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Sweeney Todd's wereld premiere in Venetië
One of the most anticipated upcoming films this winter is Tim Burton's dark musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street starring Johnny Depp. There hasn't been a trailer, there hasn't been hardly anything so far except a lone image and poster. Well the latest news today comes from SlashFilm, who has discovered that the studio executives are asking him to "butcher" his own film from a natural R-rating down to PG-13. SlashFilm reports news from The Daily Mail in the UK that the early footage was "so extremely bloody that the studio executives have become a tad squeamish and are requesting the film to be re-cut." Apparently an insider sent some news to The Daily Mail that Tim Burton is not pleased that the studio is asking for so many cuts.
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This was one of the things that almost got lost in the shuffle of Comic-Con -- the poster image for Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd. Johnny Depp really does look like the demon barber of Fleet Street in this image, while echoing a few shades of Edward Scissorhands and From Hell. In fact, this is one of the first times in recent memory that a poster has me more jazzed about a film than I thought I would be. It looks as dark and disturbing as the source material, and just the idea of bringing Tim Burton and Johnny Depp back together has me excited. Let's just hope there are no chocolate bars or Oompa Loompas in sight.


