Sweeney Todd To Be Released On DVD 4/1

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

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