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Sweeney Todd For Xmas: Trade Roughage 08/28/07

Karina Longworth
By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago
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  • Dreamworks and Paramount have decided to open Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd wide on Christmas weekend. The original plan was to open on a couple of screens December 21 and then go wide three weeks later, but the studios, apparently convinced that Johnny Depp’s demon barber could have the appeal of a singing, cannibalistic Captain Jack, think Burton’s Sondheim adaptation has holiday weekend written all over it.
  • “Owen Wilson’s emergency hospitalization and recovery are throwing a major monkeywrench into production of two movies and causing marketing headaches for two more,” writes Variety’s Tatiana Siegel. It seems like a fair thing to  speculate, but the only studio rep who would go on the record dismisses the line of inquiry as “totally inappropriate at this time.”
  • Another day, another set of amazing sidebars announced by the New York Film Festival. This time, it’s a series of “dialogues” with directors Julian Schnabel, Todd Haynes, Wes Anderson and Sidney Lumet.
  • Women in Film, in partnership with GM, have launched an online magazine for/by/regarding females in the film industry. It’s called Traction, and you can find it at wiftraction.com

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