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EXCLUSIVE: Amy Jephta, who directed South Africa’s most recent International Film Oscar entry, Barakat, will be showrunning the drama series Hanover Street from D6 Entertainment's Lesley-Ann Brandt (Lucifer, Spartacus) and Adrian Cunningham, and Revelations Entertainment's Lori McCreary and Morgan Freeman. Hanover Stre…

The Scene 2 Seen podcast is back in a major way! This week I've already published conversations with actor Michael Greyeyes and Naturi Naughton. Today, I chat with legendary actress Juliette Binoche about her newest film that tackles a difficult subject. Paradise Highway, directed by Anna Gutto, is a riveting…

EXCLUSIVE: Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment has set up a Bass Reeves series titled Twin Territories at Amazon, after three decades spent chasing the elusive lawman. The Revelations and The 51-produced series in development at the streamer is based on a novel by preeminent Reeves scholar Art…

Because the Kremlin apparently has no other pressing issues at the moment, more than 960 Americans have been “permanently banned”  from entering Russia. The list includes such seeming no-brainers as Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, but there’s no shortage of eyebrow-raising names as well. No longer…

EXCLUSIVE: Revelations Entertainment's Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary have boarded Kamilla Blanche's upcoming documentary 2 Richards! The African Company as EPs. The African Company was located in New York's Greenwich Village and was America's first Black theater company, formed 44 years before the passage of the…

Oscar winner Morgan Freeman and The Hunger Games alum Josh Hutcherson are set to lead the cast of time-bending sci-fi thriller 57 Seconds. Rusty Cundieff (Tales from the Hood) is directing, the screenplay was written by Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore), based on the story by British author E.C…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby), Yellowstone star Cole Hauser and Blindspot and Thor actress Jaimie Alexander have been set to star in under-the-radar thriller The Minute You Wake Up Dead, which is now underway in Mississippi. Milestone Studios is producing the film, which follows a…

EXCLUSIVE: Nyle DiMarco and Melrose Placed’s Sami Housman have partnered with Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment to develop and produce the drama series Deaf Punk. DiMarco is set to lead the series exploring how a cultural revolution was supported by the unlikely union of two minority…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has boarded Paradise Highway, a Silver Reel and ZDF thriller starring Oscar winners Juliette Binoche and Morgan Freeman, and Captain America actor Frank Grillo. Lionsgate has taken North America distribution rights and will handle international sales. ZDF boards as co-producer and German…

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 interview posted on Instagram. “Police work is, aside from all the negativity around it, it is very necessary for us…

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…