“Blazing Saddles,” “Willy Wonka” Return to Theaters This Weekend

Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder in “Blazing Saddles”; The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — If none of this weekend’s new box office offerings appeal to you, here’s an alternative.  Two of Gene Wilder’s most beloved films will screen at select AMC theaters today and Sunday.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Blazing Saddles will be shown at 55 AMC theaters nationwide. To find out if they’re screening in your area, go to AMCTheatres.com.

Regal Entertainment Group previously announced that some of its theaters will host screenings of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory today.  You can find that information at RegMovies.com.

Wilder died Monday of complications from Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 83.

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