Box Office: ‘Wonka’ Banks a $14.4 Million Opening Day

Zack Sharf Digital News Director John Williams recently told The Times UK that he’s not ruling “anything out” when it comes to staying retired from film scores. The five-time Oscar winner turns 92 years old on February 8. Back in June 2022, Williams teased his retirement by telling the Associated Press that his work on “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” would probably be his last.

John Williams has confirmed that he has not yet decided to retire, saying he “likes to keep an open mind”.The composer, 91, has won five Academy Awards from a staggering 53 nominations, and is known for his work on Star Wars, Jaws, Indiana Jones and Harry Potter, among others.Williams had previously suggested that his score for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, released in 2023, would be his final full length film composition.Speaking in June 2022, he had said: “At the moment I’m working on Indiana Jones 5, which Harrison Ford – who’s quite a bit younger than I am – I think has announced will be his last film. So, I thought: If Harrison can do it, then perhaps I can, also,” he said.However, by the time the film came out, he had already begun to row back on that assertion.Speaking to Steven Spielberg in January 2023, he said: “Well, Steven is a lot of things.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “The Color Purple” added $7.1 million on Tuesday, bringing its domestic box office tally to an impressive $25 million after two days of release. The Warner Bros. film, an adaptation of the book-turned-beloved-movie-turned-hit-Broadway-musical, opened in theaters on Monday.

When Harry Met Sally fans! This Wednesday, Meg Ryan makes a rare TV appearance to honor her WHMS costar, Billy Crystal, when he is feted at the Kennedy Center Honors. The televised ceremony—which always airs during the last week of the year—recognizes artists who have made profound contributions to American culture through the arts.When Harry Met Sally is over 30 years old, but it is arguably the most quoted film in Ryan's and Crystal's movie careers, so it only makes sense that Ryan would want to pay homage to one of the greatest romcoms—and films—of our time.

J. Kim Murphy ‘Twas the weekend before Christmas and all through the theaters, “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” was the box office leader.

Katcy Stephan When Calah Lane was born, her umbilical cord had a knot in it. She excitedly shares this “fun” fact over a Zoom call with Variety, with the unbridled enthusiasm only a 14-year-old could have. “I mean, that’s kind of sad,” she admits.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with the Paul King-directed and co-written Wonka. From Warner Bros, Village Roadshow and Heyday Films, the Timothée Chalamet starrer is also co-written by Simon Farnaby based on characters created by Roald Dahl.

Since Roald Dahl put out the children's book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" in 1964, several live-action remakes have been created. In each remake, different directors have given their own spin on the classic story, with different characters stepping into leading roles in each version. The newest version inspired by the book came out on Dec.

Have you seen Wonka at the cinema yet? Based on the iconic Roald Dahl novel and starring Timothée Chamalet and Hugh Grant, it was one of this year's most anticipated movie releases, and quickly claimed the box office number one spot. And now fans of the book or the film – or simply of chocolate – can add a little sweetness into their make-up bags and beauty routines as Revolution Beauty has teamed up with Warner Bros to launch a limited edition Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory collection, filled with sugary-scented treats and with prices starting from £6.The range includes plenty of fun references to the films, such as a golden ticket-shaped eyeshadow palette, a chocolate-scented lipstick and a blueberry lip balm, inspired by Violet Beauregarde's bubblegum scene.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Timothée Chalamet’s fantasy musical “Wonka” hit a sweet box office milestone, surpassing $150 million globally. The song-and-dance movie about the early days of the eccentric chocolatier opened to No. 1 in North America with $39 million.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “Wonka,” a fantasy musical starring Timothée Chalamet as the eccentric chocolatier, charmed in its box office debut, collecting $39 million over the weekend. It’s a sweet start, as long as the $125 million-budgeted family film has momentum around the holidays. The good news for Warner Bros.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory graced our screens back in August 1971, with the film quickly becoming a family favourite across the world. The iconic film tells the story of young Charlie Bucket and his grandfather winning a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to explore the mysterious Wonka chocolate factory and meet the eccentric confectioner, Willy Wonka, in the flesh. It was later remade in 2005 by Tim Burton, and now, a new prequel, titled Wonka, has been released with Hollywood star Timothee Chalamet taking on the role of Willy Wonka.

according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.The musical fantasy, which tells the story of the fictional proprietor in the 1964 Roald Dahl novel “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” stars Timothée Chalamet in the titular role. The Post said the actor exudes “impish charm and oddball quirks” and the film “delivers not so much a world of pure imagination as a land of constant cuteness.”The flick reportedly cost $125 million to make, so will have to earn double its budget, $250 million, to be deemed a box office success, according to Screen Rant.

Jaden Thompson Four-time Academy Award nominee Nathan Crowley grew up in England with his mother reading Roald Dahl stories to him. So he reached a full circle moment when, decades later, he was asked to serve as the production designer on Paul King’s “Wonka,” which offers a heartwarming origin story for Dahl’s iconic chocolatier. “Obviously, the film when I was a young kid was unbelievable — Gene Wilder!” Crowley tells Variety.

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Wonka” was another “cynical money grab” by Hollywood amid the film industry’s ongoing reboot trend. “Like many people, when there are remakes, I feel very protective over the original character and versions you love,” Chalamet, 27, told GameRadar+ on Monday.

Hugh Grant was on curmudgeonly form during a press conference marking the release of Wonka, telling journalists that he hated playing an Oompa Loompa in the film.

Hugh Grant has said that he “hated” the process involved in playing his Oompa-Loompa character in the new film Wonka.Directed by Paul King (Paddington), the upcoming film is based on the universe created in Roald Dahl’s 1964 novel Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Timothée Chalamet plays the lead role of Willy Wonka, in what’s billed as a prequel to the 1971 film adaptation.Grant plays Lofty, an Oompa-Loompa, in the film, requiring motion-capture technology to render the character’s appearance.“It was like a crown of thorns,” said Grant at a press conference, describing how he needed to have multiple cameras pointed at his face at all times.“I made a big fuss about it, I couldn’t have hated the whole thing more.”He went on to explain that he did not know whether he was required to act with just his face or with his whole body, adding: “I never received a satisfactory answer.

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Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Every fan of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (1971) loves the scene where Gene Wilder, as the mystical candy maker, takes his guests on a psychedelic tunnel ride, zooming through the bowels of the Chocolate Factory as he chants a little verse (“There’s no earthly way of knowing, which direction we are going…”), getting angrier and more hysterical by the second. Wilder’s Wonka was a sweetheart, but he had a hidden maniacal side. And in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Tim Burton’s majestically wacked 2005 remake, Johnny Depp, then at the apex of his movie stardom, went full Depp, playing Wonka like some louche vampiristic cross between Anna Wintour and Michael Jackson.