Based on the Broadway musical by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, Stephen Bray and Marsha Norman (which in turn is based on Alice Walker’s best-selling novel), the awards-nominated movie stars Taraji P.

Discover What’s Streaming On: Are our eyes deceiving us? Within the first few minutes of the 2023 musical movie adaptation of The Color Purple, a famed actor from Steven Spielberg’s 1985 flick makes ...

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 new musical adaptation of Alice Walker's book explores the romance between Shug and Celie, unlike Steven Spielberg's original 1985 film, which only featured a chaste kiss between the characters.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oprah Winfrey played Sofia in 1985's 'The Color Purple,' while Danielle Brooks portrays the character in the new film The media ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On December 18, 1985, the film adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel “The Color Purple” was released. Walker is a Georgia native from the city of Eatonton, Georgia. The film was ...

This new, rousing version of “The Color Purple” based on the 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker is not a remake of the 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg. This new “The Color Purple ...

*Director Blitz Bazawule’s new musical adaptation of “The Color Purple” has a Certified Fresh 87% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The new project reunites Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Quincy Jones as ...

Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...

On this morning’s Crew Call, we talk with The Color Purple producers Oprah Winfrey and Scott Sanders on blazing a path for their Broadway musical to the big screen. Winfrey, who starred in Steven ...

Fantasia Barrino plays Alice Walker’s oppressed heroine in a joyous screen version of the Broadway musical. Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Released in theaters at Christmas, The Color Purple is not ...

Makuochi Echebiri is a News Writer for Collider. He has been interested in creative writing from as far back as high school, and he would consume pretty much anything that’s film or TV. However, his ...