The Color Purple – There’s gon’ be some changes made

OPENING WEDNESDAY

Warner Bros Pictures invites you to experience the extraordinary sisterhood of three women who share one unbreakable bond in The Color Purple. This bold new take on the beloved classic is directed by Blitz Bazawule, a multi-medium artist whose breakout first feature is the highly acclaimed The Burial of Kojo. The film’s all-star producers are Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones.

The Color Purple stars Oscar® nominee Taraji P. Henson ( The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), SAG Award winner and Tony Award nominee Danielle Brooks (Orange Is the New Black), Tony nominee and Emmy Award winner Colman Domingo ( Euphoria, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Tony Award nominee Corey Hawkins (S ix Degrees of Separation, In the Heights), Oscar- and Grammy-winning artist H.E.R. ( Judas and the Black Messiah), Grammy nominee Halle Bailey ( The Little Mermaid), Oscar®Oscar nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor ( King Richard, Ray), and Grammy-winning artist Fantasia Barrino in her major motion picture début.

The screenplay is by acclaimed playwright Marcus Gardley, based on the novel by Alice Walker and based on the musical stage play, book (of the musical stage play) by Marsha Norman, music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray.

NIGHT SWIM – No lifeguard on duty

Atomic Monster and Blumhouse, the producers of M3GAN, high dive into the deep end of horror with the new supernatural thriller, Night Swim.

Based on the acclaimed 2014 short film by Rod Blackhurst and Bryce McGuire, the film stars Wyatt Russell ( The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) as Ray Waller, a former major league baseball player forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, who moves into a new home with his concerned wife Eve (Oscar® nominee Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin), teenage daughter Izzy ( The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) and young son Elliot ( Fear the Walking Dead).

Secretly hoping, against the odds, to return to pro ball, Ray persuades Eve that the new home’s shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home’s past will unleash a malevolent force that will drag the family under, into the depths of inescapable terror.

Night Swim is written and directed by Bryce

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NOW SHOWING

THE BEEKEEPER – Protecting the hive

One man’s brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organisation known as Beekeepers.

From the director of The Suicide Squad and Fury, David Ayer, comes The Beekeeper, an action thriller starring the inimitable Jason Statham.

WRITER: Kurt Wimmer

ALSO STARRING: Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bobby Naderi, Josh Hutcherson, Academy Award® winner Jeremy Irons, Phylicia Rashad.

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AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM – The Tide is Turning

Director James Wan and Aquaman himself, Jason Momoa – along with Patrick Wilson, Amber Heard, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Nicole Kidman – return in the sequel to the highest-grossing DC film of all time: Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.

Having failed to defeat Aquaman the first time, Black Manta, still driven by the need to avenge his father’s death, will stop at nothing to take Aquaman down once and for all.

MIGRATION – Destination Jamaica

This holiday season, Illumination, creators of the blockbuster Minions, Despicable Me, Sing and The Secret Life of Pets comedies, invites you to take flight into the thrill of the unknown in the action-packed new original comedy, Migration.

The Mallard family is in a bit of rut. While dad Mack is content to keep his family safe paddling around their New England pond forever, mom Pam is eager to shake things up and show their kids – teen son Dax and duckling daughter Gwen – the whole wide world. After a migrating duck family alights on their pond with thrilling tales of far-flung places, Pam persuades Mack to embark on a family trip, via New York City, to tropical Jamaica.

Directed by: Benjamin Renner

Screenplay by: Mike White

Cast: Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks, Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key, David Mitchell

Carol Kane, Caspar Jennings, Tresi Gazal, Danny DeVito

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Schedules

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Please note – The Box Office opens daily at 12 noon at all cinemas.

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Safety is a responsibility we all share – See you at the movies!

Palace Cinemas are open for your entertainment – Carib 5, in Cross Roads, Sunshine Palace, Portmore, Palace Cineplex, Sovereign Centre, Liguanea and Palace Multiplex in Montego Bay.

Once inside our cinemas – please wear a mask for your safety, sanitise and observe queues at the box office and concession.