The end of the year brought a lackluster performance for the latest adaptation of “The Color Purple,” a musical that blew audiences away when it opened on Christmas Day but then saw numbers ...

With $18.15 million in box office receipts, Warner Bros. Discovery's "The Color Purple" had the highest Christmas Day opening since 2009. It is also the second-largest Christmas Day opening of all ...

Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson and Danielle Brooks are among the cast for the new movie, adapted from the Tony-winning stage musical. Both the first movie and the stage musical are tough acts to ...

The Color Purple is an American masterpiece. “This story lives forever,” says Taraji P. Henson, quite emphatically. “It’s like Shakespeare. It’s never going to go away.” Henson, who plays Shug Avery ...

(L-R) Taraji P. Henson, Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks in 'The Color Purple' Warner Bros. /Courtesy Everett Collection Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most ...

“The Color Purple” added $7.1 million on Tuesday, bringing its domestic box office tally to an impressive $25 million after two days of release. The Warner Bros. film, an adaptation of the book-turned ...

When “The Color Purple” hit theaters in 1985 — as the beloved film adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel — it was before a certain cast member, Oprah Winfrey, was even the Queen of ...

'The Color Purple' director Blitz Bazawule celebrated the film's release on Christmas Day by sharing several behind-the-scenes moments showing the cast and dancers enjoying their time on set. "A ...

The record-breaking opening was likely buoyed by the strength of sistergroup viewings; Greeks, The Links, church women’s ministries and Black girl bookclubs flocked to see the remake of the Broadway ...