Critics are very split on Ti West's 'A Christmas Carol' adaptation, calling Depp everything from a "soulless worst Scrooge ever" to "eminently redeemable."
For the first time since 2018’s “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” Johnny Depp is back on the big screen in a major Hollywood movie with Paramount’s “Ebenezer.” His new, darkly comedic take on “A Christmas Carol” has made $1.5 million in previews at the box office.
The first big greenlight of Paramount’s new administration since last year’s Skydance merger, Ti West’s edgy PG-13 Ebenezer, saw $1.5M in previews that began at 2PM. The movie for some time has been primed to be Johnny Depp’s comeback at the box office as far as non-franchises go, Paramount lighting…
Johnny Depp certainly leaves his mark as the latest to tackle Ebenezer Scrooge, one of the great Christmas-time villains. You’ll likely not soon forget the scene where he pees himself.
Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol” has been adapted for the screen so many times at this point one wonders what a new adaptation can possibly bring to the table. Unfortunately […]
There is nothing particularly wrong with the Johnny Depp offering “Ebenezer.” At the same time there is not that much to point to as being right. This is a film that nestles into the bosom of mediocrity and shows no signs of wanting to be more. “Ebenezer” is the latest in a long string of [...]
“A Christmas Carol” is a well-worn story. Estimates of the number of adaptations of Charles Dickens’ novel run into the hundreds . It’s an overcrowded space. It’s also very opinionated territory. Still, “Ebenezer” manages to carve out a little space for itself.
A holiday classic gets told once more in this movie A Christmas Carol has been told in tons of different ways over the years. We have seen the story come to life in live action and animated formats where each version adds new elements to the story. When I first heard about Ebenezer, I was…
When I was a kid, I used to make a game out of seeing as many adaptations of A Christmas Carol as I could find on cable. Over the years, I've probably seen more than a dozen. There are some things that Ebenezer gets remarkably right, and others that genuinely disturbed me.
“Ebenezer,” an adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” starring Johnny Depp as Scrooge, led the box office on Friday with $6.7 million on opening day. The PG-13 take on the Charles Dickens classic is projected to earn $18 million to $20 million from 3,535 North American theaters in its opening weekend.
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