During an interview with ABC aired on Thursday, Alec Baldwin said that he isn’t responsible for the shooting on the set of “Rust,” he might have committed suicide if he thought he was responsible, and that while he is going
NEW YORK (AP) — The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin a prop gun that went off on a New Mexico film set, killing a cinematographer, backs up the actor’s assertion that he did not pull the trigger.
Alec Baldwin claimed that he did not pull the trigger on the single action revolver at the center of the “Rust” shooting. It’s hard to believe and here is why: the single action mechanism requires multi-step manipulation in order to fire.
Alec Baldwin claims he “didn’t pull the trigger” on the gun that killed one person and wounded another.
NEW YORK (AP) — Alec Baldwin told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in an interview airing Thursday that he did not pull the trigger on a prop gun he was holding on a New Mexico film set when it went off, killing a cinematographer.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities pursued new leads Tuesday on possible sources of live ammunition involved in actor Alec Baldwin’s fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the New Mexico set of a western movie, as they searched the premises of an Albuquerque-based firearms and ammunition supplier.
Alec Baldwin reportedly sat down with ABC News for his first formal interview since that fateful day on October 21.
Alec Baldwin is lawyering up by hiring attorney Aaron S. Dyer of the New York law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman to represent him in civil suits related to the fatal on-set shooting on the indie western movie “Rust,” according to multiple reports.
A lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that Alec Baldwin recklessly fired a gun when it wasn’t called for in the script when he shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza on the New Mexico set of the film “Rust.”
Mamie Mitchell, the script supervisor for the unfinished film Rust, filed suit against its lead actor and producer Alec Baldwin Wednesday, declaring “Mr. Baldwin cannot hide” from responsibility for the fatal on-set shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded the movie’s director.
Daniel Baldwin says his brother Alec Baldwin isn’t to blame for the shooting that killed Halyna Hutchins and claims Alec is being targeted for his political beliefs.
From Alec Baldwin to rapper Travis Scott, showbiz elites have fallen from grace in spectacular fashion, taking their sham moral authority with them.
Actor George Clooney says that “stupid mistakes” led to Alec Baldwin fatally shooting 42-year-old cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust.
A crew member of the movie Rust is suing Alec Baldwin and other people associated with the indie western film, claiming the defendants’ alleged negligence surrounding the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins has caused him severe emotional distress.
“Every film/TV set that uses guns, fake or otherwise,” Alec Baldwin tweeted Monday, “should have a police officer on set.”
A “Rust” crew member has been hospitalized, and may lose his arm, after being bitten by a brown recluse spider while shutting down the set. Production was halted after actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins.
Actor and left-wing activist Alec Baldwin “protected” his Twitter account on Tuesday — effectively controlling which users can view the star’s tweets.
Matthew Hutchins — the husband of the late “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who died late last month after being fatally shot by actor Alec Baldwin on the film set — has reportedly hired a Los Angeles law firm that specializes in wrongful death lawsuits.
Actress Janet Hubert, famous for her role as “Aunt Viv” on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, was mocked online after suggesting Donald Trump supporters may have somehow given actor Alec Baldwin a loaded weapon on the set of his film Rust before the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins — as revenge for having parodied the former president.
He’s made millions from his movies using bigs guns but now Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has pledged to stop using real firearms on all projects produced by his company following the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
The woman in charge of weapons on the movie set where actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins said Wednesday night that she had inspected the gun Baldwin shot but doesn’t know how a live bullet ended up inside.
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.
