Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterA new bill would require film workers in New Mexico to pass a hunter safety course if firearms are present on set.The bill, SB 188, was introduced on Monday by Sen. Cliff Pirtle, R-Roswell.
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investigation into a fatal shooting on a New Mexico film set last fall, a law enforcement official said.Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office spokesman Juan Rios said Baldwin's phone was turned over Friday to law enforcement officials in Suffolk County, New York, who will gather the information from the phone and provide it to Santa Fe County investigators, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported.Sheriff's office investigators in December obtained a search warrant for the phone's contents in their investigation into the Oct. 11 shooting on the “Rust” film set at Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe.Baldwin was an actor and co-producer, and the search warrant for his phone sought text messages, images, videos, calls or any other information related to the movie.Authorities have said Baldwin’s prop revolver discharged a live round during a rehearsal, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.Baldwin’s lawyer, Aaron Dyer, said his client had been cooperating with authorities throughout the course of the investigation, and the delay in providing information from the phone was no indication otherwise.“Alec voluntarily provided his phone to the authorities this morning so they can finish their investigation,” Dyer said Friday in a statement.
“But this matter isn’t about his phone, and there are no answers on his phone.”Baldwin, who has denied any wrongdoing in the shooting, and said in an Instagram message on Jan. 8 that New Mexico needed to go through New York law enforcement and that the process of specifying exactly what is needed took time.“They can’t just go through your phone and take your photos, or your love letters to your wife, or what have you,” he said.Baldwin has said he didn’t know the gun he was
.Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterA new bill would require film workers in New Mexico to pass a hunter safety course if firearms are present on set.The bill, SB 188, was introduced on Monday by Sen. Cliff Pirtle, R-Roswell.
A Republican New Mexico legislator wants movie actors and other film-set professionals to undergo state-sponsored gun-safety training after a cinematographer was fatally shot last year by Alec Baldwin with a weapon he says he thought was not loaded with live ammunition.
A New Mexico State senator on Monday introduced legislation that would require actors and other crew members to take a gun-safety course offered by the New Mexico Game and Fish Department, a move that comes just more than three months after the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the Santa Fe set of Rust.
SANTA FE, N.M. -- A Republican New Mexico legislator wants movie actors and other film-set professionals to undergo state-sponsored gun-safety training after a cinematographer was fatally shot last year by Alec Baldwin with a weapon he says he thought was not loaded with live ammunition.State Sen.
Alec Baldwin has settled a lawsuit with the man who accused the actor of punching him following an argument over a New York City parking spot. Wojciech Cieszkowski and Baldwin have been locked in a court battle since 2019, after the "Saturday Night Live" star allegedly punched Cieszkowski in the face and pushed him. Ciezkowski had allegedly taken a parking spot that Baldwin had been waiting for outside his NYC apartment. Alec Baldwin has settled a lawsuit with a man who accused the actor of beating him up after getting into a fight over a NYC parking spot.
Alec Baldwin can put his parking spot blow up behind him. Back in 2019, Wojciech Cieszkowski sued the actor for assault and slander, claiming Alec punched him in the face as they argued and skirmished over a parking spot outside the "30 Rock" star's New York City apartment building.After the man filed the lawsuit, Alec filed a countersuit for defamation, claiming Wojciech blatantly lied about the incident. Alec said he "lightly pushed" him and insisted that surveillance video would back his claim.The 3-year-old case is now behind the men.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAlec Baldwin and his company El Dorado Pictures are teaming on true-crime podcast “Art Fraud,” in a co-production with iHeartRadio and Cavalry Media.Baldwin narrates the eight-episode series, which chronicles the fall of The Knoedler, among the oldest and most-revered art galleries in New York City. The producers promise never-before-heard interviews with the mastermind behind the long con.
EXCLUSIVE: Alec Baldwin is to explore the fall of the one of the oldest, and most revered, galleries in New York City in a new true-crime podcast series.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe family of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer who was shot and killed on the set of “Rust” in October, has taken the first step toward filing a wrongful death lawsuit.A Santa Fe, N.M., attorney, Kristina Martinez, filed a petition on Wednesday to be appointed as the personal representative of Hutchins’ estate. Martinez is seeking appointment “solely for the purpose of investigating and pursuing a lawsuit under the New Mexico Wrongful Death Act in the courts of New Mexico,” the filing states.Hutchins was preparing for a scene in a church building at the Bonanza Creek Ranch, near Santa Fe, when actor Alec Baldwin fired a Colt .45, killing her and injuring the film’s director.
The police investigation into Alec Baldwin’s fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust last fall is ongoing, but the family of the cinematographer is moving closer to a big move of its own.
In paperwork filed Monday night in a Los Angeles Superior Court, attorneys for Alec Baldwin sought to have the lawsuit filed against him and other producers on the film, by “Rust” script supervisor Mamie Mitchell, dismissed.The attorneys, at the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP which represent “Rust” producers in this case, argue that because the “Rust” shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on Oct. 21 happened in New Mexico, the matter falls under that state’s laws.
Alec Baldwin and his fellow "Rust" producers have filed to dismiss one of the lawsuits taking aim at them. In a motion obtained by Fox News Digital, Baldwin and other producers have requested that the court toss the complaint "without leave to amend." The suit was originally filed in November by script supervisor Mamie Mitchell – who is being represented by famed attorney Gloria Allred following the events that led to the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injury of director Joel Souza.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterAlec Baldwin’s attorneys argued in a filing on Monday that a lawsuit stemming from the “Rust” shooting in October should be thrown out because the shooting was a workplace accident.The filing marks the first time that Baldwin’s lawyers have laid out a legal argument for why he is not responsible in the Oct. 21 incident, which killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza.
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Chris Cuomo said he advised actor Alec Baldwin not to publicly speak out about cancel culture while the journalist's brother, Andrew Cuomo, was facing a sexual misconduct trial. Beginning in late 2020, a scandal broke out for Andrew Cuomo, then the governor of New York, when he was accused of sexual misconduct. He eventually stepped down from his position but insisted that he did no wrong.
Alec Baldwin is facing a defamation lawsuit from a family member of a Marine killed in Afghanistan.In legal documents obtained by ET, Baldwin is being sued by the family of Rylee McCollum who was one of 13 marines killed outside of Afghanistan's international airport during a bombing on Aug. 26, 2021, amidst the United States military's efforts to help evacuate military, civilian and Afghan nationals out of the country during the Taliban takeover.
Alec Baldwin is facing a defamation lawsuit from a family member of a Marine killed in Afghanistan.In legal documents obtained by ET, Baldwin is being sued by the family of Rylee McCollum who was one of 13 marines killed outside of Afghanistan's international airport during a bombing on Aug. 26, 2021, amidst the United States military's efforts to help evacuate military, civilian and Afghan nationals out of the country during the Taliban takeover.