'The Color Purple' Musical Adaptation Breaks Christmas Day Box Office Record

The film, produced by Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, stars Fantasia Barrino and Taraji P. Henson, and features a surprise cameo from Whoopi Goldberg.

The Color Purple, a new adaptation of the Broadway musical, has become the second-largest Christmas Day opening of all time, earning $18.1 million from 3,152 North American theaters.
The film, directed by Blitz Bazawule and produced by Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, stars Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, and Halle Bailey.
The Color Purple is based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel and the Tony-winning musical that premiered on Broadway in 2005.
The film has received positive reviews, with a critic score of 88 percent on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and an audience score of 95 percent.
The film also features a surprise cameo from Whoopi Goldberg, who starred in the original 1985 film adaptation of The Color Purple.