Director Tina Bull has joined the roster of production/post company Humble
Director Tina Bull has joined the roster of production/post company Humble, which is headed by president/exec producer Eric Berkowitz. Bull began her career on title sequences for the BBC and CH4. Her hands-on design approach meant that she was responsible for all aspects of the job from conception through to compositing, resulting in an in depth knowledge of all aspects of postproduction. This ability to cross her intricate design skills with character development and emotive performance saw Bull's work rapidly move into the commercial world. A former creative director at London-based advertising/design house English & Pockett, Bull honed her skills producing high-end brand identities for a broad range of media and entertainment services and as a result won worldwide Promax Gold Awards four straight years. Her spotmaking credits span such clients as British Airways, P&G, Bendigo Bank, Unilever, Nestle, Yamaha and Neutrogena….Spatial Harmonics Group, a Venice, Calif.-based visual effects/creative content development studio founded last year by creative director/VFX supervisor Wayne England, has named Marie Soto to serve as executive producer. Soto's experience includes senior production and sales roles with Belief Design, Riot and @radical.media. She will manage new business development and sales for Spatial Harmonics Group, which has turned out such recent work as visual effects for the feature film Green Lantern and ad projects for AT&T, Lexus and Toyota's Scion….Postique, a Southfield, Mich.-based division of Grace & Wild, Inc., has brought motion graphics artist Alex Chapman and graphics assistant Jason Martin to its Design Group. Chapman comes over from Root Learning where she worked in both the video & effects editing, and concepting illustration departments. Martin most recently served as multimedia team leader/project manager for Ford Motor Co…..
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