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Fighting Spirit Film Festival Features JB Productions Film Blindsided
onThe Fighting Spirit Film Festival (@FSFilmFestival) recently featured our film Blindsided alongside Scott Adkins' action-comedy Accident Man. One of the other huge highlights of the @FSFilmFestival this weekend was seeing #Blindsided by the exceptionally talented @EricJacobus on the Big Screen! Just love this short film so much! It’s even more awesome when watching on the Big Screen! 🎥 [...]
Thanks To Everyone Who Created Blindsided
onToday we're releasing our new short film Blindsided, an exciting event not only for marking the third film of the JB Productions franchise, the first 2 being the Rope A Dope series, but also for representing a turning point for this humble stuntman, who started a stunt career in 2001 as a do-it-all-because-I-have-to filmmaker, wearing all hats, and proceeding to shed one [...]
Eric Jacobus Returns to His Tekken Workout using Devil Jin’s Movelist
onIt's still January but California-based stuntman Eric Jacobus has already had a very busy 2017. From promoting his new short Blindsided and writing the feature film adaptation to working as a motion capture stuntman for numerous video games, Jacobus had momentarily stepped away from the Tekken IRL series. In his Armor King IRL video, Jacobus polled his YouTube subscribers, whose numbers recently surpassed 50,000, [...]
Immortal full film now online – The first Stunt People feature film
onBack in 2003, Chelsea Steffensen and I embarked on our first feature film endeavor, a film he wrote called Immortal. We shot for three months under the sun in a Redding summer and one month in a freezing winter, encountered dozens of injuries, and finished the thing five years later. You can still buy the DVD [...]
Action Thriller “Ness” starring Eric Jacobus, Hiroshi Adachi, and Ed Kahana – Watch Now!
onDetective Ness kicks some ass to catch the man who killed his partner. サンフランシスコのスタントチームThe Stunt Peopleのアクションショートです。 パートナーを殺された警部補 ネスがその犯人を追う。 Starring Eric Jacobus, Ed Kahana, Victor Repizo, Hiroshi Adachi, Lucas Okuma, Alvin Hsing
“Beast Mode 2” – Proof that the indie action community does it better
onShaun Finney has released his second installment of Beast Mode, a reel of the latest indie action from across the globe, set to a rad song. If you're new to the indie action world, then this is a great place to start. The Stunt People Forum is also a great gathering place for indie action [...]
Death Grip Kills It with James Lew at Ric Meyers’ Superhero Kung Fu Extravaganza Panel
onRic Meyers showed Death Grip at his kung fu movie panel, and I had the opportunity to meet James Lew before the panel. It was awesome. Though the crowd was an entirely different demographic than the one that attended our premiere, they laughed at all the same jokes. Afterward Ric had us all stand in [...]
Death Grip Authoring Complete – Special Update on Special Features
onThis weekend I spent about 48 hours finishing up the Death Grip behind-the-scenes featurette The Life of Death Grip, which clocked in at 75 minutes. I also finished authoring the DVD and the Blu Ray masters and shipped them off to Signature Media this morning. If all goes as planned, we'll have 2000 DVDs and [...]