I watched Johnny Depp’s Scrooge trailer at CinemaCon and he’s very much back | Films | Entertainment

Since winning his libel case against his ex-wife Amber Heard, Johnny Depp has slowly but surely been making his return to Hollywood filmmaking.

None more so than at CinemaCon in Las Vegas this week, where Paramount Pictures introduced him as a modern legend of cinema, before the Jack Sparrow star came on stage to thunderous applause from fans in the audience.

The 62-year-old, who is surprisingly shy and introverted when not playing one of his colourful characters, was there to introduce his latest movie, Ebenezer.

Depp plays Scrooge in Ti West’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, which leans heavily into the ghostly horror of the story.

Depp confessed he had been “obsessed” with the novella “since I was a kid” and for years had felt “there’s no one who can [play Scrooge] as good as Alistair Sim” in the 1951 classic.

But Depp was persuaded to take on the role and debuted the first trailer of Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol, which co-stars Rupert Grint as Bob Cratchit. Aside from the familiar beats of the story, Depp’s take on Scrooge is particularly comic and tongue-in-cheek, leaning into Dickens’ satire of such miserly old sinners. This is juxtaposed with West’s big horror vibes, particularly from the white eyeballs of Andrea Riseborough’s Ghost of Christmas Past.

Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol hits cinemas on November 13, 2026.