The assistant director and the armorer on the Rust film set have come under scrutiny in the days following the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins after Alec Baldwin discharged a prop gun with live rounds. CNN reports that assistant director Dave Halls — who handed Baldwin the prop firearm and declared it was a “cold
Armed officers remain entrenched at school campuses across Southern California despite public outcry in the wake of a fatal shooting in Long Beach by a school safety officer and opposition unleashed by the 2020 killing of George Floyd. School districts in Los Angeles, Baldwin Park and Claremont have acquiesced to demands from protesters to remove
A director who was injured when Alec Baldwin fatally shot a crew member with a prop gun says he is “gutted” by her death. Joel Souza was shot in the shoulder on a film set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and taken to hospital. He has since been discharged. Standing in front of him when
Rishi Sunak has refused to be drawn on the future of the eastern leg of HS2 just three days before announcing his spending plans in the autumn Budget later this week. Deflecting a question on the matter on Sky’s Trevor Phillips on Sunday, the chancellor also failed to confirm whether a new Northern Powerhouse Rail
Hundreds gathered at Albuquerque Civic Plaza on Saturday evening for a candlelight vigil in remembrance of Halyna Hutchins, the beloved cinematographer who died on Friday, aged 42, following an accident on the set of the Alec Baldwin Western, Rust. Among the speakers was International Cinematographers Guild President John Lindley, who said that while he’d never
The financially motivated FIN7 cybercrime gang has masqueraded as yet another fictitious cybersecurity company called “Bastion Secure” to recruit unwitting software engineers under the guise of penetration testing in a likely lead-up to a ransomware scheme. “With FIN7’s latest fake company, the criminal group leveraged true, publicly available information from various legitimate cybersecurity companies to
The NFT landscape is a wide-open frontier right now, and with any new playing field, there are newbies frantically trying to cash in on a bubbling trend, obvious scammers, and Trojan horses. Enter Aiko, an artificially intelligent “companion” who looks like an anime character and will live on the Internet — or, more specifically, in
Users of the Tesco website and app are experiencing disruption following an “attempt to interfere” with the system, the retail giant has said. The website and app have been hit with outages since yesterday morning, meaning customers cannot place or track orders. Website users are given an error message when they try to access groceries
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Even though I pride myself in being a big time connoisseur of the sad country song, and never been a big fan of the average bro-country banger, every once in a while, I don’t mind the kind of jam that you can crank out on the speaker when you’re getting rip-shit drunk. Point being, I’ve
Jamie O’Neal is sharing an update of a Christmas classic with her fans in advance of the holiday season, and it’s a song to which she has a deep emotional connection. O’Neal is dedicating her new rendition of the Bing Crosby classic “White Christmas” to the memory of her late sister. O’Neal’s new take on
PUBG: New State release date is set for November 11, publisher Krafton announced during its showcasing event on Friday. The South Korean company said that the new mobile game will be released on Android and iOS in more than 200 countries – including in India – following a final technical test in 28 countries that
If a picture paints a thousand words, then here are a bunch of nightmares in the making. The Den of Geek team has put their heads together to identify some of the most haunting single images in horror genre history. Those shots that just on their own can send shivers down your spine. Moments, or
The assistant director on the set of “Rust” who told Alec Baldwin the prop gun he was about to fire was safe has allowed an unsafe working environment on previous productions … this according to someone who worked with him on a previous production. Propmaker Maggie Goll worked with A.D. Dave Halls in 2019 on
The Prime Video series The Boys is no stranger to poking fun at the actual superhero franchises that exist in our world, having previously ripped on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and with a Captain America parody set to arrive in season three, and they’ve done it again. In a tweet posted earlier today
Marvel’s new team of superheroes are “more powerful than the Avengers” and would beat them in a fight, according to Eternals star Lia McHugh. The Marvel Cinematic Universe newcomer, who plays the eternally young old-soul Sprite in the ensemble that includes Gemma Chan as Sersi and Richard Madden as Ikaris, says she wants to “see that showdown”
Ed Brubaker made a splash earlier this year when he spoke out against the treatment of comic creators by Disney and Marvel Studios. The studios have since made nice with the legendary creator, and he has his eyes set on one of the Mouse’s most popular actors for an adaptation for a future comic project.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts rolls out a new behind-the-scenes look at Optimus Prime as filming wraps on the franchise’s followup to Bumblebee. Shifting to the Beast Wars storyline with rising stars Anthony Ramos (In the Heights) and Dominique Fisher (Judas and the Black Messiah) behind the wheel, Rise of the Beasts brings the action to 1994 New York.
Jason Sudeikis returned to 30 Rock Saturday night to make his hosting debut on Saturday Night Live, some eight years after he left his role as an actor on the live sketch comedy. As one might expect, the series brought back one of Sudeikis’ most popular sketches, “What’s Up With That?” and with it, some
The tragic accidental-shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the movie Rust has raised numerous questions about safety in film productions. Chief among them: How could the use of a prop weapon or fake ammunition leave a 42-year-old mother of one dead and a colleague injured? On Thursday, Oct. 21,