Alec Baldwin will be criminally charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film Rust. New Mexico prosecutors confirmed the news today, Fox News is reporting. The Emmy-winning star of 30 Rock will be charged with shooting the bullet that killed the…
The family of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who died as a result of an on-set shooting of the now suspended Western movie, Rust, filed a lawsuit today against Alec Baldwin and others involved with the feature. The late filmmaker’s family is alleging in the lawsuit that reckless behavior and cost-cutting led to her death, Variety is…
After a hiatus due to the legal controversy over Alec Baldwin’s shooting of Halyna Hutchins, filming on Rust is set to resume this spring, according to The Hollywood Reporter and other sources. Hutchins died of gunshot wounds on the set in October 2021 when Baldwin fired what he thought was a stunt gun. Baldwin and…
The “shot heard round the world” is still reverberating: Alec Baldwin has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles seeking to clear his name in the controversial 2021 shooting on the set of Rust. In that incident, Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed when Baldwin fired a prop gun, thinking it was not loaded. The shooting also…
Filming of Rust will be resuming in January, thanks to settlement of a lawsuit filed by the family of Halyna Hutchins, who was accidentally shot and killed on the set in October of 2021. The suit against Alec Baldwin and others was filed in New Mexico in February 2022; it alleged that safety standards were…
More than six months after Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust, he is teaming up with Anjul Nigam to deliver a new film under their new production venture, Persona Entertainment. Nigam announced this week that funding is in place to start production on False Awakening, described as a…
Alec Baldwin has given his first in-studio interview since the fatal shooting on the set of his Western film, Rust, in October. The Emmy Award-winning actor sat down yesterday for a discussion with ABC journalist George Stephanopoulos, which will air tomorrow night on ABC at 8pm and stream on Hulu afterward, Variety is reporting. The…
Ryan Smith, one of the producers of the ill-fate Western, Rust, has signed to finance another upcoming independent movie, Sam & Kate, which will star Dustin Hoffman and Sissy Spacek. The filmmaker, who’s reportedly set to investigate an estimated $900K into the feature, will receive an executive producer credit for his work, Variety is reporting….
The producers of Rust have shut down production indefinitely on Alec Baldwin’s western while an investigation is conducted into the on-set shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. “As we go through this crisis, we have made the decision to wrap the set at least until the investigations are complete,” the producers told the crew in an…
The prop gun used by Alec Baldwin in the accidental death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injury of director Joel Souza on the New Mexico set of the Western film, Rust, on Thursday contained a live single round. The news was shared in an email sent by International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local…
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