13 h. ago Alec Baldwin’s Rust deemed ‘uninspired’ and ‘a tough slog’ by critics years after fatal on

Western movie has finally landed a limited release nearly four years after the fatal on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins

Events

21 h. ago Alec Baldwin movie Rust ‘haunted’ by shooting of cinematographer, critics say

The film arrives in some cinemas on Friday.

Culture

3 d. ago ‘I wish I’d never written that damn movie’: Rust director Joel Souza on finishing his film after the fatal on

He was hit by the same bullet that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The film-maker talks about his hopes for his western, his complicated feelings towards star Alec Baldwin – and why the industry hasn’t learnedJoel Souza never liked guns. “I didn’t grow up around them and I don’t like the culture,” says the grey-haired 51-year-old film-maker sitting at a desk at his home in Pleasanton, California. “Guns make me recoil. The idea of touching one, picking one up, I find very off-putting.”In October 2021 he was in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the set of his sixth feature, the western Rust, when a gun being held by the film’s star, Alec Baldwin, was discharged accidentally during rehearsals. The weapon should have been loaded with blanks but a live round had found its way into the chamber. The movie’s Ukrainian cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally wounded. Souza was hit in the shoulder by the same bullet that killed her. Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago Hanks had Castaway, De Niro Raging Bull, now Alec Baldwin reveals he lost 10kg for Blue Jasmine

The great revelation from the finale of The Baldwins was that the actor had looked moderately slimmer for a bit part in 2013 and plans get back into that shapeYou’d be forgiven for not watching The Baldwins, the just-concluded TLC reality series about Alec and Hilaria Baldwin and all their children. This is because it was exactly the thing you assumed it to be.On one hand, The Baldwins desperately wanted to be a show in the traditional TLC mould; a zany happy-go-lucky series about the chaos of raising an enormous family. But on the other, it was also about what happened on the set of Rust in 2021. And so every wack-a-doodle moment of family fun found itself being counterbalanced with the explicit acknowledgment that Alec Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in an accident that caused untold pain to countless people and has cast a long dark shadow over Baldwin’s career. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Alec Baldwin's wife offers health update after decision to have 'procedure'

But she worries about the impact it will have on her daughter

Politics

3 w. ago Alec Baldwin's wife's phone call to agent sparks major career move for family

It came as a surprise to the Emmy winning actor himself

Politics