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
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
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Except, perhaps, a life of eating bizarre movie tie-in food — because that encompasses both pure imagination and cutting-edge culinary advancements. Show me anyone else in the world literally inventing new foods the way these chains do when they’ve got a movie to cross-promote. Take, for example, the … 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