Filmmaker Louis Leterrier, whose latest feature was Clash of the Titans starring Sam Worthington and Liam Neeson, has joined Saville Productions for exclusive North American representation in commercials.
Leterrier’s filmography as a director also includes The Incredible Hulk, Transporter 2 and martial arts film Unleashed, which starred Jet Li and Morgan Freeman. Leterrier also shares a directorial credit with Cory Yuen on the movie The Transporter.
In the spotmaking arena, Leterrier has experience as reflected in spots he helmed for BNP and the Asian Games.
Born in Paris, Leterrier was guided artistically from an early age by his mother, the Academy Award-nominated costume designer Catherine Leterrier. At the age of 18, after some training in advertising and publicity, he left France to study cinema at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Leterrier’s first break came when he was chosen to assist Jean-Pierre Jeunet on the set of Alien: Resurrection. On returning to France, he secured a position working with Luc Besson on commercial projects as well as on the film Joan of Arc.
In 2002 Leterrier directed The Transporter, a Luc Besson produced action movie starring Jason Statham–although the U.S. release lists him as artistic director and Yuen as director, the opening credits of the European release grant him directorial credit and list Yuen as action director. The success of The Transporter persuaded Besson to entrust him to direct Unleashed, and later Transporter 2.
Two years later Leterrier directed his first big-budget American film, The Incredible Hulk. The film gained favorable reviews, earned $134 million in the U.S. boxoffice and was nominated for Best Superhero Film at the 2008 National Movie Awards and for Best Science Fiction Film at the Saturn Awards.
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.
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