Morgan Freeman Archives

In 1997, Morgan Freeman made an historic offer to the high school in his hometown of Charleston, Mississippi: He would foot the bill for the school’s senior prom—on condition that both black and white students be allowed to attend. Even though the students shared classes and every other aspect of school life, Charleston High had a tradition of holding two proms—one white, one black. Morgan’s offer was ignored.

In 2008, he made it again. This time, the school accepted and history was made, but not without significant opposition. Prom Night in Mississippi tells the highly entertaining and ultimately hopeful story of the fallout from Morgan’s offer, as senior students of Charleston High rally in preparation for the school’s first-ever integrated prom.

Prom Night in Mississippi premieres @ 9PM ET/PT on Monday, July 20th on HBO.

Morgan Freeman and his wife of 24-years, costumer Myrna Colley-Lee, are getting a divorce, reports Access Hollywood.

The news comes days after the 71-year-old Dark Knight actor was involved in a serious car crash.

“[The couple] are involved in a divorce action,” Morgan’s Mississippi-based attorney and business partner Bill Luckett revealed. “And for legal and practical purposes, [Freeman and Colley-Lee] have been separated since December of 2007.”

Pictured: Morgan and Myrna at the opening night after-party for the revival of The Country Girl in New York City April 2008.

Morgan Freeman is in “serious condition” after being involved in a car crash in Mississippi late Sunday night.

The 71-year-old Dark Knight actor’s car reportedly went off the road and flipped several times reports, according to the Mississippi Highway Patrol.

“The doors were jammed on the vehicle from the rolling and flipping,” Mississippi Highway patrol sergeant Ben Williams said.”We had to break the doors open with the jaws of life to extract him.”

Morgan and an unidentified female passenger who was riding with him were airlifted from the accident scene to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn. According to Freeman’s publicist, Morgan has suffered a broken shoulder and arm.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Morgan, his family and friends.

News of the accident was first reported by MediaTakeOut.

Here are the very first Wanted movie stills! Here is Empire Online’s synopsis of the movie:

“The film stars James McAvoy – officially nicest and most delightfully Scottish man in the world – as Wes, a disaffected office drone with a boss who hates him and a girlfriend who ignores him. That is until he meets the aptly named assassin Fox, played by Angelina Jolie.

Following the murder of Wes’s father, Fox recruits him to join the Fraternity, a secret society that teaches Wes to unlock powers of lightning reflexes, enormous speed and above average sexiness. But, as with any mysterious sect, the Fraternity is not all it seems.”

That’s right. You smoke ‘em, Angie!!!

Wanted opens in theaters nationnwide on March 28, 2008.

Angelina Jolie will star next alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in Wanted, reports Variety.

Wanted is an action film from Universal Pictures based on a graphic novel that Timur Bekmambetov will direct.

Angelina accepted the role after the script was rewritten by Dean Georgaris (Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life) to tailor the character for her (script was originated by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas).

Angelina, 31, will play an assassin who trains a wanna killer (McAvoy) and will travel to Eastern Europe in May to begin shooting.

UPDATE :: Variety also reports that Brad Pitt will star in the Americanized version of the acclaimed British miniseries State of Play. Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) will direct.

Los Angeles, California :: Presenters ran through rehearsal yesterday for the 78th Academy Awards – Jessica Alba, Eric Bana, Nicole Kidman, Terrence Howard, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Zhang Ziyi, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Lopez and Hilary Swank.   For the record, Eric Bana and Jessica Alba are going to the the hottest pair to walk the stage as presenters tonight. More pictures in the gallery including Uma Thurman, Jon Stewart, George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Queen Latifah, Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman and Dolly Parton.