Wonka kicks of the holiday movie season with around $35 million while solid word of mouth should see it have good legs throughout the season. After taking in $3.5 million in Thursday previews, Wonka looks to take in ten times that in its opening weekend for an estimated $35 million. While that number comes in … Read more
Wonka ends up toiling in a basement laundry processing facility along with other indentured servants, including Abacus Crunch (Jim Carter), a onetime accountant to Slugworth, and Noodle, who quickly bonds with Wonka, creating a sibling-like dynamic that’s one of the freshest, most appealing aspects of the movie. Wonka’s wish to liberate his buddies purifies his desire to succeed in … Read more
Timothée Chalamet is singing and dancing to a big opening with the ideal family film on the biggest holiday of the year, which sees many families going to theaters. Warner Bros, for all its faults and its controversies with their new CEO, is actually carving out a nice little Christmas for themselves. The studio with … Read more
Paul King explains why he decided to direct Wonka instead of returning for Paddington in Peru. Paul King gifted us with two of the most charming movies of all time: Paddington and Paddington 2. The studio was keen to get the ball rolling on another sequel, so King was faced with the choice of signing … Read more
Wonka director Paul King has defended the decision to cast Hugh Grant as an Oompa-Loompa. The 63-year-old actor portrays the diminutive Lofty in the origin story for Roald Dahl’s famous Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character and the filmmaker felt that the Four Weddings and a Funeral star fit the part despite criticism that an … Read more
Following the world premiere of Wonka, the first reactions praise the wacky and whimsical origin story of the eccentric chocolatier. While many rolled their eyes at the thought of a Willy Wonka origin story, the talent of those involved started to win people over. Writer/director Paul King achieved perfection with his Paddington movies and Timothée … Read more
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Except, perhaps, a life of eating bizarre movie tie-in food — because that encompasses both pure imagination and cutting-edge culinary advancements. Show me anyone else in the world literally inventing new foods the way these chains do when they’ve got a movie to cross-promote. Take, for example, the … Read more
Warner Bros. has released a brand new Wonka teaser trailer for its highly-anticipated musical prequel to Roald Dahl’s iconic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory story. The video finally unveils a snippet from one of Timothée Chalamet’s musical performances as titular chocolatier. It gives fans a preview of the Oscar nominee’s rendition of the “Pure Imagination,” … Read more
I am not quite sure how a man starts off looking and acting like Timothée Chalamet and then gradually over the course of a decade or two turns into Gene Wilder, but that is apparently what we will learn in Wonka, the new prequel film that presents the early days of that famous chocolatier slash mad torturer of … Read more
Warner Bros. has dropped a brand new Wonka trailer for the highly-anticipated musical prequel starring Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet as the titular chocolatier who dreams of changing the world with his inventions and chocolate. The video offers lots of new footage highlighting its star-studded cast including Hugh Grant, Olivia Colman, and Rowan Atkinson. It also … Read more