Three executives from Cliff Freeman and Partners, New York, have left the agency to form their own boutique shop. Jason Gaboriau, a former VP/associate creative director, Charles Rosen, formerly director of new business development, and strategist Doug Cameron, are opening Amalgamated, a New York agency….Eric Silver, executive VP/creative director at Cliff Freeman and Partners, has also departed the agency. His plans were not known at press time….At its grand opening last week, Technicolor Creative Services/New York unveiled some new plans. For one, the new postproduction space in West Greenwich Village will also become home to Technicolor’s New York film laboratory, which will be relocated from midtown in 2004. The new post facility includes a 40-seat digital color timing theater, as well as telecine and Discreet Fire suites. The company will also be linked to the Technicolor Global Network, which will offer connectivity to other Technicolor facilities and clients; applications include review and approvals, and real-time collaboration. Additionally, the newest hire is Fire editor Cecil Hooker, formerly of wild(child) editorial, New York….Industry mainstay Larry Chernoff, founder of Encore Hollywood and R!OT Santa Monica, and co-founder of FilmCore, Santa Monica and San Francisco, is launching Larry Chernoff & Associates Post-Production Consulting, Los Angeles. He also serves as chairman of Ascent Media Creative Services Group. Additionally, Providence, R.I.-headquartered MTI Group Holdings Inc, a supplier of digital mastering software for postproduction, has appointed Chernoff to its board of directors. MTI Group Holdings is the parent company of MTI Film and MTI Machine Vision. MTI’s software offerings are scalable tools used for film and video image correction, conversion (format and standards) and conforming….The New York Production Alliance (NYPA) has added Anne Johnson and Carl Zucker to its executive committee. Johnson, who is a former president of IATSE Local 161, will also serve as NYPA treasurer, a post that was most recently held by Jennifer Freed of Trevanne Post and Trevanna.com. Freed will continue to serve as a VP of NYPA’s executive financial committee and board of directors. Zucker is VP of marketing for payroll company Media Services, New York….Spontaneous Combustion, New York, has shifted its management team. Maribeth Phillips will assume the role of managing director/executive producer, and Sally Kapsalis will take on the position of head of sales & strategic planning. Phillips had been serving as the company’s executive producer, while Kapsalis held the position of managing director….Andrea Allen, who was formerly with 11/11 Productions, New York, has joined Sideshow, a New York-headquartered creative services company. She will serve as executive producer and head up the shop’s new live-action production team…
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