Johnny Depp Sweeney Todd Update: From R to PG-13?

It was reported last week that The Warner Bros. people were apparently not pleased with the gruesome early footage from Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, according to a report from the Daily Mail. Early footage from the film was so extremely bloody it was said, that studio executives have requested that the film to be re-cut.

“Tim’s not happy that the studio is asking for so many cuts to the cutting, as it were,” someone connected to the film told the Daily Mail. “The thing is, the studio really likes the film and they want to make it accessible to as big an audience as possible - which means stemming the blood flow. But that’s a bit difficult for a story involving a guy who gets high slitting throats.”

Now comes word that the distributor--Dreamworks--have announced that they are releasing the film just before Christmas (12.21.07).

On set studio photo of Director Tim Burton a
nd demi-god Johnny Depp.
It appears too that the movie poster has been re-worked for the holiday release:

Aww...I like this one so much better.
Ho, ho, ho?

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