The lawsuit, which was filed on Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, marks the first of what could be many legal actions over last month’s shooting on the New Mexico set where ‘Rust’ was being filmed. The case names more than 20 defendants, including David Halls, the assistant director who …
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“We know there was a live round in a box of dummy rounds that shouldn’t have been there, at least one live round,” Gutierrez-Reed’s attorney Jason Bowles suggested on Wednesday on ‘The Today Show’. “We’re assuming somebody put the live round in that box – which, if you think about …
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“There are incidental accidents on film sets from time to time, but nothing like this. This is a one in a trillion episode,” Baldwin told gathered press on Saturday. Hutchins died earlier this month after Baldwin fired a live round from a weapon while filming the movie ‘Rust’ in New …
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The Alec Baldwin shooting incident is undoubtedly a tragic one, but it’s also a bit more complicated than it seems. On the one hand it’s a nightmare scenario, brought about by negligence and stupidity, which resulted in the loss of a person’s life. But on the other hand there is …
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Dave Halls was “removed from set” after “a crew member incurred a minor and temporary injury when a gun was unexpectedly discharged” during the production of ‘Freedom’s Path’ in 2019, a producer on the film told the Hollywood Reporter on Monday. Halls, according to court documents, had assured Alec Baldwin …
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The shirt, apparently mocking the anti-Trump, pro-gun control actor in the wake of the accidental shooting, was unveiled by Donald Trump Jr. on Monday. The piece of clothing, available at his official shop for $27.99, comes with a rather blunt slogan “Guns don’t kill people, Alec Baldwin kills people.” The …
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Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 24, was working her second production as head armorer when actor and producer Baldwin accidentally shot dead the film’s director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and wounded director Joel Souza. It was later revealed that Baldwin was assured by his assistant director that the gun was “cold,” or safe …
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“Halyna inspired us all with her passion and vision, and her legacy is too meaningful to encapsulate in words,” Matt Hutchins tweeted on Saturday. Describing the loss felt by the family as “enormous,” the widower thanked well-wishers for their messages of support following Hutchins’ tragic death on Thursday. Hutchins was …
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A petition calling on Hollywood to “ban the use of real firearms on film sets” received nearly 10,000 signatures following the incident, and support from actor Xander Berkeley, actress Tara Platt, and cinematographer Eben Bolter. “There’s no reason to have guns loaded with blanks or anything on set anymore. Should …
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“A live single round was accidentally fired on set by the principal actor, hitting both the Director of Photography, Local 600 member Halnya Hutchins, and Director Joel Souza,” an email sent by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 44, a prop masters union, to its members on …
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