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From plumbers to hedgehogs, the box office is embracing gaming’s biggest icons! Remember when video game movies were the laughingstock of Hollywood? Yeah, we too. For decades, it seemed like filmmakers just couldn’t crack the code on how to transform our favorite interactive experiences into compelling cinema.

We all sat through those painful early adaptations and wondered if games were just meant to stay on our screens at home.

Jordan Fry in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) | Credits: Warner Bros. Pictures

But wow, how things have changed! In recent years, video game adaptations have undergone a remarkable transformation, morphing from critical and commercial disappointments into genuine box office powerhouses.

Studios have finally figured out that respecting the source material while making necessary cinematic adjustments is the secret sauce to success. Now these movies aren’t just making money—they’re launching franchises, winning over critics, and yes, even making gamers happy.

When discussing the films of Walt Disney Animation Studios from the 21st century, "Meet the Robinsons" is often overlooked. That is a shame, because it is one of the studio's most underrated films, telling a sincere sci-fi coming-of-age story filled with equal parts laughter and thoughtfulness. Although the film was a box office disappointment, grossing $170.5 million over a budget of $150 million, it received generally positive reviews from critics. It has also garnered some notoriety online, with fans of the film who were children when it hit theaters 18 years ago, now revisiting it and in some cases, sharing it with their children.

"Meet the Robinsons" showcased an exciting sci-fi world, and given its prominent use of time travel, utilized clever story mechanics to explore different eras in time, particularly the year 2037, which, *gulp,* we are closer to now than we are to 2007. Implementing time travel into the script effectively explored the...

Movie theme parks have the power to turn beloved on-screen stories into tangible creations. Whether it be a ride, location, or restaurant, these attractions give life to fictional characters and their worlds. Disney has proved to be the pioneer of the film-based theme park concept. In 1955, Disneyland was first opened in Anaheim, California, which was the first public attraction of its kind. This effectively kicked off a chain reaction of park releases that have grown into the massive industry that exists in 2024.

Disney is undoubtedly one of the heaviest hitters in the realm of modern cinema. Given the size and popularity of their franchises, it's no surprise that Disney has upcoming movies planned from 2024 to 2029. The company has similarly big goals in the world of tourist attractions, considering the recent reveal of Disneyland's new Avatar California adventure plans. It would seem reasonable to expect a popular Disney release to feature a corresponding theme park presence,...

Freddie Highmore, who played Charlie Bucket, has had a successful acting career, starring in shows like Bates Motel and The Good Doctor. Some of the child actors in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory continued to follow a movie career, whereas others don't act anymore. The Tim Burton movie also included established actors, including but not limited to Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and the late Christopher Lee.

Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was released in 2005, and the film's massive cast has been up to a number of different things in the 18 years since its release. While the modern adaptation isn't considered in the same regard as 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, it was still a memorable film for many who grew up watching it. The ensemble contained a mix of veteran film stars and character actors, as well as young child actors.

From the young Golden Ticket holders to their parents,...

Moms organized a nurse-in at an Idaho Wal-Mart after one woman was kicked out of the store for breastfeeding.

Ashley McCall said she was shopping at the Twin Falls Wal-Mart when her infant son Cillian started “screaming.”

“I sat down on a bench, in a fairly secluded area, and started trying to nurse him,” McCall writes on Facebook. “After about five minutes a clerk came up to me and asked me to leave. I asked if I could take him to the bench in the bathroom and was told that it would be better if I just took him home.

Jordan Fry is best known for playing the screen addicted Mike Teavee -- opposite Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka -- in the 2005 Tim Burton reboot 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' Guess what he looks like now at 24 years old and shirtless! Read more...

See new images from Gone, starring Amanda Seyfried. Heitor Dahlia's suspense thriller opens on February 24th, with a cast which also includes Jennifer Carpenter, Sebastian Sam, Wes Bentley, Daniel Sunjata, Joel David Moore, Emily Wickersham, Katherine Moennig, Michael Paré and Jordan Fry. In Gone, Jill Parrish (Amanda Seyfried) comes home from a night shift to discover her sister Molly (Emily Wickersham) has been abducted. Jill, having escaped from a kidnapping a year before, is convinced that the same serial killer has come back and taken Molly. The police think Jill is crazy and are unwilling to use their resources to help her. Afraid that Molly will be dead by sundown, she sets out alone on a heart-pounding chase to find the killer, expose his secrets and save her sister...

See new images from Gone, starring Amanda Seyfried. Heitor Dahlia's suspense thriller opens on February 24th, with a cast which also includes Jennifer Carpenter, Sebastian Sam, Wes Bentley, Daniel Sunjata, Joel David Moore, Emily Wickersham, Katherine Moennig, Michael Paré and Jordan Fry. In Gone, Jill Parrish (Amanda Seyfried) comes home from a night shift to discover her sister Molly (Emily Wickersham) has been abducted. Jill, having escaped from a kidnapping a year before, is convinced that the same serial killer has come back and taken Molly. The police think Jill is crazy and are unwilling to use their resources to help her. Afraid that Molly will be dead by sundown, she sets out alone on a heart-pounding chase to find the killer, expose his secrets and save her sister...

See new images from Gone, starring Amanda Seyfried. Heitor Dahlia's suspense thriller opens on February 24th, with a cast which also includes Jennifer Carpenter, Sebastian Sam, Wes Bentley, Daniel Sunjata, Joel David Moore, Emily Wickersham, Katherine Moennig, Michael Paré and Jordan Fry. In Gone, Jill Parrish (Amanda Seyfried) comes home from a night shift to discover her sister Molly (Emily Wickersham) has been abducted. Jill, having escaped from a kidnapping a year before, is convinced that the same serial killer has come back and taken Molly. The police think Jill is crazy and are unwilling to use their resources to help her. Afraid that Molly will be dead by sundown, she sets out alone on a heart-pounding chase to find the killer, expose his secrets and save her sister...

Sneak Peek the new poster for the upcoming $28 million thriller "Gone", written and directed by Heitor Dhalia.

Filmed in Portland, Oregon, "Gone" stars Amanda Seyfried, Emily Wickersham, Sebastian Stan, Jennifer Carpenter, Socratis Otto, Wes Bentley, Daniel Sunjata, Joel David Moore and Jordan Fry.

From Lakeshore Entertainment and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, "Gone" will be released by Summit Entertainment, February 24, 2012.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Gone"...

First poster for Gone, starring Amanda Seyfried, Emily Wickersham, Wes Bentley and Jennifer Carpenter Heitor Dhalia (Adrift) directs the Summit Entertainment thriller which makes its debut on February 24th. Allison Burnett (Underworld Awakening, Feast of Love, Untraceable) wrote the script which tells of Jill Parrish (Seyfried) who, after working the night shift, returns home to discover that her sister Molly has suddenly disappeared. Convinced that Molly has been abducted by the same serial killer from whom she escaped just a year before, and that she may be dead come sundown, Jill tries all to rescue her, racing against sun to and just 12 hours. Gone's talented cast includes Jennifer Carpenter, Sebastian Sam, Wes Bentley, Daniel Sunjata, Joel David Moore, Emily Wickersham, Katherine Moennig, Michael Paré and Jordan Fry.

First poster for Gone, starring Amanda Seyfried, Emily Wickersham, Wes Bentley and Jennifer Carpenter Heitor Dhalia (Adrift) directs the Summit Entertainment thriller which makes its debut on February 24th. Allison Burnett (Underworld Awakening, Feast of Love, Untraceable) wrote the script which tells of Jill Parrish (Seyfried) who, after working the night shift, returns home to discover that her sister Molly has suddenly disappeared. Convinced that Molly has been abducted by the same serial killer from whom she escaped just a year before, and that she may be dead come sundown, Jill tries all to rescue her, racing against sun to and just 12 hours. Gone's talented cast includes Jennifer Carpenter, Sebastian Sam, Wes Bentley, Daniel Sunjata, Joel David Moore, Emily Wickersham, Katherine Moennig, Michael Paré and Jordan Fry.

First poster for Gone, starring Amanda Seyfried, Emily Wickersham, Wes Bentley and Jennifer Carpenter Heitor Dhalia (Adrift) directs the Summit Entertainment thriller which makes its debut on February 24th. Allison Burnett (Underworld Awakening, Feast of Love, Untraceable) wrote the script which tells of Jill Parrish (Seyfried) who, after working the night shift, returns home to discover that her sister Molly has suddenly disappeared. Convinced that Molly has been abducted by the same serial killer from whom she escaped just a year before, and that she may be dead come sundown, Jill tries all to rescue her, racing against sun to and just 12 hours. Gone's talented cast includes Jennifer Carpenter, Sebastian Sam, Wes Bentley, Daniel Sunjata, Joel David Moore, Emily Wickersham, Katherine Moennig, Michael Paré and Jordan Fry.

This review was written for the theatrical release of "Meet the Robinsons".Walt Disney himself is evoked twice in the new digital animation feature from the Disney Studios, "Meet the Robinsons". At the beginning, a scene from his first Mickey Mouse cartoon, 1928's "Steamboat Willie", briefly hits the screen. Then at the end, a quote attributed to Disney appears on the screen in which he observes that no one at his studio spends much time looking backwards. "We keep moving forward", he declares.

What is strange about this film's attempt to establish a linkage with Disney's spirit is that "Robinsons" is the most un-Disneylike cartoon yet from Disney animation. The thing is a hellzapoppin' of eccentric characters, zany situations and wacky gizmos, but little effort has gone into making any of this connect with an audience.

More troubling is that director Stephen Anderson seems not to have asked himself who is his audience. Some plot mechanics, especially a delay in establishing the back story until deep into the movie, may bewilder younger children. Yet the "zaniness" plays far too young to sustain much interest in older children or adults.

"Robinsons" points up just how much Disney's two animation units are heading in opposite directions. Pixar, which Disney acquired in a stock swap last year, continues to produce intriguing, cutting-edge CG animation that entertains people of all ages the world over. But the older Disney animation unit in Burbank, the one Walt established, can't seem to find stories or approaches that will gain traction with audiences any more.

The Disney name means solid opening weekend boxoffice for "Robinsons", but thereafter the film's performance may fall below average. That the film is getting released in 3-D, which is scarcely used in the storytelling, seems like a gimmick, perhaps one springing from desperation.

Initially, the story revolves around a 12-year-old orphan, Lewis (voiced by Daniel Hansen and Jordan Fry), a boy genius whose nerdiness keeps him from getting adopted. So he invents the Memory Scanner, a machine that will extract a memory from his mind of the mother who abandoned him when he was a baby.

Then, abruptly, a cocky youth named Wilbur Robinson (Wesley Singerman) crashes the scene and whisks Lewis away in a time machine to the future. This Future World is a rainbow-colored playland created by a company called Robinson Industries, run by Wilbur's dad, and filled with robots, monorails, singing frogs and machines that squirt peanut butter and jelly. Eventually, it becomes clear that Wilbur is showing Lewis his own future -- that is, if he will stop worrying about the past and instead, as Disney would say, "keep moving forward."

This Future World is a cross between Oz and Alice's wonderland, only without the wit or sophistication. It's a continually goofy world that, frankly, proves too much of a good thing. Adults all act like children, and everything is devoted to play. There is a nominal villain, called simply the Bowler Hat Guy, but he is too bumbling and inept to present much of a threat. A crazed dinosaur is kind of funny, at least as funny as anything in a movie filled with mirthless gags and food fights.

Danny Elfman supplies a jaunty musical score that helps to propel the story in a caffeinated rush. (Keep moving forward!) "Robinsons" has one real connection to Uncle Walt: It makes you long for the good old days when Mickey and Minnie could simply crank a goat's tail and play a happy tune. Cartoon madness shouldn't be so much work.

MEET THE ROBINSONS

Buena Vista Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures

Credits:

Director: Stephen Anderson

Writers: Jon Bernstein, Michelle Spitz, Don Hall, Nathan Greno, Aurian Redson, Joe Mateo, Stephen Anderson

Based on the book by: William Joyce

Producer: Dorothy McKim

Executive producers: John Lasseter, William Joyce, Clark Spencer

Art director: Robh Ruppel

Music: Danny Elfman

Visual effects supervisors: Steve Goldberg, Chris Peterson

CG supervisors: Corey Smith, Marcus Hobbs

Editor: Ellen Keneshea

Cast:

Mildred: Angela Bassett

Lewis: Daniel Hansen, Jordan Fry

Goob: Matthew Josten

Wilbur: Wesley Singerman

Cornelius Robinson: Tom Selleck

Carl: Harland Williams

Franny: Nicole Sullivan

Uncle Art: Adam West

Running time -- 95 minutes

MPAA rating: G...

Candy and fantasy film share this in common: Each is tricky to get right. Success requires a perfect balance of flavor, richness, depth and a yummy yumminess that's hard to pinpoint but you know it when you taste it. So when it comes to candy -- and to film fantasy -- "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is the real deal. This morality tale disguised as a whimsical, magical mystery tour of the world's greatest chocolate factory has all the gorgeousness of hard Dark Chocolate that melts ever-so-slowly in your mouth. What a treat coming from Tim Burton, who has recovered his imaginative touch after a few missteps, and from his frequent collaborator Johnny Depp, an actor who resolutely embodies Burton's fanciful vision.

Here's a film about kids and for kids that has not lost touch with what it is like to actually be a kid. Children and adults alike will jam lines to movie houses in North America and overseas to acquire golden tickets for this audience-pleaser.

"Charlie", of course, derives from Roald Dahl's quirky fantasy first published in 1964, which inspired the fondly remembered 1971 movie, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." Dahl's tale, very faithfully adapted by John August, tells of a good-hearted though poor lad named Charlie (fresh-faced Freddie Highmore), who dwells in Dickensian squalor in a lean-to cottage -- how on earth does it remain upright, you wonder -- a few blocks from Willie Wonka's chocolate factory. He shares crowded quarters with a loving mom Helena Bonham Carter) and a happy though unemployed dad (Noah Taylor) along with both pairs of grandparents who occupy a communal bed.

One day the reclusive Willy Wonka, seen by nobody in years, announces a worldwide contest in which five children will win a guided tour of his factory. Golden tickets have been hidden in five Wonka chocolate bars. Naturally, Charlie is one of the lucky five. Each child is accompanied by an adult guardian. Charlie selects his excited Grandpa Joe (ageless David Kelly), who once worked for Willy.

Upon being escorted into the candy kingdom, the five children find themselves in a contest of sorts, though neither the rules nor the prize are ever stated. Unlike Charlie, the other children are all vile: Gluttonous Augustus Gloop (Philip Wiegratz) is a German Junge whose only thought is to continually stuff his face with sweets. The seriously spoiled Veruca Salt (Julia Winter) pouts and throws fits whenever her rich daddy (sturdy James Fox) fails to satisfy her whims.

Martial-artist Violet Beauregarde (Annasophia Robb) is fiercely competitive in all things, even gum chewing. Finally, techno brat Mike Teavee (Jordan Fry) lords his supposedly superior knowledge over everyone.

So you pretty much know who the likely winner is and can probably even guess the surprise prize. Which means the delight of the film lies in the guided tour itself performed by troubled Willy.

Outfitted in black with top hat and formal long-tail coat, a pasty-white face and faux gullibility, Depp somewhat resembles Michael Jackson on a good day. He is a man deliberately disconnected from any reality so he can focus solely on childish delights. Through flashbacks, which cannot be found in Dahl's book, you learn that Willy's life is a complete reaction to an overly strict father (Christopher Lee), a candy-hating dentist.

Willy and Charlie, however, are on the same wavelength: They naturally gravitate toward those things in life that are cheerful, optimistic and good. Both banish the dark side with a breezy nonchalance. Charlie, for instance, sees no squalor or poverty in his home, only the love of a close-knit family.

Willy leads the party through rooms of wonder beginning with the Chocolate Room, a grassy landscape divided by a chocolate river and waterfall, dotted with candy trees and fudge hills. In another room, 100 trained squirrels sit on tiny stools and carefully remove nuts from their shells. And can you imagine a goofier image than a suspended cow struck repeated with tiny whips to produce, yes, Whipped Cream?

Throughout the factory, workers named Oompa Loompas perform such tasks as mining fudge and rowing a spun-sugar seahorse-shaped galley on the chocolate river. All Oompa Loompas are played by the same diminutive actor, Deep Roy, who has been further miniaturized and multiplied through motion-capture technology.

During the tour, each vile child is undone by his or her character flaw. At the moment a child is eliminated from competition, the Oompa Loompas break into marvelous song and dance numbers that utilize Dahl's lyrics from the book. (Danny Elfman wrote the spirited music.) In these numbers, Burton cannot resist kidding a range of Hollywood classics ranging from Busby Berkeley musicals and Esther Williams pool ballets to Beatles movies, "2001" and even "Psycho".

Generally, movies have viewed mechanization with suspicion, going back at least to Chaplin's "Modern Times". Not here though. From the opening credits, Burton & Co. glory in automated assembly lines that spin out sugary concoctions in all colors and flavors, in laboratories filled with boiling pots and strange pipes and in an elevator that impossibly moves up, down, sideways and through the roof.

Dahl was nothing if not a first-class production designer and Burton's team follow his suggestions to the max. To evoke this dream factory, Burton benefits from a third collaboration with the resourceful and dexterous cinematographer Philippe Rousselot, who turns Alex McDowell's edible-looking sets into a confectioner's wonderland. Nick Davis' visual effects, Gabriella Pescucci's not-quite-old, not-quite-new costumes and Chris Lebenzon's smooth editing makes the chocolate factory one of the best fantasy worlds this side of Oz.

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. in association with Village Roadshow Prods. Presents a Zanuck Co./Plan B production

Credits:

Director: Tim Burton

Screenwriter: John August

Based on the novel by: Roald Dahl

Producer: Richard D. Zanuck, Brad Grey

Executive producers: Patrick McCormick, Felicity Dahl, Michael Siegel, Graham Burke, Bruce Berman

Director of photography: Philippe Rousselot

Production designer: Alex McDowell

Music: Danny Elfman

Lyrics by: Roald Dahl

Co-producer: Katterli Frauenfelder

Costume designer: Gabriella Pescucci

Editor: Chris Lebenzon.

Cast:

Willy Wonka: Johnny Depp

Charlie Bucket: Freddie Highmore

Grandpa Joe: David Kelly

Mrs. Bucket: Helena Bonham Carter

Mr. Bucket: Noah Taylor

Mrs. Beauregarde: Missi Pyle

Mr. Salt: James Fox

Oompa Loompa: Deep Roy

Dr. Wonka: Christopher Lee

Mr. Teavee: Adam Godley

Mrs. Gloop: Franziska Troegner

Violet: Annasophia Robb

Mike: Jordon Fry

Augustus: Philip Wiegratz

MPAA rating: PG

Running time -- 120 minutes...

Warner Bros. Pictures' Tim Burton-helmed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has cast its remaining juvenile actors. Annasophia Robb, Jordan Fry, Julia Winter and Philip Wiegratz round out the kid roles. British actor Freddie Highmore had previously been cast in the title role of Charlie. Johnny Depp portrays Willy Wonka, and David Kelly stars as Grandpa Joe. Based on the classic book by Roald Dahl, the story revolves around candy maker Wonka's worldwide contest to tour his legendary factory, and the five kids who win by finding golden tickets.