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Box office. $67.5 million [ 5][ 6] The Color Purple is a 2023 American musical period drama film directed by Blitz Bazawule. Marcus Gardley 's screenplay is based on the stage musical of the same name, which in turn is based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It is the second film adaptation of the novel, following the 1985 ...
Now, with the Christmas Day opening of the second film based on Walker's 1982 book, purple takes a seat at the box office after the historic popularity of “Barbie” and all things pink.
December 26, 2023 at 9:14 PM. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Pictures. Director Blitz Bazawule is wowing audiences with his musical adaptation of The Color Purple — which includes one ...
December 26, 2023 at 11:10 AM. “The Color Purple,” a vibrant adaptation of the book-turned-beloved-movie-turned-hit-Broadway-musical, dominated at the box office on Christmas Day. The film has ...
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. [1] [a]The novel has been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2010 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit ...
The Color Purple (musical) The Color Purple. (musical) The Color Purple is a musical with music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray, based on the 1982 novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker and its 1985 film adaptation. The musical follows the journey of Celie, an African American woman in the American South from the ...
At long last: The premiere of The Color Purple is upon us. While the movie isn’t hitting theaters quite yet, Oprah, the cast, and more joined together for an official red—well, purple—carpet ...
In second place, An American Tail ' s opening ($5.2 million) broke The Fox and the Hound ' s record ($4.2 million) for the highest weekend debut for an animated film and The Care Bears Movie ' s record ($3.7 million) for the highest weekend debut for a non-Disney animated film. [50] 48: November 30, 1986: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: $16,881,888