"HBO First Look" Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2008)

TV Series:

"HBO First Look" (1992)

Original Air Date:

2 January 2008 (Season 15, Episode 1)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Behind The Scenes | Filmmaking | Acronym In Title | Hbo

Cast

Johnny Depp	...	Himself
Tim Burton	...	Himself
Alan Rickman	...	Himself
Helena Bonham Carter	...	Herself
Timothy Spall	...	Himself
Richard D. Zanuck	...	Himself
Laurie MacDonald	...	Herself
Walter F. Parkes	...	Himself (as Walter Parkes)
Sacha Baron Cohen	...	Himself / Signor Adolfo Pirelli (archive footage)
Jamie Campbell Bower	...	Himself
Jayne Wisener	...	Herself
John Logan	...	Himself
Stephen Sondheim	...	Himself
Peter Owen	...	Himself
Derek Frey	...	Himself
Bruce Witkin	...	Himself
Michael Higham	...	Himself (as Mike Higham)
Colleen Atwood	...	Herself
Dante Ferretti	...	Himself
Katharine Tidy	...	Herself (as Katherine Tidy)
Dariusz Wolski	...	Himself
Ed Sanders	...	Himself (as Edward Sanders)
David Balfour	...	Himself
Joss Williams	...	Himself

Produced by
Kellie Allred	....	executive producer
Heather David	....	supervising producer
Sam Hurwitz	....	executive producer
Eli Loghavi	....	associate producer
Jonas Stolpe	....	producer

Cinematography by
Paul Bernard
James Cronin
Derek Frey
Larry Gaudette
Sean Hill
Jeff Hodges
David Kempner
Denis Pollitt
Justin Savage

Film Editing by
Steven Kochones

Makeup Department
Sharon Black	....	makeup artist
Debbie San Filippo	....	makeup artist
Marianna Najjar	....	makeup artist
Janette Nielsen	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Shannon K. Morzov	....	project manager
Krystin Weaver	....	post-production supervisor
Michael Wuetcher	....	post-production supervisor

Art Department
Harrison Lee	....	graphics

Sound Department
Brad Bergbom	....	sound
Keith Branch	....	sound
Matt Clark	....	sound
James Cronin	....	sound
Doug Donald	....	sound
Matt Green	....	sound
John O'Hare	....	sound
Chris Woods	....	sound
Gary Zacuto	....	sound mixer

Editorial Department
Christina Castro	....	assistant editor
Zachary Dehm	....	post-production assistant
Dan Keller	....	additional on-line editor
Marc Pilvinsky	....	on-line editor

Other crew
Sharon Chin	....	assistant to producers
Sarah Clark	....	unit publicist
Jordan Crompton	....	assistant to producers
Kirk Dauer	....	production accountant
Sara Karnowski	....	assistant to producers
Carolyn Smith	....	production coordinator

Thanks
Tim Burton	....	special thanks
Derek Frey	....	special thanks
Angela Lansbury	....	special thanks
Stephen Sondheim	....	special thanks
Martha Swope	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Sam Hurwitz Productions

Runtime:

25 min

Company:

Sam Hurwitz Productions

Movie Connections:

Features Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

An interesting behind-the-scenes look at "Sweeney"...

Every facet of film-making that went into the filming of SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET is examined, rather briefly, in this episodic behind-the-scenes look at the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp collaboration for the screen version of the Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical.

JOHNNY DEPP refers to it as a "marriage of two completely different worlds" (the mix of music and horror) and ALAN RICKMAN describes it as a "Gothic black comic opera".

The 25-minute documentary is divided into brief segments that describe how and why the film was made from the standpoint of director Burton and composer Sondheim. Depp and Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman, along with other members of the cast, give their own viewpoints.

The segments are: The Cast, The Vision (how it all started with a penny dreadful popularity in ye Olde England), The Music, The Costume Design (very interesting segment on attiring the entire cast), and The Production Design (which meant creating on sound stages the entire Fleet Street atmosphere of Victorian England).

Summing up: Goes by so quickly, you end up wishing for even more information.