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UPDATED with latest: The North American box office has been a challenge to track the past couple of years, first with movie theaters shuttering along with almost everything else due to the Covid pandemic, and then in 2023, just when thing were returning to normal, a pair of Hollywood strikes has further…

Warner Bros. has released the posters for Wonka, written and directed by Paul King and starring Timothée Chalamet, Rowan Atkinson, Olivia Coleman, Keegan-Michael Key, Hugh Grant & Calah Lane. Based on the character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl's most iconic children's book and one of…

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…

Paul King, director of Wonka, is teasing the film and Timothée Chalamet’s singing voice. The filmmaker compared Chalamet to Bing Crosby. “[Chalamet]'s got a beautiful singing voice," King said in an interview with Total Film magazine. "The person it reminded me of was Bing Crosby. There's quite a…

In what was to be expected, Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros’ anticipated sequel Dune: Part Two from Denis Villeneuve is moving off its November 3 theatrical release to March 15, 2024, due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. The sequel based on the Frank Herbert novel also will play Imax on its new…

Casting Hugh Grant as an Oompa-Loompa in the upcoming musical Wonka is not sitting well with some actors. While actual dwarf actors played the characters in previous Willy Wonka films, Grant breaks that tradition in the new version. Dwarf actor George Coppen told the BBC that he feels the choice…

Warner Bros' CineEurope show here in Barcelona was a starry, jam-packed affair featuring Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet who talked up Dune: Part Two, as well as their respective upcoming titles Challengers and Wonka. The proceedings kicked off with a pre-taped intro video featuring President of…

Timothée Chalamet is gearing up to showcase his multiple talents on Wonka, a prequel musical film based on the characters from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. “To work on something that will have an uncynical young audience, that was just a big joy. That’s why I was drawn to it,” he…

After debuting the first footage from Paul King's Wonka at CinemaCon last year, Warner Bros showed off an extended trailer today for the Christmas 2023 release. The origins story stars Timothée Chalamet as the titular candymeister, who lands in a mid-European city (the pic was shot in London) after…

Typically studios will only show off their current-year wares at CinemaCon, but Warner Bros went deep in the calendar to show off the first fresh footage from Paul King’s Wonka, the feature musical about the candymeister. The movie doesn’t come out until Christmas 2023. Think Fantastic Beasts in regards to period…

UPDATED: We’ve heard that a number of these movies, which are VFX heavy, are being pushed due to the logjam many post-prod effects houses are facing as productions ramped up during Covid. The Flash alone has 2,500 VFX shots, we understand. The upside here is that it doesn’t put all of Warner’s DC event titles in one…

On this week’s edition of Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che covered a wide array of topics, ranging from the Jon Gruden scandal to the announcement of a bisexual Superman and beyond. Jost noted that Raiders head coach Gruden resigned “after the discovery of homophobic, misogynistic…