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The complete music for the up-coming Tim Burton movie-musical adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd is available now for Pre-Order on Amazon.com. The 2-CD complete soundtrack features bonus content in a specially-packaged deluxe edition with bound booklet. The soundtrack is set for release December 18, 2007 under the Wea/Atlantic/Nonesuch label.

The up-coming Tim Burton movie-musical adaptation of Sweeney Todd will receive an MPAA R-rating due to the amount of violence and gore in the film.

Excerpts from the upcoming film version of Sweeney Todd will reportedly be shown at the Venice Film Festival next month

Tim Burton's eagerly anticipated screen version of Stephen Sondheim's classic 1979 musical Sweeney Todd will go in to a limited domestic release on December 21st, 2007, and open in wide release in the U.S. on January 11th, 2008

Tim Burton, the director of the upcoming film version of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd, will appear at San Diego's Comic-Con to show clips from the movie musical

full casting has been announced for Jason Robert Brown's Tony Award-winning 1998 musical, Parade, which will make its London premiere this September at the Donmar Warehouse.

Filming for Tim Burton's upcoming film version of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, starring Johnny Depp in the title role, was completed on May 11th.

Tim Burton's upcoming film adaptation of the classic Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd, starring Johnny Depp, will go in to a limited domestic release on December 21st, 2007, and open in wide release in the U.S. on January 11th, 2008.

Filming of Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd film has resumed

Filming of Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd film has been halted due to the illness of star Johnny Depp's daughter.

Principal photography has begun in London on 'Sweeney Todd'; starring Johnny Depp in the Tim Burton directed screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical thriller.

Irish student Jayne Wisener has landed the dream role of Johnny Depp's daughter in the upcoming movie of the Sondheim musical, 'Sweeney Todd'. Though not widely broadcast, the casting was reported in the Irish press at the end of December and a spokesperson for Warner Bros. confirmed that the 19 year old second year student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow had been cast.

19-year old Jayne Wisener will play imperiled ingenue Johanna in Tim Burton's upcoming film version of Sweeney Todd

Stage and screen star Alan Rickman will play the villainous Judge Turpin in the upcoming DreamWorks film version of Sweeney Todd

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Sacha Baron Cohen--whose film Borat has become a pop culture phenomenon over the last 2 weeks--has been confirmed to play the role of duplicitous barber Pirelli in the upcoming DreamWorks film version of Sweeney Todd.

Variety reports that Helen Bonham Carter has signed on to the Sweeney Todd film to star opposite Johnny Depp as the devilish Mrs. Lovett.

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The 78th Annual Academy Awards took place on Sunday, March 5, 2006. It was Hollywood's biggest night of the year, but with the worlds of stage and screen colliding more often by the day - how could we resist bringing you photo coverage of the night? We couldn't!