Photo Coverage: 'Sweeney Todd' Hollywood Movie Premiere
The highly-anticipated movie-musical adaptation of Sweeney Todd held an exclusive Hollywood premiere on Wednesday, December 5 at the Paramount Theater. For limited national release December 21, 2007 and wide January 11, 2008.
DreamWorks Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures Presents a Parkes/MacDonald and Zanuck Company Production, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by Tim Burton. Produced by Richard D. Zanuck, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and John Logan; Executive Producer Patrick McCormick.
Based on the Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler; originally staged by Harold Prince. From an adaptation by Christopher Bond, screenplay by John Logan. Johnny Depp and Tim Burton join forces again in a big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical thriller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street…
"Depp stars in the title role as a man unjustly sent to prison who vows revenge, not only for that cruel punishment, but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to reopen his barber shop, Sweeney Todd becomes the Demon Barber of Fleet Street who 'shaved the faces of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard of again,'" state press notes.
Joining Depp is Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney's amorous accomplice, who creates diabolical meat pies. The cast also includes Alan Rickman, who portrays the evil Judge Turpin, who sends Sweeney to prison, Timothy Spall as the Judge's wicked associate Beadle Bamford and Sacha Baron Cohen as a rival barber, the flamboyant Signor Adolfo Pirelli.
Photos by Sara DeBoer / Retna Ltd.
Rose Marie
Michael Urie and Vanessa Williams
Michael Urie and Vanessa Williams
Mira Sorvino and guest
Mira Sorvino and guest
Rebecca De Mornay
Rebecca De Mornay
Joel Silver
Joel Silver and guest
Harry Dean Stanton
Gore Verbinski
Tim Burton (Director)
|
E=MC² Einstein The Musical Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center (7/03-7/26) |
|
Fool for Love Santa Monica Playhouse (7/23-7/26) |
|
Gershwin and the Golden Age Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) (10/11-10/11) |
|
The Seven Deadly Seas POP HQ (7/17-7/19) |
|
Dancing Queens! A Mamma Mia Drag Musical Parody Hamburger Mary's (6/20-8/22) |
|
Hamilton (Angelica Company) Pantages Theatre (7/28-8/29) |
|
The Lightning Theif: The Percy Jackson Musical Canyon Theatre Guild (8/01-8/30) |
|
‘The Great Clown Bank Show’ Atwater Village Theatre (6/27-8/01) |
|
Christmas Carol Goes Wrong Ahmanson Theatre (12/12-1/10) |
|
OTR: Provenance Chance Theater (7/29-7/29) |