$18 million in one day. The second highest Christmas Day gross of all time. Wonka is doing well too with over $250 worldwide since Dec 15 opening. This is good news for musicals, Fantasia, and Chalamet.
| by Anonymous | reply 448 | January 29, 2024 8:41 PM |
I love your positive sentiment OP. We need more of that around these times.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 26, 2023 7:25 PM |
Oof. DL is going to have a hard time accepting this one giving the massive shit they're taking on Taraji P. Henson.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 26, 2023 7:30 PM |
R1- it’s just the facts.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 26, 2023 8:44 PM |
OP never heard of inflation. How adorable.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 26, 2023 8:45 PM |
But can it last? Deadline said the audience was over 60% black. Will be curious to see if it goes mainstream.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 26, 2023 8:55 PM |
I love how DL has sudden amnesia about Tyler Perry's successful opening weekends. Wonder why that is? Hmmmmmm?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 26, 2023 8:58 PM |
R7 Money doesn’t give a fuck what race produces it. We may be only 14% of a population but I would guess somewhere like 30% of the movie going public. If you knew anything about demographics and the aging white population you would understand what I am talking about. But you probably just want to be stubbornly racist so likely a lost cause.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 26, 2023 9:10 PM |
Deadline is the one who reported the statistics. Why don’t you go on their website and report them for racism.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 26, 2023 9:18 PM |
The math ain’t mathin’ y’all.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 26, 2023 9:23 PM |
Is this like some Hamilton rap/revival? Yikes! Today’s audiences can have it. I didn’t even like the 1985 version, though it is comical thinking of these characters breakdancing through their blues.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 26, 2023 9:27 PM |
Finally, a black movie that whites don't have to go see. I hope they enjoy it.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 26, 2023 9:32 PM |
R13- no one breakdances or raps.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 26, 2023 9:42 PM |
R11 You can play thick all you want or maybe you really are dumb. A 50+% minority audience can be mainstream you twat.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 26, 2023 9:42 PM |
I’ve heard of inflation and that doesn’t explain why it beat all the competition in this economy yesterday.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 26, 2023 9:43 PM |
Btw- I started the Barbie is a monster hit thread after opening day and got mocked for it. You were wrong then and you’re wrong now.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 26, 2023 9:44 PM |
Yall done forgot Oprah’s influence. And Taraji is loved by by both black and white fraus from the show. Yall should see their facebooks. In additions let’s not forget Fantasia actually won American Idol 20 years ago. The same fraus who jumped to New York to see her on Broadway in the late aughts.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 26, 2023 9:47 PM |
Smh don’t know why iPhone auto pluralized addition.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 26, 2023 9:49 PM |
[quote] let’s not forget Fantasia actually won American Idol 20 years ago.
let's also not forget that she's a homophobe.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 26, 2023 10:46 PM |
Let's not forget answering homophobia with racism is a fool's errand.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 26, 2023 10:51 PM |
I told ya The Color Purple was coming to save cinemas this Holiday flop season.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 26, 2023 10:54 PM |
Color Purple audience being majority black isn't that surprising. But, it's not like it's THAT specifically a black cultural thing. People generally know The Color Purple. It had a great opening day. It's not crazy to ask if it momentum can be sustained. This coming weekend will be huge - a three-day holiday weekend - and I assume it will do good numbers. It's really the weekend AFTER that where we can start to see what sort of momentum it can sustain. And "momentum" usually doesn't mean not dropping at the box office, but about how much it drops - essentially, "drops" can be good if their beating expectations.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 26, 2023 10:57 PM |
I am not interested although I love Taraji .
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 26, 2023 10:57 PM |
I had good (White) friends who saw it and practically 'sobbed' at how Wonderful it was.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 26, 2023 11:07 PM |
I stuck my nose in and helped promote it, I'm sure that's why it's a hit, y'all! My many brainwashed cult members will go see it because I told them to see it. Where's my cut?!
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 26, 2023 11:07 PM |
r21 "Smh don’t know why iPhone auto pluralized addition."
Out of all the horrendous spelling/punctuation in your post, THAT'S what you were worried about?
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 26, 2023 11:10 PM |
Glad it's a hit - I'll probably go with my sister to see it Thursday. I love Taraji P. Henson
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 26, 2023 11:10 PM |
R31 Yes you magnificent cunt.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 26, 2023 11:12 PM |
I love the source material which is a master work. Uninterested in this film. The original film missed the mark, IMO.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 26, 2023 11:21 PM |
[quote] Glad it's a hit
Too early to tell. It’s Christmas. It’ll be dead come the second week in January.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 26, 2023 11:26 PM |
Some of you may not remember but the NAACP actually boycotted the original film. I believe it to be the reason it won not a single Oscar despite record breaking nominations.
There is not a single positive black male character in the original film.
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 26, 2023 11:26 PM |
It's only a monster because Fantasia is such a wildebeest.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 26, 2023 11:27 PM |
[quote] There is not a single positive black male character in the original film.
The black male character you portray isn't exactly positive, either.
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | December 26, 2023 11:28 PM |
R38 Get off my dick you fkin cunt. I am about to report you to Muriel for your obsession. Why can’t I be black you miserable loser. Goooo
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | December 26, 2023 11:32 PM |
I just got back from seeing it. I'm in a jolly little gay ball right now. I ordered $2500 worth of merchandise just on the way home. This film will change your life! No spoilers here!
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | December 26, 2023 11:34 PM |
The source is not about negative or positive role models. It is about characters who have been brutalized who are ultimately healed by self worth and self love.
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | December 26, 2023 11:37 PM |
My white gay male friend raved about it. He said it’s wonderful.
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | December 26, 2023 11:44 PM |
[quote] [R38] Get off my dick you fkin cunt. I am about to report you to Muriel for your obsession. Why can’t I be black you miserable loser. Goooo
If the number of people who have complained about you to Muriel hasn't gotten you banned yet, then I'll take my chances.
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | December 27, 2023 12:05 AM |
Tickets for this over-hyped turkey will be dormant by the weekend. Just because Oprah got a bunch of black people to the theater on Christmas day doesn't mean it will last. If it does, good for them but I don't see it happening.
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | December 27, 2023 12:12 AM |
[quote]My white gay male friend raved about it. He said it’s wonderful.
This never happened.
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | December 27, 2023 12:13 AM |
R26- that’s what people said Barbie. Just wait.. lol
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | December 27, 2023 1:15 AM |
Spielberg should’ve made a non-musical version of West Side Story!
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | December 27, 2023 2:17 AM |
R28- I started this thread first and it has more replies.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | December 27, 2023 2:20 AM |
R35- lol you have no idea what you’re talking about. Barbie was dead after 2 weeks too, right?
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | December 27, 2023 2:23 AM |
R44- the upcoming Friday night 7pm showing in the Dolby theater (a very big theater with a balcony) at Lincoln Square in NYC is already SOLD OUT. This is a monster hit.
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | December 27, 2023 2:27 AM |
That would be sold out THREE DAYS in advance.
Monster hit.
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | December 27, 2023 2:30 AM |
I went on Christmas evening to see it and there were only a handful of people in the large theater. I live in a very white state, so that may have a lot to do with it.
I only knew Taraji P. Henson from Person of Interest but I really liked that show.
The movie was good and had great individual performances. I hope it does well.
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | December 27, 2023 3:01 AM |
R28/OP is correct. This thread was first.
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | December 27, 2023 3:11 AM |
I love the book. Just love it.
I really really don't like musicals, so I don't think I'll see it. But I'm happy it's doing so well.
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | December 27, 2023 4:43 AM |
Black Musicals Matter! I hope we’ll be seeing a bunch of them, maybe reviving the blaxploitation genre for inspiration. I’ve no interest in The Color Purple, but might be persuaded to see Blacula, Coffy or Cleopatra Jones musicalized.
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | December 27, 2023 4:46 AM |
Give it a rest TeaFacto. Nobody’s buying it.
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | December 27, 2023 4:49 AM |
[quote]There is not a single positive black male character in the original film.
Is there in the book?
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | December 27, 2023 4:53 AM |
R56 ????? I have only posted under my paid moniker here on this thread.
| by Anonymous | reply 59 | December 27, 2023 4:53 AM |
Stop playing stupid TeaFacto. GermanGayGuy was verified too. We are not as stupid as you think we are.
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | December 27, 2023 4:58 AM |
R61 Bro you have a lot serious fkin mental illness and obsession. I don’t have multiple monikers. Othello got banned. A couple years ago I used minority report. Get help you sick cracka.
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | December 27, 2023 4:59 AM |
I'm going to wait for the musical version of The Blunchblack of Blotre Blame.
| by Anonymous | reply 63 | December 27, 2023 5:17 AM |
[quote] Get help you sick cracka.
What white people think blacks sound like.
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | December 27, 2023 7:20 AM |
[quote]But can it last? Deadline said the audience was over 60% black. Will be curious to see if it goes mainstream.
I also wonder if Jews had something to do with it, too?
They tend to be the wokest of the woke and usually go to the cinema on Christmas Day.
| by Anonymous | reply 65 | December 27, 2023 7:44 AM |
Do celie and shug fuck in this one?
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | December 27, 2023 8:30 AM |
There's a narrative to this movie that's based in race, that "we need more all-black movies!". I don't know if it's the media or just people like Oprah. But aside from a couple of chance hits, the black-only film is not going to be bankable due to it being all black casted. But that's not stopping the push.
That's where the debate is coming from in al the Color Purple talk. They're remaking films aimed solely at black audiences. New "horror" films going out of their way to cast only black characters/actors. Yes, more black actors should be cast. So should more Hispanic/Latino and Native American actors. But the American black community is trained to be racist against white people in general, thus they see it completely natural to produce or support black only movies and isolate 50%-plus of their potential audience. And when they inevitably fail, it will be due to "racism". Rinse.....repeat......
| by Anonymous | reply 67 | December 27, 2023 1:33 PM |
Wait to see the second weekend haul.
| by Anonymous | reply 69 | December 27, 2023 2:27 PM |
It will totally fall off a cliff, box office-wise. The church ladies helped it in its first few days. Generally mixed to negative word of mouth won’t be good enough to keep its momentum going,
| by Anonymous | reply 70 | December 27, 2023 3:46 PM |
R70- you have no idea what you are talking about. It has very strong word of mouth. 94% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. As I said, this is a monster hit.
| by Anonymous | reply 72 | December 27, 2023 4:25 PM |
The word of mouth has bee good. Every single time klan grannies will lie on here. Does lack of sex make you racist?
| by Anonymous | reply 73 | December 27, 2023 4:29 PM |
My bad. It actually has a 95% audience score.
| by Anonymous | reply 74 | December 27, 2023 4:53 PM |
"Echo-chamber karaoke", lol.
Seriously, though, TCP will probably make decent second-week #s as there is absolutely nothing else coming out. This holiday movie season was really a dud.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 75 | December 27, 2023 5:19 PM |
The original 1985 film was the 4th highest-grossing film at the box office -- after BACK TO THE FUTURE, RAMBO II, and ROCKY IV -- and was nominated for 11 Oscars!
Will the musical sequel do as well?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 76 | December 27, 2023 5:29 PM |
Danielle Brooks vs D'Avine Joy Randolph for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar is a toss-up.
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | December 27, 2023 5:29 PM |
"Warner Bros.’ The Color Purple, which has completely revived the movie musical in a God-awful marketplace, saw $7M at 3,152, -61% from Christmas Day’s $18.15M. Note that the musical’s first day gross was boosted by a group sales program that the studio executed."
I hope it has legs and inspires more musicals and more varied Black-centric films.
| by Anonymous | reply 79 | December 27, 2023 5:44 PM |
^^Sorry, forgot the link for above:
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 80 | December 27, 2023 7:05 PM |
So basically Warner Bros cheated to get their big opening day gross, and now no one cares about seeing it.
| by Anonymous | reply 81 | December 27, 2023 7:08 PM |
Yep. 61% drop says it all.
| by Anonymous | reply 82 | December 27, 2023 7:13 PM |
The studio releasing The Woman King also front-loaded that film with group sales, but it only grossed $97M worldwide against a projected $190M break-even price point. The Color Purple is even more expensive.
| by Anonymous | reply 83 | December 27, 2023 7:35 PM |
*musical REMAKE, not sequel
Oy!
| by Anonymous | reply 84 | December 27, 2023 7:45 PM |
$7 million is good for a Tuesday after Christmas. It still hasn't played on a weekend yet and has already racked up $25 million. As I said, there are showings this weekend that are already sold out. Stay tuned.
| by Anonymous | reply 85 | December 27, 2023 9:06 PM |
Which one is supposed to be the pretty sister in R75?
| by Anonymous | reply 86 | December 27, 2023 9:07 PM |
So if accurate, which I believe it is, Warner Bros bought the weekend box office title with their “group sales program”. There was little legitimate ticket sales after all. Wow. Just wow.
Oh. And Fantasia looks like an asshole in R75’s link.
| by Anonymous | reply 87 | December 27, 2023 10:20 PM |
I love Fantasia. She was illiterate and dealing with substance issues and judgement for her love life when she made the homophobic comments.
She can sing her ass off and I hope she gets an acting career after this
| by Anonymous | reply 88 | December 27, 2023 10:33 PM |
The original traumatized me. I was a kid when I saw it. Rape. Physical abuse. Sexual trauma. And Spielberg was "shocked" when it won nothing at the Oscars? Seriously? I certainly don't need to see a song and dance version of this nightmare.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 89 | December 27, 2023 11:11 PM |
R89 Shut yo basic ass up.
| by Anonymous | reply 90 | December 28, 2023 12:08 AM |
No one named “Da’Vine” is getting an Oscar.
| by Anonymous | reply 91 | December 28, 2023 1:50 AM |
[quote] Seriously, though, TCP will probably make decent second-week #s as there is absolutely nothing else coming out.
Well, I never!!
| by Anonymous | reply 92 | December 28, 2023 1:59 AM |
The Color Purple had its opening day augmented by a pre-sales initiative by the producers. The day after Christmas box office was far less than anticipated. The Color Purple was third place on December 26th opposite the flop Aquaman, and the maybe-hit Wonka.
I wouldn't break out the champagne just yet for The Color Purple, but I'm curious to check it out to see if Taraji has earned her paycheck!
| by Anonymous | reply 93 | December 28, 2023 2:35 AM |
Any links for the group sales that people mentioned. I googled it and found nothing. I could see the studio buying tickets and donating them to black churches.
| by Anonymous | reply 94 | December 28, 2023 2:46 AM |
So this film actually made $0, since the studio bought all of the first-day tickets.
| by Anonymous | reply 95 | December 28, 2023 3:04 AM |
Didn’t that MAGA movie Sound of Freedom do something similar? Or was it just the churches buying up all the tickets?
| by Anonymous | reply 96 | December 28, 2023 5:09 AM |
Opra sed i prolly gunna get a ozkar an ef not shi say shi gunna buy me 1!
| by Anonymous | reply 97 | December 28, 2023 4:35 PM |
Klan grannies what will happen if Trump gets re-elected?
| by Anonymous | reply 98 | December 28, 2023 5:52 PM |
More facts from Deadline:
Warner Bros.’ musical, The Color Purple, which was brilliant out of the gate on Christmas Day with an $18.15M gross, boosted by group sales, continues to fall, with Wednesday down 45% from Tuesday to $3.9M at 3,152. Running total through three days stands at $29M, about $10M behind Les Miserables at the same point in time back in 2012. That movie ended its domestic run at $148.8M.
| by Anonymous | reply 99 | December 28, 2023 6:11 PM |
Exactly r64 and he knows we know. Defacto is so boring.
When he runs a cosplay like GermanGayGuy or teacake, he’s just being boring from multiple accounts.
| by Anonymous | reply 100 | December 28, 2023 6:14 PM |
Good old racism, moving those goalposts.
| by Anonymous | reply 101 | December 28, 2023 6:14 PM |
Whoopi on the headwinds the original faced, why it didn't win Oscars, and a fun Michael J. Fox story.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 102 | December 28, 2023 6:16 PM |
The studio didn't buy all the tickets. They gave a discount for group sales. In fact, they may have made more money if they had not given the discounts.
R91- Da'Vine Joy Randolph has already won the National Board of Review award and is the favorite to win the Oscar. I think the only person who can beat her is Brooks.
| by Anonymous | reply 103 | December 28, 2023 8:38 PM |
Except those people would not have come if there was no discount. This coming weekend is really the test of how well it will do.
| by Anonymous | reply 104 | December 28, 2023 10:35 PM |
R67 This is so false.
I don’t understand what your problem is with Black Cinema.
There’s Spanish cinema and TV, there’s Asian cinema, etc etc.
I don’t understand why you think black Americans can’t have their own piece in Hollywood given they’re an ethnic American group??
So black people just have to watch white movies with a few people who look like them sprinkled in?
I don’t get it.
| by Anonymous | reply 105 | December 28, 2023 10:48 PM |
Also the reason why Latino and Asian films typically bomb at the box office is simply because Asian and Latinos watch movies and TV from their native countries.
Black Americans don’t have other native countries besides the US.
| by Anonymous | reply 106 | December 28, 2023 10:49 PM |
The Color Purple = The remake nobody asked for. Has Oprah has ever produced anything great? Even her interview with Michael Jackson accusers was subpar. And of course she complained about the backlash of doing that interview.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 107 | December 29, 2023 12:38 AM |
[quote] Also the reason why Latino and Asian films typically bomb at the box office is simply because Asian and Latinos watch movies and TV from their native countries.
lol, sounds about white.
| by Anonymous | reply 108 | December 29, 2023 12:51 AM |
It’s got a $100m budget. It won’t make back that money. The math ain’t mathing.
| by Anonymous | reply 109 | December 29, 2023 2:27 AM |
[quote] The studio didn't buy all the tickets. They gave a discount for group sales. In fact, they may have made more money if they had not given the discounts.
Actually, I believe in this situation, a large majority of those Christmas Day tickets were fully funded by the studio and used as giveaways, unlike the usual group sales the religious and MAGAt films do.
| by Anonymous | reply 111 | December 29, 2023 5:02 AM |
The Color Purple's underperforming will be blamed on racism, not lack of interest in the project. Is it being marketed well, or are they only trying to reach a black audience?
| by Anonymous | reply 112 | December 29, 2023 6:21 AM |
The movie only appeals to a black audience, by design. When only blacks (13%) show up to see it, the poor box office will be blamed on racism, also by design.
| by Anonymous | reply 113 | December 29, 2023 8:45 AM |
Datalounge has a magat infestation.
It is disgusting.
| by Anonymous | reply 114 | December 29, 2023 9:07 AM |
You would think by now someone would have told Oprah she has marginal talent. She is on full display as the weaker actor in any scene she has done in the last 35 years. Her producing skills are probably the same....VIDEO---waving her arms around after being called a motherless whore. For someone who grew up ghetto, she couldn't even pull THAT off....Oprah saying "the POE-LEESE" ......ugh. No, honey.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 115 | December 29, 2023 9:11 AM |
Gonna sink like a stone now. The word of mouth ain’t good and it ain’t getting any Oscar nominations except for Danielle Brooks,
| by Anonymous | reply 116 | December 29, 2023 9:15 PM |
R113 That doesn’t make sense however when the original Color Purple was one of the biggest films of the year.
| by Anonymous | reply 117 | December 29, 2023 9:17 PM |
OP due to group sales on Christmas it had a very impressive opening day and was #1 but by its third day in release dropped to #4 behind Wonka, Migration and Aquaman.
| by Anonymous | reply 118 | December 29, 2023 9:20 PM |
T115 Oprah didn’t grow up ghetto, she grew up poor. There is a difference. Her acting wage actually very good in that clip. Well done O. I miss more melodramas where the actors could act
| by Anonymous | reply 119 | December 29, 2023 9:25 PM |
I don’t think it’s so much about race, but does America want to see this musical? WSS was also a hard sell.
| by Anonymous | reply 121 | December 29, 2023 9:35 PM |
[quote]Who does Da’Vine play?
Babs Johnson
| by Anonymous | reply 123 | December 29, 2023 9:42 PM |
Da’Vine was wonderful in The Holdovers. I'd be delighted to see her win the Oscar.
| by Anonymous | reply 124 | December 29, 2023 11:06 PM |
I would hate to see her win the Oscar. She did nothing and they cut her character to ribbons in the final edit.
| by Anonymous | reply 126 | December 30, 2023 2:11 AM |
The Academy hates Speilberg (for whatever reason). And they hate Oprah too. As long as the ballots are anonymous, Color Purple ain't winning anything. Of course they did give Jaime Lee Curtis an Oscar so anything is possible.
| by Anonymous | reply 127 | December 30, 2023 3:38 AM |
I smell a fix on opening day.
The movie only took in 18% of first-day opening on Thursday. That is a GIGANTIC fall in just three days.
| by Anonymous | reply 129 | December 30, 2023 4:33 AM |
Box Office Mojo....Dropped 61% on Day 2....Dropped 44% on Day 3....And Taraji wonders why she isn't paid more? LOL...
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 131 | December 30, 2023 6:38 AM |
I guess WB better get back to busing.
| by Anonymous | reply 132 | December 30, 2023 8:05 AM |
Deadline is predicting $16 million for CP over this weekend.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 133 | December 30, 2023 4:34 PM |
I wonder if Big Oprah is upset the movie is in 4th place behind an animated film on birds.🦅
| by Anonymous | reply 134 | December 30, 2023 6:16 PM |
Maybe Oprah ought to dig into her pockets and buy another round of freebies for the churchgoin' folk.
| by Anonymous | reply 135 | December 30, 2023 6:44 PM |
Ozemprah tried to legitimize a dumbass lying grifter named Meghan Markle, much like TP Henson did with Jussie Smollett. They both earned this failure.
| by Anonymous | reply 137 | December 30, 2023 9:02 PM |
[quote]The math ain’t mathing.
Math is racist.
| by Anonymous | reply 138 | December 31, 2023 8:50 AM |
I think so many elder gays must have been work place bullied by white men in society and then they assume black women would be allies but they likely bullied their weak asses too. It is the the only phenomenon to explain why so many choose to come on here and post, hoping praying for black women to fail and ultimately ALWAYS adore when a mainstream black project by black women fails or underperforms.
| by Anonymous | reply 140 | December 31, 2023 1:00 PM |
how is the box office holding up?
| by Anonymous | reply 141 | December 31, 2023 2:18 PM |
Markle on brain. Obsessed.
| by Anonymous | reply 142 | December 31, 2023 2:36 PM |
R141, see below
Warner Bros./Amblin’s “The Color Purple” is fourth with an estimated $17.7 million 4-day total in its first weekend in theaters. Released on Christmas Day, the acclaimed Blitz Bazawule musical is estimated to gross just under $50 million domestic in its first week in theaters, though only time will tell whether its strong word-of-mouth will allow it to draw a significant number of moviegoers beyond its core Black, older-skewing audience.
| by Anonymous | reply 143 | December 31, 2023 5:15 PM |
[quote] I think so many elder gays must have been work place bullied by white men in society and then they assume black women would be allies but they likely bullied their weak asses too. It is the the only phenomenon to explain why so many choose to come on here and post, hoping praying for black women to fail and ultimately ALWAYS adore when a mainstream black project by black women fails or underperforms.
And you'd know from white elder gays, that's for sure, Cosplay.
| by Anonymous | reply 144 | December 31, 2023 6:15 PM |
It's not "racism" when a project that only appeals to a niche audience only produces niche $$.
| by Anonymous | reply 145 | December 31, 2023 6:18 PM |
Taraji P Henson's grievance tour wasn't exactly the PR push this movie needed.
| by Anonymous | reply 146 | December 31, 2023 6:19 PM |
If the box office continues to fall off 50% every weekend, it may struggle to reach $75 million.
| by Anonymous | reply 147 | December 31, 2023 6:21 PM |
At least they saved a bundle on that Photoshop 101 movie poster they used.
| by Anonymous | reply 148 | December 31, 2023 6:23 PM |
The showbiz press is climbing all over themselves to smear Aquaman as a major flop, but they keep hedging on The Color Purple which has vastly underperformed with about 100% recognition by the public and all that diversity. They're terrorized and fearful about calling it a flop, while reporting the 3 holiday weekend films outgrossing it are all "underwhelming"?
See how that works?
| by Anonymous | reply 149 | January 1, 2024 1:35 AM |
Maybe everyone is just sick of remakes, musical or not. I know I am. I thought the first TCP was terrific. I don't bother with re-dos.
| by Anonymous | reply 150 | January 1, 2024 1:58 AM |
No one is hiding that it’s performance is underwhelming..
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 151 | January 1, 2024 2:04 AM |
Dear DL black racists -
This film is now an official FLOP. LMAO. Seethe cunts! Seeeethee
| by Anonymous | reply 152 | January 1, 2024 2:07 AM |
Taraji should have spent less time crying and more time promoting the MOVIE!
| by Anonymous | reply 153 | January 1, 2024 2:19 AM |
I wonder how Whoopi and Sunny are going to spin this on THE VIEW this coming week ? Sunny will probably say she attended every matinee and evening show since it opened, and Sara will say she did the same thing, just to kiss their asses. Whoopi will say she held a private screening at her house for her family and friends this past week.
Then when the reality sets in by the end of this week, and it will be hard to deny its a flop, Sunny and Whoopi will ignore it - just as they ignored the failures of "Till" last year, and "West Side Story" the year before.
| by Anonymous | reply 154 | January 1, 2024 2:46 AM |
I observe that The Color Purple's marketing campaign makes it look like a "powerful" and "important" movie, but not an entertaining one.
Maybe it's that?
| by Anonymous | reply 155 | January 1, 2024 3:41 AM |
[quote]The Color Purple is a monster hit
Welp, this didn't age well.
| by Anonymous | reply 156 | January 1, 2024 5:18 AM |
Taratchet P. Henson’s self-pity press tour has backfired. It caused people to not want to go see the movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 157 | January 1, 2024 6:54 AM |
The second week of December, 'The View' kept pushing 'The Color Purple' (it was their last week of airing new shows). All Sara could do is keep repeating, "I'm hearing Oscar buzz" to everyone who stepped on stage. Of course, Hayes said the same thing last year when they were promoting the hell out of "Till" - every day she announced she was hearing "Oscar buzz" and we know how that worked out...
| by Anonymous | reply 158 | January 1, 2024 3:00 PM |
The Color Purple musical opened on Broadway over fifteen years ago, yet I've never heard any of the music. Usually a hit show has at least one song that becomes a hit, or even just familiar to the public because singers cover it, or sing it in the acts. There doesn't seem to be any song from TCP that can be used to sell the movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 159 | January 1, 2024 5:53 PM |
A musical version of this story seems truly abhorrent. The trailer looked ridiculous.
| by Anonymous | reply 160 | January 1, 2024 6:08 PM |
I know they wanted to show a big box office on Christmas, but by giving away tickets and cooking the books they set themselves up for failure it if didn't take off. It's stale IP, and an all black musical on difficult subject matter is a turn off.
It shows though that these kinds of black female projects still have limited box office appeal. The Woman King also struggled to break even (if it even did) and did not do well overseas.
| by Anonymous | reply 161 | January 1, 2024 6:13 PM |
[quote]A musical version of this story seems truly abhorrent. The trailer looked ridiculous.
I think TCP musical works only on the stage.
Not every play can be filmable.
| by Anonymous | reply 163 | January 1, 2024 6:36 PM |
r159- "I'm Here" is a very popular song. It is often sung on American Idol and the like. Fantasia sang it on the Tony Awards too. The fact that you haven't heard any of the music is on you.
| by Anonymous | reply 164 | January 1, 2024 7:01 PM |
I haven’t watched American Idol in over 15 years so I am not familiar with”I’m Here”.
| by Anonymous | reply 165 | January 1, 2024 11:41 PM |
R159 The show opened in 2005. Diana Ross recorded the song "What About Love ?" from the Broadway musical for her 2007 CD "I Love You". I believe she released it as a single to AC radio, but nothing happened. It's not a great song by any means - it's rather dull and boring, never comes to life. However, I guess that's the song the producers tried to 'make happen'.
| by Anonymous | reply 166 | January 2, 2024 1:47 AM |
I'm a gay white long-time DLer and I went to see it yesterday. Theatre was pretty full; I'd say about 80% of the seats sold. Sadly, I was the only white person there. It's a great movie and I'm really irritated that so many here seem to want to tear it down because of very transparent reasons. Reporting the box office honestly is one thing; gleefully hoping it will fail because it doesn't star an all white cast is another.
| by Anonymous | reply 167 | January 2, 2024 4:54 AM |
R167 100% agree. In what region of the country do you reside?
| by Anonymous | reply 168 | January 2, 2024 4:59 AM |
Many read the book years ago and/or saw the original film. It is not surprising many don’t need to see the same story again, especially when a “reboot” usually doesn’t live up,
| by Anonymous | reply 169 | January 2, 2024 5:10 AM |
Florida, R168. Where the book is currently banned from school libraries.
| by Anonymous | reply 170 | January 2, 2024 5:12 AM |
Was Oprah behind this for a little extra publicity?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 171 | January 2, 2024 8:57 AM |
Perhaps the movie-going public, most of whom are not black, are just exhausted by black celebrities.... RICH AND FAMOUS black celebrities, telling them that they're racists and don't want to pay black people. Maybe the general public in America are just exhausted by American black people in general, being told for years that if you're not black, you are inherently a racist. That non-black people "stole" everything from blacks, that blacks are always the most marginalized victims, the most mistreated people, that they are just barely above being slaves. All while spewing this bile as famous, and lauded people while whites, Asians, Hispanics and other non-black people have no recourse to respond other than avoiding their films and products.
Maybe that has something to do with it? Maybe the long awaited, well-deserved rejection and backlash has finally begun.
| by Anonymous | reply 172 | January 2, 2024 2:57 PM |
r171 Poor Ms Bernans. Those injuries to her face look irreparable.
| by Anonymous | reply 173 | January 2, 2024 3:03 PM |
R172,you can feel that way, but I do not. I do not feel that I’m am considered inherently racist because I am not black. Also, unless you are super talented/gifted or super beautiful as a black person, you ARE still generally treated like shit—At least where I am situated.
| by Anonymous | reply 174 | January 2, 2024 3:40 PM |
TCP deals with lots of downer issues. I can see people passing on it over the holidays. Also there is some burnout on diversity films. Movies overall suffering. Finally, no black stars like Will Smith or Eddie Murphy who could sell tickets in the past. Fantasia and TBH can’t do that.
| by Anonymous | reply 175 | January 2, 2024 4:07 PM |
it's disrespectful not to watch this movie!
| by Anonymous | reply 176 | January 2, 2024 4:12 PM |
Remakes or even recycled to B’way kind of don’t work for me. Why? Because I know the story, duh!
| by Anonymous | reply 177 | January 2, 2024 4:43 PM |
A lot of missteps in this version. Too many cuts away from the dancers. The men are all one-dimensional. The "What About Love" scene is so odd, filmed like a 30's Fred Astaire number. But when it comes down to it, it's still an affecting story. Fantasia was excellent.
| by Anonymous | reply 179 | January 2, 2024 5:34 PM |
I think people are tired of 'prestige' films altogether (or any movie where the underlying message of the marketing is you "should" want to see the film). Same thing is happening to other films, notably Maestro (boring) or Till (overwrought). Inflation is insane, including the movies, and no one wants to go to the theater and spend a lot of money on something that isn't altogether enjoyable.
There are so few mainstream movies made today that include a well-rounded plot. Everything is a gimmick. It's getting old.
| by Anonymous | reply 180 | January 2, 2024 6:09 PM |
[quote]unless you are super talented/gifted or super beautiful as a black person, you ARE still generally treated like shit
Please, R174, provide a link showing real evidence to that absurd bloviation. Who treats black actors like shit and why aren't they being called out? Who are these phantom racists making Taraji and others so miserable and harming them so badly? I'm tired of the spewed victimhood without any evidence or examples other than people like you and black celebrities bemoaning what victims they are, all from the comfort of their designer clothes and Hollywood mansions.
| by Anonymous | reply 181 | January 2, 2024 6:14 PM |
R140 is Defacto thinking he’s fooling anyone. Go fuck yourself, Matt.
| by Anonymous | reply 182 | January 2, 2024 6:17 PM |
R167 This site is racist as ever, sadly.
| by Anonymous | reply 183 | January 2, 2024 6:17 PM |
[quote]Ozemprah tried to legitimize a dumbass lying grifter named Meghan Markle,
For the deeply mentally ill, any thread can be turned into a Markle bashing thread.
| by Anonymous | reply 184 | January 2, 2024 6:18 PM |
Why is "this site racist" R183? Because people are having raw, complicated conversations without placating and coddling your point of view? Please point us to a real racist comment here. If anything thus far in this thread is actually racist, you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about and clearly have never experienced it. I have. You, clearly, have not.
| by Anonymous | reply 186 | January 2, 2024 6:25 PM |
They didn't pay me enough y'all. It ain't mathing.
| by Anonymous | reply 187 | January 2, 2024 6:35 PM |
[quote] I'm glad for Fantasia.
G-L-A-D. That spell cat!
| by Anonymous | reply 188 | January 3, 2024 12:14 AM |
The novel has a happy ending but to get to the ending, you must endure seriously depressing scenarios.
I am not interested in revisiting this work due to the depressing nature of the subject.
I am a fan of TH, she's a star to me, but it still don't want to revisit The Color Purple.
| by Anonymous | reply 189 | January 3, 2024 12:37 AM |
I'm curious why Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson was not cast as Shug Avery in this ? And if they really want to sell tickets - why did they not cast Beyonce as Shug Avery ?
In 1985, there was a list a mile long of singers / actresses whom Spielberg wanted to cast as 'Shug'. Diana Ross was at the very top of the list - however, she wanted more screen time so she could get 'top-billing above the title'. Spielberg couldn't do it. He offered it to Tina Turner - who said 'she already lived that story'. He offered it to Diahann Carroll, but she was busy filming 'Dynasty'. He offered it to Chaka Khan, Natalie Cole, and Patti LaBelle - each actress found the story 'too depressing'. He settled on Margaret Avery who played the role to perfection.
The role of Shug Avery is rather important to the story - TPH isn't the actress to fill that importance.
| by Anonymous | reply 190 | January 3, 2024 1:00 AM |
[quote] TPH isn't the actress to fill that importance.
I'm sorry, dear, but Jennifer Hudson and/or Beyonce are?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
| by Anonymous | reply 191 | January 3, 2024 1:04 AM |
R191 - For financial importance, yes. They will sell tickets. The will sell the soundtrack. They will make money for the studio. TPH ? Nope. Follow the money, dear.
| by Anonymous | reply 192 | January 3, 2024 1:09 AM |
Darling, Jennifer Hudson has never sold tickets to anything. Look at her resume.
And Beyonce has never had a hit film after Dreamgirls. Her own fucking concert movie couldn't even sell tickets.
Of the three, I would say Taraji has the best record. Follow the money yourself, DEAR.
| by Anonymous | reply 193 | January 3, 2024 1:10 AM |
The film is in free fall. Another boneheaded decision by Hollywood.
| by Anonymous | reply 194 | January 3, 2024 1:13 AM |
Beyonce thinks too much of herself to be in this project. Jennifer Hudson would have been interesting. Janelle Monae would have been a great choice.
| by Anonymous | reply 195 | January 3, 2024 1:16 AM |
R193 = A very jealous Jussie Smollet.
| by Anonymous | reply 196 | January 3, 2024 1:32 AM |
R193 Another liar. Beyoncé starred in her own flick called Obsessed which made bank like 80 mil after Dreamgirls. So since u want to lie please tell us the films that Beyonce has starred in after Dreamgirls. We will wait. Because the only other film besides Obsessed were two highly successful animated films one of which is the Lion King live action with made like 2 billion dolllars. So again we will wait. The films like Austin Powers and Pink Panther which came out prior to Dreamgirls were both hugely successful. So again we will wait.
| by Anonymous | reply 197 | January 3, 2024 1:36 AM |
As long as I wait for you to actually be black? Will you wait THAT long?
| by Anonymous | reply 198 | January 3, 2024 1:38 AM |
R196 It’s not Jussie. Just a stupid ass liar who is probably older and can’t even remember the years in which films came out. We kills me is when these older people lie just to win a cyber argument; their memories are too fucked up to remember timeline of when things were released.
| by Anonymous | reply 199 | January 3, 2024 1:38 AM |
R198 You can say what you want cunt. You lied and have been called out on it. So again we will wait.
You stankin asses keep thinking I’m not black. I’m laughing my black ass all the way to the 🏦.
| by Anonymous | reply 200 | January 3, 2024 1:40 AM |
I stand by my comments, Teafake. Beyawnce never had another hit film after Dreamgirls.
| by Anonymous | reply 201 | January 3, 2024 1:40 AM |
[quote] You stankin asses keep thinking I’m not black. I’m laughing my black ass all the way to the 🏦.
So would this be an example of shucking or jiving?
| by Anonymous | reply 202 | January 3, 2024 1:41 AM |
R201 I’m done with you. You are a liar and a troll.
| by Anonymous | reply 203 | January 3, 2024 1:41 AM |
[quote] [R201] I’m done with you. You are a liar and a troll.
If so, then that's three things we have in common, because I'm also white.
| by Anonymous | reply 204 | January 3, 2024 1:43 AM |
Who says “stankin asses”?
It’s “stank ass”.
| by Anonymous | reply 205 | January 3, 2024 1:47 AM |
[quote] Who says “stankin asses”?
A white incel trying to cosplay.
| by Anonymous | reply 206 | January 3, 2024 1:52 AM |
Bitch I’m not white. What is WRONG with you. I’m certainly not an incel either. You are fkin demented and weird and racist.
| by Anonymous | reply 207 | January 3, 2024 1:55 AM |
The "promotion" for this movie consisted of Taraji P Henson going on TV and doing interviews where she complained that she doesn't make enough money, she didn't get a spin-off role, she doesn't get advertising contracts, her staff was incompetent and she had to fire them all, and then breaking down and crying about it all. Yeah, that's all definitely pulling the audience in for this film.
| by Anonymous | reply 208 | January 3, 2024 2:31 AM |
R208 I was thinking that too. All the press around this has been struggle stories. Taraji not getting paid because she is a black woman; Fantasia and her kids getting put of AirBnb cause they’re black lol. Who are their PR reps. Good lawd. Don’t nobody wanna hear that shit. Wait until after the films release/press tour.
| by Anonymous | reply 209 | January 3, 2024 2:35 AM |
[quote] Good lawd. Don’t nobody wanna hear that shit.
Willona Woods
| by Anonymous | reply 210 | January 3, 2024 4:37 AM |
It only grossed $2m yesterday- a holiday. That $18m opening day gross is looking more and more suspect every single day. I wish more people were writing about the fakery.
| by Anonymous | reply 211 | January 3, 2024 4:51 AM |
New Year's Day Purple dropped to 5th place at the Box Office. In 8 days of release it was @#1 for just one day
| by Anonymous | reply 213 | January 3, 2024 6:34 AM |
I'm patiently waiting for Teafake to call someone "you JIVE turkey"
| by Anonymous | reply 214 | January 3, 2024 11:37 AM |
I can't wait for the Miss Cleo movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 215 | January 3, 2024 12:11 PM |
The thread headline is not aging well.
| by Anonymous | reply 216 | January 3, 2024 12:17 PM |
The thread headline is “dead to me”
| by Anonymous | reply 217 | January 3, 2024 2:52 PM |
CP sunk to #6 on January 2. $456 per theatre.
| by Anonymous | reply 218 | January 3, 2024 9:50 PM |
Some of you hoes should join the accounting firm for the Westbrook Baptist Church. Very diligent you are.
| by Anonymous | reply 219 | January 3, 2024 10:14 PM |
[Quote] It will totally fall off a cliff, box office-wise. The church ladies helped it in its first few days. Generally mixed to negative word of mouth won’t be good enough to keep its momentum going,
It's dropped to #6 on its 9th day in release. It's fallen below The Boys in the Boat and Anyone But You
| by Anonymous | reply 220 | January 3, 2024 10:49 PM |
Fanyasmia been done wrong!
| by Anonymous | reply 221 | January 3, 2024 11:13 PM |
How terrible for beloved celebrities Oprah and Steven Spielberg. A flop.
| by Anonymous | reply 222 | January 4, 2024 12:11 AM |
The Box Office ain't box officin'.
| by Anonymous | reply 223 | January 4, 2024 12:31 AM |
[quote] It's dropped to #6 on its 9th day in release. It's fallen below The Boys in the Boat and Anyone But You
And The Boys in the Boat is on about 700 fewer screens.
| by Anonymous | reply 224 | January 4, 2024 2:43 AM |
Fantasia can only count to five, so as far as she's concerned, IT'S A HIT!
| by Anonymous | reply 225 | January 4, 2024 2:44 AM |
Grossed $910K on Wed, firmly entrenched in 6th place. Expect it to be out of the top 10 this weekend.
So the cume gross is $49m (or in reality, $31m since the first day's gross should be stricken from the record).
| by Anonymous | reply 226 | January 4, 2024 10:35 PM |
THE VIEW has not uttered a word about this movie this week. Nothing - niente, zilch.
Not a word from Sarah about hearing 'Oscar buzz'.
| by Anonymous | reply 227 | January 5, 2024 12:17 AM |
The only buzz we're hearing is the heat kicking on in an empty theater.
| by Anonymous | reply 228 | January 5, 2024 1:00 AM |
R225 the whole cast can only count to ten. Taraji can’t count at all.
| by Anonymous | reply 229 | January 5, 2024 1:20 AM |
Movieweb discusses whether the movie is projected to be profitable based on more recent box office returns.
[quote] The heavily front-loaded nature of the box office performance of The Color Purple is related to a pronounced lack of diversity within the demographic of the film’s audience, which has become very polarized, even though audiences of all demographics have expressed seemingly universal admiration for the movie along with surpassing the original 1985 film's Rotten Tomatoes score.
[quote] While approximately sixty-five percent of the film’s current audience is Black, according to Deadline, less than twenty percent of the audience is white, while Hispanic viewers only represent slightly more than ten percent of the film’s audience. In contrast, the Broadway musical on which the film is based became a hit on Broadway, where the musical debuted in 2005, precisely because its audience was virtually evenly divided between Black and white patrons, according to Today.
[quote] This lack of diversity is also reflected in the film’s seeming lack of international appeal. While The Color Purple has yet to be released overseas, the film seems destined to receive a tepid reception, much like what happened with the 1985 film, which grossed approximately $94 million at the domestic box office but only slightly more than $4 million overseas.
[quote] The box-office failure of The Color Purple, which will hopefully avoid being one of the biggest box-office bombs of 2023, has been overshadowed by the aura of the film's spectacular opening, creating a media and public perception that the film is a hit.
Discussion of actual projected box office ticket sales versus cost at link.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 230 | January 6, 2024 12:52 AM |
R229 Racism is sad. Sad. Sad. Sad. But what’s sadder. Some niggas you insinuate cannot count to 10 yet are millionaires or yo broke ass who is commenting about them anonymously on the internet. You can do all that counting for nothing 😂.
| by Anonymous | reply 231 | January 6, 2024 12:56 AM |
I have seen blacks on TikTok saying they are boycotting it because Taraji was underpaid and Oprah is behind it with her rich white friends. Plus some are upset it is a lesbian musical. It’s a misfire with the public just like West Side Story.
| by Anonymous | reply 232 | January 6, 2024 1:16 AM |
R232 Anyone who is boycotting the film to support Taraji completely lacks critical thinking skills. 100%. That shit doesn’t even make sense. Additionally, it is foolish to complain about being lowballed as a mainstream actor right before a big release because if the shit is a flop, which this is turning out to be, you have no legs to stand on. I should write a PR book.
| by Anonymous | reply 233 | January 6, 2024 1:45 AM |
"Pay me more! My fans boycott my films!" is not what Taraji meant.
| by Anonymous | reply 234 | January 6, 2024 2:43 AM |
[Quote] why did they not cast Beyonce as Shug Avery?
There was a clip or quote of Oprah saying they didn’t even consider Beyonce bc she is so busy.
(Does that mean too expensive?)
| by Anonymous | reply 235 | January 6, 2024 3:18 AM |
[quote] Racism is sad. Sad. Sad. Sad. But what’s sadder. Some niggas you insinuate cannot count to 10 yet are millionaires or yo broke ass who is commenting about them anonymously on the internet. You can do all that counting for nothing 😂.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Tom Willis.
| by Anonymous | reply 236 | January 6, 2024 4:02 AM |
[quote] There was a clip or quote of Oprah saying they didn’t even consider Beyonce bc she is so busy. (Does that mean too expensive?)
No, it means they couldn't deal with *two* of the leads being functionally illiterate.
| by Anonymous | reply 237 | January 6, 2024 4:03 AM |
The shitty cheap poster cannot have helped.
| by Anonymous | reply 239 | January 6, 2024 6:31 AM |
Sad. I wonder if it will even be showing MLK weekend.
| by Anonymous | reply 240 | January 6, 2024 7:07 AM |
[quote]Taraji can’t count at all.
I counted my dollars. And I know they ain’t enough. The math ain’t mathin’
| by Anonymous | reply 241 | January 6, 2024 10:42 AM |
No one mentioned this flop on 'The View' this week - no one.
Not Sunny (I was waiting for her to tell us how many times she saw it over vacation week with her daughter, mother, son, friends, etc.). Whoopie said nothing (similar to last year when 'Till' flopped). They couldn't ignore this movie any more if they tried.
| by Anonymous | reply 242 | January 6, 2024 4:44 PM |
it started the weekend off at #8 on its 12th day of release.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 244 | January 7, 2024 5:50 AM |
It will definitely be out of the top 10 next weekend. Sorry fat Oprah but no success for you.
| by Anonymous | reply 245 | January 7, 2024 5:58 AM |
But will they mention it on The View?!??!
| by Anonymous | reply 246 | January 7, 2024 6:19 AM |
Have they mentioned Claudine Gay, Complete Weirdo?
| by Anonymous | reply 247 | January 7, 2024 7:00 AM |
[quote]There was a clip or quote of Oprah saying they didn’t even consider Beyonce bc she is so busy. (Does that mean too expensive?)
No, it means that she would have drawn too much attention to herself and away from Oprah.
| by Anonymous | reply 248 | January 7, 2024 12:27 PM |
Oprah's got the stench of this flop all over her now.
| by Anonymous | reply 249 | January 7, 2024 12:28 PM |
R248 Bitch, please! She couldn't steal DREAMGIRLS from me, and my part was whittled down to supporting to accommodate her.
| by Anonymous | reply 250 | January 7, 2024 12:34 PM |
Beyonce is a terrible actress. Let her be good at dancing and singing and keeping a Garbo-like relationship with the press. Leave acting to people know how to do it. The bit of mystique she maintains seems to keep the money gushing in.
| by Anonymous | reply 251 | January 7, 2024 12:40 PM |
The Bash Color Purple press tour continues, with Henson complaining about not having a private driver to the set, and yesterday Brooks crying about craft services. Talk to your agents, ladies, don't help sink the ship.
| by Anonymous | reply 252 | January 7, 2024 1:17 PM |
I’m much more interested in whether it’s a good film than a “hit”.
| by Anonymous | reply 253 | January 7, 2024 1:44 PM |
R253 You're in the wrong thread. This is about whether it's a hit or not, not about it being a good film.
| by Anonymous | reply 254 | January 7, 2024 2:22 PM |
It's a very good film, R253. While some of the musical numbers could have used a bit more dynamic cinematography, the songs don't bog down the story or seem out of place. The acting by all is superb; rely, the cast is fantastic. The story itself is still a downer--there's no way to lighten it up--but it's a very well made film. I'm disappointed that it's not performing better at the box office because it deserves more.
| by Anonymous | reply 255 | January 7, 2024 4:06 PM |
Henson has single-handedly torpedoed any chances for 'TCP' to be a major contender at the Oscars. Oprah must be so proud of her.
After the Oscar season, she will be joining the unemployment line with Mo'Nique. And like Mo'Nique, she will be a future guest on 'The View' being schooled by Whoopi, trying to resurrect her career.
| by Anonymous | reply 256 | January 7, 2024 4:27 PM |
It grossed $4.7m this weekend for a total of $54.6m (minus $15m for the opening day tickets WB bought and tried to pass off as revenue).
And the last thing Danielle Brooks should be complaining about is craft services.
| by Anonymous | reply 257 | January 7, 2024 8:23 PM |
Oprah is going to 'blackball' TPH and Brooks from Hollywood faster than she blackballed Mo'nique in 2009. Those two will be lucky of they're cast in their Community Theater's musical next summer.
| by Anonymous | reply 258 | January 7, 2024 11:57 PM |
Oh hunty, I don't think Orcah has that much power in Hollywood. If she did, this piece of shit would have been a bigger "hit".
| by Anonymous | reply 259 | January 8, 2024 12:39 AM |
What does power have to do with it R259? It's a shit movie that no one wants to pay to see.
| by Anonymous | reply 260 | January 8, 2024 8:28 AM |
Why is any of this good news for Chalamait as OP declared? Is there some antidote in one of the songs for box office poison?
| by Anonymous | reply 261 | January 8, 2024 8:35 AM |
R259 She was powerful enough to bring this POS stage musical to the big screen, she has no power of bringing an audience to see it.
| by Anonymous | reply 262 | January 8, 2024 5:29 PM |
Started watching this earlier this afternoon. Boy, does it NOT work on film. It just looks ridiculous. This director ought to go back to music videos.
Also, Oprah Winfrey's film production company is called OW Films? Boy, is that ever apt. It's painful to watch anything she's involved in.
| by Anonymous | reply 263 | January 8, 2024 9:42 PM |
I will say this- the actress they got to play young Celie is a dead ringer for Fantasia. I actually thought it was Fantasia until I heard her speak.
| by Anonymous | reply 264 | January 8, 2024 9:55 PM |
Another Great Movie That Did Not Need To Be Remade
| by Anonymous | reply 265 | January 8, 2024 10:31 PM |
I'm an hour in and I can't take any more. The songs are awful and they just stop the action dead instead of enhancing the story. Fantasia is not very good. I would have rather seen the actress who plays Young Celie do the role for the whole film. The way it's edited is like a music video and all dramatic thrust and building to any kind of a moment is totally undone in favor of the anemic songs.
And mostly- it's what I imagine having a two hour conversation with Teacake to be like.
I'm out.
| by Anonymous | reply 266 | January 8, 2024 10:36 PM |
Janet Jackson would have made a great Celie.
| by Anonymous | reply 267 | January 8, 2024 10:45 PM |
Janet Jackson can't act OR sing.
| by Anonymous | reply 268 | January 8, 2024 10:46 PM |
Bingo, R262 . "If you make it- and put your big purple "O" on it- they will come." is no longer true. The 80s, 90s, and early 00s are over. She also can't make or break careers as she once did. Just ask MeAgain Sparkle and the former royal ginger.
| by Anonymous | reply 269 | January 8, 2024 10:48 PM |
[Quote]The songs are awful and they just stop the action dead instead of enhancing the story. Fantasia is not very good. I would have rather seen the actress who plays Young Celie do the role for the whole film. The way it's edited is like a music video and all dramatic thrust and building to any kind of a moment is totally undone in favor of the anemic songs.
R266 the video at R243 echoes your sentiments
| by Anonymous | reply 270 | January 8, 2024 10:49 PM |
Exec Producer Oprah out there today asserting she was not responsible for any of the problems Hensen and Brooks complsined about. I shall not be psrt of the conversation. Be gone.
| by Anonymous | reply 271 | January 8, 2024 11:40 PM |
[quote]Janet Jackson would have made a great Celie.
Is Celie a great big fat person?
| by Anonymous | reply 272 | January 9, 2024 12:06 AM |
I'm waiting for Oprah to tell Taraji, "Keep my f****n' name out your f****n mouth!" And then slap her across the face.
| by Anonymous | reply 273 | January 9, 2024 12:15 AM |
Oprah’s a mess - lies about diet pills, mega flop movie (just like Beloved) & the actors treated like shit. Unrelated: Babs - at my sister’s I flicked through her 900 page book for the weekend - she seems crazy.
| by Anonymous | reply 274 | January 9, 2024 3:14 AM |
As predicted, Color Purple is out of the top ten. Oprah is very, very upset,
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 275 | January 13, 2024 7:45 PM |
I live in a major city and it is now showing at a single theater here (within a 250-mile radius) with just one daily matinee showtime. It tanked harder than I expected. The title of this thread certainly did not age well (though it did age rather rapidly).
| by Anonymous | reply 276 | January 13, 2024 7:57 PM |
This couldn't even last at the theaters for MLK holiday weekend ?
| by Anonymous | reply 277 | January 13, 2024 8:54 PM |
Now she really has something to cry about!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 278 | January 14, 2024 3:09 AM |
Christ, Indiewire is still perpetrating the hoax about TCP's first day grosses.
| by Anonymous | reply 280 | January 14, 2024 3:26 AM |
Wow, that article really does her no favors. She's bitching about getting paid $150K for Benjamin Button because she was "third billed." Bitch, you were a supporting character and no one ever heard of you. That's pretty good money. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. She sounds like a nightmare to work with, which is a shame, because I do enjoy her. I worked on recutting a movie she did which was a total mess (nothing to do with her). We basically took the film from unreleasable to getting a limited theatrical for it with a distributor. I met her at the premiere and she was actually quite lovely and made a point to introduce herself, so something tells me this attitude is recent, perhaps around the time Empire made her think she was a household name.
| by Anonymous | reply 281 | January 14, 2024 3:35 AM |
The Color Purple was #12 yesterday, according to Box Office Mojo. it says 11, but they also don't have any reporting on the list for Mean Girls at all, which would bump everyone down a slot. TCP grossed $400,000 on Friday, which means it's likely in for a $1.3m gross for the 4-day holiday weekend. It also dropped about 1500 screens this weekend. At this point, it will probably top out somewhere between $63-$65m NA gross (and $48-$50m if you subtract the tickets WB bought on the first day).
| by Anonymous | reply 282 | January 14, 2024 6:41 AM |
I wonder if it will be snubbed for Oscar nominations. It’s really tanked with all the bad publicity.
| by Anonymous | reply 283 | January 14, 2024 6:46 AM |
It's no longer playing anywhere in my region (30 mile radius). It was in many theaters on Christmas Day, with a variety of showtimes. Now it's gone. I guess this is part of Oprah's marketing plan ?
| by Anonymous | reply 284 | January 14, 2024 5:56 PM |
I love how the press is trying to also make Mean Girls into a hit. With that IP and marketing budget, $31m for four days is no great shakes. I think The Beekeeper, which had zero marketing and awareness, pulling in $20m is the bigger story.
| by Anonymous | reply 285 | January 14, 2024 6:00 PM |
R281 Empire did make her a household name idiot. Hidden Figures also came out during Empire’s run. What film of hers did you cut?
| by Anonymous | reply 286 | January 14, 2024 6:03 PM |
It really dropped off and never recovered. I was going to see it because I loved the original movie (didn't see the musical), but I generally don't like musicals and my ambition window has closed. I'll peep at it when it's on streaming.
| by Anonymous | reply 287 | January 14, 2024 6:03 PM |
[quote] Empire did make her a household name idiot. Hidden Figures also came out during Empire’s run. What film of hers did you cut?
Shouldn't you be on an airplane right now trying to help a stewardess interpret some Jive, Whitey?
| by Anonymous | reply 288 | January 14, 2024 6:06 PM |
Mean Girls only cost $36M to make.
Wonka grossing $500m worldwide is astounding.
| by Anonymous | reply 289 | January 14, 2024 6:08 PM |
Can a movie be "successful" without being profitable? Probably not from the perspective of the studios, but how about more broadly - how it's written about, talked about. Let's say a studio sank $300 million into some insane production budget plus marketing costs. The movie goes on to make $200 million in domestic box office - which shows that a LOT of people went to see the movie, but overall it didn't make the money back. Would it be a failure?
| by Anonymous | reply 290 | January 14, 2024 6:10 PM |
Mean Girls may have had a production budget of $36m, but the marketing budget was $40-$50m on top of that, at least.
| by Anonymous | reply 292 | January 14, 2024 6:12 PM |
R290 A film can be successful yet not profitable for the current parties involved in its creation. Some of the most popular, beloved films of all time where box office flops upon initial release. The Wizard of Oz is one.
| by Anonymous | reply 293 | January 14, 2024 6:20 PM |
[quote]Let's say a studio sank $300 million into some insane production budget plus marketing costs. The movie goes on to make $200 million in domestic box office - which shows that a LOT of people went to see the movie, but overall it didn't make the money back. Would it be a failure?
It's always about the $. $200M is a flop on a $300M production. $300M is considered a 'break even'. $300,000,000.01 is a hit.
| by Anonymous | reply 294 | January 15, 2024 12:12 AM |
[Quote] Mean Girls may have had a production budget of $36m, but the marketing budget was $40-$50m on top of that, at least.
Mean Girls is on board to make $32K over the 4-day weekend at 3,791 theaters and the per theater average is about $2.00 per day. WTF! In comparison The Color Purple which is estimated to gross $58.5M after 22 days in release looks like a monster hit!
| by Anonymous | reply 295 | January 15, 2024 2:59 AM |
[quote] Mean Girls is on board to make $32K over the 4-day weekend at 3,791 theaters and the per theater average is about $2.00 per day. WTF! In comparison The Color Purple which is estimated to gross $58.5M after 22 days in release looks like a monster hit!
I saw that! I was wondering why it wasn't listed at #1 and then I wanted to see what some of the limited releases had grossed this weekend and I ran into Mean Girls all the way at the bottom. Dummies!
| by Anonymous | reply 296 | January 15, 2024 3:01 AM |
(^.^) that seems like a record low for the opening weekend of a wide release!
| by Anonymous | reply 297 | January 15, 2024 3:27 AM |
Ugh. I liked the movie wayback, who needs a repeat in any form?
| by Anonymous | reply 298 | January 15, 2024 4:04 AM |
Also and they should really hire me or have me write a book or something. A generation has grown up with streaming that processes new media rather differently. It’s hard to explain but in a way we have all been affected by it. There is so much content out now. And it’s not so much that audiences don’t plan to see new releases they just don’t feel the urgency. You can discover something new, cool, poignant, maybe even cheesing yet entertaining that came out in 2020. Barbie and Oppenheimer were huge successes not only because they are very well made films but also because they are nothing else that comes out in any season of the year. The studios are going to have to reworked their business models. Ultimately they may have to function like networks via the traditional tv model. Create a catalogue of prefunded films that makes up the content of a streaming site and then perhaps 1-2 big releases that get the traditional theater treatment, imax, is the big “experience. “
| by Anonymous | reply 299 | January 15, 2024 4:12 AM |
Dear Hollywood—STOP DOING REMAKES. Sincerely, the world.
| by Anonymous | reply 300 | January 15, 2024 4:20 AM |
I'm tired of remakes too, but when a cheap musical remake of Mean Girls originally produced for Peacock just made a ton of money this weekend, I think the chances of Hollywood listening are low.
| by Anonymous | reply 301 | January 15, 2024 4:33 AM |
(^.^) a delusional Tina Faye has joined the conversation. It's #25 at the box office dear!
| by Anonymous | reply 302 | January 15, 2024 4:58 AM |
R293, I'd also add a case like Killers of the Flower Moon, which Apple released theatrically and it still made decent money ($150 million worldwide), but was never going to recoup its ridiculously astronomical budget in theaters. But Apple made the movie to establish the company as a streamer that's more hospitable to auteurs than Netflix and to drive people toward its service, so if it achieves that, the company will consider it a worthwhile investment.
| by Anonymous | reply 303 | January 15, 2024 5:12 AM |
Box office mojo has Mean Girls at $28,000 for the Jan 12-14 weekend, but there's all the articles saying 30+ million over four days. What gives?
| by Anonymous | reply 304 | January 15, 2024 5:13 AM |
R304, it's clearly a mistake. If Deadline, Variety and the Hollywood Reporter are all reporting that Mean Girls made around $30 million, then someone at Boxofficemojo screwed up, and we don't have to pretend that they're accurate.
| by Anonymous | reply 305 | January 15, 2024 5:25 AM |
[quote] Also and they should really hire me or have me write a book or something.
Would it be titled "White Like Me?"
| by Anonymous | reply 307 | January 15, 2024 6:05 AM |
Today on THE VIEW, actor Colman Domingo was the guest. He was there to promote 'Rustin' (let's not forget - Oscar nominations are being taken now) and Sunny mentioned he's also in 'The Color Purple'. As the segment closed, Whoopi reminded the audiences that "Rustin" is available on Netflix, and "The Color Purple" is in theaters EVERYWHERE!
Does anyone have the heart to tell her it's barely playing anywhere ? It has disappeared faster than George Santos.
And I'll ask again - is it in Whoopi's contract that every damn celebrity who sits at the table has to pay homage and kiss ass to Whoopi, and they have to tell her how much they love her and what an inspiration she is to them ? Domingo led the audience (and the cohosts) into a rousing standing ovation, to 'thank' Whoopi for the success in his life. Geez...
| by Anonymous | reply 308 | January 15, 2024 4:43 PM |
They are including anticipated gross including MLK holiday.
| by Anonymous | reply 309 | January 15, 2024 4:46 PM |
The math ain't mathing for Nicole Kidman films and yet she is still "a" list and paid too much money for flops
| by Anonymous | reply 310 | January 15, 2024 4:52 PM |
Do you know who the math IS mathing for? Leonardo DiCaprio.
"Killers of the Flower Moon" had a production cost (not including promotion) of $200 million dollars.
Of the $200 million cost, $40 million went to DiCaprio for his acting services.
That movie would need to make anywhere from $500 million to $600 million to break even in its theatrical run, according to Movieweb.com. The current world wide box office for the film is about $156 million. It is NOT a hit based on its theatrical run, but:
[quote] If Killers of the Flower Moon had been financed by distributor Paramount Pictures instead of by Apple, Killers of the Flower Moon would be on pace to become one of the biggest box office flops of both 2023 and recent history.
[quote] For Apple, Killers of the Flower Moon essentially represents a form of advertising, a marketing expense, with which Apple can drive people toward its ecosystem, specifically the streaming service Apple TV+, where the film will presumably be available for viewing following the exclusive theatrical window.
[quote] By this calculation, if the final box office gross for Killers of the Flower Moon merely surpasses the film’s marketing cost, the film will, according to industry experts, almost certainly be viewed as being a success by Apple, especially if the film wins Oscar gold.
So The Color Purple really needed a deep pocket sugar daddy like Apple, not Oprah.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 311 | January 15, 2024 7:51 PM |
The math always maths for white peoples.
| by Anonymous | reply 312 | January 15, 2024 7:54 PM |
[quote] He offered it to Diahann Carroll, but she was busy filming 'Dynasty'.
She gave up playing one second-rate lounge singer to play another!
| by Anonymous | reply 313 | January 15, 2024 7:56 PM |
R308 your white brain can’t fathom that someone like Whoopi is influential. That’s all.
| by Anonymous | reply 314 | January 15, 2024 11:14 PM |
How about your white brain, Teafake?
| by Anonymous | reply 315 | January 15, 2024 11:17 PM |
[R290] A film can be successful yet not profitable for the current parties involved in its creation. Some of the most popular, beloved films of all time where box office flops upon initial release. The Wizard of Oz is one.
The Wizard of Oz was one of the Top 10 grossers of 1939.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 316 | January 15, 2024 11:34 PM |
[quote][R290] A film can be successful yet not profitable for the current parties involved in its creation. Some of the most popular, beloved films of all time where box office flops upon initial release. The Wizard of Oz is one.
The Wizard of Oz was one of the Top 10 grossers of 1939.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 317 | January 15, 2024 11:36 PM |
Stay press and stay racist. Racism is so Trump 2020.
| by Anonymous | reply 318 | January 16, 2024 12:46 AM |
It's A Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street and Willie Wonka (1971) were no considered box office success when initially released but became audience favorites over the years on television.
| by Anonymous | reply 319 | January 16, 2024 2:52 AM |
[Quote] Do you know who the math IS mathing for? Leonardo DiCaprio.
Maybe because he has many films that brought tons of money to the BO!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 320 | January 16, 2024 3:01 AM |
[quote] It's A Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street and Willie Wonka (1971) were no considered box office success when initially released but became audience favorites over the years on television.
And?
| by Anonymous | reply 321 | January 16, 2024 4:03 AM |
I think the poster was pointing out that a movie can not be an initial box officer winner and still end up successful, R321.
| by Anonymous | reply 322 | January 16, 2024 4:40 AM |
R322 I don't think The Color Purple musical will ever take the place of the original 1985 film in most people's eyes.
| by Anonymous | reply 323 | January 16, 2024 5:53 AM |
Yeah, I don't see this version of TCP ever becoming successful or beloved.
| by Anonymous | reply 324 | January 16, 2024 6:35 AM |
Well, r324, it actually is kinda beloved, or rather "Beloved"....a big fat Oprah flop!
| by Anonymous | reply 325 | January 16, 2024 7:45 AM |
Oprah already has a plan B to recoup her money……
“The Color PINK: Oprah and GAYle’s Sex Tape”
| by Anonymous | reply 326 | January 16, 2024 8:18 AM |
Out to download now. Watching it. Tone is all over the place.
| by Anonymous | reply 327 | January 16, 2024 9:12 AM |
R325 I remember Oprah was so distraught about BELOVED bombing hard at the box office that she ate a big pot of macaroni & cheese opening weekend.
I wonder if she's been binge-eating lately?
| by Anonymous | reply 328 | January 16, 2024 9:32 AM |
R328 lol This film is not floppping like on the same levels of beloved. To me I think it’s more a sign o the time. Wonka is underperforming as well even though it has made much more money than this film. The theater is experience is on its last legs. And no one offs like Barbie or Oppen. can save it. The industry must adapt. Streaming must become apart of their business model. It’s the inevitable. Any company that tries to avoid the inevitable within its industry always fails.
| by Anonymous | reply 329 | January 16, 2024 11:06 AM |
Available to buy digitally for $26.99 today on Amazon Prime.
| by Anonymous | reply 330 | January 16, 2024 11:12 AM |
R329 this is crazy, defeatist talk!
They said the same thing when television (c. 1950s) and VCRs (c. 1980.s) came out.
| by Anonymous | reply 331 | January 16, 2024 11:31 AM |
[quote] Wonka is underperforming as well even though it has made much more money than this film.
Wonka has made a half a billion dollars, dumb ass. It was #1 for four weeks in a row. It's hardly underperforming.
| by Anonymous | reply 332 | January 16, 2024 5:58 PM |
R332 Calm yo stankin ass down. It’s first week was below expectation but it has since picked up steam.
| by Anonymous | reply 333 | January 16, 2024 8:24 PM |
That's called a sleeper hit.
| by Anonymous | reply 334 | January 16, 2024 8:57 PM |
[quote]In the entertainment industry, sleeper hit refers to a film, television series, music release, video game, or some other entertainment product that was unpromising on release but became a success later on.
[quote]A sleeper hit may have little promotion or lack a successful launch but gradually develops a fandom following media attention, which in turn increases its public exposure and public interest in the product
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 335 | January 16, 2024 9:04 PM |
[quote] Calm yo stankin ass down. It’s first week was below expectation but it has since picked up steam.
That's not what you said. Stop double-talking, Alderman Davis.
| by Anonymous | reply 336 | January 16, 2024 9:20 PM |
R336 I don’t know who that is but ok you win lol. I submit. Hatefuck me hard.
| by Anonymous | reply 337 | January 16, 2024 11:00 PM |
I wouldn't touch you with a ten foot pole, which is the response I'm sure you usually get.
| by Anonymous | reply 338 | January 16, 2024 11:49 PM |
R338 Nope never not in person anyway. You’re no fun. Bye cunt.
| by Anonymous | reply 339 | January 16, 2024 11:58 PM |
R329 at the box office TCP stands to make roughly the same total domestic gross if not more than Napoleon, Killers of the Flower Moon, The Boys in the Boat, Priscilla . . .
| by Anonymous | reply 340 | January 17, 2024 5:57 AM |
How did a thread about The Color Purple turn into yet another safe harbor for the Chalamet obsessives? It’s truly just one or two pederasts who post literally hundreds of times a day across a handful of Wonka-adjacent threads.
Do you weirdos have jobs? How do you afford tootsie pops and your vans with the blacked-out windows?
| by Anonymous | reply 341 | January 17, 2024 6:19 AM |
ever hear of working remotely R341? and my CRV is just fine thank you!
PS what do you do when not hall monitoring?
| by Anonymous | reply 342 | January 17, 2024 6:34 AM |
Chalamet is 28, for Christ's sake. Why don't you go after those Heartstopper weirdos, r341?
| by Anonymous | reply 343 | January 17, 2024 6:55 AM |
[quote] Calm yo stankin ass down.
Teafake is a white person’s idea of a black person.
| by Anonymous | reply 344 | January 17, 2024 7:08 AM |
R334 ????? stop smoking that mafuckin crack. Making you paranoid.
| by Anonymous | reply 345 | January 17, 2024 7:14 AM |
Defacto craves attention over everything else because he’s a friendless loser. He actually LIKES the fact that we know, because even negative attention is attention. It was the same shit with GermanGayGuy.
Look at that intentionally phony jive talk at r345. He wants us to see through it.
| by Anonymous | reply 346 | January 17, 2024 7:24 AM |
Listen I’m not fkin defacto you stupid freaks. This is the type of shit that makes me want to call you faggots even though I’m gay myself.
Im not defacto
I’m not pretending to be black
wtf ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhj
| by Anonymous | reply 347 | January 17, 2024 7:27 AM |
Plus I thought defacto stankin ass was Puerto Rican because I’ve seen people say that before. Iono…shit is annoying as fuck. I’m not him and im black. It’s fkin ignorant. A bunch of elder, ignorant borderline racist gumps.
| by Anonymous | reply 348 | January 17, 2024 7:29 AM |
[quote] I remember Oprah was so distraught about BELOVED bombing hard at the box office that she ate a big pot of macaroni & cheese opening weekend. I wonder if she's been binge-eating lately?
That was 30 years ago: now I can binge my beloved Ozempic, bitches!
| by Anonymous | reply 349 | January 17, 2024 7:33 AM |
Maybe if you didn't type in dated ebonics, teabag...
It comes off as inauthentic and trying too hard.
| by Anonymous | reply 350 | January 17, 2024 7:30 PM |
Beloved was a great book and I actually thought the film was underrated. This, however, looks like a hot pile of shit.
| by Anonymous | reply 351 | January 17, 2024 7:36 PM |
R314 But it can fathom that someone like Whoopi is over-rated, and these celebrities play right into her demand for attention, lest we forget she was once an Oscar winner a very long time ago.
| by Anonymous | reply 352 | January 17, 2024 7:48 PM |
Wow, the blatant and oblivious racism is mighty strong in this thread. I just saw the film yesterday and I loved it. It had most of the parts I loved from the first film, the costumes were fabulous, the songs were original and very catchy and I thought Fantasia made a much better Ms. Celie than Whoopi did.
| by Anonymous | reply 354 | January 17, 2024 8:09 PM |
It's Miss Celie.
Nobody used Ms. until the 1960s.
Even then, just the feminists did until the '80s or '90s.
| by Anonymous | reply 355 | January 17, 2024 8:17 PM |
New sockpuppet, fluffythoughts?
| by Anonymous | reply 356 | January 17, 2024 8:56 PM |
R352 Whoopi's an EGOT dear
| by Anonymous | reply 357 | January 17, 2024 10:09 PM |
[quote]Plus I thought defacto stankin ass was Puerto Rican because I’ve seen people say that before
That's a, the Brooklyn Seacow.
| by Anonymous | reply 358 | January 17, 2024 11:33 PM |
R357 Whoopi "Rape Rape" Goldberg is the only EGOT hosting a talk show because she was admittedly 'unemployable' when Barbara Walters offered her the job.
| by Anonymous | reply 359 | January 17, 2024 11:59 PM |
Sorry OP it is a flop and the numbers were inflated
| by Anonymous | reply 360 | January 18, 2024 2:35 AM |
R359 Jennifer Hudson another EGOT has her own talk show, yes.
| by Anonymous | reply 361 | January 18, 2024 4:31 AM |
The latest per screen average was $120. Sad.
| by Anonymous | reply 362 | January 18, 2024 4:53 AM |
R362 That's ten 'senior discount' tickets for a Tuesday matinee in my area.
| by Anonymous | reply 363 | January 18, 2024 2:56 PM |
R361 And she flopped with "CATS" and "Respect". Like Whoopi, she's fortunate she has her talk show gig.
| by Anonymous | reply 364 | January 18, 2024 3:01 PM |
Don't forget this biopic.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 365 | January 18, 2024 3:07 PM |
The fact is that Jennifer Hudson has been making films for 17 years now. After Dreamgirls, she's appeared in exactly ONE hit film (Sex and the City) which had nothing to do with her making it a hit. She's starred in countless films that have all flopped. Her popularity is wildly overestimated.
| by Anonymous | reply 366 | January 18, 2024 3:38 PM |
R366 That's the problem with so many actors and actresses after their first (surprise) Oscar win - the can't go on to make another hit movie. Back in the 'old days', when the Academy was more selective when detecting a talented actor, the new winner could be counted on to churn out more hits (Barbra Streisand, I'm looking at you).
| by Anonymous | reply 367 | January 18, 2024 6:33 PM |
Whoopi was the best thing about the original TCP. Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy failed at making a good script. He made it too comedic so that white people would feel comfortable watching the movie. As uneven as it was, Whoopi was magnificent.
| by Anonymous | reply 368 | January 18, 2024 6:58 PM |
r317 WOWZA! Film criticshs shay 1939 was "the greatest year in the history of Hollywood" and Mama was in two of the yearsh' highesht grosshin' picturesh! Schpectacular!
| by Anonymous | reply 369 | January 18, 2024 7:00 PM |
R368 She was outstanding, but so was the rest of the cast. Oprah and Glover excelled in their roles, as well as the actresses who played the younger girls in the beginning of the movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 370 | January 18, 2024 7:04 PM |
Maybe it didn’t need a remake. It’s available for streaming now but it costs $20USD.
| by Anonymous | reply 371 | January 18, 2024 7:47 PM |
I think the popularity of the original “The Color Purple” was in large part due to the fact that it was one of the first mainstream prestige movies, directed by Spielberg no less, that seriously delved into the inner lives of Black people - and that Whoopi, Danny and Oprah gave star-making performances in it. Brokeback Mountain did the same thing 20 years later for gay men (and Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal).
The new version faces all the same challenges that the old version did (will White people go see it? Will the focus on the brutal misogyny and lesbian love that Celie experiences turn off more socially conservative Black people?) as well as some new ones (a lot of people find “serious” musicals inherently cringey, especially on film, and a lot of Black people now don’t want to watch stories about the bad old days and the generational trauma they caused). I’m not surprised it didn’t do well.
I don’t think any of the leads would have commanded big paycheques (given they couldn’t even get drivers and their own dressing rooms on set initially). I’m baffled how a straightforward musical about poor Black people in rural Georgia cost $100 million to make?
| by Anonymous | reply 372 | January 18, 2024 8:51 PM |
By comparison, the 1985 version had a budget of $15 million, which would be around $43 million today.
| by Anonymous | reply 374 | January 18, 2024 11:43 PM |
Orcah probably inflated the production costs so she could take it as a tax write off.
| by Anonymous | reply 375 | January 18, 2024 11:54 PM |
How does the money work? I assume that O fid not lose any money -how much was she paid as producer?
| by Anonymous | reply 376 | January 19, 2024 12:00 AM |
Big O helped herself to a chunk of the budget.
| by Anonymous | reply 378 | January 19, 2024 12:49 AM |
I bet Oprah's cook is gonna be working overtime as she eats her feelings over this one. Snorting mac and cheese.
| by Anonymous | reply 379 | January 19, 2024 12:50 AM |
How come no food was initially provided on the set? Did Oprah eat it all?
| by Anonymous | reply 380 | January 19, 2024 2:21 AM |
I enjoy musical theater but some musicals done for film lose their appeal for me. I liked Mean Girls but I have no desire to see the new movie, same goes for this new version of The Color Purple. I do love the movies Grease, Chicago, The Sound of Music, and Dreamgirls though.
| by Anonymous | reply 381 | January 19, 2024 6:10 AM |
[quote]why did they not cast Beyonce as Shug Avery?
Beyonce is too big a star to play second fiddle to Fantasia. And she also wouldn't take a role that required her to make lez-lez on screen.
| by Anonymous | reply 384 | January 20, 2024 11:19 PM |
[quote]Beyonce is too big a star to play second fiddle to Fantasia.
I remember when Fantasia almost got the role of 'Effie' in DREAMGIRLS.
It came down to her or Jennifer Hudson.
| by Anonymous | reply 385 | January 20, 2024 11:36 PM |
Also, Beyonce is not good enough of an actress to portray Shug.
| by Anonymous | reply 386 | January 20, 2024 11:38 PM |
They didn't have time for a second illiterate in the cast.
| by Anonymous | reply 387 | January 20, 2024 11:43 PM |
[quote]Wonka is underperforming as well ...
Teacake, "Wonka" has passed 500 million worldwide. It is a major hit.
| by Anonymous | reply 388 | January 21, 2024 1:18 AM |
The whole cast is illiterate. The script ain’t scriptin’.
| by Anonymous | reply 389 | January 21, 2024 2:25 AM |
Mean Girls with an estimated domestic gross of $50M after 10 days is catching up to TCP at $59M in its 28th day of release
| by Anonymous | reply 390 | January 21, 2024 6:28 PM |
It already beat it considering TCP's actual gross is $44m when you subtract all the tickets WB bought for opening day.
| by Anonymous | reply 391 | January 21, 2024 6:33 PM |
It wasn’t just Taraji badmouthing the film that made it bomb. What were the other factors?
| by Anonymous | reply 392 | January 21, 2024 6:57 PM |
A period musical with themes of incest and lesbianism was always going to bomb.
| by Anonymous | reply 393 | January 21, 2024 7:32 PM |
The fact that anyone thought The Color Purple needed musical treatment in the first place is laughable to me. It is not a story that works as a musical, and the over-the-top musical numbers like this are an embarrassment to Walker's novel. Tacky, low-brow garbage (as is the case with the majority of musical adaptations of anything).
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 394 | January 21, 2024 7:34 PM |
The trailer was awful and the poster was worse. The musical itself has no catchy songs and isn't that popular. The subject matter is depressing. The two most famous people involved were the producers, but Spielberg isn't a major draw for moviegoers anymore, and Oprah probably never was.
Warner Brothers kept reviews under wraps for too long, making people assume it was a bomb. When the reviews were good but not great, it still wasn't enough to push people who might be on the fence to see it.
| by Anonymous | reply 395 | January 21, 2024 7:36 PM |
It only appealed to blacks, which is fine…but they make up 13% of the US population. The math ain’t mathin’.
| by Anonymous | reply 396 | January 21, 2024 7:39 PM |
Why anyone would want to see such bleak material turned into a musical is a mystery to me.
| by Anonymous | reply 397 | January 21, 2024 10:44 PM |
And Oprah must've guilted Steven into making this film. I am curious to see it though. I haven't even read any reviews.
| by Anonymous | reply 398 | January 21, 2024 10:47 PM |
TCP did better at the box office than Spielberg's remake of West Side Story aka whatever happened to Rachel Zegler, Ansel Elgort and Academy Award winner Ariana DeSposal
| by Anonymous | reply 399 | January 22, 2024 10:18 AM |
[quote] Why anyone would want to see such bleak material turned into a musical is a mystery to me.
Well, we all saw it on Broadway, both the original and the brilliant revival, and know how powerful it is. Cynthia Erivo gave one of the single best performances I’ve ever seen on stage. It was wildly good.
The real question is, after having seen Fantasia and Danielle Brooks perform these roles on stage, why would we need to see them again on film?
| by Anonymous | reply 400 | January 22, 2024 10:41 AM |
[Quote]The real question is, after having seen Fantasia and Danielle Brooks perform these roles on stage, why would we need to see them again on film?
it's clear we don't R400
| by Anonymous | reply 401 | January 22, 2024 11:15 AM |
It’s almost like turning SOPHIE’S CHOICE into a musical…when you think about it.
| by Anonymous | reply 402 | January 22, 2024 11:35 AM |
It's laughable (or, infuriating) the studio and EPs are trying to blame Taraji for the film's failure. Taraji could have sung its praises to the hilt and the result would have been the same. The brass do not want to admit that they made a poor decision in picking this material so they blame Taraji for not staying in her lane. How ironic, given the source material.
| by Anonymous | reply 403 | January 22, 2024 2:24 PM |
Too many viewers are watching this on bootleg DVDs sold by the Chinaman with the the canvas bag at the laundromat.
| by Anonymous | reply 404 | January 22, 2024 2:28 PM |
R367 I think you miss a crucial factor. It is still extremely hard to win an Oscar. It’s just there over 100% more films released today than 1976. Also more studios and platforms to choose from. Audiences no longer use the Oscars as a litmus test of high art.
| by Anonymous | reply 405 | January 22, 2024 3:34 PM |
R403 A film with this much good word of mouth and such high profile producers with a huge campaign. She ruined the film and I’m a fan of her work. This big dummy isolated white fraus with all this “chitlin curcuit” drama. She is an idiot. Ooh yes Taraji let me increase your salary when you just delivered a 100 mil box office bomb. Are you serious. How stupid can you be.
| by Anonymous | reply 406 | January 22, 2024 3:37 PM |
R403 what lane. The job of mainstream actor is to promote a film in post production. I mean one doesn’t have to but then one shouldn’t expect to make 10 mil a film. This is one of the biggest PR blunders of a mainstream actor I’ve seen in sometime. Oprah may have paid her to get her to shut up this season but her roles will be limited in the future.
| by Anonymous | reply 407 | January 22, 2024 3:39 PM |
White actors too have been treated like B listers, from the stories my friends tell me, on sets because of increasing inflation cost and making up for how much promotion costs nowadays. They are dumb enough to talk about it while promoting the film. People want to hear victims of rape or discrimination. Now Hollywood stars being treated as 2nd class citizens. And the fact that she is black, because society is racist as fuck, it reads even worst for the average white cunt. Because it’s like you are a multimillionaire actor why are you still complaining.
| by Anonymous | reply 408 | January 22, 2024 3:42 PM |
^^They are NOT* dumb enough.
| by Anonymous | reply 409 | January 22, 2024 3:43 PM |
[quote]Well, we all saw it on Broadway,
We "all" did?
| by Anonymous | reply 410 | January 22, 2024 3:56 PM |
The original was like Song of the South. The new version sounds even more so.
| by Anonymous | reply 411 | January 22, 2024 4:42 PM |
The Root "Black News and Black Views" searched Black Internet for reasons for The Color Purple's failure at the box office:
[quote] 1) We Didn't Want a Remake
[quote] 2) We Don't Want Black Trauma: “I’m glad The Color Purple flopped because all it did was depict our men as being monsters, uneducated, all this foolery," and "I’m tired of all of these goddamn slavery movies. We have a richer history than just slavery.
[quote] 3) We Didn't Want a Musical
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 412 | January 22, 2024 4:59 PM |
Oprah wanted to be the hero. But instead, she’s just the goat.
Goat cheese pizza…
| by Anonymous | reply 413 | January 22, 2024 5:08 PM |
[quote] aka whatever happened to Rachel Zegler
She was just in a big hit film.
| by Anonymous | reply 414 | January 22, 2024 7:06 PM |
Teacake, isn't there a January White Sale for you to be at instead of infecting the DL?
| by Anonymous | reply 415 | January 22, 2024 7:48 PM |
R394 There is so much wrong with the staging of that number.
| by Anonymous | reply 416 | January 22, 2024 9:06 PM |
R415 Harpo who dis’ cunt. Don’t ever fucking try to come for me again bitch. Ever.
| by Anonymous | reply 418 | January 22, 2024 9:22 PM |
Fuck off, whitey. Everyone comes for you because you're a piece of shit.
| by Anonymous | reply 419 | January 23, 2024 12:31 AM |
R419 Own your enemy hoe 😂. Own that shit.
| by Anonymous | reply 420 | January 23, 2024 12:42 AM |
Has Alice Walker commented on this version yet?
| by Anonymous | reply 421 | January 23, 2024 1:09 AM |
Snubbed by the Academy except supporting actress. The collapse of TCP is complete.
| by Anonymous | reply 422 | January 23, 2024 7:58 PM |
I predict this thread will last longer than the movie will in theaters
| by Anonymous | reply 424 | January 24, 2024 12:41 AM |
[Quote] I had good (White) friends who saw it and practically 'sobbed' at how Wonderful it was.
Faggots!
| by Anonymous | reply 425 | January 24, 2024 1:21 AM |
Do we have a "Faggots" "-Matt Damon" troll? It seems to come up a lot.
| by Anonymous | reply 426 | January 24, 2024 2:13 AM |
And it’s less funny everytime R426
| by Anonymous | reply 427 | January 24, 2024 1:50 PM |
Sunny Hostin has moved on to supporting "American Fiction" as her favorite movie from 2023. It's time to move on from the flop 'TCP' and support 'American Fiction' with Hostin.
| by Anonymous | reply 428 | January 24, 2024 2:05 PM |
[quote]We Don't Want Black Trauma: “I’m glad The Color Purple flopped because all it did was depict our men as being monsters, uneducated, all this foolery," and "I’m tired of all of these goddamn slavery movies. We have a richer history than just slavery.
Amen, but don't repeat this to the reparations crowd.
| by Anonymous | reply 429 | January 24, 2024 2:15 PM |
Thank god someone was able to comment on what is happening with The View. We were all wondering.
| by Anonymous | reply 430 | January 24, 2024 3:30 PM |
R430 My pleasure. This is the third movie in a row that they kept pushing for a slew of Oscars, and then the film is ignored. ("West Side Story", "Till", and now "Color Purple"). Completely my pleasure.
| by Anonymous | reply 431 | January 24, 2024 5:37 PM |
R431 Westside Story received Oscar nods including Best Picture. Different colored cast and director. Just sayin.
| by Anonymous | reply 432 | January 24, 2024 6:06 PM |
R432 My apologies - it was nominated for seven Oscars (including BP) but lost them all except for supporting actress.
All three were 'super-hyped' on The View, and all three were box office bombs (despite Sunny and Whoopi encouraging the audience to support these films with 'minority casts' so more 'minority' films would be made.
| by Anonymous | reply 433 | January 24, 2024 10:03 PM |
American Fiction was great. It's essentially the same premise as Spike Lee's Bamboozled but involving books instead of television. Unlike Bamboozled, there's a nice family drama underneath. Great performances all around, and very funny. Also major Sideways vibes with the angsty, floundering writer, jaunty jazz interludes, beautiful scenery, and the characters drinking a lot.
| by Anonymous | reply 434 | January 25, 2024 2:06 PM |
[quote]I predict this thread will last longer than the movie will in theaters
It's already on PPV/On Demand. How soon will Warners dump it on MAX?
| by Anonymous | reply 435 | January 25, 2024 4:56 PM |
American Fiction was a toothless piece of shit that had no idea what it wanted to say, so it didn't say anything.
| by Anonymous | reply 437 | January 26, 2024 1:36 AM |
I didn't think American Fiction was trying to have "teeth" - the main plot was fairly comedic and I don't think it presented itself like it was doing something brand new. It's been done before - exploring the issue of pandering or "selling out" (depending on who you ask) to gain success or toiling away on work the artist thinks is of higher quality but not having as much success.
| by Anonymous | reply 439 | January 26, 2024 6:46 AM |
I accidentally posted early. So to finish, I thought it was a nice dramedy exploring a question that always exists in art. I just thought it was well-done, even if not unique.
| by Anonymous | reply 440 | January 26, 2024 6:48 AM |
They killed off the wrong sibling at the beginning.
| by Anonymous | reply 441 | January 26, 2024 6:54 AM |
Yes. His storyline was completely useless and stopped the film cold every time he appeared. Tracee Ellis Ross and Jeffrey Wright had so much chemistry together. Her character was complex and three dimensional and you could see their whole relationship in just that one brief scene. It was infinitely more interesting than some tired trope of a black man coming out as gay after being on the downlow. Did Patrik Polk do an uncredited rewrite?
One of the many problems this overrated tripe had.
| by Anonymous | reply 443 | January 26, 2024 7:02 AM |
Why was Tracee Ellis Ross snubbed?
| by Anonymous | reply 444 | January 26, 2024 6:02 PM |
For the same reason I was
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 445 | January 26, 2024 8:42 PM |
R443, I agree that it would have been great if Tracee-Ellis Ross stuck around, and that a gay man coming out isn't breaking any new ground. But, Cliff's story was a tertiary arc, and I thought they cut Cliff off at the right point so that the character didn't disrupt the movie in a negative way. He was largely comic relief, but had a few tender lines to his brother too. He's also there to illustrate the family's way of disengagement learned from their father.
| by Anonymous | reply 446 | January 26, 2024 10:40 PM |
$430K this weekend. It's almost totally gone from theaters.
| by Anonymous | reply 447 | January 29, 2024 6:31 PM |
What did the View say today?!?!
| by Anonymous | reply 448 | January 29, 2024 8:41 PM |
