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Tuesday July 19, 2005 – Press Release Source: IMAX Corporation; Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The IMAX Experience opened to enthusiastic audience reception and record breaking box office performance this past weekend. The film debuted in a record 65 North American IMAX
July 17, 2005 – BBC NEWS – Emma Jones interviews Johnny Depp on his approach to playing Willy Wonka in the new film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Depp said, “There are so many levels, you want to be true to the author’s intent; you want to be true to the director’s vision; you want to be true to yourself, in some ways you want to take the character–and at the same time, I’m trying to imagine what Roald Dahl might have wanted to see in a character like Wonka today.” To view video click here.
July 18, 2005 – ContactMusic.com -Actor JOHNNY DEPP is so unhappy without his family around him – he forces his wife and two children to join him on location when he’s shooting movies…
The Insider caught up with legendary producer STEPHEN J. CANNELL, the man who discovered Depp and made him a star. “He didn’t like the show,” Cannell laughs.
In fact, the role of “Hanson” was actually already cast when Depp came into the picture: “It was an interesting situation,” Cannell recalled, “We had cast somebody else to play the part of Hanson … he didn’t have what we were looking for, we had just made a mistake.
Cannell says when Johnny read for the part it was clear to everyone that he was the perfect guy for the part.
Irish Examiner – 17/07/2005 – Thousands of screaming fans packed London’s Leicester Square to see the star, who plays Willy Wonka in the £80m remake of Roald Dahl’s much-loved children’s classic…
Hollywood hunk JOHNNY DEPP bought drinks for an entire London pub yesterday (18JUL05) …when he paid a surprise visit to famous Leicester Square pub, Waxy O’Connors, and quenched the thirst of more than 50 tourists and Londoners.
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July 18, 2005 – bbc.co.uk. – ‘Charlie And The Chocolate Factory’ premiered in London yesterday (Sunday) and all the cast turned up on the red carpet – including Johnny Depp…
July 18, 2005 – FemaleFirst.uk.co. – Johnny Depp insists his children are nothing like the spoilt brats in the new ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ movie…The Hollywood heartthrob, who plays eccentric sweet maker Willy Wonka in the film, said Lily-Rose Melody, six, and three-year-old Jack are well-behaved like the movie’s character Charlie Buckett.
July 18, 2005 – eitb24.com – Actor Johnny Depp says the similarities between his Willy Wonka character in ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ and Michael Jackson were not intentional. “It doesn’t relate to me, the Michael Jackson thing”, explained Depp. ” A few people have brought it up. Not because Wonka in fact is dangerously anti-social, in many many ways and Michael Jackson is, well, clearly not all that anti-social. Yeah, when people brought that up to me, the whole Michael Jackson thing, it just didn’t compute…
Hi everyone!
Well, it’s almost one week ago and I’m (finally) able to write something about the premiere, ’cause I stayed in London till Thursday and I needed a few days to recover…
I don’t wanna bore you with a long description – you all saw the pics and know how the park looked like – I’ll sting to the interesting things.
The funny thing was that most female fans were really, really lovely and I had quite a lot of fun – but the guys were bitchy!
I mean, there were those two guys who had more than a dozen DVD’s with them (ebay, I suppose) and didn’t gave a damn about their surroundings… Wow, they were pretty nasty to my mind.
Nevertheless, I caught a good spot opposite the press. Honestly, it was hot and my feet still hate me, but seeing Johnny was a pretty good compensation!
The crowed simply went MAD when Johnny showed up – the ordinary run of things – and our man first went to the press, calm as always, then turned around and started signing, hugging and a bit of small talk. Pure Johnny.
Well, I had this really weird gift with me – needs a bit of explanation:
My grandfather gave me this rusty “buzzer”, a 40 year old piece of metal, when I was about ten. The great thing about it was, that it was a fartmachine – all you had to do was twist the back,