The Color Purple
‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — Danielle Brooks (‘The Color Purple’)
Danielle Brooks, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a tremendously gifted stage and screen actress who is equally at home in dramas, comedies, musicals and everything in-between. Also, there’s something about Brooks and colors. Indeed, the two parts for which she is best known are prison inmate “Taystee” on […]
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Box Office: ‘Wonka’ Leads New Year’s Waltz as ‘Aquaman 2’ Continues to Sink
Wonka is winning the long New Year’s weekend box office race as a tumultuous 2023 comes to a close. The Warner Bros. origin pic — starring Timothée Chalamet as young candymaker Willy Wonka — is on course to gross an estimated $29.5 million for the four-day holiday weekend, putting its domestic tally at a sweet […]
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Taraji P. Henson Praises ‘The Color Purple’ Vocal Coach for Helping Her “Unlock Some Thangs Vocally”
Taraji P. Henson has given fans a glimpse into the vocal training she went through to prepare for her role as Shug Avery in The Color Purple. On Instagram Wednesday, the actor reshared a video posted by her vocal coach Stevie Mackey, in which they worked on her show-stopping performance of “What About Love?” for […]
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Box Office: ‘Wonka’ Emerges as Christmas Winner, Crosses $100M in U.S. as ‘Aquaman 2’ Drowns
Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka has emerged as this year’s Christmas box office winner, while DC superhero pic Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom drowns. Overall, this holiday season isn’t so joyous for Hollywood studios and theater owners. Case in point: Wednesday revenue was down 52 percent from the same Wednesday in 2019, the last year before the […]
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Oprah Winfrey on That Surprise Cameo in ‘The Color Purple’: “A Wonderful Easter Egg”
Warning: This story includes spoilers from the 2023 musical remake of The Color Purple. With The Color Purple being a musical remake of the 1985 film, there are certainly many scenes that hearken back to the original. But in one scene, there’s a face that brings it all full circle. Early on in the film, […]
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Alice Walker, ‘Color Purple’ Cast Celebrate Shug-Celie Romance in Remake: “We Really Needed to See That Love Is Love”
In Steven Spielberg’s 1985 feature adaptation of The Color Purple, the characters of Celie and Shug share a chaste kiss, but not much else hints at the love affair that was integral to author Alice Walker’s novel on which the movie was based. Blitz Bazawule’s new musical adaption of The Color Purple, released on Christmas […]
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Box Office: ‘The Color Purple’ Trounces ‘Aquaman 2’ With Near-Record $18M Christmas Day Opening
The Color Purple has brought some much-needed cheer to the year-end holiday box office. The musical — whose producers include Oprah and Steven Spielberg — opened to $18.1 million from 3,142 theaters on Monday, the second best showing ever for a movie opening on Christmas Day and the best since 2009. Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. […]
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Taraji’s Turn: With ‘The Color Purple,’ Will Henson Get Her Due?
One of the indelible images of Taraji P. Henson over the years was the moment where she was in the audience, nominated for an Emmy, and lost to Viola Davis. Instead of the typical “good sport” nod and clap we’ve come to expect from actresses, Henson jumped out of her seat and gave Davis a […]
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Box Office: ‘Aquaman 2’ to Lead Soft Christmas Weekend as Hollywood’s Superhero Woes Continue
If tracking is correct, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom may only swim to $37 million to $43 million in its domestic box office debut over the four-day Christmas weekend. That sum would pale in comparison to the first installment, released five years ago, and would also trail the recent $46.1 opening of box office debacle […]
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Taraji P. Henson in Tears While Saying “The Math Ain’t Mathing” Due to Pay Disparity in Hollywood
Taraji P. Henson broke down in tears during an appearance on Gayle King’s Sirius XM radio show when asked whether she has plans to quit acting. “Are you thinking about it?” King asked the Oscar-nominated actress while she was seated next to Blitz Bazawule and Danielle Brooks to promote their film The Color Purple. The […]
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Kris Bowers Is the Busiest Composer in the World
Kris Bowers is one of the busiest multihyphenates working in Hollywood. This year, the Emmy-nominated Bridgerton composer returned to Shondaland and Netflix’s hit costume drama to compose its prequel series, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story; he also composed the score for two Disney properties, the feature film Haunted Mansion and the Marvel series Secret Invasion. On […]
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‘The Color Purple’ Review: Fantasia Barrino Is the Molten Heart of Spirited Musical Remake
Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks and Colman Domingo also star in Blitz Bazawule’s retelling of the beloved Alice Walker novel, adapted from the Tony-winning Broadway show.
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