Director Margo Weathers has joined bicoastal Supply&Demand Integrated. Her credits span clients such as Neiman Marcus, Armani, Zegna and Chanel. She formerly served as associate creative director for Neiman Marcus stores....
Director Margo Weathers has joined bicoastal Supply&Demand Integrated. Her credits span clients such as Neiman Marcus, Armani, Zegna and Chanel. She formerly served as associate creative director for Neiman Marcus stores. Weathers rounds out a Supply&Demand directorial roster that includes Jeffery Plansker, Greg Popp, Sean Thonson, Josh Taft, Landis Smithers, Robert Logevall, Matthew Rolston, Tony Kaye, Adrien Brody, Lucy Walker, Gabriela Cowperthwaite and David Holm…..Los Angeles-based Boxer Films has signed up-and-coming director Dawn Garcia for commercial representation. The helmer is fresh out of UCLA School of Theater Film and Television’s Directing Program, where her PALs short film won a coveted Director’s Spotlight Award and her first-ever film produced in the program, The Castle, premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival. Post-graduation, her credits include Destroyer’s “Kaputt” and When Saints Go Machine’s “Add Ends” music videos. Additionally, Garcia is developing her PALs short into a feature with Oscar®-winning producer Tom Nunan (Crash, Employee of the Month, Thumbsucker, and The Illusionist)….
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