13 posts tagged ‘the color purple’
Taraji P. Henson has no beef with Oprah: "What you’re not gonna do is pit two Black women together"
AV Club,
Fans of The Color Purple can rest assured that Taraji P. Henson and Oprah are not seeing red. “What you’re not gonna do is pit two Black women together—not on my watch,” Henson said of her rumored feud with the legendary daytime host and Color Purple producer in a recent interview with NBC’s Today. Read more...
12 more Broadway musicals based on films we’d like to see on the big screen
It’s nothing new for Broadway creatives to look to Hollywood for inspiration, but the trend has gotten a little out of hand in recent years. You can’t throw a stone in Times Square without hitting an advertisement for the latest musical based on a movie. But now it’s Hollywood taking the cue from Broadway’s successes.… Read more...
Will Mean Girls kick off a new era for the 'movie to musical to movie musical' pipeline?
Mean Girls, the movie-musical adaption that opens in theaters this weekend, feels like both an inevitable release and a bizarre confluence of trends that began long before its young cast was even born. We know that Hollywood will take any opportunity to expand an existing piece of intellectual property in a bid to… Read more...
Meme-ready Joker: Folie À Deux photos, Barack Obama's favorite films of 2023, and more of this week's top news stories
Joker: Folie À Deux director Todd Phillips offered up a little holiday gift to everyone earlier this week in the form of two new photos from his Joker sequel, and while it’s nice(?) to see ol’ Arthur Fleck again through a little window, Phillips’ second photo seems like an even nicer gift—if only for its meme… Read more...
Wonka's Surprisingly Sweet Box Office Helped Cure Warner's Aquaman Blues
Gizmodo,
We snickered at the concept when we first heard about Wonka, and we scratched our heads once we saw the trailers—especially the parts revealing Hugh Grant’s Ooompa-Loompa character. But one should never doubt the power of chocolate... or a singing, dancing, Timothée Chalamet, because Wonka is a hit. Read more...
It seems like people really do want to see movie musicals after all
Hollywood (or at least Hollywood’s various marketing firms) seems to have forgotten an old adage: the show must go on. There are always going to be new musicals. There are always going to be directors who want to turn those new musicals into movies. There are always going to be people who really want to watch those… Read more...
The holiday box office was pretty merry for The Color Purple, middling for Aquaman
Even if most cities didn’t have a white Christmas this year, it was a green Christmas at the box office this year. With three major releases all slated on Christmas day—that’s The Color Purple, Ferrari, and The Boys In The Boat—families were keen to leave eggnog and wrapping paper behind to watch Adam Driver drive… Read more...
We Asked Fantasia About ‘Take Your Time, Tasia’
Vulture,
And Oprah’s private plane that saved the day.