DreamWorks confirms SWEENEY TODD to carry R rating Don't believe the widely-circulating rumors in the press that claim that director Tim Burton has been asked to “trim the gore” from SWEENEY TODD because the studios were uneasy with the blood . . . and that rumor that Burton was supposed to deliver a PG-13 film is balderdash, too. “DreamWorks has always said it was an R,” reports Variety's Thompson on Hollywood. “Anyone who knows the show knows that it involves killing and meat pies.” Adds...