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‘Wonka’ Reawakens The Movie Musical To Land At No. 6 In Deadline’s 2023 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament

Timothée Chalamet's Warner Bros musical Wonka net $182 million after all costs and box office.

Then along comes Wonka, an original feature musical with songs from Divine Comedy lead singer Neil Hannon, and this latest take on the Roald Dahl classic onscreen winds up grossing $632.3 million at the global box office, outstripping the final results of 2005’s Tim Burton-directed, Johnny Depp-starring Charlie and the Chocolate Factory($474.9M) and driving the entire Warner Bros franchise to $1.1 billion. Former Warner Bros President of Production and Development Courtenay Valenti had been working for a long time to reacquire rights to the Dahl character from the author’s estate (this despite Netflix’s side deal with it), accomplishing the feat in October 2016. The current Warner Bros feature administration of Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy were so excited about Wonka, they began screening it to the media before Thanksgiving to generate word of mouth; exhibitors got a taste of the musical at CinemaCon in April.

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