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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…

As SAG-AFTRA seeks to modify its healthcare plans for the New Year, a number of notable union members including Clancy Brown, Whoopi Goldberg, Mark Hamill and Morgan Freeman voiced their concerns with the changes in a social media video. “Have you heard of a union doing union busting in a pandemic? It’s obscene,” a…

History has greenlighted Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman (working title), a nonfiction series that looks back at the biggest jailbreaks from some of the most notorious prisons in the world. The six-episode, one-hour series will be hosted and executive produced by the Oscar-winning Freeman, who will produce with Revel…

Morgan Freeman, Laurie Metcalf, John Malkovich, Zachary Quinto, Vanessa Williams, David Alan Grier, Elizabeth Ashley, Matthew Broderick, Lucas Hedges and Paul Mescal are among the actors who’ll take part in a benefit series of new, livestreamed stage reading productions of works by such major playwrights as Gore…

An innovative YouTube ad campaign from New York's Tribeca Studios and agencies in eight cities around the world are helping push traffic and new viewers to globalgoals.org, the website for the U.N.’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. Tribeca CEO Jane Rosenthal, Google, YouTube and advertising execs presented…

5TH UPDATE, 7:30 PM: The celebrity table read raised $51,884 from 1,322 people during its online session, per totals posted to Facebook, one of the online partners. 4TH UPDATE, 7:55 AM: The A-list table read for Dane Cook Presents Feelin' A-Live, a virtual table read of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, will now stream…