http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/08/27/sweeney-todd-gets-wide-christmas-release-new-movie-poster/ Blogging the Reel World Sun, 7 Sep 2008 03:42:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/08/27/sweeney-todd-gets-wide-christmas-release-new-movie-poster/#comment-113497 Michael Bailey Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:43:31 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/08/27/sweeney-todd-gets-wide-christmas-release-new-movie-poster/#comment-113497 I know SWEENY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET, pretty well. It IS a gory topic...but the gore is no worse than SAW or HALLOWEEN or any of that other stuff. IF the studio wanted a PG film, THIS was not the vehicle. Which makews me ask, again: Do studio execs READ the material they've spent millions of dollars to buy? I'm really starting to think they don't. Much as I love this show...and I do...I'm not sure Christmas is the time to release it...but if that is the only way to maintain the intergity of the piece...then I'm for it. I know SWEENY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET, pretty well. It IS a gory topic…but the gore is no worse than SAW or HALLOWEEN or any of that other stuff. IF the studio wanted a PG film, THIS was not the vehicle. Which makews me ask, again: Do studio execs READ the material they’ve spent millions of dollars to buy? I’m really starting to think they don’t.
Much as I love this show…and I do…I’m not sure Christmas is the time to release it…but if that is the only way to maintain the intergity of the piece…then I’m for it.

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