{"id":181621,"date":"2025-09-25T21:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181621\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T21:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:31:08","slug":"morgan-freemans-revelations-entertainment-to-ep-documentary-break-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181621\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Freeman’s Revelations Entertainment to EP Documentary ‘Break Out’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Morgan Freeman<\/a> and Lori McCreary\u2019s Revelations Entertainment<\/a> have joined Tom Donahue\u2019s animated documentary, Break Out<\/a> as executive producers.\u00a0A festival premiere next year is being slated.<\/p>\n

\n\tDirected by Tom Donahue (This Changes Everything, Casting By, Mafia Spies), Break Out follows the journey of Alexei, a successful businessman, and Dimitri, a young doctor, whose love story unfolds against the backdrop of Russia\u2019s escalating anti-LGBTQ laws and the invasion of Ukraine. Meeting in secret during COVID lockdowns, the couple faces criminalization, police raids, and the looming threat of being sent to the front line. Their fight for freedom takes them across three continents in a desperate bid to live authentically and without fear.\u00a0The docu blends first-person testimony with striking animation and dramatic reenactments. <\/p>\n

\n\tProducers on the project include Ilan Arboleda and Adrienne Lahens, and executive producer Roger Paperno. The movie is a CreativeChaos vmg and Infinite Studios production in association with Revelations Entertainment.
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\u201cStories like Break Out remind us why cinema matters,\u201d said Freeman. \u201cThis is not only about survival; it\u2019s about love, courage, and living freely.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are committed to stories that reveal truth, transcend borders and shine a light on the resilience of the human spirit,\u201d added McCreary. \u201cBreak Out is exactly that kind of story.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tDonahue describes the animated documentary as \u201ca hero\u2019s journey, a refugee story, and a love story. At its core, it is about the unshakable human desire to live honestly, even in the face of persecution.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The filmmaker adds, \u201cAt a time when LGBTQ rights are under threat worldwide, Alexei and Dimitri\u2019s odyssey is both singular and universal.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLahens tells Deadline, \u201cThis story is urgent and deeply human. It sits at the intersection of three timely realities: LGBTQ+ rights, the upheaval of war, and the search for freedom through immigration.\u00a0Break Out\u00a0brings life to a story that\u2019s universal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe chose animation to protect the identities of our characters who are facing persecution in Russia, and because it\u2019s a beautiful and emotionally resonant way to tell their story,\u201d adds the producer.
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CreativeChaos vmg was founded by Donahue and Arboleda. The award-winning production company\u2019s mission is dedicated to socially conscious storytelling. Their movies include This Changes Everything, Casting By, Thank You for Your Service, Bleed Out, and the recently Emmy-nominated Mafia Spies. Most of their work has premiered at major festivals and been featured on HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Paramount+ and other leading platforms.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Infinite Studios, co-founded by Lahens and Mehmet Bal, is a next-generation entertainment platform at the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence. Its proprietary AI tools and collaborations with artists, brands, and filmmakers open new frontiers for cinematic storytelling.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary\u2019s Revelations Entertainment have joined Tom Donahue\u2019s animated documentary, Break Out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[107395,88,107396,206,107397],"class_list":{"0":"post-181621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-break-out","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-morgan-freeman","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-revelations-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}