Sunday, November 15, 2026

UPDATE: Johnny Depp Comeback Movie “Ebenezer” Gets Scrooged with Just $19 Million at Box Office, Among the Lowest Openings of Troubled Star’s Career

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Paramount took a gamble on letting “Ebenezer” be directed by Ti West.

They put Johnny Depp in the hands of a less experienced director whose wife has the actually brilliant stage name of Alison Wonderland.

But it hasn’t worked out. The movie has a 52% on Rotten Tomatoes among critics.

Now the opening weekend box office is in, and it’s disappointing. Just $19 million. And I’d check that number tomorrow to see if it sticks.

Paramount is touting “Ebenezer” as number 1 at the box office. But it was the only wide release, and is a far cry from Depp’s halcyon days.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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