Pirelli identifies himself as Todd's former assistant, Davy Collins, and threatens to reveal Todd's secret unless Todd gives him half his earnings. A few days later, Pirelli arrives at Todd's shop, with his boy assistant Tobias Ragg. Todd denounces faux- Italian barber Adolfo Pirelli's hair tonic as a fraud and humiliates him in a public shaving contest judged by Bamford. Anthony becomes enamored with Johanna, but is caught by Turpin and driven away by his henchman, Beadle Bamford. Lovett, who loves him unrequitedly, presents him with his old straight razors. Todd vows revenge and re-opens his barbershop after Mrs. The couple's daughter, Johanna, is now Turpin's ward. Lovett tells him that once he was exiled, Turpin raped Lucy, who then poisoned herself with arsenic. Barker adopts the alias " Sweeney Todd" and returns to his old Fleet Street shop, situated above Nellie Lovett's meat pie shop, where she sells 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. In 1846, Benjamin Barker, a barber, arrives in London, accompanied by sailor Anthony Hope. Grossing over $150 million worldwide, the film was praised for the performances of the cast, musical numbers, costume and set design, and faithfulness to the 1979 musical. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street was released in the United States on Decemand in the United Kingdom on January 25, 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 announced his appointment as replacement for director Sam Mendes, who had been working on such an adaptation. Having been struck by the cinematic qualities of Sondheim's musical while still a student, Burton had entertained the notion of a film version since the early 1980s. Lovett ( Helena Bonham Carter), processes their corpses into meat pies.
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The film retells the melodramatic Victorian tale of Sweeney Todd ( Johnny Depp), an English barber and serial killer who murders his customers with a straight razor 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 and an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning 1979 musical of the same name.
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