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“Sweeney Todd” was nominated for 2 BAFTA awards (the British version of the Oscars) for “Costume Design “, and “Make-Up & Hair”. “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” was also nominated for a BAFTA award in “Special Visual Effects”. The awards will be held on Feb. 10th 2008. However, Johnny Depp has indicated his unavailability for the ceremony.
Congratulations to both of these films!
I added some calendar sheets for the year 2008.
You can find them here
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-Sarfania-
Title: Sweeney Todd
Author: Kim Newman
Publication: UK- Empire
Issue: February 2008
Everybody knows the story of Sweeney Todd, the barber who cut his customers’ throats and turned the corpses over to his criminal partner Mrs Lovett to be cooked up in meat pies. Debate persists as to whether he was an actual historical character, but the Demon Barber Of Fleet Street has been prominent in our national gallery of horrors since the middle of the19th century.
The usual version of the tale – as enshrined in Victorian penny dreadful, sensationalist theatre and a ramshackle but wonderful 1936 vehicle for aptly named British horror star Tod Slaughter – is all about crime. Sweeney Todd’s methods may he gruesome, but he’s primarily in it for the money (the early versions of the story are titled after the loot, The String Of Pearls). Then in I968, playwright Christopher Bond came up with a new take, drawing on Jacobean revenge tragedy and populist melodrama in which horribly violent stories expose social inequities. This reading caught the attention of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who adapted it into a dark, bloody 1979 Broadway (and West End) musical which has understandably never enjoyed the long carriage-trade runs much lesser shows have managed, but is acclaimed as a peak of the form.
This masterpiece has proved a daunting movie prospect: the few films of other Sondheim shows haven’t been hits,
I added a new layout to the site for you to chose –
featuring Johnny Depp (of course) on the latest Rolling Stones cover.
See a preview here and click the icon to use the brand new layout:
The myspace also got this layout.
I hope, you like it!
We have added a whole new page for you!!This page is ll about the information on Johnny’s Jewelry that he loves to wear, We are always finding out more information so this page will of course expand with time.It has beautiful photos of his pieces so everyone can click here to see this page!
The current issue of Big Issue reported on 3 sites about Johnny Depp and the movie Sweeney Todd.
Thanks to Debbi, we have some scans in the magazine section
Also Debbi told us about a link to the site of Time out, there you can find a free download for an Exclusive Sweeney Todd audiowalk
click here
//EDIT Jan. 26 –
thanks to Sandra, Elisa, Marlene and Hiro3,I added more scans from January, February and March 2008, and thanks to Netnessie and Janis I could add some older Cover scans.
Title: Johnny Sings
Author: Gavin Edwards
Publication: Rolling Stone
Issue: January 24, 2008
Attend the tale of Johnny Depp: still Hollywood’s most perverse superstar, he has followed up the family-friendly Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy with Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a buckets-of-blood saga of cannibalism that is also -gulp!- a musical. That’s right, Depp sings for the first time ever onscreen, and critics are warbling his praises for tackling the notoriously difficult score from theater legend Stephen Sondheim. This gripping adaptation of the 1979 Broadway hit is the sixth movie Depp has done with director Tim Burton, for whom he’s played misfits from Edward Scissorhands to Ed Wood. But a full-out musical is a first for both of them. And the pain-wracked intensity Depp brings to this London barber obsessed with revenge is sparking Oscar talk.
Today Depp meets me in a suite at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood. His jeans are ripped, and his black shirt is open at the neck to reveal a gonzo necklace, a tribute to his late friend, Hunter S. Thompson. Depp looks around the tastefully appointed room. “They’ve really done this place up,” he says. “I lived in the Chateau for a while, years ago, and it was dingy but great. It was like they bought the couches from the Ramada Inn that was closed down by the Health Department in 1970.” Depp has come a long way from his childhood in Kentucky,
Johnny and Tim were interviewed on the Culture show in the UK. This is a very popular show in England and the interview is lenghty and very informative. Not as light as some of the other interviews we have seen lately but more about business and a great one!
I added the clip and some other interviews in the Download Section
Also I capped some pics of the Interview by J.Ross. click here
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Johnny was nominated in the category “Best Actor” of this years Academy Awards for his performance in the movie ‘Sweeney Todd’.
Johnny Depp reacted to his nod. “My sincere thanks
to the Academy for this kind nomination,” he said. “It is both an
honor and a privilege to be aligned amongst such ability. My endless
gratitude also to Tim Burton and the entire cast and crew of ‘Sweeney
Todd,’ without whom, I would not be here today
Though the movie ‘Sweeney Todd’ itself was left out of the oscar nominations in best picture, it was nominated for best art direction and best costume design.
This year’s Oscar telecast is scheduled for February 24 at the Kodak Theatre, but the ceremony is shrouded in uncertainty due to the ongoing writers’ strike.