News: ‘The Color Purple’ Screening, ‘SiCKO’ Campaign, Harry Potter in IMAX

The 1985 best-picture nominee “The Color Purple” will be screened as the next feature in the “Great To Be Nominated” series from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.


The film will screen on June 25 at 7:30 p.m. at the academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The Oscar-nominated live-action short “The Big Snit” will be screened prior to the feature.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, “The Color Purple” received a total of 11 Academy Award nominations and introduced film audiences to Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey.

Hoping to spur a fundamental change in health care politics, a national coalition of nurses and doctors on June 18 announced plans to rally around the opening of Michael Moore’s “SiCKO” on June 29.


Coined the “Scrubs for SiCKO” campaign, organizers will recruit registered nurses and doctors to every theater in the nation where “SiCKO” opens to ensure that caregivers in “SiCKO” scrubs are in the audience.

The latest Harry Potter iteration – “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” – will open in IMAX at Chicago’s Navy Pier on July 11. About 20 minutes of its finale have been transformed into IMAX 3D.


My interview with IMAX Filmed President Greg Foster will run the week of the film’s opening in Time Out Chicago.