Directed by Blitz Bazawule from a script by Marcus Gardley, Alice Walker’s novel comes to life on the big screen once again with this stage-to-screen adaptation of the classic coming-of-age story. Fantasia Barrino leads the cast in her feature film debut as Celie, who, despite a life of hardships (from personal to societal), finds strength and solace in sisterhood. Featuring an A-list ensemble including Danielle Brooks, Halle Bailey, Colman Domingo, Taraji P. Henson, Corey Hawkins, H.E.R., and more, the Oscar-nominated “The Color Purple” makes its streaming debut on Max on Friday, Feb. 16. You can watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of Max.
How to Watch 'The Color Purple' When: Friday, February 16, 2024 Where: Max Stream: Watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of Max. 7-Day Free Trial$9.99+ / month Max via amazon.com About 'The Color Purple'
“The Color Purple” takes on a new hue as Brenda Russell, Allee Willis,...
How to Watch 'The Color Purple' When: Friday, February 16, 2024 Where: Max Stream: Watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of Max. 7-Day Free Trial$9.99+ / month Max via amazon.com About 'The Color Purple'
“The Color Purple” takes on a new hue as Brenda Russell, Allee Willis,...
- 2/16/2024
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
Tensions come to a head in the Easter dinner scene from Blitz Bazawule’s musical adaptation “The Color Purple.” In this moving moment from the film based on Alice Walker’s novel and the beloved Broadway production of the same name, Celie (Fantasia Barrino) confronts Mister (Colman Domingo), the brute farmer she was married off to by her father as a teen, and the years of abuse she’s endured at his hands. Meanwhile, Sofia (Danielle Brooks) breaks down in tears and gratitude for Celie staying by her side while Sofia was locked up in jail after refusing to work for the mayor’s wife.
Also gathered from the ensemble at the table are Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson as bluestress Shug Avery, Oscar winner Jon Batiste as Grady, Corey Hawkins as Harpo, and Oscar winner H.E.R. as Mary Agnes.
The acclaimed film, one of the biggest Christmas Day openings ever,...
Also gathered from the ensemble at the table are Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson as bluestress Shug Avery, Oscar winner Jon Batiste as Grady, Corey Hawkins as Harpo, and Oscar winner H.E.R. as Mary Agnes.
The acclaimed film, one of the biggest Christmas Day openings ever,...
- 1/12/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Nominations for the 30th annual SAG Awards were announced Wednesday, with Barbie and Oppenheimer mirroring their big summers at the box office by leading the way with four nominations apiece in the movie races, while on the TV side the last season of Succession scored five noms to lead the field.
Noms were revealed in a presentation hosted by Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani.
See the full list of nominees below and the scorecards below.
Barbie and Oppenheimer are joined in the Cast category by American Fiction, The Color Purple and Killers of the Flower Moon, with each scoring multiple noms. Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and the stunt team picked up noms for Barbie; Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr did the same for Oppenheimer.
Robbie is part of a Lead Female Actor category that includes Nyad‘s Annette Bening, Flower Moon‘s Lily Gladstone, Maestro‘s Carey Mulligan...
Noms were revealed in a presentation hosted by Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani.
See the full list of nominees below and the scorecards below.
Barbie and Oppenheimer are joined in the Cast category by American Fiction, The Color Purple and Killers of the Flower Moon, with each scoring multiple noms. Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and the stunt team picked up noms for Barbie; Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr did the same for Oppenheimer.
Robbie is part of a Lead Female Actor category that includes Nyad‘s Annette Bening, Flower Moon‘s Lily Gladstone, Maestro‘s Carey Mulligan...
- 1/10/2024
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Taraji P. Henson is no stranger to hustle. Throughout college, she spent most post-class evenings singing, dancing, and waiting tables on a D.C. cruise ship and her early mornings as a receptionist at The Pentagon to help cover her Howard University tuition. Henson still wears many hats as the owner of the haircare line Tph by Taraji, the founder of the mental wellness nonprofit Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation, and most recently as the brazen Shug Avery in the blockbuster musical The Color Purple.
“I just had my house remodeled: I have an infrared sauna,...
“I just had my house remodeled: I have an infrared sauna,...
- 1/6/2024
- by Kalia Richardson
- Rollingstone.com
Billie Eilish is ready for more close-ups.
The Oscar and Grammy-winning music superstar tells me she’d love to do more acting following her TV debut in “Swarm.”
“I like it!” Eilish said Thursday at the opening night gala of the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
When asked what kind of roles she’d like to tackle, Eilish laughed, “I don’t know.” When I suggested a “badass action” movie, she replied, “Sure. Some soldiers in it.”
Eilish and her brother and music collaborator Finneas O’Connell were on hand at the festival to receive this year’s Chairman’s Award for their “Barbie” single, “What Was I Made For.”
Billie Eilish wants to act more. https://t.co/C1Cjm8RD4R pic.twitter.com/La5gBpfQQQ
— Variety (@Variety) January 5, 2024
Also on the carpet, “The Color Purple” star Danielle Brooks said she’s hoping that she becomes fast friends with...
The Oscar and Grammy-winning music superstar tells me she’d love to do more acting following her TV debut in “Swarm.”
“I like it!” Eilish said Thursday at the opening night gala of the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
When asked what kind of roles she’d like to tackle, Eilish laughed, “I don’t know.” When I suggested a “badass action” movie, she replied, “Sure. Some soldiers in it.”
Eilish and her brother and music collaborator Finneas O’Connell were on hand at the festival to receive this year’s Chairman’s Award for their “Barbie” single, “What Was I Made For.”
Billie Eilish wants to act more. https://t.co/C1Cjm8RD4R pic.twitter.com/La5gBpfQQQ
— Variety (@Variety) January 5, 2024
Also on the carpet, “The Color Purple” star Danielle Brooks said she’s hoping that she becomes fast friends with...
- 1/5/2024
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
It’s not the first moment we meet the show-stealing Danielle Brooks as Sofia in Blitz Bazawule’s musical adaption of “The Color Purple,” but it might as well be, so clearly (so amusingly) does it capture her essence.
Picture this: We’re in Harpo’s (Corey Hawkins) newly built cabin, a home he’s endeavored mightily to make his own, when who should appear? His own fiancée, Sofia, as ebullient and self-assured as any character we meet in the Alice Walker adaptation, who doesn’t just enter her future house, but literally kicks down the door to make her way inside.
It’s Sofia in a nutshell: buoyant, confident, funny, a little crazy, and impossible to ignore. So it’s only fitting that Brooks, who brings Sofia so wonderfully to life in the film, can be thanked for its creation.
“I have so much pride in that moment,” Brooks...
Picture this: We’re in Harpo’s (Corey Hawkins) newly built cabin, a home he’s endeavored mightily to make his own, when who should appear? His own fiancée, Sofia, as ebullient and self-assured as any character we meet in the Alice Walker adaptation, who doesn’t just enter her future house, but literally kicks down the door to make her way inside.
It’s Sofia in a nutshell: buoyant, confident, funny, a little crazy, and impossible to ignore. So it’s only fitting that Brooks, who brings Sofia so wonderfully to life in the film, can be thanked for its creation.
“I have so much pride in that moment,” Brooks...
- 1/3/2024
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The recap of the film The Color Purple starts in 1909 Georgia, sisters Celie (Phylicia Pearl Mpasi) and Nettie (Halle Bailey) sit in a tree, engaging in a clapping game called "Huckleberry Pie" before heading to church with the rest of the town for their Sunday service featuring "Mysterious Ways."
The Color Purple Movie RecapCelie, pregnant with her second child by her father Alfonso (Deon Cole), gives birth to a son, Adam. However, Alfonso takes the baby away and gives him to another family, similar to what happened with Celie's previous baby, a daughter named Olivia.
Working at a shop, Celie spots Olivia with another woman, but when she tries to speak to the baby, Alfonso orders her to keep working. From a distance, Celie hopes for a future reunion with Olivia during "She Be Mine." Despite their struggles, Celie and Nettie find solace in each other as depicted in "Keep It Movin'.
The Color Purple Movie RecapCelie, pregnant with her second child by her father Alfonso (Deon Cole), gives birth to a son, Adam. However, Alfonso takes the baby away and gives him to another family, similar to what happened with Celie's previous baby, a daughter named Olivia.
Working at a shop, Celie spots Olivia with another woman, but when she tries to speak to the baby, Alfonso orders her to keep working. From a distance, Celie hopes for a future reunion with Olivia during "She Be Mine." Despite their struggles, Celie and Nettie find solace in each other as depicted in "Keep It Movin'.
- 1/2/2024
- by Mark Hughes
- Anime blogspot
Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers from “The Color Purple,” now playing in theaters.
As “The Color Purple” director Blitz Bazawule and his star-studded cast made their press rounds ahead of the musical movie’s Christmas Day release, they paid a special trip to visit “The View” and Whoopi Goldberg, who starred in the 1985 movie adaptation of Alice Walker’s classic novel.
It’d been nearly 40 years since Goldberg played Celie, an abused and uneducated Southern Black woman whose journey to liberation is at the center of Walker’s tale. Bazawule and stars Fantasia Barrino, Danielle Brooks and Taraji P. Henson wanted to give her her flowers.
“’The Color Purple’ is sacred ground. You don’t just show up to it with nothing to offer or nothing to contribute,” Bazawule said, when Goldberg asked why he decided to sign on for the film. “It’s been a brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
As “The Color Purple” director Blitz Bazawule and his star-studded cast made their press rounds ahead of the musical movie’s Christmas Day release, they paid a special trip to visit “The View” and Whoopi Goldberg, who starred in the 1985 movie adaptation of Alice Walker’s classic novel.
It’d been nearly 40 years since Goldberg played Celie, an abused and uneducated Southern Black woman whose journey to liberation is at the center of Walker’s tale. Bazawule and stars Fantasia Barrino, Danielle Brooks and Taraji P. Henson wanted to give her her flowers.
“’The Color Purple’ is sacred ground. You don’t just show up to it with nothing to offer or nothing to contribute,” Bazawule said, when Goldberg asked why he decided to sign on for the film. “It’s been a brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
- 12/29/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
The film adaptation of “The Color Purple” musical arrived in theaters on Christmas Day and has already grossed an impressive $25 million. The new film is the latest step in the story’s journey and provides a new take on Alice Walker’s classic tale that began impacting people’s lives when the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was released in 1982. Since then, Celie’s story has gone from the page to the big screen to Broadway and is now back in cinemas. In the new Max documentary “Oprah & The Color Purple Journey,” premiering on Thursday, Dec. 28, Oprah Winfrey, who was one of the original film’s stars, chronicles the impact that “The color Purple: has had over the past 41 years. You can watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of Max.
How to Watch 'Oprah & The Color Purple Journey' When: Thursday, December 28, 2023 Where: Max Stream: Watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of Max.
How to Watch 'Oprah & The Color Purple Journey' When: Thursday, December 28, 2023 Where: Max Stream: Watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of Max.
- 12/28/2023
- by Matt Tamanini
- The Streamable
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