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MTV has announced the nominations for the 2008 MTV Movie Awards.

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 80th Annual Academy Awards were broadcast live from the Hollywood Kodak Theatre on February 24 on ABC-TV, hosted by Jon Stewart.

'Sweeney Todd,' the movie-musical adaptation directed by Tim Burton, has won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo.

The 80th Annual Academy Awards are broadcast live from the Hollywood Kodak Theatre tonight, February 24 on ABC-TV, hosted by Jon Stewart. Winners list announced here!

Playwrights Horizons has announced a cast change for the New York premiere of Dead Man's Cell Phone, a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House, Eurydice). Drama Desk Award winner and Playwrights Horizons alum T. Ryder Smith will assume the role of Gordon (the 'dead man' of the title) beginning Tuesday, February 19.

The 80th Annual Academy Awards take place on February 24, 2008. Here's all the nominees! Among the nominees include Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz for 'Enchanted,' Johnny Depp in 'Sweeney Todd,' plus screen and stage actors Laura Linney and Hal Holbrook.

Due to the on-going Hollywood writers' strike, The 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards NBC telecast and champagne dinner in The Beverly Hilton's International Ballroom was officially cancelled last week and instead the Hollywood Foreign Press Association revealed the winners during an hour-long HFPA press conference at The Beverly Hilton.

Due to the on-going Hollywood writers' strike, The 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards NBC telecast and champagne dinner in The Beverly Hilton's International Ballroom is officially cancelled. Instead, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association today announced that the recipients of Golden Globe Awards in 25 categories will be revealed during an hour-long HFPA press conference at The Beverly Hilton to be covered live by NBC News beginning at 6PM PST on Sunday, January 13.

Variety reports Sweeney Todd fit into the Number 5 top spot for its film-premiere this weekend…

Join BroadwayWorld.com and Broadway Beat for the countdown to Opening Night of the highly anticipated movie musical adaptation of 'Sweeney Todd.' In this final installment, we trace the path that Sweeney Todd has taken from Broadway to the big screen. You won't want to miss this!

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Join BroadwayWorld.com and Broadway Beat for the countdown to Opening Night of the highly anticipated movie musical adaptation of 'Sweeney Todd.' In this second part of a three episode series, we trace the path that Sweeney Todd has taken from Broadway to the big screen. You won't want to miss this part chock-filled with interviews including Michael Cerveris and movie scenes - all hosted by Richie Ridge.

The movie musicals Hairspray and Sweeney Todd are among the nominees for the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

The nominees for the 13th Annual Critics' Choice Awards were announced Tuesday, December 11 by the Broadcast Film Critics Association. Honoring the finest in cinematic achievement, the winners of the Critics' Choice Awards will be broadcast live on VH1 from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on Monday, January 7, 2008.

In just over a week, the eagerly anticipated film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece Sweeney Todd will hit theaters. A fresh take on this haunting thriller begins like any other film - the credit sequence. Fans of Tim Burton know that his sequences always are intriguing to the eye and Sweeney Todd's opening sequence follows suit. BroadwayWorld.com is pleased to bring you this exclusive sneak peek at the opening credit sequence! Click now to watch!

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.

The awards are already coming in for Sweeney Todd, which garnered the Best Director Award for Tim Burton and the Top 10 Movies of the Year acknowledgement by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

Join BroadwayWorld.com and Broadway Beat for the countdown to Opening Night of the highly anticipated movie musical adaptation of 'Sweeney Todd.' In this first part of a three episode series, we trace the path that Sweeney Todd has taken from Broadway to the big screen. You won't want to miss this part chock-filled with interviews and scenes hosted by Richie Ridge.

The highly-anticipated movie-musical adaptation of Sweeney Todd held an exclusive New York City premiere on December 3 at the Ziegfeld Theater. For limited national release December 21, 2007 and wide January 11, 2008.