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Oprah Winfrey’s new adaption of The Color Purple Musical recently made news with the addition of stars like Taraji P. Henson, H.E.R and King Richard’s Aunjanue Ellis joining Fantasia Barrino. According to Blackfilmandtv.com, the highly anticipated production is also being praised for its willingness to highlight the…

Hot off his five Grammy wins including Album of the Year this month, Oscar winner Jon Batiste has joined the remake of The Color Purple, whose producers include Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Quincy Jones. Batiste, who has been band leader and musical director on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert since its 2015…

Fantasia Taylor will star as Celie and Danielle Brooks will play Sofia in Warner Bros’ film adaptation of the musical The Color Purple, with both reprising their respective roles on Broadway. The news was revealed Thursday during ABC’s Soul of a Nation: Screen Queens Rising special. Fantasia and Brooks join a cast…

Taraji P. Henson has signed on to star alongside H.E.R. and Corey Hawkins in Blitz Bazawule’s (Black Is King) adaptation of The Color Purple for Warner Bros., Deadline has confirmed. The upcoming film is based on the Tony-winning musical from Marsha Norman, Brenda Lee, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, which was based on…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that In the Heights star Corey Hawkins is getting back into business with Warner Bros for its feature adaptation of the Broadway musical The Color Purple, based on Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated 1985 movie. The role Hawkins is being buzzed to play is Harpo. We’ve been hearing for some time about…

Warner Bros. Pictures announced theatrical release dates for three big event movies tonight — and their intention is that they’re going straight to the big screen, not HBO Max and theaters. Those three are the George Miller Max Max prequel Furiosa on June 23, 2023, Dave Green’s animated hybrid Coyote vs. Acme on July…

Lawrence Clayton, who made his Broadway debut in Dreamgirls and most recently starred in the 2015 revival of The Color Purple, died November 2 after a two-year battle with glioblastoma cancer. He was 64. His death was confirmed by the Buchwald talent agency. Born in North Carolina and educated at North Carolina…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off of co-directing Beyoncé’s Disney+ visual album feature Black Is King, Ghana-born filmmaker Blitz Bazawule is set to direct Warner Bros. musical  film The Color Purple, based on the Tony-winning Broadway musical. I hear that the feature’s producers Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders, and…

Steve McQueen's female-centric heist movie Widows might be packed with familiar and accomplished women like Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki and Michelle Rodriguez, but magnetic breakout Cynthia Erivo still jumped off the screen in her first ever feature. Erivo is a storied stage actress, and has already won an Emmy, a…

Deadline has confirmed that Warner Bros is developing The Color Purple for the big screen again, but this time based off the Tony-winning Broadway musical. Steven Spielberg, who directed and produced the 11-time Oscar-nominated 1985 film, is returning as a producer with Quincy Jones, though he will not direct. Both…

January and February are the times that try Broadway producers’ souls, as tourists head home, winter twofer sales set in and weak shows are culled from the herd. The box office fell sharply from Week 32, the last of the year, with many shows doing nine performances (or, the case of The Illusionists magic act, nearly…

Producers this evening informed the cast of The Color Purple that the show, which won the 2016 Tony Award for best musical revival, will play its final performance on January 8 after 449 regular and 33 preview performances at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. A North American tour of the production is set to go out in…