“The Color Purple,” a film adaptation of the stage musical, surpassed box office expectations with an $18 million domestic opening—the largest on Christmas Day in over a decade—before ...

The Color Purple is seeing a lot of green at the box office. The film adaptation of the New York Times bestseller, turned hit movie, turned Broadway musical smash outperformed industry ...

“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 ...

By Pamela McClintock Senior Film Writer The Color Purple has brought some much-needed cheer to the year-end holiday box office. The musical — whose producers include Oprah and Steven Spielberg ...

The latest rendition of "The Color Purple" surpassed box office expectations with an $18 million domestic gross on Monday, making it the biggest Christmas Day opening for a film in over a decade ...

"I’m so overjoyed today," star Fantasia Barrino wrote reacting to the box office news Eli Adé/Warner Bros. Industry predictions thought The Color Purple would make an estimated $8 to $10 ...

The musical adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel seemed an instant hit, but it sold less than $5 million in tickets in its second weekend. By Brooks Barnes Reporting from Los Angeles ...