Willy Wonka's Peter Ostrum chose life as a small-town veterinarian over Hollywood fame after his iconic role as Charlie ...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory premiered 20 years ago on July 15, 2005. The film starred acclaimed actors and newcomers, including Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore a ...

Johnny Depp debuted his Willy Wonka in 2005’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, more than 30 years after the original film was released. In the Tim Burton-directed him, which follows a young ...

EXCLUSIVE: Willy Wonka, the eccentric founder of the Wonka Chocolate Factory from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, has been played by Gene Wilder, Johnny Depp and Timothée Chalamet on the big ...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Broadway in 2017 - ROALD DAHL's most treasured tale is coming to the land where sweet dreams come true—Broadway—in a delicious new musical!

While Johnny Depp and Timothée Chalamet tried with varying degrees of success, neither actor was able to step out from the shadow of the late, great Gene Wilder when playing Willy Wonka.

Gene Wilder portrayed Willy Wonka in the 1971 movie adaptation “ Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” and Johnny Depp portrayed the eccentric chocolate factory owner in the 2005 version ...

Freddie Highmore went back to his Charlie Bucket roots, spoofing the now-infamous Willy Wonka fan experience in Glasgow during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

More About The Original Willy Wonka Film While this film is known as a classic and must-see for everyone, it only made a little over $4 million, just surpassing the film’s budget by $1 million.

Nearly 20 years ago, Johnny Depp played Wonka for director Tim Burton as a kind of ghostly Michael Jackson trying to catch the creepy twists in Roald Dahl's 1964 novel. Far from the tormented ...

Netflix Willy Wonka reality competition series to be a series, based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, called The Golden Ticket.