Ebenezer's second trailer puts Johnny Depp's Scrooge near nine million views in fifteen hours
Ti West's take on Dickens, with Ian McKellen, Rupert Grint and Daisy Ridley in the cast, has viewers spotting a callback to Depp's first film.
Paramount PicturesStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 10,952,558 views a day, 889 times a normal first day on this channel (12,316).
Ebenezer | Official Trailer 2 (2026 Movie) - Johnny Depp, Ian McKellen, Rupert Grint, Sam Claflin
Paramount Pictures has put out the second trailer for Ebenezer, and it reached nearly nine million views in its first fifteen hours. The channel's videos usually start far more quietly, so this one opened at a scale of its own.
The pitch is in the description: Johnny Depp is Ebenezer Scrooge, "the name you know, the story you don't." The director is Ti West, best known for the horror films X, Pearl and MaXXXine, and that background shows in what viewers talk about. A popular thread says the trailer leans into the ghost-story side of A Christmas Carol, and another picks out the moment Scrooge screams at his younger self.
The most talked-about shot is a bed. Many viewers point out that Depp gets pulled into one, just as he did in A Nightmare on Elm Street, the 1984 horror film that was his first screen role. The rest of the cast gives the comments plenty to work with too: Ian McKellen, Rupert Grint, Sam Claflin, Daisy Ridley, Andrea Riseborough and Severance's Tramell Tillman. Several commenters are glad to see Grint on screen again, and one popular joke has Ron working for Grindelwald, the wizard Depp played in the Fantastic Beasts films. The film opens in theaters on November 13.
It was not the channel's only good day. A Street Fighter featurette on bringing the game's special moves to life picked up speed ahead of that film's October 16 release, and the trailer for The Rescue, with Brandon Sklenar as a former rodeo cowboy, passed ten million views.
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What viewers say
This is the 2nd time Johnny Depp has been pulled into a mattress.
@Rasim9898See it on YouTubeRupert Grint as Bob Cratchit is excellent casting.
@Rasim9898See it on YouTubeI like how this actually looks like it's going for what Dickens intended to do with A Christmas Carol and make it a scary story.
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- Channel
- Paramount Pictures
- Subscribers
- 4,430,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,599,942 (on a normal day: 4,987,967)
- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 8,821,082 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 10,952,558
The numbers
The figures show a trailer opening far above anything the channel usually sees on a first day.
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Who directed A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Johnny Depp's first film?
Wes Craven wrote and directed A Nightmare on Elm Street, which gave Johnny Depp his first screen role.
