The photographer's widow is seeking unspecified compensation for his death, as well as US$50,000 in punitive damages, said her attorney, Gary Robb.
Astin's publicist, David Lust, was not immediately available for comment Wednesday night. His agent, Tim Curtis, would not comment.
Messages left Wednesday night at Wilson's home and his firm were not immediately returned.
The Final Season is about a high school baseball team. It stars Astin and Powers Boothe and is being directed by David Mickey Evans, who also directed The Sandlot.
More details have been released about the new installment of Sylvester Stallone's Rambo action movie.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Rambo IV is expected to start filming Oct. 1 in Thailand. The movie will feature Stallone as the Vietnam War veteran Rambo who is living a monastic lifestyle in Bangkok and salvaging old PT boats and tanks for scrap metal.
When a group of volunteers bringing supplies into Burma disappears, a relative of one of the missing missionaries begs Rambo to find them. Rambo then heads off with a team of young guns to find the relative.
Heath Ledger is going from Brokeback Mountain to Batman.
The Australian actor is to play twisted villain The Joker in the sequel to Batman Returns, to be titled The Dark Knight, according to a statement Tuesday by Warner Bros.
The movie will be directed by Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan and will see Christian Bale revive his role as the caped crusader from the 2005 movie. The role of The Joker was pioneered on the big screen in 1989 by Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton's Batman.
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