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The first trailer for the controversial Western, Rust, has been released at last, revealing our first look at Alec Baldwin as an aging outlaw. The footage also offers our first look at the cinematography of Halyna Hutchins, who was tragically killed when a live round was discharged from a prop gun being used by Baldwin while filming a scene.

Alongside the trailer, you can also read the newly revealed official synopsis for Rust below.

“In 1880s Kansas, recently orphaned Lucas McCalister (Patrick Scott McDermott) accidentally kills a rancher and is sentenced to hang. In a twist of fate, his estranged grandfather, the notorious outlaw Harland Rust (Academy Award nominee Alec Baldwin), breaks him out of jail and takes him on the run toward Mexico. As they flee across the unforgiving wilderness, the fugitive pair must outrun the determined U.S. Marshal Wood Helm (Josh Hopkins) and a ruthless bounty hunter...

The HBO Original three-part documentary series An Update on Our Family, directed by Rachel Mason, debuts Wednesday, January 15 at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt on HBO and will be available to stream on Max.

New episodes will debut subsequent Wednesdays through January 29. The documentary had its world premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Festival.

An Update on Our Family explores the complex world of family vlogging – a popular and potentially lucrative phenomenon in which parents post a steady stream of lifestyle videos on their social media channels to be consumed by loyal subscribers. The content often cultivates a sense of community and attachment for devoted viewers and can generate income for the vloggers.

Through the lens of one family’s story and the sudden online disappearance of their adopted son, the series raises questions about what motivates vloggers to expose their home lives to the world and examines the wider issues that...

Standing on the shoulders of Oscar-bothering British boffin dramas such as The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game, Ben Taylor's (Sex Education) big-screen debut is a gentle proposition that would fit snugly into the Christmas TV schedules. It follows young nurse/embryologist Jean (Thomasin McKenzie), scientist Dr Robert Edwards (James Norton), known as Bob, and obstetrician Patrick Steptoe (Bill Nighy) from 1968-1978 as they create the first “test-tube baby” through painstaking — and often painful — trial and error.

While the script serves up a few clunkers — “You truly are impossible, aren’t you?” Jean tells Bob with an indulgent smile; “We’re making the impossible possible!” he marvels — it always has the ring of emotional truth about it. Screenwriter Jack Thorne (Enola Holmes) and his wife Rachel Mason, who developed the story with Emma Gordon and Shaun Topp, went through IVF themselves, so they know how brutal even a...

The most eagerly awaited A-lister expected at the Turin Film Festival in Italy, which opened Friday, is not honoree Sharon Stone, nor is it Angelina Jolie, who will be on hand to screen her new movie as a director, Without Blood.

It is instead Alec Baldwin, whose involuntary manslaughter case following the tragic accident on the set of his indie Western Rust was dismissed in August. On Oct. 21, 2021, Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed on the set of the film when Baldwin fired a live round from a prop revolver that was supposed to be filled with dummy bullets. The shot also hit the film’s director, Joel Souza, in the shoulder, narrowly missing his spine.

Baldwin will fly into the Northern Italian town of Turin on Monday, where he will be given the festival’s prestigious Stella a Mole, a career achievement honor. He will meet the international media...

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‘Rust’ Comes To Poland

Torun, Poland – November 20: Cinematographer Bianca Cline (L) and film director Joel Souza (R) continue the discussions following screening of the movie ‘Rust’

Alec Baldwin Western overshadows: It would be an understatement to say that the Camerimage Film Festival had a bumpy ride in its run-up this year, but it finally kicked off this past weekend in Torun, Poland, and Zac was on the ground. This year’s edition had a bumper lineup of awards season titles such as The Brutalist and Wicked, while also managing to enlist two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett for the international competition jury. But it’s easy to understand how this buzz was comfortably overshadowed by the festival’s shock decision to...

After an unthinkable tragedy and over three years of paused production, Alec Baldwin's indie drama Rust finally premiered in Poland, earning a surprisingly warm reception from viewers despite the film's well-documented controversy. Not everyone was pleased by Rust's success, however, including the mother of the late cinematographer Halyna Hutchins as well as some of her colleagues and compatriots in the industry.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the ill-fated Western earned its warm welcome at the Camerimage Film Festival, an event which specifically focuses on achievements in cinematography. Before the screening began, Camerimage director Kazimierz Suwala addressed the crowd which was mostly made up of photography directors and production professionals and invited them to take a moment of silence for Hutchins, who was fatally shot on the set of Rust in 2021. Festival founder Marek Zydowicz then stepped in, saying that he had agreed to host the premiere to honor Hutchins,...

Every birth is extraordinary in its own way. But that was never more true than in the case of Louise Joy Brown, the first “test-tube baby.” Born in 1978, Louise’s extraordinary birth was the result of a decade of work by surgeons, scientists, and embryologists.

Directed by Ben Taylor (Sex Education), and co-created by Jack Thorne and Rachel Mason, Joytells the remarkable story of those hardworking men and women — and how their work paved the way for the advent of in vitro fertilization (IVF).

You can check out the trailer for Joy above, and read on to learn more.

Joy tells the remarkable true story behind the birth of Louise Joy Brown in 1978, the world’s first “test-tube baby,” and the tireless 10-year journey to make it possible. The film is told through the perspective of Jean Purdy, a young nurse and embryologist who joined forces with scientist Robert...

It has been three years since the accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Alec Baldwin western Rust. The film made its debut at the Camerimage Festival in Poland in November 2024 to a "subdued" and thin crowd, Deadline reports. One person not in attendance was Hutchins' mother, Olga Solovey, who publicly refused to appear at the premiere, stating that she viewed the release of the film as an attempt to profit off her daughter's death.

According to Variety, in a statement issued the day before the screening by her lawyer, Gloria Allred, Solovey said:

It was always my hope to meet my daughter in Poland to watch her work come alive on screen... Unfortunately, that was ripped away from me when Alec Baldwin discharged his gun and killed my daughter. Alec Baldwin continues to increase my pain with his refusal to apologize to me and...

Rustreceived an emotional world premiere at Poland’s Camerimage Film Festival on Wednesday (Nov 20), three years after the death of its Ukrainian-born cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Director Joel Souza told Screen that Hutchins would have wanted the western to premiere at the festival, which celebrates cinematography. Hutchins died in hospital on October 21, 2021, hours after a prop gun held by starAlec Baldwin went off and hit her during rehearsal at Bonanza Creek Ranch near Sante Fe, New Mexico.

Souza, who was injured in the incident and eventually resumed production in Montana in 2023, said: “I’m very proud to have it here. Halyna...

Rustreceived an emotional world premiere at Poland’s Camerimage Film Festival on Wednesday, three years on from the death of its Ukrainian-born cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Director Joel Souza told Screen that Hutchins would have wanted the western to premiere at the festival, which celebrates cinematography. Hutchins died in hospital on October 21 2021, hours after a prop gun held by starAlec Baldwin went off and hit her during rehearsal at Bonanza Creek Ranch near Sante Fe, New Mexico.

Souza, who was injured in the incident and eventually resumed production in Montana in 2023, said: “I’m very proud to have it here. Halyna...

A strange page in the book of contemporary cinema history was written this afternoon in Torun, Poland where the beleaguered Alec Baldwin western Rust screened publicly for the first time.

The screening, which is one of the centerpiece events of this year’s Camerimage Film Festival, took place just over three years after the film’s cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed after a firearm was discharged by Baldwin during an on-set rehearsal.

Joel Souza, the film’s director, and Bianca Cline, the replacement cinematographer, introduced today’s debut screening, alongside Camerimage chiefs Marek Żydowicz and Kazik Suwała. The event was was hosted at a satellite venue away from Camerimage’s main festival hub.

Souza and Cline gave emotional introductions and thanked the audience for attending. Cline said Rust gives a view of Halyna’s “vision of the world” while Souza told the crowd in the room that the screening was...

Over three years after the accidental on-set death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, Alec Baldwin’s Western film “Rust” received a polite response during its controversial premiere screening Wednesday at the EnergaCamerimage festival in Toruń, Poland.

The audience clapped through the film’s closing credits, strengthening their applause when a dedication to Hutchins appeared. However, the film didn’t attract a capacity crowd and a fair amount of moviegoers left the theater before the credits ended, prior to a Q&a with director Joel Souza — who was also injured in the October 2021 gun accident that took place while filming in New Mexico — and cinematographer Bianca Cline, who completed the movie.

Producer and star Alec Baldwin — who was handling the prop gun at the time of the accident — was not invited to attend the festival, according to an event spokesperson. Baldwin was charged with manslaughter but the case was dismissed on the...

“Rust” finally made its world premiere Wednesday with a daytime screening and filmmaker Q&a session at the EnergaCamerimage Festival in Poland, where a brief tribute to the late cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was unveiled during the closing credits.

The words “For Halyna” briefly appeared, followed by a quote she often repeated: What can we do to make this better?,” according to multiple media reports.

Not in attendance: Producer and star Alec Baldwin, who was reportedly not invited to attend the festival. Hutchins mother, who blames Baldwin for her daughter’s death and says he never called to apologize, also did not attend, and detailed her reasons in a Tuesday statement.

Director Joel Souza (L) and “Camerimage” festival director Marek Zydowicz (R) chat before the first screening of “Rust” in Torun, Poland, November 20, 2024. (Photo by Wojtek Radwanski / Afp)

EnergaCamerimage announced last month that “Rust” would make its debut at the international cinematography film festival in Toruń,...

Three years after the tragic on-set shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, Alec Baldwin’s indie Western Rust was finally unveiled before the public on Wednesday — and the reception was one of emphatic embrace.

The film premiered in a supportive environment at Poland’s Camerimage Film Festival, an industry-respected specialty event focusing on achievements in cinematography. Much of the assembled crowd at the premiere was made up of working directors of photography and production professionals. As the lights came up on the screening, Rust‘s director Joel Souza and Bianca Cline, the cinematographer who stepped in to finish the movie after a wrongful death lawsuit was settled, were greeted by a rousing round of applause.

Prior to the screening, Camerimage’s director Kazimierz Suwala invited the crowd to stand up and observe a minute of silence in honor of Hutchins. The festival’s founder Marek Zydowicz then took the mic...

Despite the protestations of some DPs who felt the screening was in poor taste, controversial Western Rust officially premiered at Poland's EnergaCamerimage Festival Wednesday. In 2021, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed on the set of the film by a bullet discharged from lead actor Alec Baldwin's prop gun. The past...

The quest to develop IVF plays out in predictable and thoroughly heartwarming fashion in Ben Taylor’s Netflix film. Here’s our Joy review.

Picture the scene: James Norton, looking less like Happy Valley’s rotten ruffian Tommy Lee Royce and more like an overenthusiastic biology postgrad, is desperate to convince a colleague of his revolutionary idea. What if, he posits with the scientific professionalism of a vaguely northern labrador, we could fertilise an egg outside the womb? What if we could produce an embryo in, to pick a piece of lab equipment entirely at random, a test tube?

The colleague isn’t convinced. “We’ll unite them all against us”, Bill Nighy’s character reminds him. The church, the medical establishment, the media. But Doctor Marley & Me has his trump card. “We’ll have the mothers”, he whispers. The score swells; Nighy’s eyes twinkle; history is made.

If...

Exclusive: Thomasin McKenzie says that because of her youthful appearance — she’s 24 — it has been “a bit of a struggle” to play her own age or older, but those worries are banished with her latest role. In the wonderful movie Joy, she delivers a remarkable portrait of Jean Purdy, one of the founding pioneers of human in vitro fertilization therapy, commonly known as IVF.

If gynecologist Dr. Patrick Steptoe and physiologist Robert Edwards are regarded as the “fathers” of IVF, then Purdy, a nurse and embryologist, is its godmother.

It’s a spot-on perfect part for the New Zealander who starred in Jojo Rabbit, Last Night in Soho and The Power of the Dog, and she shines brilliantly as Purdy alongside Bill Nighy as Steptoe and James Norton as Edwards, who later was knighted for his services to medical research.

Joy has its would premiere screening at the BFI London...

Alec Baldwin’s lawyers alleged a “stunning abuse of prosecutorial power” in the “Rust” case on Tuesday, arguing that a favorable plea offer was withdrawn last fall due to a misunderstanding about Baldwin’s role in a documentary about the case.

Baldwin is facing a trial in July in Santa Fe, N.M., on a felony charge of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. If convicted, he faces up to 18 months in prison.

Last October, prosecutors offered him a misdemeanor plea that would carry no jail time. But prosecutor Kari Morrissey said in a recent filing that she rescinded that offer after learning that Baldwin had “commissioned his own documentary” about Hutchins’ death, and was pressuring witnesses in the case to participate.

Concerned that Baldwin’s conduct would cause ongoing harm the victims and their families, she withdraw the offer and decided to seek a felony indictment.

Story Syndicate has begun production on a feature-length documentary on the life and work of Haylna Hutchins. The film will detail both her work as a cinematographer and her death on the set of the low-budget western “Rust.” Emmy nominee Rachel Mason (“Circus of Books”) will direct the film, which has the approval and backing of Hutchins’ widower Matt Hutchins. Julee Metz is producing.

The current untitled documentary will have exclusive access to Hutchins’ personal and professional archives. It will detail her early life living on a Soviet naval base and then in Kyiv, Ukraine and eventually chronicle her rise to professional prominence as one of the indie film scenes’ most sought-after cinematographers. It will, of course, deal with the on-set calamity which saw Hutchins being fatally injured while shooting “Rust,” a Alec Baldwin-led indie, as well as the fallout from that tragedy and attempts to complete the film.

Story Syndicate is giving acclaimed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins her due with a new feature documentary that just entered production. The documentary seeks to showcase her life beyond her highly-publicized death, exploring her youth and journey to becoming one of the most-desired cinematographers in the indie film space, according to a report from Deadline. Directed by Emmy nominee Rachel Mason, the film has the full support of Hutchins' husband Matt Hutchins and will be produced by Julee Metz of Story Syndicate. Liz Garbus, Dan Cogan, Jon Bardin, Mala Chapple, and Kate Barry will all executive produce under the Syndicate banner as well.

A documentary about “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who died in October 2021 after a prop gun held by Alec Baldwin went off during the film’s production, is in the works from Story Syndicate.

The feature-length doc, which will explore Hutchins’ life and work, has been fully authorized by her husband, Matt Hutchins. Rachel Mason, who was Emmy nominated for her work on the documentary “Circus of Books” in 2020, is set to direct. Julee Metz will serve as a producer for Story Syndicate.

According to a press release, the film will have exclusive access to Hutchins’ professional and personal archives and “will paint a powerful portrait of Hutchins’ journey from her youth living on a remote Soviet naval base and then in Kyiv, Ukraine, to becoming one of independent film’s most in-demand cinematographers. The documentary will be a celebration of and tribute to Hutchins’ craft while exploring the circumstances on the set of ‘Rust,...

Late cinematographer Halyna Hutchins will be the center of an upcoming documentary from Story Syndicate.

Hutchins died on the set of the Western film “Rust” in October 2021. Her widower, Matt Hutchins, supports the new documentary, helmed by Emmy-nominated director Rachel Mason (“Circus of Books”). Julee Metz is producing for Story Syndicate.

The yet-untitled documentary will feature Hutchins’ never-before-seen personal archives to capture her childhood on a remote Soviet naval base to her adolescence in Kyiv, Ukraine. The celebration of and tribute to Hutchins’ craft will also examine circumstances on the set of “Rust,” the Alec Baldwin-led indie film on which Hutchins was fatally injured, and the emotional journey of those involved in the completion of the film.

Hutchins’ credits prior to “Rust” included “The Mad Hatter,” “Darlin’,” and “Blindfire.”

“Halyna was on the cusp of making a lasting mark on cinema,” director Mason said, via Deadline. “As a filmmaker,...

Exclusive: Story Syndicate has launched production on a feature documentary exploring the life and work of celebrated cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and her untimely death on the New Mexico set of Rust. Emmy nominee Rachel Mason (Circus of Books) is helming the feature, which has the full backing of the late Dp’s husband, Matt Hutchins, with Julee Metz producing for Story Syndicate.

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The untitled documentary being made with exclusive access to Hutchins’ personal and professional archives will paint a powerful portrait of her...

Fox has put into development two British adaptations – remakes of crime drama Silent Witness and off-beat comedy This Country — with significant commitments.

The network has handed a script plus penalty to Silent Witness to star The Fighter’s Melissa Leo, who will exec produce alongside Outlander writer Joy Blake and Kim and Eric Tannenbaum, and a put pilot commitment to This Country from Sex and the City writer and producer Jenny Bicks and Bridesmaids director Paul Feig.

Both shows come via Lionsgate’s deal with BBC Studios, which has already seen NBC hand a put pilot commitment to an adaptation of Channel 4 comedy Home and CBS develop a remake of BBC comedy Ghosts.

Silent Witness (left) is a long-running British crime legal drama. Created by Nigel McCrery, it has aired on the British public broadcaster since 1996 with 22 seasons. It follows two determined women with conflicting methodologies and their team...

Fox Entertainment has set up a pair of projects with Lionsgate and BBC Studio — one drama and one comedy.

Oscar winner Melissa Leo will star in the drama project, “Silent Witness,” which has received a script commitment with a penalty attached at the broadcaster.

Based on the BBC format, “Silent Witness” follows two determined women with conflicting methodologies and their team while working for the Chief Medical Examiner in the shadow of a major departmental scandal involving corruption at the highest levels. With external biased pressures from all sides, they must use their scientific expertise to unravel clues in mysterious deaths while maintaining complete independence.

Leo will executive produce in addition to starring. Joy Blake will write and executive produce. Kim and Eric Tannenbaum of The Tannenbaum Company will also executive produce along with Angie Stephenson of BBC Studios. Jason Wang of The Tannenbaum Company will co-executive produce.

The comedy project,...