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Actor and producer Morgan Freeman has given a firm “No” to the movement to defund the police. “I am not in the least bit for defunding the police,” Freeman said to Black Enterprise’s Selena Hill in an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CUsLMCHAZl9/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=bd78aae5-5944-48bf-a5a7-00cf94843546"…

EXCLUSIVE: Lucifer and Spartacus actress Lesley-Ann Brandt is partnering with Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary's Revelations Entertainment on the development of Hanover Street, a drama series set in Cape Town's District Six. Brandt, who will star and produce with Adrian Cunningham of D6 Entertainment, said: “We are…

EXCLUSIVE: In what becomes the first hot package to be unveiled as part of the Toronto International Film Festival market, Oscar winners Morgan Freeman, Al Pacino, Helen Mirren, and Oscar nominee Danny DeVito are set to star in Sniff, a stylish reinvention of the film noir genre that will be directed by Oscar winner Ta…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby) and Yellowstone star Cole Hauser have been set to lead action-thriller Muti from writer-director George Gallo (Bad Boys) and producers Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment (Waiting for the Barbarians). The film will follow Detective Boyd (Hauser), who…

“A memory isn’t simply a thing you have — it’s a promise.” Amazon has released the first trailer for Solos, David Weil’s seven-episode anthology series whose star-drenched cast features Oscar winners Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway and Helen Mirren along with three-time Emmy winner Uzo Aduba, Nicole Beharie, Anthony Mack…

The R-rating warning for Lionsgate’s murky new action flick, Vanquish, says pretty much all you need to know: “bloody violence, language, some sexual material, drug use.” In fact, all that would have been a better title for this routine and derivative action movie where Oscar winner Morgan Freeman seems to be just…

EXCLUSIVE:  Morgan Freeman, Alfre Woodard, Trevor Jackson, Common and Bill Burr are set to star in Revelations Entertainment’s Hate to See You Go.  The Ben Tishler directed feature, which he co-wrote with Rob Stone, tells the story of Sonny Bell (Freeman), an aging Chicago Blues musician, who refuses to retire and…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM is in advanced negotiations for a multi-territory pre-buy of writer-director Zach Braff's feature A Good Person, we can reveal. The multimillion-dollar deal for the Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman starrer will cover North America and a host of international markets including Latin America, Scandinavia…

EXCLUSIVE: We can tell you first that Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary of Revelations Entertainment and Jay Firestone of Prodigy Pictures are partnering with geneticist and CRISPR pioneer George Church to develop and produce a dramatic series centered on the dangerous and life-affirming ways the technology can impact…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Morgan Freeman and Oscar-nominee Florence Pugh are set to star in A Good Person, written and to be directed by Golden Globe-nominee Zach Braff. The film will follow Allison (Pugh), whose life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident. In the following years, it is the unlikely…

Morgan Freeman will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr Day tomorrow with a series of 12 videos that will begin playing hourly on Freeman's Instagram page, at 8 AM Eastern time. Each video recalls Dr. King's words, most of which have much to say about life in current  difficult times as they did when he said them back…

UPDATED with Morgan Freeman statement: Joe Clark, the inspiration for John G. Avildsen’s 1989 film Lean On Me, has died. Clark’s family shared in a statement that the retired New Jersey high school principal died Tuesday in his Gainesville, FL home after a long battle with illness. He was 82. Born in Rochelle, GA in…