accident (8 posts)

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Peter Berg might have to put his own John Hancock on a check soon.

The parents of a crewmember who was killed in an August 2006 accident while working on the Hancock director's war thriller The Kingdom have sued Berg, the driver of the vehicle that hit their son, Nicholas Papac, and a Los Angeles production company for funeral expenses and other damages. (View the lawsuit.)

Filming had just wrapped for the day on a closed-off stretch of Phoenix highway when the Cadillac Escalade that Berg was riding in collided with a golf cart-sized utility vehicle that Papac was driving on a road in Mesa, Ariz.

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A stuntman is dead after a fire swept through a film set of John Woo's upcoming Chinese-language historical epic, Red Cliff.

Six others were also injured in the accident, per the Beijing News. During filming of an action sequence in the Chinese capital, the special-effects crew intentionally set fire to a small boat, which crashed into a larger vessel as planned, but the inferno raged out of control and overwhelmed both boats before it could be extinguished.

The 23-year-old stuntman was killed in the explosion, while the other crew members were taken to a nearby hospital. No word on their condition.

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No children were harmed in the making of this film. Barely.

During filming on Hannah Montana: The Movie Tuesday, wind blew a projection screen into a Ferris wheel full of passengers, resulting in minor injuries for a few extras and crew members.

No serious injuries were reported and neither emergency personnel nor law enforcement was dispatched to the scene. The kids who were on the ride at the time were examined as a precaution.

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Wanna popstar Brooke Hogan learned an important lesson from her younger brother's August 2007 car accident: Buckle up.

The 20-year-old daughter of wrestler Hulk Hogan was coasting with a friend Sunday afternoon on Florida's Bayside Bridge when the driver of a 1997 Toyota lost control, hit her 2008 Mercedes head-on and pushed it into a concrete wall. Everyone involved was wearing a seatbelt and no injuries were reported.

According to the police report, a witness said the other driver was speeding.

Brooke's accident happened just 17 days after her 17-year-old brother, Nick Hogan, was sentenced to eight months behind bars for an accident that left his best friend permanently brain damaged. The younger Hogan was racing his vehicle before losing control of it and hitting a tree. His passenger, John Graziano, 22, was not buckled in at the time.

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Keanu Reeves has just been sucked deeper into a legal matrix.

A Los Angeles judge today shot down a motion by Neo's alter ego to keep a paparazzo from seeking punitive damages for allegedly being dinged by the actor's Porsche.

"There's not a whisper of an accident here," Superior Court Justice Elizabeth Grimes said in her ruling.

Grimes stated that while shutterbug Alison Silva has yet to prove his case, it was too early to eliminate the option of punitive damages, particularly when a car is considered a deadly weapon under state law.

Punitive damages could substantially increase any payout Reeves would have to make, should he be found liable for purposely aiming his black 1996 Porsche 911 Cabrio at Silva last spring.

It will be up to a jury to figure it out, when the trial kicks off Oct. 27.