Woody Allen was given a rapturous reception as he hit the Venice Film Festival on Monday with his 50th film the French-language thriller Coup de Chance, which premieres Out Of Competition this evening.
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Alec Baldwin’s involvement in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his Western film, “Rust”, is once again being called into question.
In April, involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin were dropped by the New Mexico District Attorney. Baldwin pleaded not guilty to the charges and has repeatedly insisted he did not pull the trigger on the gun, which discharged a live round and fatally wounded Hutchins, and injured director Joel Souza.
The film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, also was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter. According to a new firearms report — submitted as part of a new motion filed by Gutierrez-Reed’s attorneys in her ongoing court case — claims that it would it would not have been possible for the gun to have gone off without Baldwin having pulled the trigger.
“Although Alec Baldwin repeatedly denies pulling the trigger, given the tests, findings and observations reported here, the trigger had to be pulled or depressed sufficiently to release the fully cocked or retracted hammer of the evidence revolver,” states the firearms report, which was prepared for the special prosecutors by an Arizona-based forensic firearms examiner.
According to the docs, “If the hammer had not been fully retracted to the rear, and were to slip from the handler’s thumb without the trigger depressed, the half-cock or quarter-cock notches in the hammer should have prevented the firing pin from reaching any cartridge in the firing chamber.”
“If these features were somehow bypassed, a conspicuously off-centre firing pin impression would result,” the firearms report claims.
According to the findings of the new report, “From an examination of the fired cartridge case and the
Woody Allen was given a rapturous reception as he hit the Venice Film Festival on Monday with his 50th film the French-language thriller Coup de Chance, which premieres Out Of Competition this evening.
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Facing a potential refiling of criminal charges in the fatal 2021 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, Alec Baldwin on Wednesday failed in an attempt to have a civil case over the tragedy dismissed.
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Special prosecutors have not decided whether criminal charges will be refiled against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, but the actor this week is trying to stop crew members from the indie Western from taking him to court.
If Alec Baldwin is charged again with involuntary manslaughter in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, he could once again face prison time. Hutchins died Oct.
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It turns out Alec Baldwin could be facing charges in the case of the Rust shooting after all.
Alec Baldwin could be facing charges once more in the fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
A new report overseeing the fatal shooting on the Rust movie set appears to cast doubt on Alec Baldwin’s accounts of the incident.
Alec Baldwin's involvement in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his Western film,, is once again being called into question.In April, involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin were dropped by the New Mexico District Attorney. Baldwin pleaded not guilty to the charges and has repeatedly insisted he did not pull the trigger on the gun, which discharged a live round and fatally wounded Hutchins, and injured director Joel Souza.The film's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, also was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Alec Baldwin could once again face manslaughter charges, after a forensic report released Tuesday found that his Colt .45 revolver would only fire if the trigger was pulled. Baldwin was initially charged with involuntary manslaughter in the October 2021 death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. But the charge was dropped after the defense noted that the gun had been modified, which raised doubts about whether it was working properly at the time of the shooting.
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Halyna Hutchins was tragically killed on the set of in October 2021 when the prop gun Alec Baldwin was holding suddenly discharged, striking and killing the cinematographer and injuring director Joel Souza. In the months since tragedy struck in New Mexico, lawsuits were filed, criminal charges were filed — then dropped, for Baldwin — and allegations were made, including that the film's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, consumed alcohol and smoked marijuana during filming of the Western.Then, on June 29, 2023, prosecutors filed legal documents in the First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, claiming Gutierrez-Reed «transferred a 'small bag of cocaine'» to a witness it has been in contact with.