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told last week how Johnny Depp (pictured, with Tim Burton), who is in the middle of filming Burton’s hugely-anticipated adaptation of Stephen Sondheim‘s “Sweeney Todd” in London with Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin and Sacha Baron Cohen as Signor Pirelli, was forced to leave the set because of his daughter’s health crisis. This week in London, The Sun says the film is actually on hold and laying off staff until things clear up for the Depps.