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Judge dismisses Alec Baldwin lawsuit claiming malicious prosecution in fatal set shooting
A New Mexico judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by actor Alec Baldwin for malicious prosecution and civil rights violations in the 2021 fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the western movie Rust. The judge, in a ruling made public Wednesday, dismissed the case without prejudice for lack of any significant action with the claim, which was filed in state district court earlier this year. Baldwin's attorneys will have 30 days to file a motion seeking reinstatement. Luke Nikas, Baldwin's lead attorney, told The Associated Press in an email that the dismissal amounted to a non-event since his team has been waiting to prosecute the case. "We have been in good-faith settlement discussions with the parties to the lawsuit and will be refiling promptly if those discussions are not promptly and favourably resolved," he said. Defendants include special prosecutor Kari Morrissey and Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies, along with three investigators from the Santa Fe County sheriff's office and the county board of commissioners. A charge of involuntary manslaughter against Baldwin was dismissed at trial last year on allegations that police and prosecutors withheld evidence from the defence. WATCH | Baldwin reacts after manslaughter case dismissed: Alec Baldwin brought to tears when judge dismisses charges against him in Rust killing 1 year ago Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed charges of involuntary manslaughter against actor Alec Baldwin, in New Mexico. His defence lawyers accused Santa Fe law enforcement of hiding evidence of the source of the live round that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021, failing to list the rounds in the Rust investigation file or inform the defence lawyers of their existence. The allegations in Baldwin's tort claim include defamation, with his attorneys saying that prosecutors and investigators targeted the actor and co-producer for professional or political gain. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died shortly after being wounded during a rehearsal for the movie Rust in October 2021 at a film-set ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe, N.M. Baldwin was pointing a pistol at Hutchins when it discharged, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired. The actor recently spoke to The Associated Press at San Diego's Comic-Con International, saying he couldn't believe what happened that day in court as the trial came to an abrupt end and that his life over the last year has been far better than the few years that preceded it. Still, Baldwin and other producers of Rust are being sued in New Mexico state court by the parents and younger sister of Hutchins. Court records show a deposition for Baldwin in that case was put off in May and has yet to be rescheduled.
CTV News
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- CTV News
Judge dismisses lawsuit filed by Alec Baldwin for malicious prosecution in fatal ‘Rust' set shooting
Actor Alec Baldwin attends his trial for involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming of the Western movie "Rust," July 12, 2024, at the County District Court in Santa Fe, N.M. (Ramsay de Give/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Globe and Mail
2 hours ago
- Globe and Mail
Gag-filled and hilarious, The Naked Gun just might renew your faith in reboots
The Naked Gun Directed by Akiva Schaffer Written by Schaffer, Dan Gregor and Doug Mand Starring Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, CCH Pounder, Kevin Durand, Cody Rhodes, Liza Koshy, Eddie Yu, with Danny Huston Classification 14A; 85 minutes Opens in theatres Aug. 1 Critic's Pick Are you completely done with tired Hollywood reboots that cynically milk what affection we have for movies from the past? Well not so fast, says the gloriously giddy new take on The Naked Gun. This locked and loaded return to David Zucker's late-80s police procedural parody has Liam Neeson step into late Canadian icon Leslie Nielsen's hilariously oblivious gumshoe role as the latter's equally clueless son, and makes for a convincing response to any blanket dismissal of bastardized IP: 'Not all reboots!' The Naked Gun has an advantage, of course. Time and distance are on the side of a franchise that dates all the way back to when one of its stars, O.J. Simpson, was still a wholesome household name (the new movie has a quick and brilliant acknowledgment of its relationship to that sordid history). Meanwhile, the multiplexes have been starved for laughs in a landscape overcrowded with superhero movies and other like-minded franchises. Comedies tend to go directly to streaming, while spoofs such as the Austin Powers and Scary Movie franchises have gone AWOL for the better part of a decade. 'More and more comedies go unmade,' says Neeson, instructing audiences to head back to theatres in a Naked Gun marketing PSA played as both spoof and sincere. Audiences would do well to heed the sincerity. You probably remember Neeson turning heads nearly two decades ago when his career transitioned from more intense dramatic roles (Schindler's List, Rob Roy) to B-movie action. Not that he ever ditched the intensity, which now, in yet another unexpected turn, is played for joyous laughs. His granite stare and gravelly voice as Frank Drebin Jr. (as opposed to Nielsen's soothing baritone) just makes the chaotic silliness enveloping him that much funnier. The contrast, casting dramatic actors in deadpan roles, was of course key to what Zucker was doing in his spoofs – before the '88 Naked Gun, there was Police Squad! (the series the movie franchise was borne from) and Airplane!, in which Nielsen made his own unexpected transition into comedy. Review: Sam Rockwell's big rad wolf saves The Bad Guys 2 from its own worst enemies The new Naked Gun isn't reinventing the formula. Popstar director Akiva Schaffer, alongside his co-writers Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, opt instead to stay true to what made the original work so spectacularly well, like exhaustively lobbing as many gags as they can at the screen at once, so that if one falls flat, there's often a background detail earning a chuckle to cover it; or insistently pushing bits that are too silly to earn a reaction at first – such as a magical snowman joining a threesome – until they derail into magnificent absurdity. The most consistent laughs are lifted from Drebin Jr.'s literal-minded approach to language, clueless to the tropes and assumptions we casually lean on in conversation, and misinterpreting the world-at-large in relentlessly gut-busting ways. 'Drunk?' asks a uniformed officer observing the fatal wreckage after a car had been driven off a cliff. 'Just enough to wake me up,' responds Neeson's Drebin 2.0. His character is introduced in an opening bank heist scene riffing on The Dark Knight, Schaffer treating it with some of the gravity Christopher Nolan would. It's a cold open, where Schaffer makes it clear he can pull off a pretty great imitation of slick action blockbusters, but he'd much rather squeeze Neeson into a schoolgirl outfit and floral panties as he dispatches bad guys. As basement dwelling as some of these gags are, just know that Schaffer is often choreographing them as precisely as a John Wick fight, narrowly pulling back punches and landing punchlines instead. Like any spoof worth its salt, there's an affection for the films and filmmaking that The Naked Gun emulates. It's one thing to riff on the hard-boiled detective stories that the original would send up, but quite another to approximate the noir vibes so well that the stars can have a good time convincingly inhabiting that space. That doesn't just go for Neeson, as gritty an actor as they come, but also Danny Huston (the son of Asphalt Jungle director John Huston, and playing a Musk-like tech bro villain) and Pamela Anderson. The latter is enjoying a renaissance of late with her recent memoirs and vulnerable performance in The Last Showgirl, pushing back against the way the industry objectifies and then casts aside women when they reach a certain age. Her appearance in The Naked Gun is a lovely addition to that narrative. She's here with that squeaky pitch in her voice, muffled by the whispery way she speaks, which works great in a femme fatale performance that can register as both camp and heartfelt. If Anderson fits like a glove in the new Naked Gun, it's because her durability is as pleasantly unexpected as this franchise that's refusing to heed the memo that reboots suck and studio comedy is dead.
