiring Performers

Meet the Marvel Stunt Performer Who’s Helped Shape Kickass Superhero Fights

Sounds Like Keanu Reeves’ Stunt Double on The Matrix Had a Hell of a Time

Mission: Impossible 7 Will Have Maybe the Biggest Stunt in Movie History

Man Presumed Dead After Tragic Mount Everest Cryptocurrency Stunt

Game of Thrones’ Craziest Stunt Flamebroiled 20 People in a Single Day

Watching This Dude Sit and Spin on the Edge of a Building Is So Nerve Wracking

Watching these crazy guys do tricks off a 40-story building made my knees disappear

KFC Puts Keyboards In Trays So Greasy Chicken Fingers Can Keep Texting

Video: Car crosses a river over a high-wire in epic stunt

Man Reenacts Up By Tying 90 Helium Balloons To A Lawn Chair

Watch Airbus’ mad stunt with $1.5 billion worth of airplanes

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