1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Helen Hunt, ‘Inherit the Wind’ and ‘Color Purple’ are all part of Goodman Theatre 2024-25 season
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“The Color Purple”: The stuff that tears of sorrow and joy are made of: The magical realism even trumps Steven Spielberg's version. The masterpiece once again ...
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Louis Gossett Jr., Oscar Award-Winning Actor, Dies at 87: Gossett appeared in An Officer and a Gentleman, Roots, Watchmen, and The Color Purple.
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Quick Glance: Louis Gossett Jr., First Black Man to Win Supporting Actor Oscar, Dies at 87
- Actor Louis Gossett Jr., renowned for his role in 'Roots' and as the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar, has passed away.
- According to his cousin Neal L. Gossett, the actor died in Santa Monica, California. The exact cause of death was not disclosed.
- Louis Gossett always viewed his early career as a sort of reverse Cinderella story that led him to success and his Oscar win.
- Following his Oscar victory, Gossett struggled with alcohol and cocaine addiction, eventually leading to a rehabilitation stay where he was diagnosed with toxic mold syndrome.
“The truth will set you free” - #TarajiPHenson accepts the best supporting actress in a motion picture trophy at the 2024 #NAACPImageAwards for #TheColorPurple
Usher, Fantasia Barrino, ‘Color Purple’ honored at NAACP Image Awards: Usher was named entertainer of the year at the 55th annual NAACP Awards that highlighted ...
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James Gunn Debunks 'Peacemaker' Spin-Off Casting Rumors: James Gunn took to social media to disavow rumors that Straight Outta Compton star Corey ...
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Where to Watch the NAACP Image Awards 2024 Online: Hosted by Queen Latifah, the 2024 NAACP Awards airs at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET from L.A. — here's how to ...
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2024 NAACP Image Award winners: See full list: The third round of winners for the 2024 NAACP Image Awards include 'The Color Purple', 'The Proud Family' ...
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NAACP Image Awards 2024: Winners List: Victoria Monét and Chris Brown led the list of early winners at the 2024 NAACP Image Awards.
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“I can do the thing that I love that’s been so healing to me.” - Danielle BrooksWhen Hollywood tried to box Danielle Brooks in ... Show more #ESSENCEBWIH24
Oprah to Tackle Ozempic Craze in ABC Special: “A Very Personal Topic For Me”: Oprah Winfrey is taking on the subject of Ozempic and other weight-loss injectables ...
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Max celebrates Women’s History Month with tons of movies, TV shows, and original programming
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The Two Movies That Convinced Director Steven Spielberg He Could Make Schindler's List
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Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor criticizes The Color Purple for queer erasure: 'You're sanitizing me and my friends. Why?'
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Universal Tried To Make A Big Change To Schindler's List, But Steven Spielberg Refused
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Corey Hawkins on Acting with Willem Dafoe in 'The Man in My Basement': Corey Hawkins said that acting with Willem Dafoe in "The Man in My Basement" was ...
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‘Wicked’ Trailer: The Broadway Hit Is Finally a Movie: Cynthia Erivo stars as Elphaba.
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Taraji P. Henson Knows Her Worth: ‘If there’s a playground no one wants you to play on, are you going to keep showing up and hurting yourself?’
time.com/collection/women-of-the-year/6694010/taraji-p-henson/
SAG Awards: Full List of Winners: See the full list of SAG Awards winners as they are announced live.
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Quick Glance: Recognition for The Last of Us & Mission: Impossible
- This year's SAG Awards are being held in Los Angeles.
- Tonight marked the beginning of the SAG Awards in Los Angeles, as actors celebrate the outstanding performances of 2023. Film and TV enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting the announcement of tonight's winners, with several significant projects already receiving accolades. HBO's The Last of Us was honored for its exceptional action performance by a stunt ensemble in a TV series, while Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One received recognition for its outstanding action performance in a motion picture.
- SAG shared on Instagram: "They resisted. They persevered. Applause for @thelastofus." In another post, they added: "Get ready for the ultimate cinematic adrenaline rush! Congratulations to @missionimpossible for your outstanding action performance!" You can view them below:
- The Last of Us outperformed The Mandalorian, Beef, Ahsoka, and Barry. Mission: Impossible surpassed John Wick: Chapter 4, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Barbie, and Indiana Jones and the Wheel of Destiny. Earlier this year, The Mandalorian received an Emmy for its stunts.
Whoopi Goldberg and breaking the movie star mold: The Best Blacktresses: The enduring brilliance of Whoopi Goldberg, the fifth Black woman nominated for Best ...
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'Mean Girls' Global Box Office Fetches Impressive New Milestone: Mean Girls, which stars Angourie Rice and Reneé Rapp, continues its impressive run at ...
collider.com/mean-girls-global-box-office-100-million/
#TheColorPurple 's Colman Domingo gives a wink on the #OscarsLuncheon carpet
Quick Glance: 2024 Oscar Nominees Luncheon: Top Stars and New Category Revealed!
- Top movie stars gathered for the annual Oscars Nominees Luncheon at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.
- Traditional event for nominees from all categories.
- Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone featured in the class photo reunion.
- New Oscars category 'Achievement in Casting' revealed for 2026.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith Investigates Marriage: The Brangelina remake has far less sex and more fighting than the original.
slate.com/podcasts/culture-gabfest/2024/02/amazon-primes-mr-and-mrs-smith-less-sexy-more-quiet-than-original
‘The Color Purple’ Gets Streaming Date On Max: Warner Bros. PIctures' The Color Purple will make its streaming debut on Max on February 16.
deadline.com/2024/02/the-color-purple-streaming-date-max-1235820405/
Baftas 2024: the complete list of winners: Every prize at the British Academy Film awards from the Royal Festival Hall in London
theguardian.com/film/2024/feb/18/baftas-2024-the-complete-list-of-winners
Quick Glance: 'Oppenheimer' Dominates 2024 Bafta Film Awards
- Oppenheimer was the major winner, taking home seven awards including best film.
- Christopher Nolan won best director, Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. received acting awards.
- Poor Things and The Zone Of Interest were other big winners of the night.
Danielle Brooks on Filming Minecraft, Reveals Color Purple Group Texts: Danielle Brooks teases that she and Jack Black may be singing in "Minecraft" ...
variety.com/2024/awards/news/danielle-brooks-minecraft-movie-color-purple-group-chat-1235919655/
Academy Awards Announces New Oscar for Achievement in Casting: After decades of lobbying from the casting field, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ...
nytimes.com/2024/02/08/movies/oscars-category-casting-directors.html
How to watch the 2024 SAG Awards: Here's how to watch the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards streaming on Netflix for the first time as part of a multi-year ...
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Quick Glance: Wins for 'Oppenheimer,' Lily Gladstone at 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards
- 'Oppenheimer' continued its winning streak at the 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards, taking home the top prize for outstanding ensemble, along with individual awards for Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr.
- The SAG Awards were streamed live on Netflix for the first time, introducing significant changes to the traditional ceremony.
- While SAG Awards may not always predict Oscar success, the last five winners of the top SAG prizes in the past two years have aligned with the eventual Oscar winners.
How to Stream ‘The Color Purple’ Online: Blitz Bazawule's rendition of 'The Color Purple' has become a "sacred healing work" that ...
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Joker Sequel Was Given Much Bigger Budget, Lead Stars' Paydays Revealed: Joker: Folie à Deux's budget has reportedly been revealed, and it's a ...
cbr.com/joker-2-budget-revealed/
Baftas 2024: the red carpet, the ceremony, the winners – follow it live!: The 77th British academy film awards are taking place in London. Follow along with us ...
theguardian.com/film/live/2024/feb/18/baftas-2024-british-film-awards-night-live
Where You've Seen Brilliant Wicked Star Cynthia Erivo Before: If you're wondering who's under that green make-up in the Wicked trailer ...
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Quick Glance: Wicked: Part One Trailer
- Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo shine in the premiere trailer for Wicked: Part One, portraying Glinda and Elphaba.
- Director Jon M. Chu brings the Tony Award-winning musical to life on the big screen.
Sacked Color Purple actress loses legal battle over homophobic post: High Court judge rules that devout Christian Seyi Omooba must pay £300 ...
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'The Color Purple' breakout Danielle Brooks on paying homage to Oprah Winfrey and finding her "happy place as an actor”
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10 Films About Black Music That Turn Household Names into Household Stories: Music has always played a crucial part in Black communities, and these films ...
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Colman Domingo on ‘Rustin’, ‘The Color Purple’ and giving himself “permission to create”
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#AThousandAndOne is Certified Fresh at 97% on the Tomatometer.
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'Killers of the Flower Moon' was shut out at the Oscars. So were these classic movies
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Paid articlePaid Cynthia Erivo drew on her mother's experiences in Nigerian Civil War for Drift
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The Color Purple review: A soaring and triumphant musical that tells a powerful story
thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film-tv/2024/02/08/the-color-purple-review/
Danielle Brooks was just a theater kid from Greenville. Now, an Oscar is in reach.
postandcourier.com/greenville/danielle-brooks-oscar-color-purple-greenville/article_cb00b8d8-d825-11ee-aaf5-2f9ae5aee93c.html
2024 Costume Designers Guild Awards Raises Questions About Diversity: The recent ceremony opens up a dialogue about marginalized designers of color and the lack ...
essence.com/fashion/costume-designers-guild-awards-2024/
Taraji P. Henson Says Playing Shug in ‘The Color Purple’ Stretched Her ‘Beyond My Imagination’
thewrap.com/taraji-p-henson-color-purple-interview/
Beyond the pale: where are all the films about ‘whiteness’?: Awards season is full of movies made by and starring white people. But a cinema that identifies and ...
theguardian.com/film/2024/feb/02/films-about-whiteness-race-sofia-coppola-wes-anderson
Now streaming and on DVD: 'Next Goal Wins' has trouble scoring: Michael Fassbender is miscast as Thomas Rongen, a soccer coach whose Bobby Knight behavior has ...
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Mean Girls: Jaquel Spivey Shares Future Movie Musical Ideas: Jaquel Spivey reveals who he wants to play next.
comicbook.com/movies/news/mean-girls-jaquel-spivey-shares-future-movie-musical-ideas/
How Hollywood Tried To Smash The Patriarchy in 2023: Whether it was Barbie to Poor Things, was Hollywood actually trying to smash the patriarchy in 2023? ...
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Film tip for February 2024: “The Color Purple” with Halle Bailey: The new edition of the book adaptation “The Color Purple” will delight in 2024 with musical ...
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What to watch: New shows and movies to stream this weekend: See Jennifer Lopez's "Love Story" and a new Vince Staples sitcom.
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Oscar Awards: The nominated films are shown here in Solingen: The Oscars will be awarded on the night of March 10th to 11th. There are a number of films running ...
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Visionaries Envisioned: A quartet of Hollywood’s top film directors photographed by a visionary storyteller and groundbreaking artist, Catherine Opie.
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Danielle Brooks Reacts to First Oscar Nomination: 'I Want It and I'm Not Afraid to Say That' (Exclusive)
etonline.com/danielle-brooks-reacts-to-first-oscar-nomination-i-want-it-and-im-not-afraid-to-say-that-exclusive
Musical films: Why is everyone singing again?: The musical disappeared from mainstream cinema for a long time. Now it's back, in the form of Broadway adaptations ...
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Movies in 2024: You definitely can't miss these highlights: 2024 will bring a lot of exciting films to cinema screens. You can read about the highlights you ...
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“The Color Purple” as a cinema musical: The song of liberation: The Whoopi Goldberg classic “The Color Purple” is coming to the cinema as a musical film ...
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Pain and Song in Georgia: The novel won the Pulitzer Prize, Steven Spielberg's film adaptation with Whoopi Goldberg was nominated for an Oscar eleven times - and ...
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'The Color Purple' breakout Danielle Brooks on paying homage to Oprah Winfrey and finding her "happy place as an actor”
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Most nominated films at the NAACP Awards:
‘The Color Purple’ - 16
‘They Cloned Tyrone’ - 9
‘Rustin’ - 8
‘Creed 3’ - 7
‘A Thousand and One’ - 7
‘American ... Show more
‘The Color Purple’ Tops NAACP Image Awards Nominations: A complete list of the 2024 NAACP Image Awards nominations is led by The Color Purple and Abbott ...
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Why are 'Barbie' fans so upset about the Oscar nominations?: Is this what we're "made" for?
mashable.com/article/oscars-2024-barbie-nominations-controversy
Quick Glance: Oscars Not Sexist for Snubbing Barbie's Women
- Greta Gerwig, director of Barbie, and lead actress Margot Robbie left off Best Director and Best Actress lists.
- Ryan Gosling, who played Ken, nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
- Criticism of excluding key women from the successful film is based on 'the optics'.
- The Academy's inclusion of Barbie in the Best Picture shortlist was a generous decision.
Danielle Brooks learned she was Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in “The Color Purple” at 3:30 a.m. in New Zealand ... Show more nyti.ms/3S8SItN
Danielle Brooks is definitely overjoyed at her Best Supporting Actress #Oscars nomination for The Color Purple, after all the many ... Show more
2024 Oscar nominations: Margot and Greta snubbed for Barbie, but Ken gets a nod: The patriarchy is riding high for the 2024 Oscars — but not Charles Melton or ...
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This week's pod is packed with more stuff than a pilot's kitbag. #AustinButler #CallumTurner #BarryKeoghan and cast talk #MastersOfTheAir . #AndrewScott #PaulMescal and #ClaireFoy chat #AllOfUsStrangers ... Show more #BlitzBazawule #TheColorPurple
Whoopi Goldberg Does Not Think Barbie Was Snubbed by Oscars: 'There Are No Snubs'
movieweb.com/whoopi-goldberg-does-not-think-barbie-snubbed-oscars/
Ryan Gosling and America Ferrera Are Just as Baffled by Those Barbie Oscar Snubs: America Ferrera is a newly minted Oscar nominee, but she is baffled about why ...
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Quick Glance: Response to Oscar Nominations for 'Barbie'
- Ryan Gosling nominated for Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
- Expressed criticism of the lack of nominations for Robbie and Gerwig.
- Speculations about potential Barbie nominations in different roles.
- Idea for Barbie movie originated from Margot Robbie.
“Mean Girls” and the rise of the film-turned-musical-turned-remake: Musical films are hitting a high note
economist.com/culture/2024/01/22/mean-girls-and-the-rise-of-the-film-turned-musical-turned-remake
Colman Domingo Set To Star As Joe Jackson In Michael Jackson Biopic: 'Michael' is set to hit theaters April 18, 2025.
toofab.com/2024/01/25/colman-domingo-set-to-star-as-joe-jackson-in-michael-biopic/
Quick Glance: Colman Domingo Cast as Joe Jackson in Michael Jackson Biopic
- Colman Domingo has joined the cast of 'Michael' as Joe Jackson, the 'hard-driving, singularly focused, controversial patriarch of the Jackson family.'
- Director Antoine Fuqua praised Jaafar Jackson's portrayal of Michael Jackson as 'uncanny'.
- Domingo expressed excitement to be part of a film exploring Michael Jackson's complicated soul and impact on pop culture.
- Produced by Graham King and written by John Logan, 'Michael' will be released on April 18, 2025.
Whoopi Goldberg Doesn't Believe Barbie Was Snubbed by Oscars: Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg pushes back against claims Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig ...
cbr.com/whoopi-goldberg-barbie-oscars/
Good News! The 2024 Oscar Nominees Got A Nice Boost At The Box Office: Several Best Picture nominees got a boost at the box office over the weekend ...
slashfilm.com/1504271/2024-oscar-nominees-boost-at-the-box-office/
New to Streaming: Fallen Leaves, Sunset Song, The Boys in the Boat, The Color Purple & More
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The Color Purple review: "Treads a fine line between saccharine and crowd-pleasing"
gamesradar.com/the-color-purple-2023-review/
Oscar nomination 2024 snubs: Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, ‘The Color Purple’: "Barbie" took over the world last year, but Margot Robbie was locked out of the ...
nbcnews.com/news/oscar-nominations-snubs-2024-rcna135236
2024 Oscar nominations: Oppenheimer leads the way with 13 nominations: The Academy unveils a particularly strong slate.
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Feinberg Spotlight: Contenders’ (First) Big Moment of Truth Arrives: THR’s awards expert chimes in on the Oscars race after the announcement of BAFTA and Academy ...
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