You hear the rumors back in January and now it's official: Johnny Depp and Tim Burton will reteam for their sixth film, an adaptation of the Broadway musical SWEENEY TODD. Paramount-based DreamWorks will release the film in the States and team with Warner Bros. to finance (who will in turn get international rights). The film adaptation of SWEENEY has been in the works for over ten years with Burton attached from the very beginning. He left the project and Sam Mendes was involved when it shifted to DreamWorks. Burton became available again when his Jim Carrey project BELIEVE IT OR NOT! fell apart after the budget soared north of $150 million. Depp had a similar situation as his planned project SHANTARAM hit delays when director Peter Weir left. The Steven Sondheim musical, about a wrongly imprisoned barber who seeks revenge on the judge who convicted him, is expected to begin filming in February from a script by John Logan. DreamWorks is planning a holiday 2007 release.

Hopefully it uses music from the show, but is NOT a musical.