'Sweeney Todd' Costumes; 40-Minute Tim Burton Video Interview

David Poland of MCN conducted an interview with director Tim Burton, the video of which is now online and can be viewed here after the jump. In this 40-minute segment, Burton talks about his latest feature film, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

In other Sweeney Todd news, USA Today has a feature on Colleen Atwood and her costume designs for film.

Atwood, who also worked on Beloved, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Burton's Sleepy Hollow, said that her inspiration for Sweeney Todd was the music (scored by Stephen Sondheim). "It's the starting point of all of it. It's a moody piece, so I wanted a lot of texture in the costumes. I wanted you to be able to feel them on screen," she said...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!

Book Review: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Companion to the film by Tim Burton
By Mark Salisbury
Hardcover
Titan Books
Available Dec. 11, 2007

I put this book -- simply titled Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street -- on my Amazon wishlist sight-unseen a few months ago, thinking it to be some kind of novelization of the Tim Burton big-screen adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical. Imagine my delight when a beautiful 11x9 full-color hardcover companion to the film arrived a week ago (courtesy of my thoughtful mother-in-law)!...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!

Movie Review: Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd
Directed by Tim Burton
Starring Johnny Deep, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman
Rated R
Released date: Dec. 21, 2007

Ow’s uhbou uh meet poi, guvna? An’ perhaps uh touch uh gin ta waas it deown?

Aye, mum, Oi’d luv me a meet poi! Sowch uh taste woyd tickle me knickers, it woyd.

I enjoy a spot of deliciousness, too, every now and again.

The cockney-heavy production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is palatable enough. Macabre dream team Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, and Sacha Baron Cohen lay out a smorgasbord of a Broadway adaptation that will leave audiences drooling or writhing -- depending on their tolerance of anthropophagi (juicy word, eh? Means cannibals).

The film opens with a treat of a credit reel courtesy of Mr. Burton. Those impatient geeks out there that had to watch the opening credits online know what I’m talking about -- it does for blood what Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s credit reel did for chocolate. Just writing about it conjures cravings of a strip steak: extra rare.

There is plenty of blood to go around...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!

'Sweeney Todd' Opening Credits

Broadway World has a clip of the opening credits of DreamWorks Pictures' Sweeney Todd, the Tim Burton-directed film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical thriller.

You might not thinking an opening credit sequence is anything special, but don't forget, this is a Tim Burton movie...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!

Tim Burton's 3-D 'Nightmare' and 'Vincent' in theaters Friday

Tickets for Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas in Disney Digital 3-D, which opens in select theaters nationwide on October 19, 2007, are on sale now.

Tickets for the movie's limited 3-week 2007 theater run are available now at www.Nightmare3Dmovie.com (which redirects to Fandango).

Opening the film will be Vincent, one of Burton’s earliest animated shorts, which was converted to a stereoscopic 3-D form for theater viewings. Made in 1982, the six-minute stop-motion short is about a boy named Vincent who imagines he’s like Vincent Price. Price narrated the black-and-white film, which was based on a poem by Burton...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!

'Sweeney Todd' Trailer

Yahoo! Movies has the theatrical trailer for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the Tim Burton-directed film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical thriller...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!