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The Santa Fe International Film Festival is set to screen Night of the Cooters, the short film produced by George R.R. Martin and directed by Vincent D’Onofrio. Martin and D’Onofrio will attend the event for a Q&A scheduled for Wednesday, October 19 at the Jean Cocteau Cinema.

Alec Baldwin's controversial movie Rust will resume production in January. In October 2021, production on the western was suspended indefinitely after Baldwin's prop firearm discharged during a rehearsal, injuring director Joel Souza and killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Her family filed a wrongful death lawsuit over the incident in February, and on Wednesday, it was announced that all parties had reached a settlement, which involves Hutchins' husband Matthew boarding the project as an executive producer.

tragically killed the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, will in a boneheaded move resume filming and hit theaters. How deranged can these people possibly be?Extremely, it turns out. Hutchins’ family also supports and is involved in this misguided mess.

Alec Baldwin and the production company of ill-fated movie Rust have reached a settlement with the estate of killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Halyna was tragically killed on the set of the movie in October 2021 after a prop gun Baldwin was holding was discharged.The filming of the film is set to continue now that the settlement has been reached.

The settlement today between Alec Baldwin and Rust producers with the family of slain  cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and the resurrection of the indie Western won’t stop any possible criminal charges claims the Santa Fe District Attorney.

Alec Baldwin has reached a settlement with Halyna Hutchins family after she was killed on the set of Rust in a terrifying incident in 2021, writes The Mirror.

Wow. Didn’t see this coming!

Alec Baldwin has reached a settlement with the family of Halyna Hutchins who was shot and killed on the set of the movie, Rust.  The settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit which was filed against the actor and others was undisclosed.   The lawsuit filed in Santa Fe alleged a number of industry standard violations after Halyna was shot and killed during the making of the film.

American western movie Rust, starring Alec Baldwin, will continue filming in January 2023 it has been confirmed. It comes as a deal was agreed with Halyna Hutchins' husband who will sit as an executive producer on the film.

wrongful death lawsuit brought by the estate of slain cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, reports said Wednesday. Matthew Hutchins, the husband of the film’s director of photography who was shot and killed by Baldwin in October, will be an executive producer on the film and production is slated to resume with the original cast in January, Deadline reported. “We have reached a settlement, subject to court approval, for our wrongful death case against the producers of Rust, including Alec Baldwin and Rust Movie Productions, LLC. As part of that settlement, our case will be dismissed,” Matthew Hutchins said in a statement. “I have no interest in engaging in recriminations or attribution of blame [to the producers or Mr.

Catherine Hardwicke will receive the Santa Fe International Film Festival’s Visionary Award this October at Jean Cocteau Cinema.

Alec Baldwin's lawyer hit back after the actor was named as a "possible" defendant by the prosecution in the "Rust" shooting. Halyna Hutchins died when a gun Baldwin was holding fired while practicing a shot for the film "Rust" on the New Mexico movie set on October 21.The group had been rehearsing in a small church on the set.

Alec Baldwin’s lawyer is speaking out amid reports suggesting the actor could potentially face charges over the fatal “Rust” shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

The Santa Fe District Attorney has secured partial funding for 4 potential prosecutions over Rust.

New Mexico Board of Finance meeting on Sept. 20 requested emergency funding in order to try as many as four separate jury trials. She clarified that she has yet to review a final report from the Santa Fe Sheriff’s office but that “we are within weeks, if not days,” from receiving it.

Charges could soon be coming in the fatal shooting last year of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

The Santa Fe International Film Festival (SFiFF) has announced its first 15 feature titles. These films are part of the Special Presentation section and will be followed by a full schedule of competition films, short films, panels and events. SFiFF starts October 19 and will run through October 23.

Discussions stalled once again between the Motion Picture Association and Hollywood labor unions following a bid for a new law to protect cast and crew on production sets with firearm safety requirements following the fatal "Rust" shooting in October. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed on the New Mexico set of the Western film and director Joel Souza was wounded by a bullet when live ammunition was accidentally loaded into a weapon fired by Alec Baldwin while rehearsing a scene in a church.The actor has since denied he pulled the trigger of the gun that killed Hutchins.

Alec Baldwin is kicking back while new discoveries are being made in the "Rust" shooting case. On Thursday, Baldwin was seen leaving lunch at a luxe clam bar in Amagansett, New York, one of the most expensive towns in the Hamptons.

The Rust crew member who’s in the spotlight over how live rounds ended up in a gun that Alec Baldwin fired on set last year, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, pummeled New Mexico police today for their investigation of the tragedy.

announced that the FBI has completed its forensics analysis of the bullet inside the gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on Oct. 21, 2021, on the set of the Alec Baldwin movie.

The legal team for Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the "Rust" set, is not happy with the New Mexico Sheriff's Department and their alleged handling of the investigation.  Gutierrez-Reed's lawyer, Jason Bowles, shared a statement with Fox News Digital on Thursday, stating: "The primary question in this case from the beginning has been where did the live rounds that ended upon the Rust set come from?" Hannah Gutierrez-Reed's lawyer shared a statement with Fox News Digital about the fatal shot fired by Alec Baldwin on set of "Rust." (Photo by Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images) "As can be seen from the attached emails, the Sheriff’s office made a conscious decision not to pursue this question at all by refusing to ask the FBI to test any of the rounds for fingerprints or DNA," he alleged.  "We now know for certain there were live rounds on set. It is inconceivable that the Sheriff would not seek answers to this fundamental question and it raises a serious problem with the entire investigation.

Alec Baldwin's "Rust" set shooting was ruled an accident by New Mexico's Office of the Medical Investigator after the completion of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins' autopsy and review of law enforcement reports from the fatal incident in October. The medical investigator's report was made public Monday by the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office in addition to FBI records collected from the weapon and ammunition used on the set following the shooting.

In a December 2021 interview with ABC News, Baldwin said that he did not pull the trigger while he was rehearsing a scene in which his character shoots a firearm at the camera. Baldwin said he was told that the gun was “cold,” meaning that it was not loaded with live ammunition. While practicing with the gun, it discharged, fatally wounding Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza.

A new discovery has been made in the fatal "Rust" shooting involving Alec Baldwin.  According to ABC News, which obtained a copy of the FBI's forensic report, the gun used on the New Mexico movie set could not have been fired without the trigger being pulled. The FBI conducted an accidental discharge test and determined the gun used in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins "could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger," the report stated, according to the outlet.

Carson Burton Walter Hill, the director behind “The Warriors” and “48 Hrs.,” is the recipient of the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award from this year’s Venice International Film Festival, Cartier and La Biennale di Venezia announced Friday. His new film, “Dead For a Dollar,” will premiere at the festival.“In the film world, one knows it’s a great honor to be invited for a special screening at the Venice Film Festival,” Hill said.

Nearly 10 months since the fatal "Rust" shooting, which resulted in cinematographer Halyna Hutchins' death, the Santa Fe Sheriff's Office has received the full forensic report from the FBI. According to a press release, the Santa Fe Sheriffs' detectives received the FBI's completed forensic reports on Aug.

Nearly 10 months after Alec Balwin killed Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the low budget Western, the police investigation into what happened is still ongoing, but a bit closer to competition.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe FBI has completed its ballistics analysis of evidence in the fatal shooting on the set of “Rust” last year, moving the investigation one step closer to completion.The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office has been investigating the Oct. 21 shooting that took the life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

“This was the planets aligning,” says House of the Dragon co-creator Ryan J. Condal about teaming with Game of Thrones EP and director Miguel Sapochnik on the new George R.R. Martin HBO spinoff series. Condal and Sapochnik had previously developed a number of projects together before House of the Dragon.

EXCLUSIVE: Buffalo 8 has announced that it will release Ruben Pla’s feature directorial debut The Horror Crowd on digital and VOD on September 2nd.

Tems has shared a cover of the Bob Marley and the Wailers song, ‘No Woman No Cry’ as part of a three-song EP released for the upcoming Marvel film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.Tems’ version of the 1974 original was first heard during Wakanda Forever’s recently-released trailer, but was released in full today (July 26), alongside additional soundtrack contributions ‘A Body, A Coffin’ by Amaarae and ‘Soy’ by Santa Fe Klan.Together, the trio of tracks comprise the film’s first musical offering: Wakanda Forever Prologue. Listen below: In a press statement regarding the EP, the film’s director Ryan Coogler and composer Ludwig Göransson described Wakanda Forever Prologue as an “aural first glimpse” into the “sound world for the film”, borne out of the pair’s “extended trips to Mexico and Nigeria.”“During the nights on these trips, we had recording sessions with contemporary artists who were akin to the characters and thematic material explored in the film… The instrumental score and soundtrack for Wakanda Forever both organically grew from these sessions and workshops,” the joint statement read.Set to be released in cinemas in November of this year, Wakanda Forever is the sequel to Marvel’s first Black Panther film, which was released in 2018.

teaser as we were, you can now listen to the full track on repeat.The song, which is originally performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers and beautifully re-recorded by Nigerian singer Tems for the film’s soundtrack, was released on music streaming platforms including Spotify and Apple Music on Monday. You can also listen it on YouTube at the top of this post.The “Wakanda Forever Prologue” EP also includes “A Body, A Coffin” performed by Ghanian artist Amaarae and “Soy” by Mexican rapper Santa Fe Klan.“This Prologue is an aural first glimpse of ‘Wakanda Forever,’ composer and soundtrack producer Ludwig Göransson said in a statement.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorHollywood Records and Marvel Music have released the first three tracks in anticipation of Marvel’s upcoming “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”The three-track prologue soundtrack features Nigerian artist Tems. The singer, who is currently riding the wave of Afrobeats musicians, was heard this weekend when the trailer was released at Comic-Con. Tems sings a cover of Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” with a Kendrick Lamar sample of “Alright.”The trailer is strung together with a lyrical motif of “We gonna be alright” from Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright,” moving between images of Wakanda’s aquatic environments, futuristic technology and a somber funeral for the late Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa.

on his website’s Not-a-Blog section, the project is codenamed “Snow” and has been development as long as the other “Game of Thrones”-adjacent series that HBO is developing, which are “Ten Thousand Ships” (from Amanda Segel), “Sea Snake” aka “Nine Voyages” (from “Rome” creator Bruno Heller) and a show centered around characters Dunk and Egg, from “The Pursuit of Happyness” writer Steve Conrad. (There are also some animated projects in development.) “For whatever reason it was never announced and it never leaked… until now,” Martin wrote.Martin also confirms what Emilia Clarke said in an interview with the BBC – that the new show was created by Harington himself.

Zack Sharf The world got a surprise June 16 with the news that HBO is in early development on a “Game of Thrones” sequel series centered on Jon Snow (Kit Harington), but that was hardly news for Emilia Clarke. The actor revealed to BBC that her longtime co-star Harington confided in her that he was in talks to continue playing Jon Snow on a spinoff series. Both Harington and Clarke starred on all eight seasons of the original HBO fantasy series.“He has told me about it.