Broadway at the Movies

The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, which is the magazine's "Fall Movie Preview" special, has a couple items of interest for Broadway lovers. One of the featured films is Tim Burton's big screen adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim/Hugh Wheeler/Christopher Bond musical masterpiece Sweeney Todd, which stars Johnny Depp as the murderous barber. The other movie with a Broadway connection is the new film adaptation of Anthony Shaffer's mystery play Sleuth starring Jude Law, which is adapted by Harold Pinter and directed by Kenneth Branagh, stage veterans both.