Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Rules U.S. Box Office
July 24th, 2005 by Andre Soares
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton’s take on the well-known Roald Dahl book, earned more than US$55 million on its first weekend in the United States and Canada.
The fantasy film starring Johnny Depp, coupled with the Owen Wilson-Vince Vaughn comedy The Wedding Crashers, helped boost the U.S. / Canada box office by more than 7 percent in relation to the same weekend last year.
On its second weekend, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, continued to lead the U.S. / Canada box office. The Wedding Crashers came in second place, while Michael Bay’s obscenely vapid and violent The Island, and the Billy Bob Thornton vehicle The Bad News Bears opened to disappointing figures.
For its part, La Marche de l’empereur / The March of the Penguins keeps doing quite well in limited release.
AltFG Quiz of the Day: Who was the Academy Award-winning wife of writer Roald Dahl?
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Quiz Answer: Patricia Neal, who won her Oscar for Martin Ritt’s first-rate modern Western Hud (1963), co-starring Paul Newman and Melvyn Douglas. Neal received a second nomination for the 1968 drama The Subject Was Roses, playing Jack Albertson’s wife and Martin Sheen’s mother.
Glenda Jackson and Dirk Bogarde played Neal and Dahl in the made-for-TV movie The Patricia Neal Story (1981), co-directed by Anthony Harvey and Anthony Page.
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