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2 July 2008 1:34 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen will play the lead characters in a Judd Apatow-produced Sherlock Holmes comedy for Columbia Pictures.

Although plot details have not been revealed yet, Variety reports Etan Cohen (“Tropic Thunder”) is writing the script. Baron Cohen will play master detective Holmes, while Ferrell will jump into the role of his partner Watson.

The film reteams Ferrell and Baron Cohen, who played bitter rivals in Adam McKay’s Talladega Nights,” which Apatow also produced.

Ferrell recently starred in “Semi-Pro” and will next be seen alongside John C. Reilly in McKay’s “Step Brothers.”

Baron Cohen was last seen in “Sweeney Todd” and is currently filming “Bruno,” a mockumentary in the style of “Borat.”

As for Apatow, he’s gearing up for his next directorial effort “Funny People,” which stars Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Eric Bana and Jonah Hill.

Baron Cohen and Ferrell as Holmes and Watson?

Franck Tabouring

30 June 2008 4:53 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

There has been cautious optimism about the upcoming Terminator trilogy since it was announced that Christian Bale would play John Connor.

The cast has filled out rather nicely since then - funny how that works - although I still question whether McG is the right director. Then again, I said the same thing about Jonathon Mostow for T3, and that turned out better than I expected.

And now there's news that a new, more-than-reputable actor will join the ensemble that already includes Anton Yelchin, Sam Worthington, Moon Bloodgood, Common, and Bryce Dallas Howard. WENN is reporting that Helena Bonham Carter "has been offered a small but pivotal role" in the film.

Last year, Bonham Carter received a Golden Globe nomination for Sweeney Todd, and she already has an Oscar nomination for The Wings of the Dove back in 1997. She also has a good gauge for blockbusters and culturally relevant films,

Colin Boyd

30 June 2008 3:49 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Dreamworks Home Entertainment has announced that they will bring the Tim Burton horror musical Sweeny Toddl The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street to Blu-ray on October 21st, just in time for Halloween, according to Blu-ray.com. Video will be presented in 1080p Avc and be accompanied by a 5.1 Dolby TrueHD soundtrack. No special features have been announced at this time, but expect most, if not all, of the extras from the previously released collector's edition DVD. Stephen Sondheim musical thriller revolves around Benjamin Barker alias Sweeney Todd, (Depp) who returns to London after being deported to find out what happened to his wife and child at the hands of Judge Turpin. When he learns of their terrible fate he joins fortunes with Mrs. Nellie Lovett, the baker downstairs from his barbershop, and sets out to seek revenge.

30 June 2008 8:11 AM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Helena Bonham Carter is in negotiations to appear in McG’s upcoming action flick “Terminator Salvation,” the fourth installment in the popular series launched by James Cameron in 1984.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Carter’s role would be small but crucial to the story. The film stars Christian Bale in the role of lead character John Connor, who struggles to prevent the ruthless machines from eradicating humanity.

Anton Yelchin, Sam Worthington, Moon Bloodgood and Bryce Dallas Howard co-star. “Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins” already started principal photography, with a release date set for May 22, 2009. A potential SAG strike could however cause delays in the production.

Bonham Carter was last seen alongside Johnny Depp in “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” She will next reprise her role as Bellatrix Lestrange in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”

Although she’s supposed to make a brief appearance only, her addition

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30 June 2008 3:10 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Helena Bonham Carter is in talks to join the cast of Terminator Salvation, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Sweeney Todd actress is reportedly in line for a small but crucial role in the fourth instalment of the science fiction franchise. She will join Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood and Common in the (more)

By Simon Reynolds

25 June 2008 3:21 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

It seems like just yesterday I was writing up a story about this year's Saturn Awards nominees. Well, last night the winners were announced in Universal City, California.

Walt Disney Studios won six of the golden beauties you see to your right while Paramount received five and Warner Bros. took home four. But I'm sure what our readers want to know is which horror films and TV shows were honored. Drumroll please ...

Best Horror Film: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Science Fiction Film: Cloverfield

Best Actor: Will Smith (I Am Legend)

Best Supporting Actress: Marcia Gay Harden (The Mist)

Best Network Television Series: "Lost" (yay!)

Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series: "Dexter" (double yay!!)

Best Actor on Television: Matthew Fox ("Lost")

Best Actress on Television: Jennifer Love Hewitt ("Ghost Whisperer") (no comment)

Best Supporting Actor on Television: Michael Emerson ("Lost") (triple yay!!!)

Best Supporting Actress on Television:

The Woman In Black

15 June 2008 8:00 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Broadway came out swinging Sunday night for the 62nd annual Tony Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg. August: Osage County was named best play and won five awards in all, while In the Heights was the recipient of four Tonys, including best musical. Besides the top award, In the Heights, a celebration of Latin-community life in Upper Manhattan, was recognized for its orchestration, choreography and score, with its writer, Lin-Manuel Miranda, stopping the show with his acceptance speech – delivered, in breathtaking fashion, as a rap song. Adding to its distinction as this year's Pulitzer Prize winner for drama, the Steppenwolf Theatre

Stephen M. Silverman

3 June 2008 8:40 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Tim Burton is attached to direct an adaptation of '60s supernatural soap Dark Shadows, Iesb reports. The Sweeney Todd director will reportedly helm the Warner Bros film, which is set up at Johnny Depp's Infinitum-Nihil production company. John August will write the movie. Dan Curtis's Dark Shadows ran on Us TV from 1966 to 1971. The series's popularity surged when vampire Barnabas (more)

By Simon Reynolds

2 June 2008 10:32 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Let the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and all of those film festivals hand out trophies for movies offering high drama and art. The folks who vote for the MTV Movie Awards appeared to have fun as their top criteria when they handed out their golden popcorn trophy Sunday night. They gave Transformers their top award for best film. Johnny Depp accepted trophies for best comedic performance for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and for best villain for Sweeney Todd. Accepting the first award, Depp seemed as curious about it as anyone in the audience. "You can ask anybody," he said. "I'm not a very funny person. I'm not even remotely funny."

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2 June 2008 6:44 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Transformers has won the top prize at this year's MTV Movie Awards. Michael Bay's robot action film scooped the best movie award at the event held at Universal Studios last night. Despite a nearby fire that damaged several soundstages and buildings, the ceremony, which hands out awards based on fans' votes, continued as planned. Johnny Depp took home two prizes: the best comedic performance for Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End and best villain gong for Sweeney Todd. Will Smith won the male performance award for his role in I Am Legend. "I haven't always made great movies but I've been trying real hard," Smith said. (more)

By Simon Reynolds

2 June 2008 12:08 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Johnny Depp stole the show at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night (1Jun08) picking up two prizes and sending Hollywood's female contingent into a frenzy.

Shy Depp was a surprise guest at the bash, shocking even A-listers in the audience when he appeared onstage to collect his awards for Best Comedic Performance, for the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie and Best Villain for Sweeney Todd. Lindsay Lohan jumped to her feet; while Juno Oscar winner DIablo Cody swooned when the cameras fixed on her.

Depp expressed his surprise to win a comedy award, telling the crowd, "I'm not really sure how this happened. You can ask anyone, I'm not a very funny person."

Elsewhere, Adam Sandler picked up a Generation award from Tom Cruise and treated the audience at Universal City, California's Gibson Amphitheatre to an impressive rendition of Carly Simon's Nobody Does it Better.

There were also awards for Will Smith, Zac Efron, Iron Man and Transformers.

The full list of winners is as follows:

Best Female Performance - Ellen Page in Juno

Best Male Performance - Will Smith in I Am Legend

Best Movie - Transformers

Best Summer Movie So Far - Iron Man

Breakthrough Performance - Zac Efron in Hairspray

Best Fight - Sean Faris and Cam Gigandet in Never Back Down

Best Comedic Performance - Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean:

Best Villain - Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd

Best Kiss - Briana Evigan and Robert Hoffman in Step Up 2 the Streets.

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1 June 2008 6:25 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

The stars were out in full force for Mtv's movie awards – and they made sure to get in plugs for their upcoming projects. With the golden carpet rolled out, Paris Hilton and Benji Madden came hand-in-hand, talking fashion and her show about a quest for a Bff. Audrina Patridge debuted new bangs and talked about wrapping Blue Crush 2. And while Sarah Jessica Parker talked about the record-breaking weekend opening of her new movie Sex and the City, Brendan Fraser hijacked the microphone to plug The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Charlotte Triggs

9 May 2008 2:37 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Pirates of the Caribbean helmer Gore Verbinski will produce and direct a film version of last year's hit video game BioShock.

John Logan (The Aviator, Sweeney Todd) is in talks to write the screenplay.

Publisher Take-Two signed a lucrative advance deal with studio Universal to hand over the film rights. Take-Two structured a "state of the art" agreement to ensure the BioShock film doesn't suffer the same fate as the aborted Halo project.

In BioShock, gamers control a pilot who crashes into . . .

Simon Reynolds

17 April 2008 12:03 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Hollywood actor Johnny Depp has vowed never to star in a romantic comedy - because he considers the genre "boring".

The 44-year-old shot to fame in Tim Burton's 1991 fantasy epic Edward Scissorhands and has since made his name by taking on a variety of quirky film roles - including turns in Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and most recently in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

And Depp insists he will never be drawn to roles in light-hearted films - no matter how much money he is offered.

He says, "There is a dark side in me, like in each one of us. I only feel the fun factor when turning to a dark role, like in my most recent film Sweeney Todd.

"I wouldn't want to be in a romantic film, where it's about the boy meeting the girl, losing the girl, and getting her back.

"That would really bore me to death."

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29 February 2008 12:25 PM, PST | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

DreamWorks announced Thursday that it will end its support for the Hd DVD high-definition format and will not release Bee Movie in the format on March 11 as originally scheduled. Meanwhile, a Paramount spokesman has told the website High-Def Disc News that next week's releases of Into the Wild and Things We Lost in the Fire will be the studio's final ones in the format. It canceled its April 1 release of Sweeney Todd and its April 15 release of There Will Be Blood, but it did not indicate when those titles will be issued in the Blu-ray format.

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19 February 2008 4:55 PM, PST | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Still one of the most overrated films of all time in my book, Paramount Home Entertainment's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street was announced a few days ago for DVD release on April 1 in both 1-disc and 2-disc special editions. Hd was also announced, but I'm sure it'll be changed to Blu-Ray soon with the latest announcement. Inside you'll find a link to all of the different front and back covers for both releases.

19 February 2008 11:38 AM, PST | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Paramount Home Entertainment has announced to DVD Active a 1-disc and 2-disc special editions of the Tim Burton directed Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which stars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. The film itself will be presented in anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. The only extra feature on the 1-disc release will be a Burton + Depp + Carter = Todd featurette. The 2-disc will include that, along with 8 additional featurettes (Sweeney Todd is Alive: The Real History of the Demon Barber, Musical Mayhem: Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, Sweeney's London, The Making of Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Grand Guignol: A Theatrical Tradition, Designs for a Demon Barber, A Bloody Business, and The Razor's Refrain), a Moviefone Unscripted with Tim Burton and Johnny Depp feature, a Sweeney Todd Press Conference, a photo gallery, and the trailer. Also available from the 1st April

22 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood received eight Oscar nominations each, the most of any films that will be competing in this year's Academy Awards. Atonement and Michael Clayton each earned seven nominations. All four films were nominated for best film, along with the comedy Juno. The nominations were announced early today (Tuesday) in Beverly Hills, hours before an informal meeting was scheduled to take place between representatives of the Writers Guild of America and media executives that could determine whether the awards ceremonies would take place as usual next month. The nominations also included two for Cate Blanchett -- one for best actress for Elizabeth: The Golden Age, the other for best supporting actress for her portrayal of the young Bob Dylan in I'm Not There. Also nominated for best actress were Julie Christie for Away from Her, Marion Cotillard for La Vie En Rose, Laura Linney for The Savages and Ellen Page for Juno. In the best actor category, Daniel Day-Lewis was regarded as a shoo-in for his performance in There Will Be Blood. Also competing for the honor will be George Clooney for Michael Clayton, Johnny Depp for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Tommy Lee Jones for In the Valley of Elah, and Viggo Mortensen for Eastern Promises. In the director's category, the contest appeared to be a two-way affair between Paul Thomas Anderson, who helmed There Will Be Blood and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, who directed No Country for Old Men. Also competing are Jason Reitman for Juno, Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton and Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

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16 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The British film Atonement, which received the Golden Globe award for best film Sunday, received a whopping 14 nominations for the BAFTAs, presented by the British Academy of Film and Television. The movie received nominations for best film, best British film, best actress (Keira Knightley), best actor (James McAvoy), best director (Joe Wright) and best supporting actress (Saoirse Ronan). Two films received nine nominations, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. All three films were nominated for best film, along with The Lives of Others and American Gangster.Several British critics expressed surprise at the poor showing for Sweeney Todd, which received nominations only for make-up, hair and costume design. Winners are due to be announced on February 10.

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14 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The Golden Globe awards, known more for their glamour and glitz than for the prestige of the awards themselves, had neither Sunday night as they were reduced to a perfunctory announcement of the winners by the hosts of several syndicated entertainment TV magazines. The awards are voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a small group of mostly part-time and freelance writers for overseas newspapers and magazines (none of whom announced any winners). The winners were not on hand for the announcements, abiding by directions from their unions not to cross picket lines of the Writers Guild of America, which had vowed to send strikers to the ceremonies in Beverly Hills en masse if the awards show was staged as usual. (Ironically the first winner announced Sunday night was Cate Blanchett, who won the supporting actress award for a film titled I'm Not There.) Sometimes regarded as a forecast of the Oscars, Sunday night's non-affair was only that in the sense that it raised the question of whether a similar fate would befall the equally glitzy but far more prestigious Academy Awards show, scheduled for February 24. As usual, the awards were spread over numerous films -- in order to curry favor with stars and publicists, according to some critics -- with Atonement, which was voted best film, receiving only one additional award -- for best original music. Some of the awards seemed to come out of left field and mirrored none that had come earlier. Contacted by the Associated Press, producer Richard Zanuck, whose Sweeney Todd won for best musical or comedy (beating the favorite, Juno), predicted that the strike will either be settled before the Oscars or that the WGA will grant a waiver for the show to take place. "I don't think they want to be responsible in bringing the most important event in the motion-picture industry each year down to its knees," he said. The WGA has maintained, however, that it is the studios who would be responsible for such an eventuality since they are the ones who broke off negotiations and continue to insist that they will not return to the talks until the union drops several demands regarding jurisdiction over reality and animated films and TV shows.

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