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Highest-grossing Roald Dahl movie adaptation

Highest-grossing Roald Dahl movie adaptation
Who
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
What
475,825,484 US dollar(s)
Where
Not Applicable
When
02 December 2005

Many books by British children's author Roald Dahl have been given the big-screen treatment, but none has been more successful at the box office than Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (USA/UK/Australia, 2005), as of 25 April 2016. According to The-Numbers.com, the second iteration of the film, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as the eccentric Willy Wonka, grossed $475,825,484 (£276.2 million) worldwide.

By contrast, the original 1971 movie adaptation, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (USA), starring Gene Wilder, only earned an estimated $4,000,000.