Harold and the Purple Crayon (film)

Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 2024 American live-action animated fantasy comedy film directed by Carlos Saldanha (in his live-action feature-length directorial debut) from a screenplay by David Guion and Michael Handelman, based on the 1955 children's book by Crockett Johnson. Combining live-action and animation, the film stars Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery, Benjamin Bottani, Jemaine Clement, Tanya Reynolds, Alfred Molina, and Zooey Deschanel. In the film, after he draws himself off the book's pages and into the physical world, Harold finds that he has a lot to learn about real life.

Produced by John Davis through Davis Entertainment, the film premiered at Culver City in Los Angeles on July 21, 2024, and was released in the United States by Sony Pictures Releasing through its Columbia Pictures label on August 2. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, grossing $32.2 million against a $40 million production budget. It received a Golden Raspberry Award nomination, Worst Actor for Levi.