NOVEMBER 10, 2000
Ward Emling, director of the Mississippi Film Office, has been re-elected to a two-year term as president of the Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI)….After working for the past year and a half through his bicoastal house, Message, director Robert Black has joined Hollywood-based Orbit Productions, the commercial production shop of parent company Orbit….Two music/audio veterans from the Chicago community, Larry Pecorella and Bob Monachino, have partnered to launch SoundPunks, a shop that will produce music and sound design for Web sites….Directo Ned Ambler has signed with bicoastal Shelter Films for spot representation….Director/3-D animator Dave Foss and live action director/graphic designer Bil White have joined Hollywood-based Class-Key Chew-Po Commercials, a division of animation studio Klasky Csupo….Bicoastal RSA USA has signed directors Regan Cameron, Thomas Job and Carl Rinsch, and graphics director/designer Johnny Hardstaff….
NOVEMBER 10, 1995
Director Ron Ames, a Los Angeles-based director known his background in dialogue spots, has signed on with Five Union Square Productions, New York….Director Michael Moir, who was most recently represented by Spot Films, New York, has signed with commercial production house Independent Artists, New York….Backyard Productions, Chicago and Santa Monica, has produced another director from its own backyard: Don Rase, a longtime line producer/assistant director for the company….Peter Nusbaum has joined Tell-A-Vision Post, Hollywood, as a sound mixer and audio engineer, specializing in nonlinear digital editing….David Basta and John Lindahl have joined Lumeni Productions, Glendale, Calif., a motion graphics/special effects house, as computer graphics designer and animation cameraman, respectively….
Alec Baldwin Urges Judge To Stand By Dismissal Of Involuntary Manslaughter Case In “Rust” Shooting
Alec Baldwin urged a New Mexico judge on Friday to stand by her decision to skuttle his trial and dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie.
State District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case against Baldwin halfway through a trial in July based on the withholding of evidence by police and prosecutors from the defense in the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film "Rust."
The charge against Baldwin was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can't be revived once any appeals of the decision are exhausted.
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey recently asked the judge to reconsider, arguing that there were insufficient facts and that Baldwin's due process rights had not been violated.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer on "Rust," was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when it went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired.
The case-ending evidence was ammunition that was brought into the sheriff's office in March by a man who said it could be related to Hutchins' killing. Prosecutors said they deemed the ammunition unrelated and unimportant, while Baldwin's lawyers alleged that they "buried" it and filed a successful motion to dismiss the case.
In her decision to dismiss the Baldwin case, Marlowe Sommer described "egregious discovery violations constituting misconduct" by law enforcement and prosecutors, as well as false testimony about physical evidence by a witness during the trial.
Defense counsel says that prosecutors tried to establish a link... Read More