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    October 21, 2011
    Epoch Films has secured filmmaker Tom McCarthy for commercial representation. McCarthy has received critical acclaim for his writing and direction work for the independent films The Station Agent, Win Win and The Visitor. For the latter, McCarthy won the Best Director honor at the 2009 Film  Independent Spirit Awards and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay by the Writers Guild of America. Five years earlier, he earned his first WGA Awards Best Original Screenplay nomination for The Station Agent, which premiered at the ‘03 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Audience Award as well as the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Win Win won the 2011 Humanitas Prize in the Feature Film category. Additionally, McCarthy earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Pixar’s Up, a shared writing credit with Pete Docter and Bob Peterson. McCarthy was recently tapped to pen the Disney sports drama Million Dollar Arm….Alasdair Lloyd-Jones, former co-president and chief strategic officer at San Francisco advertising agency Cutwater, has joined Brooklyn, New York-based creative shop Big Spaceship as partner and chief operations officer….. Boxer Films has signed Italian director Igor Borghi for U.S. commercial representation. He is currently also repped by Mercurio Film, Milan, for clients and agencies in Italy; Madrid-based Brownie for Spain; Magali, Paris, for the French market; and Cream, Munich, for Germany.

    October 20, 2006
    Commercial production house HKM has formed a partnership with music video shop Streetgang Films. The connection provides a music clip outlet for HKM directors while giving HKM access to talent who could translate well into spotmaking….Hans Hansen has joined and Eric Sorensen has returned to Fallon Minneapolis. Both will carry the title of creative director and continue to work as a team. Hansen and Sorensen come over from Carmichael Lynch, Minneapolis, where as a duo they turned out work for such clients as Porsche and Harley-Davidson….The Joneses has signed Norwegian comedy director Sten Hellevig—a.k.a. Sten—for U.S. representation. He continues to be repped in Norway by The Moland Film Company….Kerry Shaw Brown, a former agency creative who made the transition to director, has joined the roster of Millennium Pictures for U.S. spot representation. He had previously been with production company Uncle….

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    The End of The “Rust” Criminal Case Against Alec Baldwin May Unlock A Civil Lawsuit

    Tuesday, December 24, 2024

    The conclusion of a criminal case against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer clears the way for a related civil lawsuit by relatives of the deceased woman and efforts to depose the actor under oath, attorneys for plaintiffs in the civil suit said Tuesday.

    At a news conference in Los Angeles, victims' rights attorney Gloria Allred said that the parents and younger sister of deceased cinematographer Halyna Hutchins were disappointed that prosecutors won't appeal the dismissal of an involuntary manslaughter charge against Baldwin. The criminal charge against Baldwin was dismissed halfway through trial in July on allegations that police and prosecutors withheld evidence from the defense.

    Hutchins died shortly after being wounded during a rehearsal in the movie "Rust" in October 2021 at a film-set ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

    Baldwin, the lead actor and coproducer, was pointing a pistol at Hutchins when it discharged, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired.

    Allred said Hutchins' relatives are determined to pursue damages and compensation from Baldwin and "Rust" producers in New Mexico civil court, and want Baldwin to answer questions under oath in the proceedings. Hutchins' widower and son previously reached a separate legal settlement.

    "With the withdrawal that was made public yesterday, we are now able to proceed with our civil case," Allred said. "Clearly, the rights of Alec Baldwin were protected, but the due process rights of the victims — Halyna Hutchins and her parents and her sister — were violated."

    Allred said she's ready to prove that Hutchins had a close relationship... Read More

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