Exclusive: One week after Georgia prosecutors sought a new arrest warrant for Midnight Rider director Randall Miller over probation violations stemming from the 2014 on-set death of Sarah Jones, the filmmaker’s lawyers are fighting back to stop potential return to jail for their client.
“The defense urges the court to deny the application for a warrant,” proclaims a June 2 memorandum from the Atlanta firm of Garland, Samuel & Loeb that was made public by the Peach State courts today.
As exclusively reported by Deadline on May 27, last year Miller was the director of the independent feature comedy Higher Grounds in Serbia, UK and Columbia. On the surface, the DGA sanctioned gig seems to be in contradiction to the terms of Miller’s 2016 probation from his involuntary manslaughter conviction that appeared to not allow him to direct anything for 10 years.
Miller’s attorneys have argued that he was well within the rules...
“The defense urges the court to deny the application for a warrant,” proclaims a June 2 memorandum from the Atlanta firm of Garland, Samuel & Loeb that was made public by the Peach State courts today.
As exclusively reported by Deadline on May 27, last year Miller was the director of the independent feature comedy Higher Grounds in Serbia, UK and Columbia. On the surface, the DGA sanctioned gig seems to be in contradiction to the terms of Miller’s 2016 probation from his involuntary manslaughter conviction that appeared to not allow him to direct anything for 10 years.
Miller’s attorneys have argued that he was well within the rules...
- 6/5/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro and Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Randall Miller, the “Midnight Rider” director serving probation for his role in the 2014 death of camera assistant Sarah Jones, will be summoned to court for allegedly violating his probation by directing a new film last year, Variety reported.
As part of a 2015 plea deal in Georgia, Miller pleaded guilty to criminal trespassing and involuntary manslaughter in connection to Jones’ death. She was killed and several others injured when a train plowed through a “Midnight Rider” set that was set up on a Georgia train trestle.
He was released after serving a year in prison and is now subject to a 10-year probation in which he is “prohibited from serving as director, first assistant director or supervisor with responsibility for safety in any film production.”
Miller’s lawyers understood that to mean that Miller was allowed to shoot his latest film, “Higher Grounds,” in Serbia, Colombia, and the UK last year,...
As part of a 2015 plea deal in Georgia, Miller pleaded guilty to criminal trespassing and involuntary manslaughter in connection to Jones’ death. She was killed and several others injured when a train plowed through a “Midnight Rider” set that was set up on a Georgia train trestle.
He was released after serving a year in prison and is now subject to a 10-year probation in which he is “prohibited from serving as director, first assistant director or supervisor with responsibility for safety in any film production.”
Miller’s lawyers understood that to mean that Miller was allowed to shoot his latest film, “Higher Grounds,” in Serbia, Colombia, and the UK last year,...
- 6/4/2020
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
Here’s the first trailer and images from new British movie, Heavy Duty which is directed by Rhys Hayward and stars Giles Alderson (The Torment), Sebastian Street (The Last Seven) Jay Simon (The Wedding Date), Dan Cade, Louis Murrall, Lucy Lavey, Jason Stevens and Jason Allen.
Synopsis: An ex-soldier and his wife witness a brutal murder during their camping holiday, and find themselves hunted by the killers. However, the former soldier has plans of his own… As darkness falls, the enemy scours the nearby woods for the couple, unaware of the chilling fate that awaits them.
We’ve got no release date for the movie as yet but we’ll keep you posted.
Check out the new trailer below or click the images to enlarge.
Synopsis: An ex-soldier and his wife witness a brutal murder during their camping holiday, and find themselves hunted by the killers. However, the former soldier has plans of his own… As darkness falls, the enemy scours the nearby woods for the couple, unaware of the chilling fate that awaits them.
We’ve got no release date for the movie as yet but we’ll keep you posted.
Check out the new trailer below or click the images to enlarge.
- 12/22/2010
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
September marks the two year anniversary of Sound On Sight Radio. After 150 episodes we've reviewed an estimated 900 films and covered several film festivals, including our personal favorite, Fantasia. As well, we have had the chance to do press work for the Festival Nouveau Cinema, Toronto After Dark and most recently added to our list is the Toronto International Film Festival. It's safe to say that in the history of film review shows, S.O.S. is most likely the unluckiest of them all. From the first day we have had nothing but a string of bad luck. It started with a changeover in program directors over at Cjlo creating a miscommunication that resulted in Sound On Sight (than called The Naked Lunch) without an actual simeslot.We were than offered a slot on a different day but unfortunately my co-host-to-be (Dan Maxham) was not available at the time, thus leaving...
- 9/2/2009
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Following in the footsteps of Wes Craven with The Fountain Society, veteran horror director Tobe Hooper has branched out from celluloid to the printed word. GalleyCat reports that the man behind the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and numerous other screen chillers has signed a deal for the publication of his first novel.
Hooper’s book, details of which weren’t revealed, is tentatively set to be published by Crown—when else?—at Halloween 2010. Jason Allen Ashlock of Movable Type Literary Group, which handled the deal, tells GalleyCat, “While Alan Goldsher was collaborating with Robert Englund on a memoir for Simon & Schuster, he got to know Tobe, and we immediately began considering a book project. They’re an energetic team, and the proposal they created got a lot of attention. The most compelling element of the book is Tobe’s use of his own life experiences in the story. He’s...
Hooper’s book, details of which weren’t revealed, is tentatively set to be published by Crown—when else?—at Halloween 2010. Jason Allen Ashlock of Movable Type Literary Group, which handled the deal, tells GalleyCat, “While Alan Goldsher was collaborating with Robert Englund on a memoir for Simon & Schuster, he got to know Tobe, and we immediately began considering a book project. They’re an energetic team, and the proposal they created got a lot of attention. The most compelling element of the book is Tobe’s use of his own life experiences in the story. He’s...
- 6/18/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Mediabistro.com is reporting that horror maestro Tobe Hooper just signed a deal for his first novel, to be published, tentatively, for Halloween 2010 by Crown. Jason Allen Ashlock, of Movable Type Literary Group, who handled the deal, remarks, "The most compelling element of the book is Tobe's use of his own life experiences in the story. He's a master storyteller who mines his own history for the project ... We've begun discussions with several producers already, and are getting a lot of calls as word gets around."...
- 6/17/2009
- FEARnet
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