EXCLUSIVE: On the 98th birthday of iconic singer Chuck Berry, Revelations Entertainment has optioned rights to his life story. The production company’s principals, Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary, plan to turn his story into a drama series chronicling the rock pioneer’s formative years. Berry died in…

Lori McCreary, the CEO of Morgan Freeman’s production company Revelations Entertainment, shared concerns about AI’s upheaval, and potential misuse in the motion picture industry, and in her sphere, it boils down to the rampant replication of the Oscar winner’s voice. Typically for McCreary…

EXCLUSIVE: Lori McCreary and Morgan Freeman’s Revelations Entertainment is partnering with the podcast Ear Hustle — part of the Radiotopia podcast network from PRX — on a docuseries adaptation. Co-hosted by Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods, Ear Hustle launched in 2017 as the first podcast created…

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…

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…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Revelations Entertainment has acquired Thunder, Hunter, and Me, a four-part docuseries about how a chance connection four decades in the making helped open up the pathway for love and healing. The project follows the blossoming friendship between Melora Hardin (The Office, Transparent) and Hunter…

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…

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…

Multicultural marketing agency URI Global and Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment have launched branding and marketing service REV+5.0. REV+5.0’s plans are to produce high-quality branded entertainment with Hollywood celebrities and popular influencers as they explore how new…

EXCLUSIVE: Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment has become attached as executive producers to The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, an indie feature about the brutal 2011 shooting of a 68-year old Black man by the White Plains, NY, police after they responded to his accidentally triggered…

EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Mendelsohn has been promoted to executive vice president, production of Revelations Entertainment, overseeing the studio’s production slate of factual TV, scripted TV, documentary and feature film projects. Prior to her current role, Mendelsohn served as SVP Production & Finance. Her background…