International Stunt News
Australia — Danny Baldwin Coordinating Stunts on Kiah Roache-Turner’s WWII Action-Horror Lady Death
Posted: June 26, 2026
Bloody Disgusting’s first look at Lady Death — director Kiah Roache-Turner’s WWII action-horror, now shooting outside Adelaide, South Australia — confirms Danny Baldwin (Beast of War) as stunt coordinator. It reads as a stunt-and-effects-heavy build: a squad of British commandos and a Soviet sniper (Masha Basman, in the title role inspired by Lyudmila Pavlichenko) fight through a forest stalked by an oversized wolf pack rendered practically by MEG Studios, with SFX coordinated by John Sanderson (Mortal Kombat). For performers that means creature-interaction and combat work staged against physical builds and pyro rather than empty plates — a South Australia credit worth tracking as the Bronte Studios pipeline (Wyrmwood, Beast of War) keeps shooting in the region.
Source: Bloody Disgusting — ‘Lady Death’ Exclusive First Look
Hong Kong — Kenji Tanigaki on the Craft of The Furious: Rehearsal-Room Cinematography and the Five-Way Fight
Posted: June 18, 2026
Steve Prokopy at Third Coast Review caught Kenji Tanigaki for a sit-down on the shop-floor decisions behind The Furious — the kind of interview that tells coordinators what was actually decided in prep. Three items worth pulling out for the stunt department: First, Tanigaki brought cinematographer Meteor Cheung into the rehearsal room a month and a half before principal photography and had him shoot the stunt team while they moved, instead of the usual pattern where the DP shows up at the final meeting and uses the first take as their own rehearsal. Tanigaki frames that as a budget and time argument: every take where the camera operator is still learning the choreography is a take that wastes a setup. Second, his framing rule is borrowed from George Miller on Fury Road — put the object in the center, whether it's a punch or a car, so the audience knows where to look — and his shot-design heroes are Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Gene Kelly, Bruce Lee, and Jackie Chan, all of whom worked in wide, clean shots that hold the body. Third, the climactic five-way fight is built around five different martial-arts styles from five Asian countries deliberately layered against each other (Xie Miao's wushu vs. Joe Taslim's Indonesian background, etc.) — Tanigaki's read on the room is that homogenous styles get boring on screen and that the cultural and stylistic contrast is what makes the choreography legible. For coordinators tracking how stunt-trained directors are building their second-unit relationships, the Cheung-in-rehearsal arrangement is the most portable idea here.
Hong Kong — Bill Kong Confirms The Furious Sequel Conversations Are Underway With Kenji Tanigaki
Posted: June 15, 2026
Producer Bill Kong (Edko Films) confirmed sequel conversations are already happening on The Furious, the Hong Kong action picture directed and choreographed by Kenji Tanigaki that has cleared $19.6 million globally on opening weekend. Tanigaki — the action director / choreographer who shaped Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In and the Rurouni Kenshin features — runs The Furious as both director and fight choreographer, and the 18-day final-showdown shoot Variety broke down last week is the kind of choreographer-as-author work the new Oscar category is being built for. Kong's line to Dread Central was that any sequel will be "better than the first" — translation: he's open to scaling the action department's runway, not capping it. For coordinators tracking the Asian-action pipeline, the headline is that Tanigaki's commercial ceiling just went up, and his next picture will likely have a budget that lets the choreography breathe even further.
Source: Dread Central — 'The Furious' Producer Bill Kong Guarantees Sequel Will Be "Better Than the First" · Variety — Inside 'The Furious': Mixing Martial Art Styles to Taking 18 Days to Shoot the Insane Final Showdown · The Week — Will Kenji Tanigaki's 'The Furious' Get a Sequel? Producer Teases Possibility
Saudi Arabia — 7 Dogs Opens Across the Region With Stephen Dunlevy Coordinating and Two Guinness Stunt Records on the Board
Posted: May 27, 2026
Adil & Bilall's Saudi-shot action film 7 Dogs opened in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and other Middle East markets on May 27 (India May 28, Turkey June 25). Stunt coordination is by Stephen Dunlevy out of 87Eleven, with cinematography by Robrecht Heyvaert (Bad Boys: Ride or Die). The production set two Guinness World Records during the shoot: largest film stunt explosion (an equivalent of 170.7 tonnes of TNT) and most high explosives detonated in a single film take (405.85 kilograms). $40M budget, principal photography in Riyadh, cast headlined by Karim Abdel Aziz and Ahmed Ezz with Monica Bellucci, Salman Khan, Sanjay Dutt, and Max Huang. The film is being positioned as the most ambitious Saudi production since the country lifted its cinema ban in 2017 — and from a stunt-department angle, it's a useful credit to track if you're looking at the pipeline of work landing through 87Eleven in the region.
Source: GQ Middle East — How 7 Dogs Blew Up Two World Records and Put Saudi Cinema on the Map · The Week — Biggest explosion in cinema history: 7 Dogs gears up for release
Singapore — USS WaterWorld Stunt Performer Dies After Medical Emergency During Training
Posted: May 26, 2026
A 42-year-old stunt performer at Universal Studios Singapore's WaterWorld attraction has died after suffering a medical emergency during an off-show training session on May 19. Resorts World Sentosa confirmed the death on May 26. Fellow performers pulled him from the pool and administered CPR on-site before he was hospitalized; he died days later. The performer was not on the RWS payroll — he was engaged through an external vendor contracted to staff the live-action operations of the show. WaterWorld is currently listed as closed through December 31, 2026, while the incident is reviewed. The vendor structure is the part of this story that's worth attention from working performers: when the host venue isn't the employer of record, the chain of safety oversight, training standards, and post-incident responsibility runs through a third party.
Source: Mothership.sg — USS WaterWorld S'pore stunt performer who suffered medical emergency during training dies · Malay Mail — Universal Studios Singapore performer dies after medical emergency during stunt training