#‘Wonka’ Star Calah Lane on Swimming in Chocolate With Timothée Chalamet and Teaching Him Dance Moves

#‘Wonka’ Star Calah Lane on Swimming in Chocolate With Timothée Chalamet and Teaching Him Dance Moves

Calah Lane is relishing her life of pure imagination after starring alongside Timothée Chalamet in Warner Bros.‘ anticipated holiday release Wonka. The musical, which hit theaters Friday, features the 14-year-old actress as Noodle, a hard-working but underprivileged orphan who has never tasted chocolate until she ends up in the same boarding facility as Chalamet’s dessert-adoring…

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#Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group to Receive IBC’s Highest Honor

#Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group to Receive IBC’s Highest Honor

IBC (International Broadcasting Convention) will bestow its most prestigious award, the International Honor for Excellence, to Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group in celebration of the studio’s 100th anniversary. The award will be presented Sept. 17 in Amsterdam, during the annual confab’s IBC Innovation Awards ceremony. “We are delighted to accept IBC’s International Honor for Excellence award in…

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#Hugh Grant’s ‘Wonka’ Casting as Oompa Loompa Criticized by Actor With Dwarfism: “We Aren’t Getting Offered Those Roles”

#Hugh Grant’s ‘Wonka’ Casting as Oompa Loompa Criticized by Actor With Dwarfism: “We Aren’t Getting Offered Those Roles”

An actor with dwarfism isn’t pleased that Hugh Grant was cast as an Oompa Loompa in Warner Bros.’ forthcoming film Wonka, which stars Timothée Chalamet as the titular candymaker. During an interview with the BBC that published Wednesday, George Coppen said that many actors with dwarfism “feel like we are being pushed out of the…

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