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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

[2007, Movie]

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street: Review

Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Johnny Depp

Tim Burton's grand guignol fantasy transforms Stephen Sondheim's 1979 musical-theater piece into a cheerfully gothic morality tale. London, mid-19th century: Once there was a barber, a foolish barber named Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp), who never imagined that his radiantly lovely wife, Lucy (Laura Michelle Kelly), might be viciously coveted by the ruthless likes of Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman). But she was, poor thing, and the heartless Turpin had Barker transported to Au... read more

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street: TV Guide News

Ask FlickChick: Your Oscar Questions Answered! | Ask FlickChick | 2/27/2008
Ask FlickChick: Oscar rules, Oscar history, Oscar procedures — your questions answered!Question: Debate about the Oscars: why weren't any of the songs of Sweeney Todd nominated? It's Sondheim, after all! Could there be a reason, like a regulation or something? Dreamgirls was on Broadway first and had songs nominated, didn't it? We don't understand. Love you all at TV Guide, though! Thanks! – LilaFlickChick: None of Stephen Sondheim's songs could be nominated because of rules. In order for a song from Tim Burton's film version of Sweeney Todd to have been eligible for an Academy Award, it would have to have been written specifically for the film. You're absolutely right, Dreamgirls (2006) was a Broadway musical before it was filmed, but the three — count 'em, three — nominated songs ("Listen," "Love You I Do" and "Patience") were all new. And they all lost. That's also how Chicago (2002), picked up its best-song nomination: John Kander and Fred Ebb, who wrote... read more
Box Office Finds Treasure at No. 1; Dewey Cox Blocked | Today's News: Our Take | 12/23/2007
National Treasure: Book of Secrets, starring Nicolas Cage, topped the weekend box office with $45.5 million, besting the original's $35.1 mil opening. Last week's champ, I Am Legend, came in second with $34.2 mil.Rounding out the top five were Alvin and the Chipmunks ($29 mil), Charlie Wilson's War ($9.6 mil in its debut) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (scraping together $9.35 mil across just 1,249 screens).Among other new releases, P.S. I Love You came in at No. 6 with $6.5 million, while the widely praised Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story disappointed with an eighth-place finish, taking in just $4.1 mil.Update: Jessica Simpson's Blonde Ambition reportedly grossed $384 — no typo there — on its opening day. See film critic Ken Fox's A Beautiful Fraud blog for that story. read more

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