John August

Charlie

New Charlie posters up

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charlie onesheet[Ain’t It Cool News](http://aintitcoolnews.com) has the six new one-sheets for [Charlie and the Chocolate Factory](http://imdb.com/title/tt0367594/combined). Five of the posters feature the young Golden Ticket winners, while the final one has a new image of Willy Wonka, with the appropriate tagline, “semi-sweet and nuts.”

I hadn’t seen any of these one-sheets before this morning, but I strongly suspected these single-character portraits were on their way, given the somewhat-iconic characters of Veruca Salt and company.

New Charlie poster

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Charlie PosterI haven’t seen a physical version of it yet, but [JoBlo.com](http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=7080) has the artwork for the second [Charlie and the Chocolate Factory](http://chocolatefactorymovie.com) poster. This one shows Freddie Highmore as Charlie, along with his four rotten tour-mates (Mike Teavee, Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde and Veruca Salt).

Before you ask:

* No, I don’t get any input on posters. I’m just happy my name is spelled correctly.

* No, I don’t know if this is the final poster, or if there will be a different one for Europe/Australia/Loompa-Land. My hunch is that the marketing people are pretty industrious folks, so there are many other potential one-sheets which may eventually become foreign posters and/or newspaper ads.

* July 15th is the opening date for North America. I don’t know yet when it will open in the U.K. and other countries.

Wonka Industries open for business

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Wonka Industries Logo

It’s easy to overlook, but on the main webpage for this summer’s [Charlie and the Chocolate Factory](http://chocolatefactorymovie.warnerbros.com/), there’s an icon for Wonka Industries. One click takes you to the corporate site for the world’s most beloved chocolateer. A lot of stuff is still to-be-added, but click around and you’ll find some new images I haven’t seen anywhere else.

There is also a new [Spanish trailer](http://wwws.warnerbros.es/movies/chocolatefactory/home.html#) for “Charlie y la Fabrica de Chocolate.” It’s the same as the U.K. trailer (i.e., flaming dolls).

The [Dutch trailer](http://www.sjakieendechocoladefabriekdefilm.nl/) is also identical to the U.K., but “Charlie” has become “Sjakie.”

German (and French) Charlie teasers now available

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[[German Charlie Still]](http://wwws.warnerbros.de/movies/charlie/)Warner Bros. Germany has their own version of the [teaser trailer](http://wwws.warnerbros.de/movies/charlie/) up for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, or *Charlie und die Schokoladen-Fabrik*. I wouldn’t normally single it out, but they went through the effort to re-do the “Willy Wonka” song in German, and, well, it’s kind of amazingly great.

Any Deutsch-speaking readers who’d like to translate the song, I’d certainly welcome it.

The [Japanese Warner Bros. site](http://www.warnerbros.co.jp/web/main/movies/movies.jsp?frompage=wb_homepage_jp) has a taunting and tiny version of the poster, but no link to a trailer. Yet.

**UPDATE**
Mike points out that there’s now a [French version](http://wwws.warnerbros.fr/movies/charlie/?frompromo=movies_comingsoon_Charlie) available — check the “bande-annonce” section. Translation is forthcoming.