Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [2015]

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The company's owner, Willy Wonka, has long closed his factory to the public due to problems concerning industrial espionage, which also caused all his employees, including Charlie's Grandpa Joe, to lose their jobs. Roy, who played a total of 165 individual Oompa-Loompas in the film, experienced an especially laborious regimen during production. Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. The all-white design of the TV Room was adapted directly from the book, though 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and THX 1138 (1971) also served as inspirations.

During pre-production, Burton visited Dahl's former home in the Buckinghamshire village of Great Missenden. Michael Jackson actively sought the role and secretly recorded an original soundtrack for the film at a small studio in Los Angeles. Tim Burton avoided using too many digital effects to reflect the original book's emphasis on texture and because he wanted the younger actors to feel as if they were working in a realistic environment. In 2004, during on-set interviews while filming, Burton criticized the 1971 film adaptation, [10] [150] while Depp paid homage to Gene Wilder's portrayal and praised it as "brilliant but subtle".

Conversely, Time Out named it the worst adaptation of a Roald Dahl book, elaborating "there's something so horribly garish about Burton's film that you can't help feeling a little queasy afterwards. Charlie's remaining grandparents, Grandma Georgina, Grandma Josephine, and Grandpa George, are portrayed by Liz Smith, Eileen Essell, and David Morris. million of the opening weekend gross was from 65 IMAX theaters, [120] marking the widest domestic IMAX opening ever at the time.

Credit subject to status, UK residents only, Entertainment Magpie Limited t/a Music Magpie acts as a broker and offers finance from a restricted range of finance providers, PayPal Credit is a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH. We have listed the best selling ones below (most popular first) so you can quickly find the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory DVD / blu-ray / box set you're after. Burton and August incorporated many parts of the book that were absent from the 1971 film adaptation, including the construction of the Indian Prince's chocolate palace, the inclusion of Charlie's father, and Veruca Salt's attack by squirrels. Ang Lee, Terry Gilliam, Anthony Minghella, and Spike Jonze were among the Dahl estate's preferred directors for the project. Sections of artificial grass were laid upon blocks of polystyrene foam that formed the shape of the landscape.Doug Adams of Film Score Monthly said of the Oompa-Loompa songs: "Each piece includes something the others don't, rhythms or hooks or harmonies that in Elfman's inimitable way seem like deconstructions and wholly original concepts at the same time. Both sets featured the same bonus features as the HD DVD, although the anniversary edition included a personal retrospective by Burton and a photo book. In the United Kingdom, the premiere was held on July 17 at Leicester Square, only ten days after the July 7 London bombings.