All posts tagged "Rust"

A long-awaited showdown will take place this week in a historic Wild West frontier town, with both sides seeking justice for a fatal bullet fired from a six-shooter.

But if Alec Baldwin’s trial for manslaughter sounds like the plot of a Hollywood movie, the victims, the stakes and the tragic consequences are all too real.

In October 2021, on the New Mexico set of his low-budget Western “Rust,” a gun pointed by Baldwin discharged a live round, killing the film’s cinematographer and wounding its director....

The "Rust" movie armorer who loaded a gun for Alec Baldwin before the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, according to new reports.

Hannah Gutierrez Reed was found guilty in a New Mexico criminal court about three years after a fatal on-set shooting involving a prop gun and a live round of ammunition in 2021, the New York Times reports.

"Ms. Gutierrez-Reed’s trial...focused on the fact that Ms. Gutierrez-Reed was supposed to load Mr. Baldwin’s revolver that day with dummy rounds, inert cartridges that are meant to resemble real bullets on camera but which cannot be fired," the Times reports....

Washington (AFP) - US actor Alec Baldwin insisted Saturday that he was complying with the investigation into the fatal on-set shooting of a cinematographer nearly a month after detectives obtained a warrant for his phone. "Any suggestion that I am not complying with requests or orders or demands or search warrants about my phone, that's bullshit, that's a lie," the US actor said in a video message posted on Instagram. He said that authorities in New Mexico, where the shooting occurred, are coordinating with authorities of New York state, where Baldwin lives, in order to obtain the phone, addin......

Los Angeles (AFP) - Alec Baldwin has said he did not pull the trigger of the gun he was holding that killed a cinematographer on the movie set of "Rust."  In his first major interview since the tragedy in October, the US actor also said he has "no idea" how a live round had gotten onto the set of the low-budget Western in New Mexico. "The trigger wasn't pulled -- I didn't pull the trigger," he said in an excerpt of an interview with ABC News released on Wednesday. "No, no, no. I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them. Never." In the interview, set to air in full on ABC ......