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Exclusive: The Hollywood Creative Alliance (Hca) is set to add a series of new categories to its 2024 Creative Arts Award show, including a new section dedicated to stunt performers.

The new categories are Best Stunt Performer, Best Stunt Coordinator, and Best Second Unit Director, which will all be added alongside a Best Stunts category. The organization has also added a Best Stunts category for Television.

With the new categories, the Hca has said it aims to “promote stunt performers crucial role in bringing action-packed sequences to life on screen.” The organization has teamed with producer and editor David Sandeep Robert (Hollywood’s Hard Hitters), filmmaker Jason Strickland, and executive producer Leonard Shapiro to enact the changes.

Alongside the new stunt categories, the Hca has said it will also add three new International categories, Best International Actor, Best International Actress, and Best International Filmmaker, to the upcoming 2024 awards.

“Stunt performers have...

Up next from Screambox is festival hit Living With Chucky, a full-blown Child’s Play documentary that celebrates the entire franchise, and our friends over at Dread Central have shared the Collector’s Edition Blu-ray art this afternoon. The documentary from director Kyra Elise Gardner will be released on Blu-ray on April 18, 2023.

But first, look for Living with Chucky on Screambox and on Digital on April 4, 2023!

Storming into pop culture in the late 1980s, the three-foot menace known as Chucky proved that Child’s Play was anything but. Written and directed by Kyra Elise Gardner, daughter of legendary special effects artist Tony Gardner, Living With Chucky looks back at the groundbreaking horror franchise. The documentary details the history of the Child’s Play films by the cast and crew, in addition to Gardner’s relationship with the series and the impact it had on her family.

Gardner, who grew up alongside Chucky the killer doll,...

Up next from Screambox is festival hit Living With Chucky, a full-blown Child’s Play documentary that celebrates the entire franchise. Today’s brand new trailer unveiled at Collider highlights what sets this documentary apart; the franchise is family for director Kyra Elise Gardner.

Storming into pop culture in the late 1980s, the three-foot menace known as Chucky proved that Child’s Play was anything but. Written and directed by Kyra Elise Gardner, daughter of legendary special effects artist Tony Gardner, Living With Chucky looks back at the groundbreaking horror franchise. The documentary details the history of the Child’s Play films by the cast and crew, in addition to Gardner’s relationship with the series and the impact it had on her family.

Gardner, who grew up alongside Chucky the killer doll, seeks out the other families surrounding the Child’s Play films as they recount their experiences working on the ongoing franchise...

Screambox has acquired the festival hit Living With Chucky, a full-blown Child’s Play documentary that celebrates the entire franchise, and was directed by Kyra Elise Gardner.

The Screambox Original, which had its world premiere at the Popcorn Frights Film Festival in August and recently screened at Fantastic Fest in Austin, is set to premiere on Cinedigm’s horror streaming service Screambox and on Digital early next year.

Featuring interviews with cast and crew, including genre icons such as Lin Shaye, Alex Vincent, Jennifer Tilly, franchise creator Don Mancini & more, the documentary takes an in-depth look into the creation of this iconic series.

Storming into pop culture in the late 1980s, the three-foot menace known as Chucky, proved that Child’s Play was anything but. Written and directed by Kyra Elise Gardner, daughter of legendary special effects artist Tony Gardner, Living With Chucky looks back at the groundbreaking horror franchise. The documentary...

Living With Chucky begins as a familiar horror documentary that assembles a variety of notable genre veterans to examine a prominent horror franchise. This one celebrates the iconic killer doll and the Child’s Play franchise. But Living With Chucky quickly diverges from the pack as a unique angle emerges. It’s not just a documentary that reflects upon the franchise’s legacy; it celebrates the families that the killer doll has forged and bonded together.

Director Kyra Gardner, who co-wrote with Jason Strickland, adds visual flair to her documentary. Animated opening credits, stitching of Good Guy doll clothing, and molds of Chucky parts getting filled add interest and break up the conventional talking head format. A collection of franchise tapes sits above a Vcr. Hitting play on each one ushers in a discussion on its respective film.

The talking heads are an eclectic bunch, not all of them an obvious selection.

Rootbeer Films has completed “2nd Unit: Invisible Action Stars” with James Cameron, Keanu Reeves, Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry, Variety has learned exclusively.

The film explores relationships between actors and stunt performers — a topic at the heart of Quentin Tarantino’s recent “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” Joe Mantegna narrates “2nd Unit: Invisible Action Stars.”

Lenny Shapiro, CEO/President of Rootbeer Films, said, “Having produced many action films, it is my great pleasure to showcase the real action stars… the stunt people.”

The documentary features Heidi Moneymaker, Jackson Spidell, Jack Gill, JJ Perry and Jessie Graff and explores the relationship between the actor and the stunt performer. Additional featured interviewees include Zoe Saldana, Chad Stahelski, Jon Bernthal, Shemar Moore, Joseph Gatt, Mark Dacascos, and Helen Mirren.

The film was produced by Rootbeer Films in conjunction with In The Light Productions, and was directed by Jason Strickland, known for his...