Is Crockett Johnson’s Harold, of “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” a child of color? If you’ve bought any of the “Harold” books published in the past 25 years, or saw the new movie starring Zachary Levi ...

In a world where every piece of IP gets turned into a movie, one book dares to get a very strange adaptation. Harold and the Purple Crayon started out as a beloved children’s picture book from the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Harold And The Purple Crayon—the big-screen adaptation of Crockett Johnson's 1955 classic ...

“Harold and the Purple Crayon,” the famed 1955 children’s picture book, is getting the three-dimensional treatment nearly 70 years after its release. The picture book, written and illustrated by ...

“Harold and the Purple Crayon” is a picture book — now a movie — about the importance of imagination. So let’s try to imagine something together, shall we? Let’s all imagine a film starring Zooey ...

Fans came to love Zachary Levi’s ability to act as a young boy in a man’s body in “Shazam!,” and now they’re getting a whole new dose of it — just, not in a superhero movie this time. “Harold and the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Harold and the Purple Crayon—a summer family movie bust starring Zachary Levi—has found a big ...

Jeff Ewing is a critic, entertainment journalist, interviewer, and screenwriter in LA with a life-long love of horror and film history. He has an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Oregon, and a ...

Shrishty is a decade-old journalist covering a variety of beats between politics to pop culture, but movies are her first love, which led her to study Film and TV Development at UCLAx. She lives and ...

Growing up, I loved the children’s novel “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” So when the Hollywood film version came along, you’d better believe I was primed. Like the book, the movie was about a family with a ...

“Harold and the Purple Crayon,” the famed 1955 children’s picture book, is getting the three-dimensional treatment nearly 70 years after its release. The picture book, written and illustrated by ...

Crockett Johnson's beloved 1955 storybook becomes one more adaptation of a children's classic that swaps in formula for magic. There was a villain at work, of course, but I don’t mean the Child ...