APRIL 12, 1996/Visual effects and animation house Colossal Pictures, San Francisco, essentially is shutting its traditional commercial production arm to focus on content development for TV, feature films, and new media, plus design work for TV, Web sites, and others….San Francisco-based live-action/visual effects house Complete Pandemonium has signed directors Robin Steele, Heidi Holman and Gordon Clark. Leading Pandemonium are executive producer Stelio Kitrilakis and head of production Arthur Lang, who co-founded the firm after departing Colossal Pictures last May….
APRIL 12, 1991/Director David Kung has signed with Creative Partners, New York, having been left rep-less by last month’s closing of Santandrea Productions, New York. Kung directs through Nash, Morris, Messenger in London….Bill Rabin & Associates, Chicago, has added production com-pany Elite Films, with offices in Santa Monica and New York, to a spot-repping roster that already boasts New York production companies Johns+Gorman Films and Griner/Cuesta & Schrom…. Goodby, Berlin & Silverstein, San Francisco, dominated the television portion of the fifth-annual San Francisco Show. The firm copped five gold awards in TV and earned Best of Show distinction….
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