Alec Baldwin’s troubled western seeks international buyers at Cannes

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Actor Alec Baldwin’s troubled western Rust is back on the market to international buyers at the Cannes Film Festival&comma; little more than 18 months after its cinematographer was killed on set&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Halyna Hutchins died in the shooting in New Mexico in October 2021 when a prop gun was fired by Baldwin&period; Director Joel Souza was also wounded&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The independently financed production resumed shooting in Montana in April with Matthew Hutchins&comma; the victim’s husband&comma; serving as an executive producer as part of a settlement over a wrongful death lawsuit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The film lacks North American distributors but producers are seeking buyers at the Cannes film market&comma; a satellite operation to the official festival line-up centred on the Palais des Festivals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is an unprecedented film in regards to the circumstances&comma;” producer Ryan Donnell Smith told The Hollywood Reporter&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re trying to keep realistic expectations but shepherd this in the best way we can&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>New Mexico prosecutors dropped criminal charges against Baldwin in April&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Involuntary manslaughter charges against the actor were abandoned three weeks after a new prosecutor team took over the case&comma; although weapons supervisor Hannah Gutierrez-Reed faces the same charge&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;179011" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-179011" style&equals;"width&colon; 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