Venice, Calif.-headquartered commercial production house Cucoloris Films has entered into an alliance with DoRo, a longstanding music video company in Berlin. The deal gives DoRo—which also maintains Berlin-based clips shop Department M—a stateside foothold while Cucoloris gains the infrastructure to move into both domestic and international music video production. Department M’s head of production Nicola Wiseman and director Markus Engel are slated to join Cucoloris’ Venice operation this month…..Seven-year-old Boston-based broadcast design firm LoConte Goldman Design has closed as its partners, president/general manager Patrice Goldman and VP/senior creative director Maria LoConte, have decided to pursue their own ventures. Goldman has launched One80 Visual Communications, Boston, while LoConte has formed another Boston shop, LoConte.2….Asche & Spencer, a music/sound design house in Minneapolis and Venice, has hired Mark Gordon—a.k.a. "Señor Amor"—as its executive producer on the West Coast. He succeeds Hugh Barton who is expected to launch his own firm….Creative director/general manager Paul Agid, producer Evan Sanyour and sales rep Annie Cotton have parted ways with Blink.fx, New York, a subsidiary of New York-based MTI/The Image Group….
The End of The “Rust” Criminal Case Against Alec Baldwin May Unlock A Civil Lawsuit
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."
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