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UPDATED with more details, Guillermo del Toro reaction: Production has been shut down on the set of the DC Universe series Titans after a crew member was killed in an accident at a special effects facility. Warren Appleby, the show’s special effects coordinator who had the same role on Guillermo del Toro’s 2018 Best…

The New Orleans film industry is battening down the hatches as Tropical Storm Barry bears down on the Louisiana coast. "People aren't shooting today or tomorrow on physical locations," said Carroll Morton, director of Film New Orleans, the city's film office. "They're shifting over to soundstages. There's been no real…

For the second time in recent weeks, Bond 25 had an action shot go awry, this time with a controlled explosion damaging the exterior of the 007 stage at Pinewood Studios. The official James Bond Twitter account confirmed the mishap, and reported that while there were no injuries on the set, a crew member outside the…

Members of the general public aren't usually the ones injured when film and TV stunts go wrong, but that's what happened during filming last summer of Fox and Warner Bros TV’s Lethal Weapon in Long Beach, CA, according to a lawsuit filed May 7 in Los Angeles Superior Court. The lawsuit against WarnerMedia and Warner…

UPDATED with production company statement. A year after a fire burned a Harlem brownstone used for production of the Edward Norton-directed Motherless Brooklyn, the New York City Fire Department has issued a detailed report that breaks down the cause of events. It points to some shocking lapses that contributed to the…

New details have emerged in last month's stunt car crash on the set of LA's Finest that seriously injured co-showrunner Brandon Sonnier, who had to have his leg amputated below the knee. As previously reported, he and producing partner Brandon Margolis had been watching the scene unfold on video village monitors on…

Like Midnight Rider's director before her, the film’s first assistant director Hillary Schwartz asked for and was denied leniency by a Georgia court for her part in the death of her 27 year-old crew member Sarah Jones. Schwartz had motioned the court for a shortened sentence last year asking that her probation end…

Mike Wilks is lucky to be alive. The special effects technician on Audience Network’s Mr. Mercedes was nearly electrocuted March 2 on the show's set in South Carolina and remains hospitalized after having four toes amputated and undergoing multiple surgeries to repair his hands and what's left of his feet. The…

A veteran special effects crewmember is being treated after being electrocuted on the set of Mr. Mercedes, the AT&T Audience Network TV series. The accident happened on Friday while the crewmember was "hooking up lights in the rain" on location in Summerville, South Carolina, a suburb of Charleston, a city official…

Cal/OSHA has opened an investigation into Thursday’s accident on the set of LA's Finest that injured the Spectrum/Sony Pictures TV series’ co-showrunners Brandon Margolis and Brandon Sonnier. "Cal/OSHA was notified by Mesquite Productions and LA Port Police on Thursday of a workplace accident that occurred on set…

OSHA has slapped the producers of CBS’ MacGyver with a "serious citation" for an accident on its Atlanta set in August that seriously injured stunt coordinator Justin Sundquist. Its proposed penalty, however, is only $9,472. Sundquist was injured when he fell off the back of a moving vehicle while performing a stunt…

(UPDATED WITH LA COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT TWEET) EXCLUSIVE: The sun is out for today’s Golden Globes but so is the bomb squad and more security than ever before. In the wake of last month’s gunman attack at a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France and the New Year’s Eve knifing rampage that left three injured in…