________________________________ ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS TIM BURTON (Director) most recently directed Big Fish, a heartwarming tale of a fabled relationship between a father and his son. The film was hailed as Burton’s most personal and emotional to date, earning respectable reviews and box office. Big Fish starred Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Jessica Lange and Billy Crudup. His previous film was Planet of the Apes, a project that brought him together with producer Richard D. Zanuck, the former 20th Century Fox studio head who had greenlit the original film in l968. Burton’s Planet of the Apes starred Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan and Kris Kristofferson and was a summer 2001 box-office hit. All of Burton’s films are well known for the highly imaginative and detailed world he creates to surround and inform the story. They include Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks! and Sleepy Hollow. Burton began drawing at an early age, attended Cal Arts Institute on a Disney fellowship and, soon after, joined the studio as an animator. He made his directing debut with the animated short Vincent, narrated by Vincent Price. The film was a critical success and an award-winner on the festival circuit. Burton’s next in-house project was a live-action short film called Frankenweenie, an inventive and youthful twist on the Frankenstein legend. In 1985, Burton’s first feature film Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, was a box-office hit and the director was praised for his original vision. Beetlejuice (1988), a supernatural comedy starring Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin and Winona Ryder, was another critical and financial success. In 1989, Burton directed the blockbuster Batman, starring Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton and Kim Basinger. Following the triumph of Batman, the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) awarded Burton the Director of the Year Award. The film also won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction. Edward Scissorhands, starring Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder and Dianne Wiest, was one of the big hits of the 1990 Christmas season and acclaimed for its original vision and poignant fairytale sensibility. In 1992, Burton once again explored the dark underworld of Gotham City in Batman Returns, the highest grossing film of that year, which featured Michelle Pfeiffer as the formidable Catwoman and Danny DeVito as The Penguin. In 1994, Burton produced and directed Ed Wood, starring Johnny Depp in the title role. The film garnered Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi) and Best Special Effects Makeup. Burton conceived and produced the stop-motion animation adventure Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, an original holiday tale that has become a seasonal perennial. He also produced 1993’s Cabin Boy and 1995’s summer blockbuster Batman Forever, as well as the 1996 release of James and the Giant Peach, based on Roald Dahl’s children’s novel. Burton produced and directed Mars Attacks!, a sci-fi comedy based on the original Topps trading card series, starring an elite array of 20 leading players including Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Danny DeVito and Annette Bening. In 1999 Burton directed Sleepy Hollow, which was inspired by Washington Irving’s classic story and starred Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson and Michael Gambon. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Costume Design and Best Cinematography and won the Oscar for Best Art Direction. Honors from BAFTA included Best Costume Design and Best Production Design. Burton authored and illustrated a children’s book for The Nightmare Before Christmas, released in conjunction with the film. His next book of drawings and rhyming verse, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories, was praised by the New York Times for “conveying the pain of an adolescent outsider.” Burton is currently directing Corpse Bride, scheduled for release later this year. JOHN AUGUST (Screenplay) wrote and co-produced Go, which debuted at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. Since then, his writing credits have included Charlie’s Angels, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and Titan A.E. In 2004, August was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay by BAFTA and the Broadcast Film Critics Association for his adaptation of Daniel Wallace’s novel Big Fish, A Story of Mythic Proportions. Big Fish marked his first collaboration with director Tim Burton, which led to his work on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Upcoming projects for August include a big-screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan, and Tim Burton’s animated Corpse Bride. He is also executive-producing Prince of Persia, an adaptation of the best-selling videogame for Disney. Born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, August earned a degree in journalism from Drake University in Iowa and an MFA in film from the Peter Stark Producing Program at USC. He frequently serves as a creative advisor for the Sundance Screenwriting Institute, and runs a website devoted to answering beginning screenwriters’ questions at www.johnaugust.com. ROALD DAHL (Book Author) was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. He spent his childhood in England and, at age 18, went to work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa. When World War II broke out, he joined the Royal Air Force and became a fighter pilot. At the age of 26 he moved to Washington, D.C., and it was there he began to write. His first short story, which recounted his adventures in the war, was bought by The Saturday Evening Post, and so began a long and illustrious career. After establishing himself as a writer for adults, Dahl began writing children’s stories in the early 1960s while living in England with his family. His first stories were written as entertainment for his own children, to whom many of his books are dedicated. Roald Dahl is now considered one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. Although he passed away in 1990, his popularity continues to increase as his fantastic novels, including James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The BFG and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, delight an ever-growing legion of fans. Learn more about Roald Dahl on the official Roald Dahl website: www.roalddahl.com. BRAD GREY (Producer) was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Paramount Motion Picture Group of Viacom on March 1, 2005. Grey, former Chairman of Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, is one of the entertainment industry’s most successful entrepreneurs as a leading film and television producer as well as talent manager. Brad Grey was Chairman of Brillstein-Grey Entertainment (BGE) which includes the companies Brillstein-Grey Management, Brad Grey Television and Plan B – a motion picture production company in partnership with Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. BGE was described by Forbes Magazine as “Hollywood’s most successful management and production firm.” Through Plan B, Grey is next producing the upcoming The Departed, a motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon. In addition, Plan B, in its joint venture with Sony’s Tri-Star Pictures, is wrapping production on the adaptation of Augusten Burrough’s best-selling memoi, Running With Scissors, starring Annette Bening and Gwyneth Paltrow. Plan B and Initial Entertainment’s Graham King purchased the rights to the Gregory David Roberts novel Shantaram. Johnny Depp will star in the film as well as co-produce with Grey and King. In addition, Plan B and Warner Bros. Pictures are collaborating on several upcoming projects including The Hatfields and the McCoys, written by Eric Roth; and the remake of the Robert Hanson novel The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, to be written and directed by Andrew Dominik. Brad Pitt is set to star in both films. Plan B is also in pre-production on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon, to be written and directed by Steve Kloves, the screenwriter of the Harry Potter motion pictures. Other projects include The Time Traveler’s Wife, from the book by Audrey Niffenegger, A Million Little Pieces by author James Frey, and A Mighty Heart, based on Marianne Pearl’s book about her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. During Grey’s 20 years tenure, Brillstein-Grey produced some of the most popular and most honored series on television, including the Emmy award-winning hit The Sopranos. Other series include: The Larry Sanders Show, NewsRadio, Just Shoot Me, According to Jim and Real Time with Bill Maher. Brillstein Grey’s extensive list of more then 150 clients includes: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette, Nicolas Cage, The Honorable Rudolph Giuliani, Lorne Michaels, Brad Pitt and Adam Sandler. Grey is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner as well as a four time recipient of the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award as an executive producer. In addition, he is a seventeen-time Emmy Award nominee. Grey serves on the Board of Directors of the UCLA School of Medicine and Project A.L.S. In a career as celebrated as it is accomplished, RICHARD D. ZANUCK (Producer) commands a distinguished reputation in the motion picture industry as one of its most progressive and honored leaders. Pre-eminent as an independent producer and former studio head, Zanuck has earned numerous awards and citations for his achievements in his more than 40 years of filmmaking. Among them, perhaps the most significant and the one that bears the greatest testament to his well-earned stature is the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, bestowed upon him in 1991. This illustrious accolade, given only 29 times in the Academy’s history, recognizes Zanuck as “a creative producer whose body of work reflects a consistently high quality of motion picture production.” A precedent-setting honor and personal milestone as well, this Thalberg Award makes Zanuck the only second-generation recipient ever, in company with his father, Darryl F. Zanuck. Only one year prior, Richard Zanuck, along with Lili Fini Zanuck, took home an Oscar as producer of the Academy Award-winning Best Picture of 1989, Driving Miss Daisy, for which he also received a Golden Globe Award, The National Board of Review Award and Producer of the Year honors from the Producers Guild of America. Zanuck’s Driving Miss Daisy win set another industry precedent – making Richard and Darryl the only father and son in motion picture history to both win Best Picture Oscars. As head of his own production entity, The Zanuck Company, in which he is partnered with his wife, Lili, Zanuck continues a successful career forged on a solid foundation. Upon graduation from Stanford University and military service as an army lieutenant, Zanuck joined his father as a story and production assistant on two Twentieth Century Fox films, Island in the Sun and The Sun Also Rises. At 24, he made his debut as a full-fledged producer with the feature film Compulsion, which went on to win the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for the ensemble work of its stars Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman. He followed that with Sanctuary, based on the William Faulkner novel, and with The Chapman Report, directed by George Cukor. At 27, Zanuck was named Executive VP in charge of production of Twentieth Century Fox and became the then-youngest corporate head in Hollywood annals. During his eight years at the helm, the studio recaptured the luster of its heyday and received an unprecedented 159 Oscar nominations. Three of the films, The Sound of Music, Patton and The French Connection, went on to win Best Picture of the Year Oscars. Other successes include The Planet of the Apes series, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and M*A*S*H. Zanuck subsequently moved from Fox to become senior executive vice-president at Warner Bros. Pictures, where he and soon-to-be partner David Brown oversaw production of such box-office hits as The Exorcist and Blazing Saddles. With the formation of the Zanuck/Brown Co. in 1971, one of the motion picture industry’s most distinguished and successful independent production entities was born. Over the ensuing decade and a half, Zanuck/Brown was responsible for such critical and box-office hits as Jaws, a triple-Oscar winner and Best Picture nominee; Jaws II; The Sugarland Express, Best Screenplay winner at the Cannes Film Festival and Steven Spielberg’s first directorial effort. The Sting, winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, was a Zanuck/Brown presentation; and The Verdict, nominated for five Academy Awards. Along with Lili Fini Zanuck, Zanuck/Brown also produced the double-Oscar winner Cocoon, and its sequel, Cocoon: The Return. The Zanuck Company, formed in 1988, scored a phenomenal success with its debut production, Driving Miss Daisy. Nominated for nine Academy Awards and winner of four, including Best Picture, the Pulitzer Prize winning play-turned-feature film grossed in excess of $100 million at the domestic box-office and with its cost of $5 million now ranks as one of the most profitable releases in Warner Bros. Pictures’ history. Zanuck followed up the major success of Driving Miss Daisy with the critically acclaimed Rush, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Patric, based on the best-selling book by Kim Wozencraft. The film represented the directorial debut of Lili Fini Zanuck, and its score by Eric Clapton became one of the most acclaimed of 1992. Other producing credits with Lili Fini Zanuck include Rich In Love, which reunited the Driving Miss Daisy creative team of the Zanucks with director Bruce Beresford and writer Alfred Uhry; Wild Bill, Walter Hill’s fact-based look at the legendary frontiersman Wild Bill Hickok; and Mulholland Falls, a drama set in the fifties about a team of elite L.A. police officers with an all star cast including Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith and John Malkovich. Zanuck’s release Deep Impact grossed $350 million in the worldwide market place, making it the first bona fide blockbuster of the 1998 summer season. Rules Of Engagement, which Zanuck produced with Scott Rudin, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel Jackson, Guy Pearce and Ben Kingsley, was also enormously successful. The Zanuck Company joined forces with Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood to produce True Crime, a suspense thriller based on Andrew Klavan’s best-selling novel, in which Eastwood also starred and directed for Warner Bros. Pictures. In March of 2000, Richard and Lili Zanuck produced the 72nd annual Oscar presentation, which garnered 9 Emmy nominations and earned the highest network ratings of the last five years. Zanuck’s re-imagining of Planet of the Apes, directed by Tim Burton, was released in July 2001 and became one of the top-grossing films of that year in both domestic and international markets. Other recent projects from the Zanuck Company include the critically acclaimed Road to Perdition, directed by Sam Mendes, starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman and Jude Law, as well as Tim Burton’s star-studded Big Fish, featuring Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange and Alison Lohman. Zanuck has many projects currently in development working out of his Beverly Hills office with his wife Lili and his two sons, Harrison and Dean. PATRICK McCORMICK (Executive Producer) has worked on a wide range of films with many top actors and filmmakers. Most recently he produced P.J. Hogan’s Peter Pan, starring Jason Isaacs, Jeremy Sumpter, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Lynn Redgrave and Richard Briers. His many credits as executive producer include three films directed by Barry Levinson: Bandits, the comic caper starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and Cate Blanchett; Everlasting Piece, a comedy set in the 1980’s Belfast, starring Barry McEvoy, Brain F O’Byrne, Anna Friel and Billy Connolly; and Liberty Heights, the fourth in the director’s Baltimore series, starring Adrien Brody, Bebe Neuwirth and Joe Mantegna. McCormick was also executive producer of Stepmom, starring Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon and Ed Harris; Donnie Brasco, starring a Al Pacino, Johnny Depp and Anne Heche; The Juror, starring Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin and James Gandolfini; and Boys on the Side, starring Drew Barrymore, Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker and Matthew McConaughey. He also previously produced films including Angie, starring Geena Davis; A Shock to the System, starring Michael Caine; and The Last Rites, starring Tom Berenger. FELICITY DAHL (Executive Producer) was born in Llandaff, Wales in 1938 and had a Catholic education, attending various schools throughout her childhood. When she was nineteen, she worked in the fashion department of Harper’s Bazaar and a couple of years later she joined Scenery Limited as a freelance fashion stylist for television commercials. Later, she attended a Carving and Gilding course at the City and Guilds London Art School and in 1981 she and others started their own business, Carvers and Gilders. Felicity, known as Liccy (pronounced Lissy), had three daughters, Neisha, Charlotte and Lorina (deceased 1990), during a previous marriage and is now grandmother to four grandsons, Billy, Oscar, Max and Sam and one granddaughter, Edie. In 1983 Felicity married Roald Dahl. She still lives at Gipsy House, the family home in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. She is the chairman of Dahl & Dahl Limited, the company which manages the Roald Dahl literary estate. After Roald’s death in 1990, Felicity established the Roald Dahl Foundation, of which she is Chairman. The Roald Dahl Foundation is a United Kingdom-based grant-giving charity and its aim is to help children in the areas of literacy, neurology and haematology. Felicity has also commissioned a library of music based on her late husband’s works with the hope that an introduction to classical music will bring children into the concert hall in the same way that his books have brought them into the world of literature. All proceeds raised from the performance and commercial exploitation of these pieces go to the Roald Dahl Foundation. She wrote The Roald Dahl Cookbook in conjunction with Roald and since his death has produced two cookbooks for children: Revolting Recipes and Even More Revolting Recipes. More recently she has been using her energy to set up the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden, the village in Buckinghamshire where Roald Dahl lived and worked for forty years. The museum opened in June 2005. MICHAEL SIEGEL (Executive Producer) is president of Michael Siegel & Associates, Inc. Siegel’s company manages and produces exceptional literary properties, focused on their translation to film. Siegel has managed the literary properties for the Estate of Roald Dahl since the year after one of the world’s most beloved children’s author’s death in 1990. In addition to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Siegel has helped put together the films for other Dahl properties including James and the Giant Peach (Henry Selick, Tim Burton) and Matilda (Danny DeVito), as well as the upcoming The BFG (Kathy Kennedy) and Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson). Siegel manages other artists and properties including Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty, Out of Sight), the Estate of Philip K. Dick (Scanner Darkly, Blade Runner), William Joyce (Robots, A Day With Wilbur Robinson), Michael Cunningham (The Hours, A Home at the End of the World) and the character of Zorro. Siegel has recently formed a crossover media company with a focus on family entertainment that puts the artists and intellectual property holders in a central position during a time of extraordinary change and opportunity. Siegel lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. With unrivalled experience in the entertainment and media industries, GRAHAM BURKE (Executive Producer) has been one of the strategic and creative leaders behind Village Roadshow’s development. He founded Roadshow Distributors with Roc Kirby in 1968 and was an initial director of radio station 2DayFM. Burke initiated Warner Bros. Movie World with Warner Bros. Pictures and managed the takeover of Sea World. He also spent four years as the original Commissioner of the Australian Film Commission. He is Director of Austereo Group Limited, Sea World Management Limited, is on the Board of Village Roadshow Limited and currently holds the title of Managing Director, Executive Director Village Roadshow Limited. Educated at Bennington College and the California Institute of the Arts Film School, BRUCE BERMAN (Executive Producer) graduated Magna Cum Laude from UCLA in 1975 with a major in history. He went on to graduate from Georgetown Law School 1978, and was admitted to the California Bar that same year. Berman got his start in the motion picture business with Jack Valenti at the MPAA in Washington, D.C., working as his assistant while in law school. After graduating, he returned to Los Angeles and started working as Peter Gruber’s assistant at Casablanca Filmworks in September of 1978. He went on to work as assistant to Sean Daniel and Joel Silver at Universal Pictures in July 1979, becoming a production Vice President at Universal in 1982. In 1984, Berman came to Warner Bros. Pictures as a Production VP and was promoted to Senior VP of Production in 1988. He was appointed President of Theatrical Production in September 1989, and then President of Worldwide Theatrical Production in 1991, where he served through May, 1996. Under the aegis, Warner Bros. Pictures, produced and distributed the following: Presumed Innocent, Goodfellas, Robin Hood, Driving Miss Daisy, Batman Forever, Under Siege, Malcolm X, The Bodyguard, JFK, The Fugitive, Dave, Disclosure, The Pelican Brief, Outbreak, The Client, A Time to Kill and Twister. In May of 1996, Berman started Plan B Entertainment, an independent motion picture production company at Warner Bros. Pictures. Berman was appointed Chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures in February, 1998. Village Roadshow Pictures will make 60 theatrical features as a joint venture partner with Warner Bros. Pictures through 2007. The initial slate of films included Practical Magic, starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman; Analyze This, starring Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal; The Matrix, starring Keanu Reaves and Laurence Fishburne; Deep Blue Sea, starring Samuel L. Jackson; Three Kings, starring George Clooney; Space Cowboys, starring Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones; Miss Congeniality, starring Sandra Bullock and Benjamin Bratt; and Cats & Dogs. Subsequent releases included Training Day, starring Academy Award-winning Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke; Ocean’s Eleven, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Julia Roberts; Analyze That; Two Weeks Notice, starring Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant; The Matrix Reloaded; The Matrix Revolutions; Mystic River, starring Sean Penn and Tim Robbins; Ocean’s Twelve; Constantine, starring Keanu Reeves; Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous and House of Wax. Up next is the film The Dukes of Hazzard, starring Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson, Burt Reynolds and Willie Nelson. PHILIPPE ROUSSELOT, A.F.C./A.S.C. (Director of Photography) won an Academy Award in 1993 for his work on Robert Redford’s film A River Runs Through It. He most recently completed cinematography on Constantine, based on the DC Comics/Vertigo Hellblazer graphic novels, starring Keanu Reeves. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory marks Rousselot’s third collaboration with director Tim Burton. Previously, he worked on Burton’s Planet of the Apes, as well as Big Fish – the whimsical tale of a storytelling father and his son. Big Fish received critical acclaim and a number of award nominations in 2003. The French-born director of photography was Oscar-nominated for two other films, Henry & June and Hope and Glory. Other feature credits include Denzel Washington’s directorial debut Antwone Fisher, Remember the Titans, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Mary Reilly, Interview With the Vampire, Flesh & Bone, Sommersby, Dangerous Liaisons and Diva. ALEX McDOWELL (Production Designer) integrates digital technologies with traditional design to create a unique production design process. His centralized art department comprehensively links the strands of 2D and 3D concept and set design, locations, props, lighting and camera, visual effects and post production to support the director’s vision and the film’s visual consistency. McDowell started incorporating digital design into his design process with Fight Club. He sophisticated the process in 1999 with one of the first fully integrated digital design departments for Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, creating a realistic and intensely researched take on the world of 2054 that fulfilled the director’s desire to immerse the audience in future technology. For Spielberg’s The Terminal, he set up another cutting edge art department to push the limits of current film possibility. McDowell also created the fantastical world of Dr. Seuss’ the Cat in the Hat and designed the miniature sets for Tim Burton’s upcoming stop-motion animated feature, Corpse Bride. He is currently immersed in Breaking and Entering, an original contemporary drama written and directed by Anthony Minghella in London, England. McDowell graduated from Central School of Art during the height of London’s punk years. He attributes his willingness to take risks and his expectations of collaborative artistic expression to the spirit of that era. In 1978, he founded Rocking Russian Design to design album covers and later, music videos for musicians of every persuasion. He produced consistently arresting work for over a hundred music videos that reflected his bent for experimentation and his love of music. He relocated in 1986 from London to Los Angeles where he began a prolific career as a production designer for commercials. His commercial work afforded him interaction with cutting-edge directors and insight into filmmaking, and by the early 90s, he segued into film production design. He quickly accrued such credits as The Lawnmower Man, The Crow, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club and The Affair of the Necklace. His production design continues to be infused with the knowledge he acquired as a painter and graphic artist as exemplified by the visual coding, atmosphere, color, character, history and texture he applies to every film. The synergy that emerged from the collaboration amongst designers, filmmakers, scientists and engineers during Minority Report inspired McDowell to launch Matter Art and Science. This uniquely networked group, committed to exploring the collaborative potential of design and engineering, art and science, is composed of members who have both a peripheral contact with pop culture and who are established at the top of their own fields. McDowell makes his home in Los Angeles, with his wife, painter Kirsten Everberg, and their two children. Despite his very demanding schedule, he is active in public speaking, participating in many international design and film conferences. CHRIS LEBENZON, A.C.E. (Editor) previously collaborated with Tim Burton on Big Fish, Planet of the Apes, Sleepy Hollow, Mars Attacks!, Ed Wood, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas and Batman Returns. Lebenzon has teamed up many times with award-winning producer Jerry Bruckheimer, working with him on Pearl Harbor, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Enemy of the State, Armageddon, Con Air, Crimson Tide, Days of Thunder, Beverly Hills Cop II and Top Gun. He has also collaborated with directors Tony Scott and Michael Bay. Lebenzon is a two-time Academy Award nominee for the films Crimson Tide and Top Gun (co-editor). His other credits include XXX, Radio, The Last Boy Scout, Revenge, Midnight Run, Weird Science and Wolfen. DANNY ELFMAN (Music By) is one of the movie world’s most versatile and successful contemporary composers and has scored 11 Tim Burton films including Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman (for which he won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental and a nomination for Best Score), Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (another Grammy nomination for Best Score), Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Planet of the Apes and Big Fish (Academy Award nomination). Elfman wrote an original score for the Oscar-winning film musical Chicago and scored the worldwide box office smash Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2. His other credits include Good Will Hunting (Academy Award nomination) and Men in Black (Academy Award nomination), The Hulk, Red Dragon, Men in Black II, Proof of Life, Family Man, A Simple Plan, Dolores Claiborne and the Grammy-nominated Dick Tracy, as well as Darkman, Sommersby, Dead Presidents, Black Beauty, To Die For and Mission: Impossible. GABRIELLA PESCUCCI (Costume Designer) has had an extensive career in feature film, television, opera and theatre production. She received an Academy Award for her costume design in Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence and received an Oscar nomination for Terry Gilliam’s The Adventure of Baron Munchausen. Her recent feature film credits include A Midsummer Night Dream, Le Temps Retrouve, Secret Passage, Van Helsing and, most recently, Terry Gilliam’s The Brothers Grimm. Pescucci’s opera credits include Norma, Manon Lescaut, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, La Boheme, and Pagliacci, among many others. Her theatre costume credits include the productions Mahogony Napoli Chi Resta e Chi Parte, Fior De Pisello and Strano Interludio. Pescucci has also lent her costume design talents to the film Les Miserables, Dangerous Beauty, Cousine Bette, The Scarlet Letter, Indochine, The Name of the Rose, Once Upon A Time in America and Federico Fellini’s La Città Delle Donne, Prova D’Orchestra. ________________________________ << 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Crew >> Cast >> DVD Release Date >> Bringing Roald Dahl’s Classic Story to the Screen >> Casting Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket and the Bucket Family >> The Four Rotten Children >> The Oompa-Loompas and Dr. Wonka >> Building Wonka’s World: Inspired Production Design and State-of-the-Art Practical & Virtual Effects Combine for an Unparalleled Atmosphere of Wonder >> The Chocolate River >> The Oompa-Loompas >> The Squirrels >> Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Marks the 11th Collaboration between Tim Burton and Acclaimed Composer Danny Elfman >> Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The IMAX Experience >> About the Cast >> About the Filmmakers IN DEPTH | GALLERY | BRIEF NOTES | OFFICIAL WEBSITE ROALD DAHL | JOHNNY DEPP | POSTER I | POSTER II © 2005 by the appropriate owners of the included material