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Douglas Hodge believes that playing Willy Wonka will be his biggest role by far Helen Maybanks

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Ewan McGregor and Douglas Hodge in Guys and Dolls in 2005 Lorenzo Agius

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Johnny Depp and cast in the 2005 film

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Quentin Blake's pictures have inspired the sets at the Theatre Royal Helen Maybanks

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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in 1971 with, right, a "spaced-out" Gene Wilder ABC

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Hodge in rehearsals with director Sam Mendes Helen Maybanks

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The Biennale gathers cutting-edge art from around the world. So what are British artists bringing to the party?

The movie industry has a long history of raiding computer games for ideas - but box-office success has been rare

Our critics discuss the latest big releases. This week, nobody is impressed by The Hangover Part III or The Big Wedding

It’s strike three and you’re grossed out for this feeble franchise that desperately morphs into a heist-chase-thriller

The Americans tells the story of Soviet sleeper agents in the 1980s. The reality is just as intriguing says David Taylor

The 1920s era of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald was awash with sex, says Judith Mackrell in an extract from her new book

World War Z , the most expensive zombie movie in Hollywood history, is a year late and $100 million over budget and heading for disaster

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