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Matilda was released on August 2, 1996. It made $8.5 million at the US box office in its opening weekend, ranking in third place behind A Time to Kill and Independence Day. [16] The film grossed $33.5 million in the United States and Canada and $47 million worldwide [3] against a production budget of $36 million. [1]
All versions of Matilda—the 1988 novel, the 1996 film directed by Danny DeVito, ... The 1996 film is the only version of Matilda that takes place in the U.S., in suburban California.
In 2012 Matilda was ranked number 30 on a list of the top 100 children's novels published by School Library Journal, a monthly with primarily US audience. It was the first of four books by Dahl among the Top 100, more than any other writer. [2] Time magazine included Matilda in its list of the "100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time". [9]
Lifeforce is a 1985 British science fiction horror film directed by Tobe Hooper, adapted by Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby, and starring Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Mathilda May, and Patrick Stewart.
The movie was based on Roald Dahl's classic book of the same name, and told the story of Matilda, a genius little girl who has special magical powers. Photo cred: Getty
Mar. 9—It took some time, but Hector Duran and the cast of "Space Force" are back in action. "This whole COVID thing messed up everything," Duran says. "Our show got delayed nearly two years."
This article is solely about Dahl's Matilda, and does not even mention Belloc's Matilda. Neither would make sense as being inspired by the other, either: the poem is about a girl who tells lies and then is disbelieved when she says her house is burning down (like Peter and the Wolf) and the novel is about an ordinary girl with superpowers who ...
Matilda Wormwood, also known by her adoptive name Matilda Honey, is the title character of the bestselling 1988 children's novel Matilda by Roald Dahl.She is a highly precocious five and a half (six and a half in the 1996 film) year old girl who has a passion for reading books.