Warner Bros. is transforming the musical version of the Tony Award-winning scene from "The Color Purple" into a cinematic musical, The Wrap tells a person familiar with the project.
Scott Sanders, who produced Tony's award-winning Broadway, will produce the big-screen musical with Oprah Winfrey and Quincy Jones. Spielberg is back too, as a producer. The project is in its infancy and is currently aimed at writers.
Based on Alice Walker's novel in 1982, the story centers on a black woman named Celie, who grows up in extreme poverty in the southern United States and suffers the mistreatment of her father-in-law. , her husband and other people in her life, which puts her faith in God and humanity at the test. . Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and became the first black woman to do so.
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The book had already been adapted as a 1985 feature film directed by Steven Spielberg and featuring Whoopi Goldberg in his film debut as Celie. He has received 11 Oscar nominations, including Best Actress for Goldberg, but has been ruled out.
The 2005 Broadway musical, with a play by playwright Marsha Norman, was nominated for Tony 11 but did not win the Best Musical Award. The rebirth of 2016 has won two Tonys, including the best musical renaissance, as well as a Grammy and an Emmy. The musical has grossed more than $ 350 million.
The Hollywood Reporter first reported the news.
20 movie musicals with the biggest recipes of the past 40 years, from "Grease" to "La La Land" (Photos)
Who said that the musical is dead? The last 40 years have produced box-office successes in film adaptations of Broadway smashes, original musicals and some beloved classics of all time. Here are the 20 most productive musicals of the last 40 years based on the national box office. (All figures are courtesy of BoxOfficeMojo)
20. "Moulin Rouge!" (2001) – $ 57.3 million
Baz Luhrmann did not invent the musical jukebox, but his exuberant and scruffy mix of original songs ranging from Christina Aguilera to David Bowie via Rodgers & Hammerstein certainly contributed to its popularization for the 21st century.
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19. "Coal miner's daughter" (1980) – $ 67.1 million
Sissy Spacek played legendary country singer Loretta Lynn in Michael Apted's biopic, ranked in the top 10 box office successes in 1980 and nominated for Best Picture.
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18. "The best little brothel in Texas" (1982) – $ 69.7 million
Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton played a leading role in this film adaptation of a sheriff who fights to keep an open brothel after a TV reporter called him. The film performed quite well at the box office to hit the long "E.T." of place n ° 1.
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17. "Ray" (2004)– $ 75.3 million
Jamie Foxx won an Oscar for capturing Ray Charles's mannerisms on stage. Although Foxx can sing himself, all songs are Charles' original song.
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16. "Annie" (2014) – $ 85.9 million
Instead of the freckled red head, the modern update of "Annie" featured "Beasts of the Southern Wild" star Quvenzhane Wallis alongside Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx.
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15. "The Muppets" (2011) – $ 88.6 million
The Muppets had a big box office decline in the 90s and disappeared completely in the 2000s. Jason Segel's musical has helped make them relevant again.
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14. "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" (2008) – $ 90.5 million
The first two films of "High School Musical" were so numerous and so surprising on the Disney Channel television channel that they went out of their way for a theatrical movie that grossed more than $ 90 million.
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13. "Dreamgirls" (2006) – $ 103.3 million
Jennifer Hudson won an Oscar for her work in this Broadway-based drama about a trio of female soul singers who have climbed to the top of the charts. Beyonce, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Anika Pink Noni and Oscar winner, Jennifer Hudson, are part of the cast.
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12. "Hairspray" (2007) – $ 118.8 million
It is the film adaptation of the musical adaptation on stage of John Waters' kitschy campy film and, one way or another, the movie of Adam Shankman was not only revealed to be a hit, but it was a joyous, colorful and fun experience that critics liked even with John Travolta dressed up. in trail.
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11. "Walk the Line" (2005) – $ 119.5 million
Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon play the leading role in this emotional biopic about the life of Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter.
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10. "Enchanted" (2007) – $ 127.8 million
The film that made Amy Adams a star finally begins to have a long awaited sequel, the one announced "Disenchanted".
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9. "In the woods" (2014) – $ 128.0 million
Meryl Streep and Chris Pine stole the show in the adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical by Rob Marshall, who sent classic fairy tales.
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8. "Mom Mia!" (2008) – $ 144.1 million
The first "Mamma Mia!" The film, an adaptation of the success of the scene featuring ABBA songs, brought in $ 144 million, starting on the same weekend as "The Dark Knight".
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7. "Les Miserables" (2012) – $ 148.8 million
Tom Hooper continued his king's speech, entitled "The King's Speech", with this sumptuous and dizzying musical that earned Anne Hathaway an Oscar. He will return to the Broadway musical for his next film, "Cats".
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6. "The Land" (2016) – $ 151.1 million
Damien Chazelle, who has almost won the Best Film Award, was also a finalist for the Best Film Award in 2016, ranking behind "Hidden Figures".
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5. "Chicago" (2002) – $ 170.6 million
Rob Marshall's "Chicago" has won six Oscars, including best film, and helped launch the genre's big-screen renaissance this century.
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4. "The greatest showman" (2017) – $ 174.3 million
Hugh Jackman's biopic on P.T. Barnum's life and circus training catapulted success after the Oscar-nominated song "This Is Me" by songwriters "La La Land" Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
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3. "Straight Outta Compton"(2015) – $ 161.1 million
F. Gary Gray's NWA biopic did a magnificent job in making the legendary rap team's music vital and topical and even balanced the three stories of Eazy-E, Ice Cube and Dr. Dre.
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2. "Fat" (1978) – $ 188.7 million
Although its box-office total is somewhat inflated by a re-release, "Grease" has still not been considered one of the best musicals of the last 40 years, but also among the most successful (certainly due to inflation).
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1. "Beauty and the Beast" (2017) – $ 504.0 million
Disney won gold with his live adaptation of the animated hit "Beauty and the Beast", lovingly recreated in great detail by director Bill Condon with a cast directed by Emma Watson, Harry Potter alum.
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Who said that the musical is dead? The last 40 years have produced box-office successes in film adaptations of Broadway smashes, original musicals and some beloved classics of all time. Here are the 20 most productive musicals of the last 40 years based on the national box office. (All figures are courtesy of BoxOfficeMojo)
