With both their businesses prospering, Mrs. She gets the idea to bake Todd's victims into pies ("A Little Priest"), and Todd rigs a trapdoor to drop his victims' bodies into her bakehouse. Lovett into being his partner in crime ("Epiphany"). Believing Johanna to be lost to him forever, Todd vows to kill as many people as he can out of revenge and seduces Mrs. Intent on marrying Johanna, Turpin is recommended Todd's services by Bamford but they are interrupted by Anthony before Todd can kill him ("Ladies in Their Sensitivities"/"Pretty Women"), revealing Anthony's plans with Johanna and causing Turpin to storm out and throw Johanna into a madhouse. Lovett is shocked but accepts Todd's justifications, having grown emotionally attached to Pirelli's downtrodden assistant Toby Ragg, whom she adopts as a son ("Wait"). He attempts to blackmail Todd, who suddenly flies into a rage and kills him. Rival barber and snake oil salesman Adolfo Pirelli is publicly humiliated by Todd ("Pirelli's Miracle Elixir"/"The Contest") in front of Bamford, but recognizes Todd by his razors and reveals himself as his former apprentice. Wandering the streets where he encounters a beggar woman, Anthony becomes enamored with Johanna after seeing her sing by a window above the street ("Green Finch and Linnet Bird"/"Alms! Alms!"), but is caught by Turpin and driven away by his henchman, Beadle Bamford ("Johanna"). Lovett, who loves him unrequitedly, presents him with his old straight razors ("My Friends"). Todd vows revenge and re-opens his barbershop after Mrs. Recognizing Barker, Lovett tells him that once he was exiled, Turpin raped Lucy and drove her to suicide ("Poor Thing") before adopting the couple's daughter, Johanna, as his ward. Barker adopts the alias " Sweeney Todd" and returns to his old Fleet Street shop, situated above Nellie Lovett's meat pie shop ("The Worst Pies in London"). Fifteen years earlier, he was falsely convicted and exiled to Australia by the corrupt Judge Turpin, who lusted after Barker's wife Lucy ("No Place Like London"). In 1846, Benjamin Barker, a barber, arrives in London, accompanied by sailor Anthony Hope. It grossed over $153 million against a production budget of $50 million. The film received critical acclaim, and was praised for the performances of the cast, musical numbers, costume and set design, and faithfulness to the musical. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street had its premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City on 3 December 2007, and was released in the United States on 21 December 2007 and in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2008. Zanuck acknowledged was something of a gamble. Depp, not known for his singing, took lessons in preparation for his role, which producer Richard D. Sondheim, although not directly involved, was extensively consulted during production. However, it was not until 2006 that he had the opportunity to realize this ambition, when DreamWorks Pictures announced his appointment as replacement for director Sam Mendes. Having been struck by the cinematic qualities of the stage musical while young, Burton had entertained the notion of a film version since the early 1980s. Lovett ( Helena Bonham Carter), processes their corpses into meat pies. The film retells the melodramatic Victorian tale of Sweeney Todd ( Johnny Depp), an English barber and serial killer who, while seeking revenge on Judge Turpin ( Alan Rickman) who wrongfully convicted and exiled him to steal his wife, murders his customers and, with the help of his accomplice, Mrs. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 musical slasher film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by John Logan, based on the stage musical of the same name by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, which in turn is based on the 1970 play Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond.
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