Halle Bailey’s new film triumphs, reaches box office record
Halle Bailey’s new film triumphs, reaches box office record – The actress is the protagonist of the musical version of The Color Purple, a literary classic that was first adapted by Spielberg.
By Megan Sauer
After debuting as an actress in The Little Mermaid, Halle Bailey ‘s career takes another big step thanks, once again, to musical films.
This is the new version of The Color Purple, whose premiere in the United States has left behind important collection marks. Despite all the attacks and prejudices that she was subjected to last summer, the young singer has seemed to find a good home on the big screen.
We will tell you the figures.
What is Halle Bailey’s new movie?
According to Deadline, the new version of The Color Purple with Halle Bailey as the protagonist was crowned the second highest-grossing Christmas release of all time with US $18.5 million and only behind the US $24.6 million that Sherlock Holmes raised around 2009.
These are the numbers for the United States only.
The new film, with Wonka, has proven that the public is not completely fed up with musicals and that there is a way to take audiences to the cinema to see and listen to them.
This is surely good news for an industry that has planned, for 2024, important projects of this genre such as the adaptation of Wicked, Joker: Foliex a Deux and the more upcoming Mean Girls.
As you know, The Color Purple is an originally literary story. It tells the story of Celie ( Fantasia Barrino ) and Nettie ( Halle Bailey ), two separated African-American sisters living at the turn of the last century.
The first adaptation was made by Steven Spielberg and received great acclaim before becoming a Broadway musical and then a Broadway musical by Blitz Bazawule .
Bailey made her acting debut in The Little Mermaid, the live-action remake of the Disney animated classic that premiered last summer.
She and her musical gifts were the point of consensus among most critics who otherwise found the effort to bring Ariel’s story back to life divisive. In this other film, she plays the young version of Nettie, but two pairs of actresses give life to the main characters throughout the story.
The project has received quite good reviews.
The film’s gross has surprised and it is the most recent release to remind the industry that there is an audience for all types of films.
The year 2023 was impacted by the general low collection of superhero films and the extraordinary money generated by Barbenheimer’s viral phenomenon, particularly for Christopher Nolan ‘s historical drama, which was close to reaching one billion.
The studio will most likely book her if she starts to build momentum during awards season, where she has featured in a few nominations for her cast’s work.
Most notably with two mentions for the upcoming Golden Globes.
