Sweeney Todd To Be Released On DVD 4/1

By: Mar. 25, 2008
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Director Tim Burton's tour de force re-imagining of Stephen Sondheim's Tony® Award-winning Broadway hit Sweeney Todd debuts on DVD April 1, 2008 from Paramount Home Entertainment.  The film won the Golden Globe® for Best Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy and an Academy Award® for Best Art Direction.  Johnny Depp earned a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy as well as an Oscar® nomination for Leading Actor.  The film also stars Alan Rickman (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Timothy Spall (Enchanted) and Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat).  The Sweeney Todd two-disc DVD is gushing with special features, including in-depth looks at the musical and its history, making the film, Sweeney's London and designs for a demon barber, Moviefone Unscripted with Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, a press conference, photo gallery and more.  The film also will be available on a single-disc DVD.

The Sweeney Todd two-disc and single-disc DVD are presented in widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TVs with Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround, French 5.1 Surround and Spanish 5.1 Surround and English, French and Spanish subtitles.  The two-disc DVD includes the following special features:

          o Burton + Depp + Carter = Todd
          o Sweeney Todd Press Conference, November 2007
          o Sweeney Todd is Alive: The Real History of the Demon Barber
          o Musical Mayhem: Sondheim's Sweeney Todd
          o Sweeney's London
          o The Making of Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
          o Grand Guignol: A Theatrical Tradition
          o Designs for a Demon Barber
          o A Bloody Business
          o Moviefone Unscripted with Tim Burton and Johnny Depp
          o The Razor's Refrain
          o Photo Gallery
          o Theatrical Trailer

Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE) is part of Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment.  PPC is a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), a leading content company with prominent and respected film, television and digital entertainment brands.  PHE is responsible for the worldwide sales, marketing and distribution of home entertainment products on behalf of various parties including: Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Studios, Paramount Vantage, Paramount Classics, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, CBS, PBS and Hasbro and for providing home entertainment fulfillment services for Dreamworks Animation Home Entertainment.


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