Bob Mondello shares his thoughts on Timothee Chalamet's rendition of a young Willy Wonka in the new prequel to the Roald Dahl film classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Its website promised “optical marvels” and “extraordinary props,” but the pricey Willy Wonka-inspired event offered little more than some lemonade and a jelly bean.

‘Wonka’ Review: Willy When He Was Young and Oh So Sweet Timothée Chalamet stars as the chocolatier in this musical origin story, playing a wide-eyed innocent instead of an eccentric mad-hatter.

“Wonka,” the whimsical origin story of the fictional chocolatier, secured the top spot in domestic theaters this weekend with $39 million in sales.

In a year of “Barbie,” Harry Styles and Taylor Swift, we now get Timothee Chalamet as Willy Wonka. Wonka, of course, was created by the now problematic British author Roald Dahl in his 1964 ...

Timoth é e Chalamet has posted a first look at his Willy Wonka interpretation for the forthcoming film on the future chocolate factory proprietor. Chalamet has 13.6 million followers on Instagram.

Timothée Chalamet proves the weakest part of director Paul King’s generally inspired film about Roald Dahl’s chocolatier.

‘Wonka’ Review: Timothée Chalamet Makes a Winning Willy Wonka in a Fun Prequel That’s One of the Squarest Movie Musicals in Decades His candymaker is a wistful young dreamer in a film where ...

Expectations were tempered heading into the release of Wonka, a musical prequel to the iconic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory starring Gene Wilder. This time around, Timothée Chalamet would ...

Wonka, the new prequel movie from director Paul King and his Paddington 2 co-writer Simon Farnaby, starring Timotheé Chalamet as a young Willy Wonka, does nothing of the sort.

Timothée Chalamet says he swam in real melted chocolate while playing the famed chocolatier Willy Wonka in the upcoming movie musical “Wonka.” “Too much chocolate,” he said on the stage ...

Timothée Chalamet’s song-and-dance skills and director Paul King’s imaginative world-building make this origin story a sweet treat. If you’re a fan of the original 1971 film “Willy Wonka ...