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Depp to Play Scrooge in
First Major Studio Role in Years

Oct 24, 2025 5:31 AM CDT

Depp to Play Scrooge in First Major Studio Role in Years

It's one of 2 Christmas Carol adaptations being made by horror directors

(Newser) - Johnny Depp is set to return to the big screen in a major studio role, taking on the iconic part of Ebenezer Scrooge in a new film adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Paramount Pictures is finalizing its involvement in the project, titled Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol, which will be directed...

Vandals Wreck Prop Tombstone
Visited By Christmas Carol Fans

Nov 25, 2024 6:35 PM CST

Vandals Wreck Prop Tombstone Visited By Christmas Carol Fans

Fictional Scrooge gravesite is a hit with tourists

(Newser) - A town official in the English countryside says there are vandals who deserve ghostly retribution. Police in Shrewsbury are investigating how a tombstone that marked the fictional grave of Ebenezer Scrooge was destroyed. The movie prop used in the 1984 adaption of A Christmas Carol was kept in place and...

All Aboard the Right's Misleading 'Humbug Express'

PAUL KRUGMAN

Dec 24, 2010 1:38 PM CST

All Aboard the Right's Misleading 'Humbug Express'

If 'everyone knows' it, no one will question it

(Newser) - This Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge would salute the American right wing: its “media infrastructure” has become a “humbug factory,” capable of spreading propaganda so widely that “it becomes part of what ‘everyone knows.’” Take the widespread idea that President Obama has presided over a...

The Only 3 Christmas TV Plots

TRADITIONS

Dec 20, 2009 3:43 PM CST

The Only 3 Christmas TV Plots

When it comes time for the holiday episode, don't expect a surprise

(Newser) - Christmas “takes over the airwaves as comprehensively as it does malls, office lobbies, and public service announcements”—but unfortunately, the Christmas TV plotline always falls into one of three categories, writes Torie Bosch for Slate :

Money woes: “A holiday season without gifts doesn't really feel like a

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