On Thursday, US police announced that 63-year-old actor Alec Baldwin fired shots with a fake weapon while filming the movie Western, in an accident that killed the film’s director of filming and injured its director.

In a statement, police said that director of photography Haliana Hutchins, 42, and director Joel Sousa, 48, “were shot when Alec Baldwin fired a ‘Chalby’ weapon on the set of the movie “Rust” near Santa Fe, the capital. New Mexico, southwestern United States.

She added that Hutchins was evacuated on a helicopter to a nearby hospital, but “she soon died of her injuries,” while Souza was taken by ambulance to the hospital, and he is currently in the intensive care unit.

The statement explained that the tragedy occurred “while filming a scene on the set of the Western movie Rust,” the films of the American Old West.

No judicial charges have been filed so far in this incident, which is still being investigated, with witness statements being heard, according to the statement.

The Hollywood Reporter quoted a police spokesman as saying that the director was in hospital in a “critical condition”, while a spokesman for the production company said that the “accident” was caused by shooting from a shooting weapon supposed to be loaded with fake bullets.

previous accidents
Filming locations usually have strict rules about the use of claw weapons, but it has not been without incidents. The most famous of these incidents occurred during the filming of “The Crew” when Brandon Lee, son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee, was killed by a pistol that was supposed to be loaded with fake bullets.

Written and directed by Joel Sousa, “Rust” stars Alec Baldwin, who also stars in the role of outlaw Harland Rust, who comes to the rescue of his 13-year-old grandson, who has been sentenced to death by hanging for murder.

And in recent years, Baldwin has grown in fame in the United States thanks to his elaborate imitation of former President Donald Trump on the popular satirical show “Saturday Night Live.”

Daniel Craig was finally awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Wednesday, days before his latest James Bond movie premiered in the United States.

“No Time to Die” is the fifth and final in the series of films in which Craig played the role of the elegant British agent, ending the role he played over 15 years.

Craig’s star was ranked 2704 on the Walk of Fame and was placed alongside the late Roger Moore, who played the role of Bond in seven films between 1973 and 1985.

“Being on this driveway, surrounded by all these legends makes me a very happy man,” said Craig.

Film producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, as well as Rami Malek, who played villain Savin in No Time to Die, attended Craig’s tribute.

The film garnered 121 million dollars in ticket sales when it premiered during the weekend in Britain and international cinemas after the show was postponed 3 times due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Craig will play Macbeth on Broadway in March.

The movie “Spencer”, which narrates the life of the late British Princess Diana, was shown at the London Film Festival on Thursday, starring American star Kristen Stewart.

Stewart, 31, said she was excited to showcase her performance as Princess Diana to British audiences, in a role that won critical acclaim.

The events of “Spencer”, the family name of the late princess, focus on three days in Diana’s life, as the story of the film follows her as she reluctantly heads to Sandringham House for a Christmas gathering with members of the British royal family, at a time when her marriage to a crown prince falls apart. Covenant Prince Charles.

The film, directed by Chilean Pablo Larren, was first shown at the Venice Film Festival last month, prompting some critics to say that Stewart, best known from the “Twilight Saga” series, could be nominated for a Best Oscar. an actress.

“I’m excited to show the movie in his home country,” Stewart told Reuters on the red carpet. “We did it with a lot of love. Even if everyone hated the movie, it wouldn’t be a bad thing, because we did everything we could to make it happen.”

And she continued, “We love her so much and wanted to understand her… I hope everyone loves the movie as much as we loved her.”
“Spencer” depicts Princess Diana growing increasingly isolated from the rest of the royal family as she desperately seeks to free herself from royal shackles. The film also shows her close relationship with her two sons, William and Harry.

The London Film Festival will continue until October 17, and the festival has returned this year to live shows, after it held its activities virtually last year, in light of the exceptional situation imposed by the Corona epidemic.

Actress Scarlett Johansson and Disney announced Thursday that they have reached an agreement over a financial dispute that has erupted between them since the movie “Black Widow” was made available via streaming at the same time as it was shown in cinemas, which the American star considered a breach of contract.

And Johansson, who is considered one of the most prominent and highest-paid Hollywood stars, was supposed to receive a percentage of the box office revenues from the upcoming Marvel movie, in which she plays the main role, according to the text of a lawsuit she filed at the end of last July with a Los Angeles court.

Johansson considered that the simultaneous release of the film in cinemas and via the video-on-demand platform “Disney +” of the giant entertainment company, missed her millions of dollars in profits.

Disney, which owns Marvel Studios, which specializes in superhero films, confirmed that it had not breached the contract, and regretted Johansson’s ignoring the “horrific and continuing global impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.”

The film was originally scheduled to be shown on the big screen last year, but its release was postponed more than once due to the Coronavirus.

In a surprising incident of the international star’s behavior, an employee of a luxury restaurant expelled the American star Nicholas Cage to the street barefoot, after he behaved aggressively with restaurant workers.

The photographers’ lenses monitored the arrest of the international star Nicolas Cage, while drunk, inside a famous restaurant in the US state of Las Vegas, after he got into a big fight with the restaurant’s employees and workers.

The English newspaper, The Sun, reported the details of the arrest of the 57-year-old international star, which began with Cage taking off his shoes in the restaurant, and addressing him to the workers in the restaurant in a loud voice while telling the workers that he did not have any shelter.

Cage appeared in the video published by the English newspaper, as he exited the Lawry’s Prime Rib restaurant near the famous Las Vegas last week, and the report stated that the workers in the restaurant did not recognize the Oscar-winning star, and after learning his true identity, they called for security.

The report quoted some details from workers at the luxury restaurant, who confirmed that Nicolas Cage was aggressive, and Cage appeared wearing leopard-print pants, sitting on a sofa while he was barefoot.

Cage was recently contracted to star in Butcher’s Crossing, an adventure based on John Williams’ original 1960 novel about the rugged frontiers of the American West, slated to be directed by Abe Polsky.

The film will be produced by Altitude Group, which produces, finances, and has British and Irish distribution rights, as well as an international sale at Cannes Market, which began today, with the market opening ahead of next month’s festival.

Warner Brothers, the film production company, intends to present a new treatment for the famous movie “Body Guard”, which was released in 1992, and launched the late singer Whitney Houston’s career in the world of acting, and included her most famous songs.

The company said that the new treatment of the suspense, excitement, and romance film is “in progress”, and that “American writer Matthew Lopez is writing the script.”

Warner Brothers did not release details about the cast, plot, or possible release date of the film, but said Lawrence Kasdan, the writer, and producer of the 1992 film, would co-produce the remake.

Whitney Houston began acting in that film, playing a singer who is protected from an unknown stalker by a former Secret Service officer. The role of the bodyguard was embodied by the famous star Kevin Costner.

Although the film met with critical reviews at the time of its release, it came in at number two at the global box office that year, and Houston’s lead single “I Will Always Love You” became a classic.