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Purple Rain was theatrically released by Warner Bros. Pictures on July 27, 1984, and grossed $70.3 million worldwide against its $7.2 million budget. [3] The film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score. Publications and critics have regarded Purple Rain as one of the greatest musical films. [6]
Rank Title Studio(s) Actor(s) Director(s) Gross 1. Ghostbusters: Columbia Pictures: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, William Atherton and Annie Potts
During the '80s, she participated in the film of Mauro Bolognini The Lady of the Camellias (1981), with Isabelle Huppert; she later played the starring role in the Lucio Fulci giallo film Murder Rock (1984), [3] [4] a small part in the Sergio Leone film Once Upon A Time In America (1984), and the film musical Purple Rain (1984) with Prince, in ...
Prince’s iconic Purple Rain is being adapted for Broadway.. The 1984 film, which marked the musician’s acting debut, grossed close to $100 million worldwide and won the Academy Award for best ...
This access fed into the deeply researched Prince and Purple Rain: 40 Years, weaving a first-person narrative into the complete telling of the story of the album and film.The book goes beyond ...
"When Doves Cry" is a song by American musician Prince, and the lead single from his sixth studio album Purple Rain.According to the DVD commentary of the film Purple Rain (1984), Prince was asked by director Albert Magnoli to write a song to match the theme of a particular segment of the film that involved Prince's character The Kid's intermingled parental difficulties with his father Francis ...
The song is sung as a duet with Apollonia Kotero, and was originally intended to be performed by Vanity but shortly before filming began on the movie Purple Rain, Vanity famously chose to quit participation in the film altogether when she was offered what appeared to be a lucrative contract with Motown Records exec Berry Gordy and began filming The Last Dragon (An early demo of the song exists ...
"Computer Blue" is a song by Prince and The Revolution. Released on June 25, 1984, [1] it is the fourth track on Prince's sixth album, Purple Rain, which also served as the soundtrack to the film of the same name.