Dec 26 2007 'National Treasure' Wins Christmas Weekend Box Office
UPDATE 2: Now shows proper numbers and standings!
1. National Treasure: Book of Secrets - With a holiday haul of $65.4 million, Jerry Bruckheimer is probably already working on National Treasure: The Search for Uncle Sam's Tomb.
2. I Am Legend - Like Tom Hanks in Cast Away, another $47.7 million proves Will Smith can support an entire film with his star power and skilled acting. Provided that he also has hundreds of CGI somethings to fight.
3. Alvin and the Chipmunks - $38.6 million, or enough to buy Alvin over 20 million hula hoops.
4. Charlie Wilson's War - Why wouldn't this war-themed comedic drama take in $15.9 million? With Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts in lead roles, this is the hottest cast of seven years ago.
5. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - $13.6 million is the biggest opening ever for a film with an enema in the title.
6. P.S. I Love You - Against some huge holiday competition, P.S. still managed to scrap up $10 million over the extended weekend. Expect a popularity surge in post-mortem event planning.
UPDATE: I'm now seeing some discrepancy in this list, considering Alvin and the Chipmunks reportedly made almost $30 million over the three-day weekend alone. I'll see what I can figure out about this.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Dec 12 2007 'Sweeney Todd' Bloody Opening Sequence
Wondering what Tim Burton has in store to top his logo-tracing opening to Batman and town model-examining Beatlejuice introduction? Now you can, by watching the opening sequence to Sweeney Todd here.
Warning: not for those uncomfortable with blood behaving like a T-1000 Terminator.
Thanks to Tracy for the tip.
Opening Credits of Burton's Sweeney Todd [Broadway World]
Nov 27 2007 'Sweeney Todd' Clips Highlight Singing, Cleavage
IESB got ahold of nine new clips from Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, which you may now watch at your leisure. I've better labeled the scenes so you can pick and choose which you want--just like Old Country Buffet, but without inevitable diarrhea!
Clip 1 - Helena Bonham Carter's massive cleavage tells Johnny Depp his wife is dead. Johnny Depp explains that he's re-inventing himself in the vein of Prince, and will now be known as Sweeney Todd.
Clip 2 - Johnny Depp sings to a razor.
Clip 3 - Alan Rickman accuses a boy of "gandering at [his] ward," which doesn't seem to hold any of the double-entendre you'd hope it would.
Clip 4 - Sacha Baron Cohen engages in a shaving competition with Johnny Depp, and does a startlingly accurate impression of a singing matador Waluigi. This apparently wasn't the goal of contest, and he loses.
Clip 5 - Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter discuss how he murdered a man and shoved him in a chest. Meahwhile, you wish you were watching the previous scene, where he murdered a man and shoved him in a chest.
Clip 6 - Johnny Depp's promotional singing for his barber shop proves ineffective, largely due to his continued mentions of vengeance.
Clip 7 - Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp sing a song about eating priests vs. eating poets, I think.
Clip 8 - A small boy (through song) promises no harm will come to Helena Bonham Carter as long as he's around. He obviously doesn't realize I'm much larger than him, and would wring his scrawny little neck and do as I please with the woman.
Clip 9 - An official comes to check out the awful smell reportedly coming from Helena Bonham Carter's chimney. Again, it's not as sexual as you hope it's going to be.
Enjoy.
Nov 21 2007 See/Hear Johnny Depp Sing in 'Sweeney Todd'!
Up until now, all of the previews we've seen of Sweeney Todd have been strangely devoid of both song samplings (considering it's a musical) and Johnny Depp dressed like Red Skelton (considering that wouldn't make sense). This new clip solves both of those issues.
Enjoy the song and hobo attire, under the cut.
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Oct 22 2007 New 'Sweeney Todd' Trailer for Tough Dudes
Want to see Johnny Depp slit some throats and Sacha Baron Cohen playing a matador Borat but afraid going to see a musical will make you seem a bit, you know, gay? Not to worry. This new trailer for Sweeney Todd features all of the murdering you could want, while deliberately hiding all of the musical elements like you hid that high school role in Guys and Dolls from your disapproving father. When you're seeing this at the theater, just make sure to act really shocked and offended when Johnny Depp starts belting it out. Possible cover-up line: "What is this, Queeny Todd? I thought this was about a demon or some shit. When are they gonna get back to killing or football or something?"
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Oct 4 2007 'Sweeney Todd' Trailer Shows It's Tim Burton-iest Ever
I'm not necessarily saying this negatively, but from the looks of this trailer, Sweeney Todd might be the most Tim Burtoniest Tim Burton movie ever made by Tim Burton. Johnny Depp? Check. Helena Bonham Carter? Check. Creepy 19th century production design? Check. A color palette consisting entirely of black, white, and blood red? Check (save for Sacha Baron Cohen's lurid ringmaster Waluigi getup). I'm just worried this is Tim Burton's way of saying, "I'm dying, so let me get this all out of my system."
UPDATE: I just realized Danny Elfman is not present, so we can probably rest assured Burton isn't dying.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Trailer [Yahoo!]
Jul 27 2007 Sweeney Todd Poster
Thanks to the wonder of ComicCon exclusives, Tim Burton's film adaptation of the Sweeney Todd musical now has a poster, and it's filled with more brooding than Morrissey listening to a Cure album.
If the use of a sole red object amidst a black and white scene reminds you of that girl with the red coat from Schindler's List, it's for a reason: after she was killed, she was made into this chair.
