The Rust crew member who’s in the spotlight over how live rounds ended up in a gun that Alec Baldwin fired on set last year, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, pummeled New Mexico police today for their investigation of the tragedy.
In what could be a pre-emptive move as the Santa Fe Sheriff's Office prepares to…
UPDATED, 1:00 PM: Today’s scheduled hearing for Rustscript supervisor Mamie Mitchell’s lawsuit against Alec Baldwin and other producers has been rescheduled for September 28. Judge Michael E. Whitaker moved the hearing to give the plaintiff the option and time to file an amended complaint.
Mitchell, who was standing…
UPDATED, with MPA comment: A California state senator ripped the entertainment industry today after the bill he co-authored in response to last year’s fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the Rustset failed to get out of committee.
"It's a powerful and ruthless industry,” Sen. Dave Cortese, a Silicon Valley Democrat…
The release by police this week of footage of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dying on set last year after being fatally shot by Alec Baldwin has lawyers for the Hutchins family fuming.
"We demand that your office respect Matthew, Halyna, and Andros Hutchins’ constitutional rights of dignity, privacy, respect…
The Santa Fe County Sheriff today released “all files associated with our ongoing investigation” into the shooting of DP Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Alec Baldwin-starring film Rust last year. Baldwin was holding the gun when it discharged.
"Today the sheriff's office is releasing all files associated with our…
Five months after Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot by Alec Baldwin on the set of the indie Western, the Oscars on Sunday acknowledged her passing and the tragedy that caused it.
Similar to the spotlight put on the death of Midnight Rider second camera assistant Sarah Jones in 2014, Hutchins…
Citing safety concerns, the DGA has ordered its members to stop working on Oak, a low-budget film that's been shooting in Georgia.
“Oak is not a DGA-covered project,” a guild spokesman said. “Representatives of the DGA informed the producers of specific safety requirements that needed to be satisfied for the film to…
UPDATE, 2:12 PM:Alec Baldwin's attempt at indemnification over the fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins may have just blown up in his face, at least morally.
The indie Western star and producer's ill-considered inclusion of his interaction with now widower Matt Hutchins in an arbitration filing…
UPDATE, with video: “Every holiday, Christmas, New Year’s, our anniversary, my birthday, Valentine’s Day, I mean, every holiday is difficult without her," Matt Hutchins, who filed a wrongful death lawsuit last week against Rustproducers and Alec Baldwin over the death of his wife Halyna Hutchins, said this morning on…
Mere hours after a wrongful death lawsuit was filed over the fatal shooting of Rustcinematographer Halyna Hutchins, lawyers for Alec Baldwin and fellow producers are declaring that "any claim that Alec was reckless is entirely false."
This morning Hutchins estate attorney Brian Panish put blame on Rust producers and…
UPDATED with video and more details: The family of slain Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins has officially filed a wrongful-death lawsuit over the on-set shooting by Alec Baldwin that took the filmmaker’s life last October in New Mexico.
“Halyna Hutchins deserved to live, and the Defendants had the power to prevent…