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After months of proposals and site visits, Sundance has whittled the swath of contenders for a potential new home for the festival down to three.

EXCLUSIVE: As Tom Petty said a long time ago, “the waiting is the hardest part” — especially if you are the state of Utah bidding to keep the Sundance Film Festival against five other determined contenders.

The special prosecutor in Alec Baldwin’s now-dismissed involuntary manslaughter case for the fatal 2021 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins insists there was “no cover-up” on her part, but that the actor’s sprawling legal team and others might have been up to some legal subterfuge.

Rust is set to plead guilty to another charge, this time of bringing a gun into a bar.In April, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison after being found guilty of involuntary manslaughter over the incident in 2021. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot and director Joel Souza was injured on the set of the film, when a live round was discharged from a revolver being used as a prop by Alec Baldwin.The jury also found Gutierrez-Reed was not guilty of tampering with evidence.Now, it has emerged that the armourer has agreed to plead guilty to bringing a gun into a bar in Santa Fe, N.M., for which she is expected to be sentenced to 18 months of probation.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed has agreed to plead guilty to bringing a gun into a bar in Santa Fe, N.M., and will be sentenced to 18 months of probation. Gutierrez Reed, 27, is already serving an 18-month prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The plea does not alter that case.

had been revealed about Tim Burton’s latest movie “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” in the lead-up to its Venice Film Festival on Wednesday night. But one long-assumed rumor has been confirmed by reports out of the Lido after its red-carpet debut: Baldwin and Davis, who played the deceased Maitlands in the 1988 horror-comedy, do not make so much as an apparition — sorry, appearance — in the follow-up.A review from the Hollywood Reporter said that “Barbara and Adam Maitland, the sweet prematurely deceased couple played by Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin, are gone, however, having found a loophole according to Lydia.” In the first film, the pair spooked the Deetz family (Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara and Jeffrey Jones).But it was always unlikely that the fictional ghost duo would be back to haunt another Day-O.“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” was in production while Baldwin, 66, was on trial for involuntary manslaughter after the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the Santa Fe set of “Rust.” The case was tossed out by the judge in July.And it also doesn’t come as a shock that Jones, whose character Charles is said to be killed off in the sequel, doesn’t make a cameo either.

Meghan Markle has paid a touching tribute to the late Princess Diana during her current tour of Colombia with husband Prince Harry. The Sussexes began their four-day visit earlier this week, taking in the sights of the South American country ahead of its involvement in next year's Invictus Games.

Meghan Markle shared a rare comment about her son, Prince Archie, as she and Prince Harry engaged with school children on their second day touring Colombia.The couple's first stop on day two in Bogota was at Colegio La Giralda, a renowned local school in the town of Santa Fe. Welcomed by the school's headmaster Serafin Ordoinez, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, along with Vice President Francia Marquez, embarked on a brief tour of the school.This included an art session, a visit to a kindergarten class, and even tree planting on the school grounds, where Meghan assisted a five year old student named Manuela in planting a walnut tree.The students also gave the royal couple presents for Harry and Meghan's children, five year old Archie and three year old Lilibet.These included Colombian-style ponchos, personal letters, and drawings, reports the Mirror.

cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Joel Souza and Hutchins were both shot when Alec Baldwin’s prop gun went off during a rehearsal on the set of the Western film in October 2021. In a new interview, the director, 51, revealed that in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, he wished he would “bleed out” because he “didn’t want to be around anymore.” To this day, the tragedy has left him feeling “ruined.” “When I tell someone it ruined me, I don’t mean in the sense that people might generally think.

The special prosecutor in Alec Baldwin’s dismissed involuntary manslaughter trial isn’t taking the case being tossed out last month over suppressed evidence quietly.

The judge in the Rust shooting case lit into the New Mexico prosecutors this week, citing “egregious discovery violations constituting misconduct and false testimony elicited during trial.”

BBC wrote that a movie “needs to have a plot, a bit of credible characterization, and a structure that preferably includes a beginning, middle and end. ‘Horizon’ doesn’t have any of those.”Variety slammed Costner’s film as “meandering,” and said it “seldom seems to aim in a clear direction,” while IndieWire said, “These aren’t characters so much as the spokes of a plot in human form, each of their storylines moving as if being pulled by horses across the entire span of the American West.”The Post movie critic Johnny Oleksinski wrote, “I could not fathom committing another 540 minutes of my time to this bloated ego trip,” referring to how “Horizon” was planned to be four parts.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Two jurors in the Alec Baldwin trial told Variety they were leaning toward a guilty verdict when the involuntary manslaughter case was abruptly dismissed. Their views are at odds with those of three other jurors who told the New York Times and People that they had serious doubts about Baldwin’s guilt. Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case on July 12, after learning that prosecutors had failed to provide the defense with evidence of a trove of bullets.

After months of taking bids, the Sundance Film Festival has narrowed its search for a possible new home beginning in 2027 to to six contenders. One of five far-flung cities across the nation could be the new setting for the Robert Redford-founded indie festival, or Sundance could stay in its long-time home in Utah under a new deal, it was revealed Friday. Along with the united Utah bid of Park City and Salt Lake City, the final contenders for a revitalized Sundance are Atlanta, GA, Boulder, CO, Cincinnati, OH, Louisville, KY, and Santa Fe, NM.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The district attorney in Santa Fe, N.M., has affirmed her support for “Rust” prosecutor Kari Morrissey, after the manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin was dismissed Friday due to withheld evidence. Morrissey remains in her role as the special prosecutor handling two cases against Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the “Rust” armorer who was convicted of manslaughter in March and is now serving an 18-month prison term. Morrissey, a private attorney, was appointed by the D.A.

Alec Baldwin has broken his silence with a new social media post, following the dismissal of the ‘Rust’ case in court.On Friday (July 12), New Mexico Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer declared to the Santa Fe court the dismissal of the case – it involved an incident on October 21, 2021 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot and director Joel Souza was injured on the set of the film ‘Rust’. A live round had been discharged from a revolver that was used as a prop by Baldwin.Yesterday (July 13), Baldwin took to Instagram to issue a message of gratitude to friends and fans for their support through the investigation.“There are too many people who have supported me to thank just now,” he writes.

Alec Baldwin is speaking out for the first time since the shocking end of the Rust shooting case.

Alec Baldwin has given his first statement on a New Mexico judge’s dismissal of involuntary manslaughter charges against him.

stunning decision to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter case against him over the fatal shooting of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in an emotional Instagram post on Saturday.“There are too many people who have supported me to thank just now,” the actor, 66, wrote around 12:30 p.m. alongside a photo of himself in the Santa Fe courtroom.“To all of you, you will never know how much I appreciate your kindness toward my family,” the father of eight added.Several A-listers immediately commented their support for the “30 Rock” alum, including former CNN host Don Lemon, comedian Amy Sedaris and Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins.“We love you,” wrote Sedaris, who guest starred on “30 Rock” in 2012.Hutchins, 42, was killed on Oct.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer SANTA FE, N.M. — Alec Baldwin‘s manslaughter case has been dismissed, after the judge blasted prosecutors for failing to turn over a batch of bullets to the defense. Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer threw out the case, ruling that no other sanction was sufficient.

In a dramatic turn of events, Alec Baldwin has seen his involuntary manslaughter trial for the fatal 2022 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dismissed today by a New Mexico judge.