Alec Baldwin reposted to his 2.4 million Instagram followers a “Rust” crew member’s lengthy statement about what happened on the set where cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed, insisting the claims that of an unsafe film set are “bullshit.”
In the wake of the October 21, 2021, shooting death of Halyna Hutchins, nearly 200 cinematographers are demanding that “functional firearms” be banned from movie sets.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that killed a cinematographer says he hopes the tragedy prompts the film industry to “reevaluate its values and practices” to ensure no one is harmed again.
Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria were slammed after posing with their six children clad in Halloween costumes and posting to Instagram what many called “tasteless” photos. The posts came one week after Alec killed Rust cinematographer and mother Halyna Hutchins, who was memorialized over the weekend.
After being shot by star Alec Baldwin on the set of the film “Rust,” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins reportedly said, “That was no good. That was no good at all,” before being rushed to a hospital where she died.
Actor Alec Baldwin told reporters Saturday he is “extremely interested” in limiting the use of firearms on film sets.
Alec Baldwin spoke to photographers on the side of a road in Vermont on Saturday, where he told paparazzi that Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins — who he killed last week while filming the movie “Rust” — was his “friend.”
“Rust” head armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed broke her silence in a statement issued by her attorneys on Friday, in which she blamed producers, adding that she has “no idea” where the live rounds of ammunition came from, and that people have “slandered” her to the media.
Newsweek has published an essay which argues NRA safety protocols could have made the movie set of Alec Baldwin’s “Rust” Safer. The author of the Newsweek essay, Sean Spoonts, is a former Navy anti-submarine warfare operator.
Alec Baldwin retweeted an article shared by the New York Times on Wednesday that isolates Rust assistant director Dave Halls, who reportedly told a detective that he should have inspected each round in the chamber of the gun he gave to Baldwin on the film set before Baldwin fatally wounded cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough criticized actor Alec Baldwin and the people who worked with him on the “Rust” film set for not checking if his gun was loaded with live ammunition before the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Co-host Mike Barnicle asked Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday’s broadcast of “Morning Joe” why the shooting by actor Alec Baldwin last week on a movie set has gotten more media coverage than the gun violence in her city.
Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies told NBC News’ Tom Llamas that actor Alec Baldwin “pulled the trigger” on the “Rust” film set, which doesn’t mean that charges will be filed against him, but it also “doesn’t mean they won’t.”
In the wake of Alec Baldwin accidentally shooting and killing a cinematographer last week, there’s serious talk of banning functioning guns on all movie and TV sets. All gunfire should be CGI’d now, they say.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alec Baldwin the actor, who pulled the trigger on a prop gun while filming “Rust” in New Mexico and unwittingly killed a cinematographer and injured a director, likely won’t be held criminally or civilly liable for the tragedy. But Alec Baldwin the producer might be, along with several others in leadership positions for the Western.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Investigators said Wednesday that there was “some complacency” in how weapons were handled on the movie set where Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed a cinematographer and wounded another person, but it’s too soon to determine whether charges will be filed.
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the 24-year-old armorer for the Alec Baldwin film Rust, was the subject of numerous complaints while handling weapons on another film set just two months earlier, infuriating star Nicolas Cage, according to a crew member who spoke with TheWrap.
Here are all the things that reportedly went wrong on the deadly set of Alec Baldwin’s Western ‘Rust.’
SANTA FE, N.M. — Investigators plan to discuss their initial findings Wednesday in the fatal movie-set shooting in which Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun, killing a cinematographer and wounding the director.
Criminal charges have not been ruled out in the fatal shooting by actor Alec Baldwin on the set of his western film, Rust, last week, the Santa Fe County district attorney reportedly said on Tuesday.
Veteran prop master Neal W. Zoromski says he turned down an offer to work on Alec Baldwin’s film Rust over safety concerns.
“It is likely, therefore, that the killing of Halyna Hutchins could constitute a homicide,” writes Alan Dershowitz.
A petition launched on Change.Org in the wake of 42-year-old cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ death demands Alec Baldwin push to ban real guns being used on Hollywood movie sets.
California state Sen. Dave Cortese (D) is introducing legislation to ban live guns and ammunition on movie sets in the wake of actor Alec Baldwin’s fatal discharge of a prop gun Thursday.
There are reports some crewmembers were recreationally shooting the gun that Alec Baldwin accidentally killed a cinematographer with.
The Screen Actors Guild’s written rules on safety in film and television make clear that actors should never point a firearm at anyone.
Alec Baldwin is “canceling other projects,” and was “inconsolable for hours,” after the prop gun he was holding killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza — according to a report by People.
At the time of an accidental shooting on the set of a western that killed a camera operator and wounded the director in New Mexico last week, actor Alec Baldwin was practicing drawing his weapon and firing it at the camera, according to an affidavit released Sunday night.
NEW YORK — With computer-generated imagery, it seems the sky’s the limit in the magic Hollywood can produce: elaborate dystopian universes. Trips to outer space, for those neither astronauts nor billionaires. Immersive journeys to the future, or back to bygone eras.
“Any risk is too much risk,” the executive producer of ABC’s police drama “The Rookie” announced in a staff memo Friday, saying the events in New Mexico had “shaken us all.”
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the head armorer on the set of Alec Baldwin’s Rust Western, said she “almost didn’t take” her last job due to fears that she was not “ready.”
On his show “State of the Union,” CNN anchor Jake Tapper declared that Republicans were repeatedly violating “basic decency.”
The New York Post reports that Halyna Hutchins, the 42-year-old cinematographer who Alec Baldwin shot and killed on the Rust movie set Thursday, was shot in the chest.
Hollywood weapons expert Bryan Carpenter responded of the death and injuries related to Alec Baldwin’s discharge of a prop gun while filming by suggesting Baldwin ignored the number rule of gun safety.
Hollywood is filled with anti-gun celebrities hellbent on obliterating or at least radically altering the Second Amendment. Among the most vocal stars has been Alec Baldwin, who has repeatedly attacked the Constitutionally protected right of Americans to bear arms.
The crew of the Alec Baldwin movie “Rust” reportedly experienced on-set gun safety issues prior to Thursday’s deadly shooting incident in which the actor discharged a prop gun, killing the movie’s cinematographer and injuring its director.
Attorney Andrew Stoltmann believes actor Alec Baldwin “needs to start thinking like a potential defendant instead of just somebody who made a tragic mistake.”
Alec Baldwin has been a vocal critic of the Second Amendment and the NRA for years, calling on Congress to re-think Americans’ protected right to bear arms. But when it comes to cashing that Hollywood check, Baldwin has been more than willing to carry a fire arm on the big screen.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — On Friday, Baldwin tweeted, expressing his condolences to Hutchins’ family and calling the shooting an accident.
After he discharged a gun on a movie set Thursday resulting in the death of one crew member and the injury of another, actor Alec Baldwin is now getting trolled on social media for his anti-gun activism and an old tweet in which he wondered “how it must feel to wrongfully kill someone.”
