‘Midnight Rider’ director Randall Miller to be released from prison

Director Randall Miller, who pleaded guilty last year to involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespass following the death of crew member Sarah Jones on the set of the film “Midnight Rider,” is being released from jail in Georgia after serving just over a year in custody. Miller had been sentenced to serve up to two years in connection with the death of assistant camera operator Jones, 27, who was killed Feb. 20, 2014, when a train crashed into a set on a trestle during the first day of filming of “Midnight Rider.” At least six other crew members on the film, a biopic of Southern rocker Gregg Allman, were injured. “It’s almost like you have to remind every generation of filmmakers you don’t get to take this risk with people’s lives.” Though released from jail, Miller remains under a 10-year probation barring him from serving as director, first assistant director or supervisor with responsibility for safety on a film production. Twitter: @joshrottenberg MORE FROM MOVIES Watch the first trailer for ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’ Tribeca to screen movie by controversial anti-vaccine activist Andrew Wakefield Margot Robbie to star as figure skater Tonya Harding in the biopic ‘I, Tonya’