Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Archives

Taika Waititi To Write & Direct Two Animated ‘Charlie & The Chocolate Factory’ Series For Netflix

March 5, 2020 11:07 am

Pretty quickly, Taika Waititi went from being the guy that released a new film every couple of years, pleased his rabid following, and then went back and started work on something new. Now, in a post-“Thor: Ra...

Netflix To Develop A Slate Of Animated Series Based On Roald Dahl Classics ‘Wonka,’ ‘Matilda,’ & More

Charles Barfield

November 27, 2018 11:57 am

News, Television

Willy Wonka is coming to Netflix. No, not the Gene Wilder film of the same name. Instead, the streaming service has a new agreement with the Roald Dahl Story Company that will allow Netflix to create a new slat...

Sam Mendes To Direct Ian McEwan’s ‘On Chesil Beach’; Carey Mulligan May Star

Oliver Lyttelton

June 3, 2010 12:35 am

News

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After delivering two films (and, indeed, two plays) in a six month period in late 2008/early 2009, Sam Mendes hasn't had the best of luck this year, it seems. He dropped out of "Preacher," watched as the Bond f...

Review: ‘Alice In Wonderland’ Finds The Formerly Lucrative Tim Burton & Johnny Depp Relationship To Be Creatively Bankrupt

Rodrigo Perez

March 2, 2010 4:50 am

News

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Tim Burton hasn't made a good film in ten years and that's if you like "Sleepy Hollow" (which this writer does) but you'd have to go way back to 1994's "Ed Wood" to find the director's last truly great film whi...

Make It Happen: Someone Greenlight The Carol Channing Biopic So Johnny Depp Will Get His Desperate Wish Already

Rodrigo Perez

July 16, 2009 6:56 pm

News

Jesus, we saw this Johnny Depp quote today at Vulture and thought, "Christ, again??" Depp is obsessed with Carol Channing."My dream role would be to play music legend Carol Channing in a biopic of her life. I l...

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