Photos: Scott Varn (Mickey Gilbert, Colin Geddes, Dennis Berman, Bill Banowsky, Aaron Norris, Tom Quinn) To All The Actionites Out There! One of the clear highlights of ActionFest 2012 was the amazing collection of talent who came to Asheville, NC to be honored and celebrated. ActionFest gave out some fun awards to a very [...]
Hey Actionites – Looks like the cat is out of the bag! Chick Norris Award Recipient (And upcoming action super star) Gina Carano is in talks to have a major role in Justin Lin’s Fast Six! This information is coming directly from ActionFest Jury Panel member Borys Kit, no less! So Gina’s next major [...]
The Beautiful Grove Park Inn Hey There Actionites – While I had an amazing experience at ActionFest 2012, it was a little different than most peoples’. Rather than checking out a dozen or so great action films while consuming massive quantities of Zaxby’s fried chicken, I was tasked with shuttling the special guests to [...]
Gina Carano is the first recipient of ActionFest’s inaugural “Chick” Norris Best Female Action Star Award! Carano is a Muay Thai and mixed martial arts champion with a kickboxing record of 12 wins 1 draw 1 loss and a 7 – 1 MMA record. Aside from her amazing record, Carano fought and defeated Leiticia Pestova [...]
Photo: The Everett Collection What’s happening, Actionites? The Hollywood Reporter has posted a pretty cool feature about history’s best athletes turned actors. The list of 26 is pretty expansive, covering lots of athletes and movies/TV shows that I have never even heard of. But many of the action luminaries you know and love are [...]
Hello Women and Men of Action- Today we finally got to unleash to the world one of the exciting developments we have been working on here at ActionFest. Gina Carano will be honored with the inaugural Chick Norris (Best Female Action Star) Award at ActionFest 2012! She will be attending the fest in person, so [...]
Hey Women and Men of Action- Earlier this weekend we gave you a taste of a great interview we had the chance to do with Haywire’s fight choreographer J.J. Perry. J.J. has a long and interesting career and was a very dynamic interview. He was kind enough to let us record the interview via Skype, [...]
Hey Men and Women of Action – We have a serious bonus in store for you all tonight: An exclusive interview with Haywire’s stunt man and fight choreographer J.J. Perry. We actually conducted an in depth interview about his career which includes some awesome stories. We’ll share the more in-depth interview later. But TONIGHT, before [...]
