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"Get busy living, or get busy dying."
With his velvety smooth voice, wise eyes and confident, reassuring demeanor, Morgan Freeman has become one of the most popular and respected actors working today, imbuing any movie he appears in with class and gravitas. Freeman struggled to find steady work as an actor for decades before his breakout performance in the 1987 movie Street Smart earned him an Academy Award nomination, but he has appeared in one or more movies every year since then, save for 1999. This year will be one of his most prolific yet, with major roles in four movies — Oblivion, Now You See Me, Olympus Has Fallen and Last Vegas. In his career, he's played a pimp, a principal, a prisoner, a president, a procurer of Bat-gadgets and even God, but what is his best movie role? Help us rank the movies of Morgan Freeman.
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Posted 03.18.13 by BrentJS -
Up until now, the tone of The Dark Knight Rises' promotional campaign has been serious and gritty. There's been little to crack a smile at in the movie's first three trailers and TV spots (here and here) besides the playful Batman-Catwoman exchange in the third trailer — "My mother warned me about getting into cars with strange men." "This isn't a car."
In its fourth TV spot, the movie showcases some lighthearted banter between Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) and Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman). The new 30-second spot starts with Wayne and Fox seemingly finishing up a conversation. "These conversations used to end with an unusual request," says Fox, referring to his role in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight as the Caped Crusader's go-to gadget guru. "I retired," Wayne replies. "Let me show you some new stuff anyways."
watch the new spot >> Posted 05.29.12 by Chris -
For a movie about the end of the world, the cast of director Joseph Kosinski's follow-up to Tron: Legacy continues to grow as quickly as the title keeps changing. Originally titled Oblivion, the name of the movie was later changed to Horizon, then, most recently, lost name and became "untitled."
Deadline reports that Morgan Freeman is the latest actor to join the cast of the sci-fi epic. What role he will play is unknown. The report refers to the movie as Oblivion, which makes sense since that is also the title of Kosinski's graphic novel that the movie is based on. Radical Studios will release the novel later this year.
more about Oblivion, er the movie >> Posted 02.10.12 by Ryan -
The Hollywood Foreign Press spread the love around at tonight's Golden Globe Awards. With three awards, The Artist lead the night. The Descendants and Homeland tied for second place, with two awards each. The biggest honor of the night, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, was presented to Morgan Freeman by Sidney Poitier and Helen Mirren.
Don't miss our special edition of Hollywood Dailies tomorrow at 7:30 PM ET (4:30 PM PT), where we'll take a look at the Golden Globes best moments. It's preceded by Fashion Fanatics at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT, where our panel of celebrity style experts (Alicia Davis, Kym Douglas, Michael O'Connor, Sam Saboura) review the best and worst dressed at the 2012 Golden Globes. Dayna Devon hosts the special. Reelz is Dish 299, DirecTV 238, and available on your cable system.
See the full list of Golden Globe winners >> Posted 01.15.12 by reelz -
The Hollywood Foreign Press was seemingly nostalgic this morning, handing out six nominations to the black-and-white silent movie The Artist. Tying for second place with five Golden Globe nods each are The Help and The Descendants. Top nominees in the TV categories include new shows Homeland (with best actor, actress, and drama series nods) and New Girl.
In one of the funnier moments, Woody Harrelson — who announced the nominations along with Gerard Butler, Sofia Vergara, and Rashida Jones — used the airtime to plug his upcoming police drama. Pausing after reading the best dramatic movie list he said, "Rampart... opens January 27, but I don't see it on the list here."
The 69th Golden Globe Awards ceremony will be held January 15 and broadcast on NBC. Morgan Freeman is scheduled to receive the Cecil B. Demille Lifetime Achievement Award. Tune in to Hollywood Dailies for full coverage of the upcoming awards show, as well as the full red carpet season.
see the full list of Golden Globe nominations >> Posted 12.15.11 by reelz -
After globe-trotting from India to the U.K. and finally to the U.S., Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises production recently wrapped a lengthy shoot in Pittsburgh, which doubled for Batman's (Christian Bale) home of Gotham City. TDKR is now filming in Los Angeles. So far, unlike the Pittsburgh shoot that yielded tons of revealing information about the movie in the form of "spy" photos and videos, nothing has really come out of the L.A. set except the knowledge that some of the scenes being shot will include a flood. Some have speculated that the L.A. shoot currently in progress is simply a second unit shoot, but the recent sighting of Morgan Freeman on the set disproves that theory. According to MovieWeb, Freeman's character, Wayne Enterprises President Lucius Fox, may factor into an important plot point that has already been teased in previous photos and videos.
more about The Dark Knight Rises (possible Spoilers) >> Posted 08.30.11 by BrentJS -
In January, The Fighter director David O. Russell began negotiations to take over writing and directing Universal’s adaptation of the Boom! Studios comic book 2 Guns, which had been in development since 2008. With a script in place from TV writer Blake Masters (Brotherhood) and actors Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson attached to star as two undercover agents trying to investigate each other while pulling off a job to steal from the mafia and have no idea about the real identity of the other.
While Wilson eventually left the project, THR reports that Mark Wahlberg is entering into final negotiations to join the movie, which would reunite him with his Fighter director. There's only one problem: Both Russell and Vaughn have dropped out.
new roles for Morgan Freeman and Eddie Murphy >> Posted 08.11.11 by Ryan -
Either progress really is being made on putting together a cast for Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way-developed big screen adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira manga ("comic book") series or rumors about the movie run in pairs. DiCaprio has been working on Akira since 2008, but has made little progress. After hiring four different writers to adapt the six-volume series, and a pair of directors in Albert and Allen Hughes (The Book of Eli), Akira seemed to have stalled out over script and budget concerns. However, this past weekend, two different entertainment news sites linked Zac Efron (Charlie St. Cloud) to a lead role in the movie, and now Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby) has also been mentioned in connection with another major role.
what Akira character is Freeman linked to? >> Posted 11.08.10 by BrentJS -
Sir Michael Caine is notorious for being loose-lipped when it comes to the Batman franchise in which he has twice played Bruce Wayne's (Christian Bale) butler and confidante, Alfred, but he's not alone. Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman — who portrayed Wayne's tech and hardware expert, Lucius Fox, in the first two Batman movies — has offered up his own share of speculation about the sequel to The Dark Knight in the past. In December of last year, long before the recent announcement that director Christopher Nolan would return to direct Batman 3 (working title), Morgan said that he was sure that Nolan was working on the movie and that he hoped to see Catwoman scratch her way into the sequel. MTV recently caught up with Freeman and asked him about his previous comments and Freeman said that it was a no-brainer that Nolan return to the franchise.
WHAT VILLAINS DID FREEMAN MENTION? >> Posted 10.07.10 by BrentJS -
The first full-length trailer for DC Entertainment's latest comic book movie adaptation, Red, premiered yesterday during the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con Hall H panel for the movie and is now online. Based on the graphic novel of the same name created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, RED, which stands for "Retired, Extremely Dangerous," follows a group of over-the-hill CIA operatives who are targeted for termination because they are deemed security risks for their extensive knowledge of the agency's black ops programs. However, these operatives didn't earn the designate "RED" without a reason, as this explosive new trailer demonstrates.
GET BLOWN AWAY BY THE TRAILER >> Posted 07.23.10 by BrentJS