Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Notes & Trivia

 * Copyright holder: 1999, Karol Film Productions GmbH & Co. KG.


 * Sleepy Hollow is inspired by the short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving, first published in 1820 in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon.


 * Production on Sleepy Hollow began on November 27th, 1998. Principal filming concluded on May 10th, 1999. It was filmed in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England with some interior scenes being shot at Hatfield House.


 * Sleepy Hollow grossed $30,060,467 over it's opening weekend, November 21st-23rd, 1999.


 * Sleepy Hollow was released on VHS and DVD by Paramount Home Video on May 23rd, 2000. It was released on Blu-ray by Paramount on June 3rd, 2008. It was also released as a double-feature Blu-ray collection along with Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street on July 19th, 2011. That film was also directed by Tim Burton and stars Johnny Depp.


 * Sleepy Hollow is Tim Burton's fourth feature film in the genres of horror and dark fantasy.


 * This is the third Tim Burton film to star Johnny Depp. Depp previously played noted film director Edward D. Wood, Jr. in the 1994 biopic Ed Wood and before that, he played tormented scientific experiment Edward Scissorhands in the 1990 film of the same name.