As predicted, it was a podium sweep for Warner Bros. at the Christmas Day box office, with the studio’s new release “The Color Purple” leading the Dec. 25 charts with $18.1 million, scoring the second-highest Christmas Day opening in box office history behind only the $24.6 million opening of “Sherlock Holmes” in 2009.
It’s a much-needed comeback for movie musicals as “The Color Purple” outgrossed the opening weekends of “In the Heights” and “West Side Story,” two musicals released in 2021 during the pandemic reopening period that were critically acclaimed but flopped theatrically. Now, with older audiences who stayed home back then over COVID concerns returning to theaters, “The Color Purple” is planting the seeds for a long, fruitful theatrical run over the next month and possibly longer.
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