Taraji P. Henson stars in Warner Bros. “The Color Purple.”
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It was a really Merry Christmas for Warner Bros. Discovery.
With $18.15 million in box office receipts, the studio’s latest movie “The Color Purple” had the highest Christmas Day opening since 2009 and the second-largest Christmas Day opening of all time.
The movie outpaced 2012’s “Les Misérables,” which snagged $18.1 million on its Christmas debut, and fell simply brief of the 2009 holiday opening of “Sherlock Holmes” at $24.6 million, based on information from Comscore.
Top Christmas day openers at the home box office
- “Sherlock Holmes” (2009) — $24.6 million
- “The Color Purple” (2023) — $18.15 million
- “Les Misérables” (2012) — $18.1 million
- “Daddy’s Home” (2015) — $15.7 million
- “Unbroken” (2014) — $15.4 million
- “Into the Woods” (2014) — $15.08 million
- “Django Unchained” (2012) — $15.01 million
- “Marley and Me” (2008) — $14.3 million
Source: Comscore
Adding ticket gross sales from “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” and “Wonka,” Warner Bros. Discovery held the prime three spots at the box office over the holiday.
Warner Bros.’ assortment of December releases runs the spectrum of genres and demographics, providing a various slate of leisure for nearly each moviegoing viewers.
“The lineup … displays a superbly orchestrated staggered launch of these titles over the course [of] the all-important holiday body, and the outcomes are most spectacular,” stated Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore.
“The Color Purple,” whose producers embrace Oprah and Steven Spielberg, is predicated on the Broadway musical adaptation of the book-turned-movie of the identical title.
The movie caters to an older viewers, who’ve been reluctant to return to cinemas in the wake of the pandemic.