Question: I was watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory today at work, and while I couldn't really tell, it looked to me as though all the Oompa Loompas are the same guy. Did they use many people who looked similar or just one guy multiplied during the editing? Answer: One guy — 4-foot-4-inch, 48-year-old Deep Roy, who was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to Indian parents — digitally multiplied. Director Tim Burton originally intended to use Roy to play only the main Oompa Loompa in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) and fill out the lavish production numbers with children and other little people, but for various reasons that didn't work out. So Roy plays all the Oompa Loompas: 165 total. Roy made his movie debut in
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For the second week in a row, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Wedding Crashers were the Nos. 1 and 2 movies at the box office (Charlie took in an additional $28.3 million; Crashers, another $26.2). That was bad news indeed for Bad News Bears and the week's other new releases. Bears scored only $11.5 million for a fifth-place finish, The Island, with a sadly nonsinging Ewan McGregor, made $12.1 million to settle in fourth, and Rob Zombie's horror sequel, The Devil's Rejects, scared up $7 million to land at No. 8. The ind
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The only place Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn's Wedding Crashers couldn't sneak into this weekend was the No. 1 spot at the box office. The comedy's $33.2 million opening (while impressive for R-rated fare) was bested by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which raked in a sweet $55.4 million — despite Johnny Depp's somewhat disturbing channeling of Michael Jackson as Willy Wonka.
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Before he played charming oddballs in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands and, well, insert most of his acting résumé here, Johnny Depp was your garden-variety teen idol on Fox's 21 Jump Street. Back in 1990, cult film director John Waters gave Depp his big-screen break — and a chance to send up his Tiger Beat image — in Cry-Baby. And since the Cry-Baby Director's Cut DVD is out today, TVGuide.com has a chance to touch base with Waters, for some "I knew Depp when" reminiscing and chatter about the rest of his freaky film exploits.
TVGuide.com: Cry-Baby was perhaps the most mainstream or "ready for prime time," of all your many wacky movies.John Waters: I disagree. Pecker is probably my nicest movie. Just 'cause Cry-Baby is a musical, people forget that I have a very dysfunctional, disturbed family in it. I have an ingenue who drinks her own tears becaus
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