Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street "Sweeney Todd", jointly produced by DreamWorks and Warner Bros., was released on December 21, 2007. Tim Burton directed from a screenplay by John Logan. It stars Johnny Depp as Todd (Depp received an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award for his performance), Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin, Sacha Baron Cohen as Signor Pirelli, Jamie Campbell Bower as Anthony Hope, Laura Michelle Kelly as The Beggar Woman, Jayne Wisener as Johanna, Ed Sanders as Toby, and Timothy Spall as Beadle Bamford. The film was well-received by critics and theatregoers and also won the Golden
The String of Pearls later years there were many different literary, stage and eventually film adaptations which renamed, further expanded and often drastically altered the original story. A scholarly, annotated edition of "The String of Pearls" was published in 2007 by the Oxford University Press under the title of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street", edited by Robert Mack. Penny dreadfuls were often written carelessly and contained themes of gore and violence. "The String of Pearls" is no different. Its style of writing makes it a perfect example of a penny dreadful, having a sensational, violent subject matter that plays off of