The Demon Barber of Fleet Street will be coming to your street on April Fools Day. Paramount Home Entertainment has announced that Sweeney Todd will be released on DVD and HD DVD on April 1. The film will be released in a single-disc edition and a two-disc edition along with the HD DVD version. No pricing has been listed. The film stars Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall and Sacha Baron Cohen.
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton join forces again in a big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical thriller Sweeney Todd. 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 heads of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard from again.” 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 and Timothy Spall as the Judge’s wicked associate Beadle Bamford and Sacha Baron Cohen is a rival barber, the flamboyant Signor Adolfo Pirelli.
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Special Features
- Featurette: Burton + Depp + Carter = Todd
The following features will only be available on the two-disc and HD DVD versions:
Interview: Sweeney Todd Press Conference, November 2007
Featurette: Sweeney Todd is Alive: The Real History of the Demon Barber
Featurette: Musical Mayhem: Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd
Featurette: Sweeney’s London
Featurette: The Making of Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Featurette: Grand Guignol: A Theatrical Tradition
Featurette: Designs for a Demon Barber
Featurette: A Bloody Business
Interview: Moviefone Unscripted with Tim Burton and Johnny Depp
Featurette: The Razor’s Refrain
Trailers: Theatrical Trailer
Photo Gallery: Photo Gallery
