Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

…subsequently reteamed with Burton on Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), based on Stephen Sondheim’s musical; Alice in Wonderland (2010), a special-effects-enhanced adaptation of the Lewis Carroll story; and Dark Shadows (2012), a comedic interpretation of a cult-favourite soap opera from the 1960s.

…of Fleet Street (1979; film 2007), a macabre tale set in Victorian-era London. All were either produced or directed by Harold Prince, as were Pacific Overtures (1976), in which Sondheim looked to Japanese Kabuki theater for stylized effects, and Merrily We Roll Along (1981), adapted from a 1934 play by…

…in the Tim Burton film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Two years later he brought Brüno to the big screen in an eponymous feature. Baron Cohen subsequently announced that he was retiring the character, as he had previously done with Borat and Ali G. In 2011 he…

…the animated Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Alice in Wonderland (2010), and Dark Shadows (2012)—all of which featured another of Burton’s favoured actors, Johnny Depp.

…Depp reteamed with Burton for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), a film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s musical; as the serial killer Sweeney, Depp earned praise for both his acting and his singing, and he received another Oscar nomination.

…his secretary; in Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), as the corrupt Judge Turpin; and in Lee Daniels’s The Butler (2013), as U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan. Rickman supplied his distinctive low voice to Marvin, the Paranoid Android, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)…