Johnny Depp shows a little skin on the latest cover of Rolling Stone. Interview highlights below!

What was the first song you could play through? Every kid with a guitar at that time, the first things that came up were almost always “Smoke on the Water,” obviously, and “25 or 6 to 4,” by Chicago. But the first song I played all the way through must have been “Stairway to Heaven.” I remember getting through the fingerpicking and just cursing Jimmy Page.

What was your first band? When I was about thirteen, I got together with some other kids in the neighborhood. This one guy had a bass, we knew a guy who had a PA system, we made our own lights. It was really ramshackle and great. We’d play at people’s backyard parties. Everything from the Beatles to Led Zeppelin to Cheap Trick to Devo — and “Johnny B. Goode” was the closer.

You’ve got that wistful look in your eyes. You’re thirteen years old and you’re playing rock & roll. Loud. Poorly. But somebody’s letting you do it in their back yard. And it was absolute perfection. It was freedom. Right off the bat, there was no question: I had found my future.

Johnny Depp attends the Japanese premiere of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Roppongi Hills Arena on Tuesday in Tokyo, Japan.

The film will open on January 19 in Japan. Depp, 44, plays the titular character in Sweeney Todd.

Also pictured: Johnny arriving at the new Tokyo International Airport on Tuesday in Narita, Chiba.

Johnny was also nominated for a Golden Globe for best actor in a musical or comedy. Sweeney was also up for Best Picture. The winners will still be announced on Sunday but there won’t be a ceremony!

20+ pictures inside of Johnny Depp in Japan… More Here! »

Johnny Depp keeps with the bloody theme at the New York premiere of the Tim Burton-directed Sweeney Todd at the Ziegfeld Theater on Monday in New York City.

The film, the silver-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical thriller, is scheduled for a nationwide release on December 21st.

Here are some of the early reviews from last night’s screening. Critics are bloody loving it!

“Assembled artistic combo assures the film will reap by far the biggest audience to see a pure Sondheim musical, although just how big depends on the upscale crowd’s tolerance for buckets of blood, and the degree to which the masses stay away due to the whiff of the highbrow. In all events, DreamWorks-Paramount and Warner Bros. have a classy and reasonably commercial delicacy on their hands.” — Variety

“Depp is the movie’s heart and guts… The musical numbers ooze with Sondheim’s audacious wit and scathing lyrics… Teaming with Depp, his long-time alter ego, Burton makes Sweeney a smoldering dark pit of fury and hate that consumes itself. With his sturdy acting and surprisingly good voice, Depp is a Sweeney Todd for the ages.” — The Hollywood Reporter

“This is the film to beat for Best Picture this year; the only “big” picture that is also a work of art. Academy voters should eat it up, pun intended.” — FOX News

40+ pictures inside of Johnny Depp at the NY premiere of Sweeney Todd… More Here! »

Check out this new clip with behind-the-scenes clips and scenes/interviews with the Sweeney Todd cast–Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Sacha Baron Cohen and director Tim Burton.

Sweeney Todd will open nationwide on December 21st.

Most of the video clips previewing the upcoming thriller Sweeney Todd haven’t shown how musical the movie is going to be… until now!

Below is a great video clip sampling Johnny Depp’s singing talents in Sweeney Todd. Depp busts out in the song “Epiphany” and discusses his conversations with director Tim Burton. There’s also a sneak peek of the film as actual footage of Depp is overlaid to the onscreen action in the actual film. Watch the video below!

Sweeney Todd is scheduled for a nationwide release on December 21st.

Sweeney Todd, played by Johnny Depp, takes this week’s cover of Entertainment Weekly’s Holiday Movie Preview Issue.

Check the below inside scoop of the cutting-edge movie adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim favorite musical (opening Dec. 21). Here are a few snippets of Johnny Depp’s in-depth interview with EW about the Tim Burton-directed film:

Musical lovers and Stephen Sondheim fanatics know Sweeney Todd really well. What about the general public? Somebody sent me this thing from online. Somebody said, after they saw the trailer, ”I don’t understand why in the middle of that trailer Depp broke into a song.” Like, ”Whoa — What is he doing?”

Singers say Sondheim’s melodies can be incredibly tough. Why? It’s real obtuse stuff. When you start to take those pieces apart, melody line by melody line, it’s a lot of half-steps, which is not real easy to do. Kind of go G to A-flat to A to B-flat. It’s super, ultra complicated, these notes that shouldn’t work together at times. But he made them so.

How messy was it filming Sweeney’s really bloody scenes? I remember everyone except me being covered in plastic trash bags. There’d be a countdown. Three, two, one…action! And then blammo, you know? The great deluge. The process we shot in called for a slightly over-the-top kind of color. They were going to desaturate it later, so they had to bring the color up on the set. It was kind of orangeish. A very unnatural-looking color.

What does all that fake blood smell and taste like? It tasted kind of like a Karo-syrupy sort of thing. It was oily. And it was dangerous. Slippery. You’d see these big English grips, tiptoeing through the swamp of blood. Very surreal.

Sacha Baron Cohen plays another barber in Sweeney Todd. What’s he like when he’s not Borat or Bruno or Ali G? He’s not what I expected. I didn’t look at those characters and think, This will be the sweetest guy in the world. He’s incredibly nice. A real gentleman, kind of elegant. I was impressed with him. He’s kind of today’s equivalent of Peter Sellers.

Read Entertainment Weekly’s full article on Sweeney Todd. Read the extended Q&A with Johnny Depp. More Here! »

The second trailer has been released for Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

The film, the silver-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical thriller, is scheduled for a nationwide release on December 21st.

Isn’t this movie supposed to be a musical? Where’s the singing?!

Watch the second trailer for Sweeney Todd below!

Be sure to check out the trailer for the Tim Burton-directed Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street here. You can watch it in all its HD glory!!

Other stars in the movie include Alan Rickman, Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter.

The film, the silver-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical thriller, is scheduled for a nationwide release on December 21st.