Dreamworks Updates Sweeney Todd Release Schedule
Christmas comes four days early for Burton fans.
Black may have been in last year,
but set your winter fashion to deep red this Christmas: Dreamworks has announced
a December 21 release date for
Sweeney Todd, the musical thriller by
Tim Burton and starring
Johnny Depp.
You already knew the release date? You already cleared your schedule for that day, and circled the date on your
calendar? Actually, Dreamworks is bumping up Sweeney Todd from a limited
release to a wide release. According to Variety, Burton had been pushing for
the film to go wide, concerned that a limited release would give the impression
Sweeney was an arthouse flick.
An adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical, Sweeney Todd stars Johnny Depp as the titular barber, out to avenge the death of his wife and child. Despite the brouhaha over Warner Bros. (the film's UK distributor) allegedly snipping Sweeney Todd for a PG-13 rating, Dreamworks and Paramount still appear ready to release the movie as an R picture in the US.
Source: Variety
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on Aug 28 2007 03:23 PM HOT DAMN! This is great news! Although there's no way it'll get to #1 in the box office that weekend (as if we expected it to), not with NATIONAL TREASURE 2: WE CAN'T BE WORSE THAN THE FIRST ONE? WE'LL SHOW YOU! coming out. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 28 2007 04:12 PM Thank God it got the R!! Chopping people up and baking them into pies? Umm, pretty sure that woudln't work as PG-13.. But sweet, 4 days early! Merry Christmas!! (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 28 2007 04:39 PM Good news indeed. (Reply to this) |
on Aug 28 2007 06:32 PM YES! Excellent. Sticking with what the good man Burton wanted. :) And many of us. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 28 2007 06:48 PM Oh, I don't know. Maybe a trimmed version of the movie might work... *thinks...* "Coming this Christmas: Sweeney Todd, the Pillow Maker of Fleet Street! The musical about a man who devotes his life to cutting people's beards and then filling pillows with the trimmings. Rated PG-13!" ...Ummmmm, maybe not. (Reply to this) |
on Aug 28 2007 06:58 PM Great news. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 28 2007 07:29 PM It better be an arthouse film! or at least good enough to sweep the oscars (Reply to this) |
on Aug 28 2007 07:34 PM Woo-hoo! Dreamworks and Paramount rock! Down with Warner Bros! On a side note, I am a little surprised that a such a supposedly violent film (a musical, no less) would get a wide release. The studios must've really liked it for that to happen. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 28 2007 08:17 PM Yay! A Christmas film worth waiting for :D (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 28 2007 09:22 PM ya ya ya YA!!!!! sooooo happy about the R rating.... this musical rocks. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 29 2007 09:33 AM I think wide release is definitely the way to go. After all, this is big bugdet Tim Burton film, not a small budget, experimental, art house type film. The "R" rating is a huge relief, if that's true. I don't want to see some watered down version, just because some studio (Warner Bros)wants to make it more accessible, just to line their pockets. (Reply to this) |
on Aug 29 2007 10:26 AM Hell yeah it's going wide and R rated, this is a very merry christmas. (Reply to this) |
on Aug 29 2007 10:53 AM The release change is one thing, the fact that it's coming out uncut is the best news though. This seems a bit of a flip flop given movie cutting culture in this country though for it to be cut in the UK (not a PG-13 as this article says since I'm pretty sure the MPAA haven't hopped the pond yet). That and Focus releasing Lust, Caution NC-17 is a nice big screw you to the MPAA. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 29 2007 01:40 PM Whats up with WB turning into a ***** studio suddenly ? (Reply to this) |
on Aug 29 2007 02:40 PM Yay! R! Yay! (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 29 2007 03:34 PM Yes! I know this has been said already but I'm just so happy that this one is still gonna be released in all of its R-rated glory! Thank god! (Reply to this) |
on Aug 29 2007 07:36 PM When Beowulf flops hard with it's R rating, they'll end up doing last minute chopping to the film. I know it. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 30 2007 12:43 AM thats IF Beowulf flops. it looks pretty good to me and it has a strong enough cast to suppost some fanbase. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 30 2007 10:47 AM Beowulf is rated pg-13. And it looks pretty sweet, so hopefully it does well. (Reply to this) |
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