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
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) and a superb supporting cast bring focused fury to this musical nightmare. It's bloody great." "Time"<nowiki>'s</nowiki> Richard Corliss named the film one of its top ten movies of 2007, placing it fifth. Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave it four stars out of four, lauding Burton's visual style. In his review in "Variety", Todd McCarthy called it "both sharp and fleet" and "a satisfying screen version of Stephen Sondheim's landmark 1979 theatrical musical ... things have turned out uniformly right thanks to highly focused direction by Tim Burton, expert screw-tightening by scenarist John Logan, and haunted and musically adept