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Leavittation
Credits
Over 500 Television, Commercial, and Motion Picture Credits
Feature Films
The Agency
Look for Lane playing the part of a limo driver who meets
an unfortunate fate with a tazer gun, and the part of the
cop who drives in to rescue him(self). Lane even gets dialogue!!!
The Black Scorpion
A superhero television series directed by Rodger Corman containing many Leavittation Ratchet and Airramp™ sequences.
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Blade
II
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sequel to the very popular adaptation of the vampire
comic Blade is on its way, starring and produced
by Wesley Snipes and directed by Guillermo Del Toro. "The
first movie was a blockbuster; this one promises to
be 10 times better than the original" according
to Blade 2 rigging coordinator and Leavittation Project
Manager Monty Simons.
The action and effects will be staggering. Monty
Simons spent over six months filming in Prauge, Czech
Republic before returning to Los Angeles for additional
shooting. Leavittation helped provide the big wirework
and ratchets required for the super-human script.
For more info on Blade 2 visit the official website
at www.blade2.com
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Desperate Measures
Michael Keaton rides the Leavittation High-Speed Descender down a 40 ft. vertical air-conditioning shaft. In this stunt the same descender also dropped a camera down the shaft giving close-up footage of Mr. Keaton's face, putting the actor in the center of the action. This is the same machine used on The Game, and was considered for an Academy Award.
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Eraser
Leavittation helped to provide action and safety
on this blockbuster film.
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The Fast and the Furious
Debbie
had a chance to do some really great driving on
The Fast And The Furious, a movie about hot rod
import cars. She drove under a moving semi truck
and out the other side and did a really fast turnover
to conclude the scene. You can see these stunts in
the movie's trailer, which is available to download
on Fast and Furious' website, http://www.thefastandthefurious.com
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Fight
Club
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can see Brad Pitt kicking Lane's rear in Fight Club,
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The Game
Leavittation high-speed descender was used for a tricky high action stunt in the final climactic sequence of the film.
Gone in 60 Seconds
Remake of the 1970's drive in special about a car thief
who could steel any car in 60 seconds. The concept is to
create an excuse to have a bunch of car chases and wrecks!
Leavittation VP Debbie Evans rides the new MV Agusta superbike.
When she was given the bike, the producers asked her to
be sure not to scratch it because it is one of only two
in the United States.
The main work
went well, even though she was leaning the bike at full
speed on wet, oily pavement while making quick
maneuvers. Debbie had a "close call," however,
while doing a full-speed ride through the set for a sound
recording of the motorcycle. In the middle of the run,
a man talking on a cell phone walked out between two buildings
into Debbie's path. She swerved to avoid hitting him, but
then got into an uncontrollable "speed wobble" heading
strait toward a water truck! She somehow managed to miss
the truck, but Debbie said that is the closest she's come
to eating it in a long time.
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Halloween - H20
Jamie Lee Curtis teams up with Leavittion to finish off Michael Myres -- again.
This is our fifth project with Jamie Lee Curtis. Others include: the 67th Acadamy Awards, True Lies, and Virus.
I Dare You
Leavittation dropped a camera 326 feet on the High Speed Descender. The camera accelerated from 0 to 56 miles per hour back to 0 in 310 feet.
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Jeepers Creepers 2
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StuntRev.com Stunt Team spent 2.5 months working
on the next installment of Jeepers Creepers.
Our part in the film included stunt co-ordination by
Monty Simons, the stunt Creeper played by Darrin Prescott,
and flying the creeper and its victims done by our
wire team led by Lane Leavitt. The making of DVD extra
features was also covered by our stuntrev staff, with
video editing and production done by Steven Leavitt.
We have an excellent making of in the works, however,
we cannot sneak preview until given permission by the
studios. Action includes some huge vertical and twisting
ratchets from a variety of percarious situations. We
also created some spooky new wire moves with our newest
high-speed winch system. Technologically, this was
a breakthrough film for stuntwork. The script and character
gave us the opportunity to do a lot of stunts never
seen before. We consider ourselves fortunate to have
this Victor Salva written and directed script come
to us at this time.
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Matrix Reloaded
| Leavittation
Vice President Debbie Evans worked on Matrix
Reloaded.
The directors liked her work so much they thanked
her
with a brand
new
shiny red 996 Ducati Desmoquattro. (Jealousy is bad.) |
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Mission Impossible 2
| Debbie
Evans, Leavittation's Vice President did a high speed
car chase in an Audi TT convertible with
Tom Cruise chasing her in a Porsche Carrerra.
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Monkeybone
Brendan Frasier
stars in this film, and Leavittation does the biggest
vertical ratchet of all time.
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Peaceful Warrior
 We're very excited about the feature film version of the popular book "Way of the Peaceful Warrior." We believe this movie has the potential of being the greatest gymnastics movie of all time. Our crew had the opportunity to work with US Olympic Team members and create some amazing wire rigs to simulate our actors on gymnastics equipment doing routines for close-ups. We also had the opportunity to stage an amazing and creative motorcycle crash that is the pivotal event of the story.
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Phantoms
The feature film Phantoms contains some of the
most unique ratchet shots that we have ever done, including
the use of our new V.T.O.P. system! The Leavittation-developed
V.T.O.P. (Variable Take-off Position) ratchet allows the
stunt man to start in any position and move vertically
or horizontally and to act and do the stunt without a cut!
The Postman
| Leavittation descenders were used to create a very
high action bridge sequence.
We put Kevin Costner in the center of the action
by letting him ride one of our deaccellerators for
the beginning shot of the bridge sequence!
Leavittation ratchets were used to launch a horse
and its rider into a river.
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Ready To Rumble
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Warner Brothers film with the stars of the WCW including
Goldberg, Sting, and DDP.
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Recoil
This low-budget action feature took advantage of
some of our latest composite stunt technology. One
scene uses the Carram to flip a car on its side while
a stunt man burns and is ratcheted ten feet in the
air and forty-five feet out while being deaccellerated
down to the ground unhurt. This is called compostite
stunts.
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The same car is being re-cycled with the Carram
installed to crash again in another chase scene,
saving the company money and doubling their action.
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The Scorpion King
The
next installation in the Mummy series, gets better.
Fight choreographer Andy Cheng (who also doubles
Jackie Chan) is on board the project to create
explosive fight action.
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Swordfish
The biggest Ratchet shot of all time. 21 separate
ratchets were used to fly 21 stuntmen through the
air for an explosion scene on this new John Travolta
film. This is a bullet-time shot like the one first
done on the Chevy Truck commercial, and made famous
in the Matrix. All the cameras and ratchets where
joined to a computer allowing exact timing of all
the stunts, FX and cameras. The scene will run
at 300 frames per second, which is over 3 times
faster than normal camera speed, causing the shot
to be in very slow motion. The explosion at this
speed will last for 30 seconds, allowing the stunts
in the shot to be the featured part in the scene.
Never before has ANY explosion scene had so many
elements! Every department; from stunts to FX and
Visual FX are being pushed beyond what has ever
been done.
Leavittation's stunt crew also found work on
other parts of the movie. Scott Rogers crahsed
an SUV into a bunch of parked cars. For another
of the movie's high action sequences, hundreds
of stunt people were suspended in the air inside
of a bus, including Leavittation's Debbie Evans
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Texas Rangers
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Torque
A sneak peek at the training for Torque, directed by Joseph
Kahn, starring Ice Cube. Coming soon...
Unconditional Love
Leavittation project manager Scott Rodgers did a huge drawbridge jump on foot using an innovative flying system.
Viva Rock Vegas
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all the movies we've had the pleasure to work on,
this film had the most fabulous sets we
have ever worked in. They were so elaborate, walking
through them made us feel like we were really in
Bedrock!
We had the opportunity to do some really big ratchets
and airramps which fit well in to the cartoon theme
of this movie. It's fun to be over the top and
bigger than life with the action and still stay
within the
confines of the script.
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What Planet Are You From?
Gary Shandling and Annette Bening star in this comedy. Inside an airplane Leavittation staff and technology throw the passengers around, giving 10 pounds of action in a 5 pound set!
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Wild
Wild West
| Left: James
West inside the engine-room of the steam powered
spider where he fights to the death with Dr. Loveless
and his henchmen. Right: The super-magnet collars that
Dr. Loveless entraps our heroes in.
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Television
Ally McBeal
Leavittation ratcheted Ally McBeal stunt-double Trish
Peters for a dream sequence in which Ally gets sucked out
of the door of a jet airliner (actually a mockup). Access
Hollywood was there covering the stunt. What a great way
to get two shows out of one shoot!
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Amazing Race
Branam Enterprises in cooperation with Lane Leavitt designed and built four state of the art descender/hoist systems for the show Amazing Race filmed in Peru and Norway.
Lane traveled to Peru with the Branam team where they setup four 1,000 foot long slide-for-life's for the contestants to traverse a huge valley twice over a raging river.
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Andy Dick MTV
Spot
Jim Hart and
Lane Leavitt worked on the pilot episode of this new
MTV show rigging a bunch of bungee jumps. The
show features Andy Dick of the TV show "News Radio."
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Angel
Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off. Watch for lots of Airramps,
Ratchets, and De-accelerators.
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Battle
Dome
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Crossing Jordan
Stunt Coordinator Mary Albee, Donna Evans, and Lane Leavitt teamed up to create a killer car-hit using our articulated puppeteered dummy. Using a cleaver overlap technique the actress was seamlessly edited from walking to the dummy hit and back to the stunt-double hitting the ground, creating a shockingly real-looking vehicular homicide.
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Der
Clown
Action Concept of Germany and Leavittation work together
to bring American action to European television using
Leavittation hardware and techniques.
Using
airramps, ratchets, and deaccellerators, Der Clown
was the most watched television show in German
history!
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The BMW jump is real! The Germans have added some of
the most seamless digital computer effects ever done
to add to some of the background action. Some of Hollywood's
top computer animation effects artists were unable
to tell what was real and what was digital when they
watched the footage!
Action
Concept and Leavittation combining forces has set
a new standard for television action in Europe. Many
more joint projects are now in the works between
American and German production companies, opening
up a new age of European and American co-operation.
Leavittation project manager Monty Simmons was recently
in Germany doing another high action show directing
second unit.
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From the Earth to the Moon
Our rigging
crew made the pilgrimage to Edwards Airforce Base
(one of NASA's flight test centers) for the HBO T.V.
series From the Earth to the Moon. We helped recreate
Neal Armstrong's crash of the "Lunar Lander" trainer.
Our production company and NASA found an actual "Lunar
Lander" trainer that had been forgotten in the
weeds for over 30 years. It was renovated for our
show and afterwards was shipped directly to the Smithsonian
museum in Washington D.C.
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Medium
Long time Leavittation project manager Monty Simons is currently coordinating the hit TV series Medium. The series allows us to recreate crimes and accidents which the heroin solves with her psychic powers.
The biggest sequence so far has been the re-creation of a suicide where a woman jumps off a cliff. In this episode Monty and Lane placed and safetied the actress on the end of a cliff and setup a high-fall and deaccelerator fall for the actress in front of a green screen. |
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The Michael
Richards Show
On this television
series, Leavittation's team of Monty Simmons, Mark Norby,
and Lane Leavitt did the first
ever hybrid car chase and jump through the streets
of LA. The chase ended when the passenger of the car
being
chased turned on the radio and drained the battery.
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Nash Bridges
Debbie
traveled to San Francisco to crash another car for
the TV show Nash Bridges.
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Now Or Never
Watch for a 326 foot rappel off the Universal Hilton Hotel
on this new Fox TV show.
Red Skies
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Star Trek - Enterprise
Star
Trek - Enterprise is the next in the series of Star
Trek television and promises to be one of the
best ever. Enterprise is set nearly 100 years before
Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, before the formation of
the Federation. The space cowboys are back, bringing
much more action to the show! Leavittation
has been working on several episodes of the show, setting
up flying, anti gravity, airramps,
ratchets and deaccellerators. Watch this new series
coming in the fall. Paramount is very excited about
this new series and is also working on a completly
separate feature film.
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Music Videos
Janet Jackson - Doesn't Really Matter
Leavittation recently worked on the Janet Jackson video for the new movie Nutty Professor 2. The video features Janet and her dancers on a moving dance floor.
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Missy Elliot - Get Your Freak On
Lane and crew
added a lot of vertical reality to Missy Elliot's slick
new video "Get Your Freak On" which
opens with a Kung-Fu master doing the splits 30 feet in
the air, then falling to the riverbed below.
N-Sync - Bye Bye Bye
Leavittation Vice-President Debbie Evans drove the BMW Z-3 in this popular music video.
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Romeo Must Die - Music Video
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Sisqo - Thong Song
| Phil Tann, Lane, and the Stunt Dynamics crew traveled to Miami for Sisqo's video "Thong Song" to do some very high-impact wire work. On this new video, Leavittation once again puts a principle performer in the Center of the Action. |
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Other Projects
Hollywood's Greatest
Stunts
| Top
of the World, Leavittation technology in the
biggest stunt sequence ever to be done on the 575 ft.
tall Hoover Dam! |
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North Hollywood Arts Festival
| Leavittation was at the Academy of Televisions Arts
and Sciences sponsored North Hollywood Arts Festival
June 24th and 25th. The stunt exhibition included high
falls, bmx trick riding, trampoline, circus, and even
skydiving. The event was packed as tons of spectators
were treated to a firsthand view of the television
buisness. There was even an apperance by California
govenor Grey Davis. One of the featured stunts put
an Academy member in the center of the action by suspending
him 60 feet in the air! It was a great event.
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Penny
Lane - Charity for Children
| Dennis Danger and Leavittation teamed up for the
children's charity Penny Lane. Check out Dennis' interview
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Dennis "Danger" Madalone Right: Patrika
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Patrika Darbe is the actress Debbie Evans doubled
on a recent Sony Playstation Commercial.
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