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UPDATED with new trailer: After debuting the first footage from Paul King’s Wonka at CinemaCon last year, Warner Bros has unwrapped the latest trailer for the prequel to Roald Dahl beloved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Timothée Chalamet stars as the enigmatic Willy Wonka in the pic that focuses on…

Warner Bros will be releasing Wonka on March 17, 2023, a prequel to Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that focuses on the candy architect Willy Wonka’s younger days before having his confection empire. The movie has been in development for about four years. David Heyman always was attached as producer…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has put together a monstrous package around the satirical Simon Rich New Yorker short story “Everyday Parenting Tips” that has Rich scripting for Ryan Reynolds to star and Paddington‘s Paul King to direct. Lord Miller’s Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Aditya Sood will produce along with…

EXCLUSIVE: All aboard! Paddington duo Paul King and David Heyman are teaming up on “magical love story” Time’s Fool for Fox Searchlight. King is developing and will direct the feature, which is an adaptation of Glyn Maxwell’s novel-length poem Time’s Fool: A Tale In Verse, about a young man who is cursed to ride a…

Paddington movie director Paul King is in talks to direct the live-action version of Pinocchio based on the 1940 Disney classic of the same name. Wonder screenwriter Jack Thorne is scripting and the studio wants to put it before the cameras this fall. Pinocchio is just the latest in a long string of movies coming out…

Blowing the lid off the critical marmalade jar, Paddington 2 has set a new benchmark as the best-reviewed film ever on Rotten Tomatoes. The little bear from darkest Peru has now notched the most consecutive Fresh reviews without a single Rotten. Directed by Paul King, the Heyday Films/Studiocanal family sequel began…

Get your marmalade sandwiches at the ready as Studiocanal and The Weinstein Company have dropped the first teaser trailer for Paddington 2, which sees the return of Peru's most loveable bear on another set of adventures with the Brown family in London. Paul King, who directed the first big-screen version of the bear…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s official: Paul King will return to write and direct the sequel to smash hit Paddington, Deadline can confirm. The filmmaker, who had been courted by both producer David Heyman and financier-distributor StudioCanal ever since the first film proved a critical and commercial success earlier this year…

The BFI has appointed  Mary Burke as senior production and development exec at the BFI Film Fund. She joins from Warp Films, where she served as exec producer. Burke will take a senior editorial role at the BFI, identifying and supporting new British features and working closely with writers, directors and producers…