They’re creepy and they’re kooky — and also they’re a purple hamburger? Prepare yourselves, fans of weird fast food loosely inspired by major motion pictures: Burger King just announced a special batch of menu items inspired by The Addams Family. Who cares if the last one of those movies came out three years ago? Who cares … Read more
Prince’s house from the legendary 1984 film Purple Rain has been restored in honor of the film’s 40th anniversary and you can potentially stay there thanks to Airbnb. The Minneapolis-based residence has been carefully curated to include real-life elements from Prince, including unreleased tracks, memorabilia and authentic wardrobe from Prince’s own collection. The house serves … Read more
Now “Harold and the Purple Crayon” has arrived in theaters in all its live-action glory. It starts on a surprisingly engaging note: a 2-D animated sequence that recaps Harold’s adventures in the book. The sequence finds a decent approximation of the book’s famous visual style and features narration by Alfred Molina. Unfortunately, that sequence lasts about … Read more
Zachary Levi goes full-on Green Lantern using the power of imagination in Sony’s Harold and the Purple Crayon trailer! The limits of imagination run wild in Sony Pictures’ trailer for Harold and the Purple Crayon, starring Zachary Levi as the keeper of a magical crayon able to bring any drawing to life! Based on the beloved … Read more
Zachary Levi is all grown up in the first posters for the live-action adaptation of beloved children’s classic Harold and the Purple Crayon. Harold and the Purple Crayon is a beloved children’s book written and illustrated by Crockett Johnson about a curious four-year-old boy with a magic purple crayon that has the power to make … Read more
I only want to see you laughing in the purple rain … on Broadway? That could be in the offing some time in the near future, as news has broken that Purple Rain, the classic ’80s rock film starring (and with music by) Prince, is being adapted as a stage musical. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Purple Rain on … Read more
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