Bicoastal production house Rabbit, which finished 9th in the 2011 Cannes Palme d'Or derby, has secured Lisa Houck of indepedent rep firm Salon, LA, to handle the West Coast....
Bicoastal production house Rabbit, which finished 9th in the 2011 Cannes Palme d’Or derby, has secured Lisa Houck of indepedent rep firm Salon, LA, to handle the West Coast….Santa Monica-based visual effects/post/graphic design house Planet Blue has tabbed Char Noonan and his indie rep firm Char & Associates to handle sales worldwide….Chris Miller has joined Harpoon Pictures as director of new business development. Miller previously ran sales and marketing for commercial production companies Highway 61 and Bridge Street Films….TidalTV, a video advertising, optimization and yield management solutions provider, has made three new hires in its New York office. Christa Rimonneau joins TidalTV as senior sales director, East Coast, reporting to VP of advertising sales Brian Danzis. Rimonneau previously worked as sales director at Adconion Media Group, and has held sales positions at Dailymotion and CNN.com. Caren Wachtenheim has been named sales account executive at TidalTV where she is responsible for network sales. Prior to TidalTV, she worked as a senior account executive at totallyher, a division of Gorilla Nation & Evolve Media. She has also held positions at First30Days, Inc. and FOX Interactive Media. And Brett Tabano comes to TidalTV as director of sales strategy. He will be responsible for analysis of key business issues impacting the online video industry. Prior to TidalTV, Tabano held account management positions at Demand Media, Priceline and Tribal DDB….
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 โ but not the trigger โ 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