Following the success of Wonka and the Dune movies, Warner Bros is staying in the Timothee Chalamet business. The star signed a first-look deal with the studio to collaborate on future projects as an actor and producer, Warner Bros said on Tuesday. This does not mean that Chalamet can only make movies with Warner Bros, […]
A 16-year-old girl who went viral for playing the role of The Unknown at a botched Willy Wonka experience in Glasgow, Scotland has landed a gig at the London Dungeon this Easter. Aspiring actor Felicia became a viral sensation after footage emerged online of her wearing a silver mask and scaring children at the Wonka […]
A Willy Wonka-themed event in Scotland that invited guests to “indulge in a chocolate fantasy” turned out to be a sparsely decorated warehouse with nightmarish knock-off characters and limited supplies that didn’t even include chocolate. The AI-generated images used in the event’s marketing materials are partially to blame for the disappointment. While many visitors were […]
Hollywood closed an up and down 2023 with Wonka regaining the number one position at the US box office. There were also strong sales for The Color Purple and an overall $9 billion in ticket sales that improved on 2022’s grosses but fell about $2 billion shy of pre-pandemic norms. The New Year’s weekend box […]
Hollywood closed an up and down 2023 with Wonka regaining the number one position at the US box office. There were also strong sales for The Color Purple and an overall nine billion dollars (£7 billion) in ticket sales that improved on 2022’s grosses but fell about two billion dollars (£1.5 billion) shy of pre-pandemic […]
UPDATED, Saturday AM: Warner Bros.’ Wonka is doing what it’s suppose to do this weekend for a mid-December, pre-Christmas family title: It has posted an A- CinemaScore on its way to an improved $37M-$38M, after a higher than expected previews/Friday of $14.4M. Some industry estimates have Wonka reaching a $40M opening. Dive deep into Wonka […]
Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka provided some much-needed sweetener at the weekend box office, where it placed No. 1 on the global chart in earning $43.2 million from its first 37 overseas markets. That’s a promising start for the Christmas musical, which opens everywhere in North America on Dec. 16 as it continues to roll out across […]
During a recent press event to promote his role as an Oompa Loompa in “Wonka,” Hugh Grant all but spat on the floor when asked to describe his experience working on the highly anticipated film, which tells the origin story of the eccentric chocolatier first made famous by Gene Wilder in 1971, with Timothée Chalamet picking […]