In the wake of the film’s massively successful Christmas Day release, RogerEbert.com hopped on a call with Brooks and discussed Sofia’s leap from stage to screen, the encouragement Brooks received from Oprah Winfrey, and Brooks’ journey to ensuring the timeliness of this early 20th century character. Since some time has passed between portraying Sofia on stage and … Read more
The Broadway adaptation of The Color Purple had a surprising Christmas Day debut, landing in first place with an estimated $18.1 million. In a pretty shocking turn of events the multi nominated stage adaptation The Color Purple had a massive Christmas Day, taking in an estimated $18.1 million (per Deadline) in just one day. To … Read more
The all-new musical remake of The Color Purple is a suprisingly potent reimagining of the Steven Spielberg classic. PLOT: A young black woman in the South overcomes decades of cruelty to find her voice and live the life she always dreamed of. REVIEW: Some may have been wary at the thought of a musical remake … Read more
Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the first African-American woman to win the award, for her 1982 novel about Celie, an African-American Southern woman surviving poverty and domestic violence in the early 20th Century rural Georgia. The novel opens with the 14-year-old Celie pregnant for a second time by her father, forced to give … Read more
When Nettie runs away, the sisters lose contact, and with no sister, no reliable family, and no children, Celie is left to trudge alone through the dispiriting decades to come. Her husband, abusive in every sense of the word, is in love with another woman, Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), a “fast and loose” blues … Read more
Warner Bros. has dropped a brand new The Color Purple video for its upcoming film adaptation of the award-winning Broadway musical. It is scheduled to arrive in theaters on December 25. The featurette shows the cast and producers including Oprah Winfrey, Halle Bailey, Ciara, Taraji P. Henson, and more as they discuss what the audience … Read more
Even though “The Color of Money” has three main leads, this is the continuation of Fast Eddie Felson’s story at its core. Aside from a lack of urgency, the other big problem with the film is just how unconvincingly these three characters end up evolving. Two thirds into it, Eddie is unexpectedly hustled by the … Read more
Warner Bros. Pictures releases new trailer for The Color Purple, a musical adaptation of the beloved classic novel. Warner Bros. Pictures has released a new trailer for The Color Purple. Based on the novel by Alice Walker and the musical stage play, The Color Purple is a “bold new take on the beloved classic“about”the extraordinary … Read more