John Stamos Leading ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ in Concert, with Weird Al and Finn Wolfhard Co-Starring

Almost a year ago, we heard that Warner Bros. was developing a new movie based on the early adventures of Willy Wonka, the enigmatic chocolatier immortalized in the pages of Roald Dahl’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and memorably brought to life by the late Gene Wilder in a 1971 movie adaptation. But while movement on […]

Charlie in ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ was supposed to be black, Roald Dahl’s widow says

Paramount Pictures Felicity Dahl, the widow of English children’s book author Roald Dahl, said in a recent BBC Radio interview that the protagonist of her late husband’s book “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” was originally supposed to be black. “His first Charlie that he wrote about was a little black boy,” Felicity Dahl said. Roald Dahl’s […]

At least 15 states jockeying for Toyota and Mazda factory jobs

Just a few weeks ago, Mazda and Toyota announced a partnership that would lead to an all-new $ 1.6 billion plant here in the United States. The plant will build EVs and is expected to employ roughly 4,000 people directly while creating thousands of indirect jobs through suppliers, shipping and more. The Detroit Free Press […]

Wisconsin lawmakers vote to pay Foxconn $3 billion to get new factory

Enlarge / House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, greets Terry Gou, president and chief executive officer of Foxconn, before President Donald Trump announces the first US assembly plant for electronics giant Foxconn, in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday, July 26, 2017. (credit: Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) […]

Men who turned underground nuclear bunker into £2mn a year cannabis factory jailed

Published time: 12 Aug, 2017 17:17 Edited time: 12 Aug, 2017 17:31 Three men who turned a former MoD underground nuclear bunker into a factory capable of producing £2 million worth of cannabis a year were jailed for up to eight years on Friday. The trio were caught leaving the disused bunker in the tiny […]

Electric-car startup Faraday Future signs lease on California factory site

Faraday Future, the electric-car startup that is developing a 1,000-horsepower, self-driving SUV, has signed a lease on what it says will be its future assembly plant. The site, a one-million square-foot building located about 40 miles south of Fresno, California, in the city of Hanford, was one of several sites Faraday had been scouting after […]

Toyota and Mazda join forces to build $1.6 billion factory in the US

Enlarge / Toyota President Akio Toyoda, left, and Mazda President and CEO Masamichi Kogai, right, shake hands during a photo session at a joint press conference on August 4, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. (credit: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images) On Friday, Toyota Motor Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp. signed a deal to enter into an alliance. As […]