Charlie and the Chocolate Factory News

FACTORY BOUND: Among the more than 60 Clarke students who are involved in the upcoming musical, Willy Wonka, are, front row, Joe Lampe; second row, Alex Stickels, Mitch Lampe and Stacie Kjellsen; third row, Kimberly Eddy, Walker Adams, Trevor Pitts and Dustin May; back row, Lance Henrichs, Mackenzie Thomas and Laura Swartz.

Little Britain star David Walliams, whose children's book is on the shortlist for the Roald Dahl prize, describes how he fell under the influence of the late author Quentin Blake's illustrations for David Walliams's 'Mr Stink' in pictures: Quentin Blake's illustrations for Mr Stink Before I started writing my first children's novel, The Boy in the ...

This new trailer for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland , presented by SpikeTV , doesn't deserve as much hype as it's getting because it's basically a remix or rehash of the original teaser trailer first put out in July.

A lifelong Johnny Depp fan has launched an internet campaign to get the Hollywood movie star to turn on Portishead's Christmas lights.

As "Where the Wild Things Are" illustrates, translating children's books to the big screen is a tricky business: Adults, children and the book's author all usually want different things from the movie.

When Toby Tenma dies, his scientist father builds a robot version of him. Would-be revolutionary robots call him "Astro Boy." AP Slideshow more photos TODAY Hilary Swank takes on title role in - Amelia' Oct.

Lovely dollops of wit and warmth float through the big-screen version of "Astro Boy," the latest Japanese TV cartoon to make it to the big screen.

A significant slice of Hollywood will head to Australia next year when a retrospective of famed film noir director Tim Burton's work will be shown in Melbourne.

Every morning before class, Joel Thronson met his fellow drummers in the Norwalk High School band room to prepare for what happened Saturday.

He once likened his singing voice to "the mating call of a rutting stag." But Johnny Depp did not let it get in the way of arguably his most challenging film role yet -- an all-singing turn as the serial-killing barber Sweeney Todd in a remake of the Stephen Sondheim musical.

Astro Boy, voiced by Freddie Highmore , tests his powers in Summit Entertainment and Imagi Studios' new animated feature, "Astro Boy." Astro Boy has issues.

Warner Bros. is holding critics' screenings of Where the Wild Things Are way late: in New York, for instance, it won't screen until Wednesday night, barely 24 hours before midnight screenings start the next night.

For Johnny Depp, there are films and there are Tim Burton films. The Hollywood actor has teamed up with director Burton for the sixth time in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," a blood-spattered adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical that has impressed the critics.

Merle Becker was burned out by her day job at MTV and ready for a change when she stopped dead in her tracks at a Manhattan bookstore.

The pint-sized robot returns to thrill a new generation, writes Donna Walker-Mitchell. At just 17, Freddie Highmore is accustomed to working with some of Hollywood's biggest names but the thought of providing the voice of Astro Boy left the young British star nervous.

The Big Read, the monthlong celebration of Edgar Allan Poe, begins today. Here are 25 things worth celebrating, remembering or thinking about.

It's not hard to associate things with Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory when you hear such things as "Umpa, umpa, umpadee oom..." , but one thing that this campy movie did do was make our imaginations run wild.

HOME > NEWS / SHOWBIZ > SHOWBIZ > Mendes to take Willy Wonka to the stage SHOWBIZ Monday October 5,2009 Oscar-winning director SAM MENDES is bringing children's classic CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY to the stage.

GEOFFREY Holder, 79, is sipping Carib beer at a table in the MovieTowne foyer. He is wearing a large red scarf with a floral pattern, a white shirt with the collars turned up.

Reports are coming in suggesting that a stage musical based off the classic children's story Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is being developed.