{"id":937678,"date":"2026-10-23T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937678\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T04:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:00:12","slug":"is-ebenezer-venmo-real-johnny-depp-scrooge-movie-stunt-puzzles-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937678\/","title":{"rendered":"Is ‘Ebenezer’ Venmo Real? Johnny Depp Scrooge Movie Stunt Puzzles Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe surly miser Ebenezer<\/a> Scrooge is no longer just a fictional character haunting the holidays \u2014 he\u2019s on Venmo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo promote Ti West\u2019s upcoming adaptation of the notorious character in the film \u201cEbenezer,\u201d starring Johnny Depp<\/a> in the titular role, the Paramount promotional team created a Venmo account for Ebenezer Scrooge. The official account for the film announced the news on X<\/a>, writing, \u201cEbenezer Scrooge is now on @venmo. Think he\u2019s feeling generous? \ud83d\udcb0 Send a request: https:\/\/venmo.com\/u\/EBENEZERmovie<\/a>\u201d accompanied by a video of people making requests for various amounts of money and Scrooge\u2019s stingy payouts. Despite the request, Ebenezer\u2019s response is always the same, giving just a penny in return.<\/p>\n

\n\tAn error message reading, \u201cWe\u2019re sorry the transaction could not be completed. Please contact the person you\u2019re trying to pay\u201d appeared when two Variety staffers tried to request some money. A source close to promotion confirmed that the Venmo has been working \u2014\u00a0it just grew so popular with requests that it temporarily caused a jam in the system and is being fixed.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough Scrooge\u2019s Venmo is dishing out money, he also appears to be accepting it. The public feed of his account is filled with payments made out to him. \u201cFor cheers and joy! (And maybe a little luck please)\u201d one benefactor wrote. Another wrote, \u201c$ Retainer Fee \u2014 for the Ghost of Christmas Past to haunt my exes with a little bah humbug spirit.\u201d Several others paid Scrooge to boost his Christmas spirit.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt is unclear where this sent money will actually end up.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount Pictures\u2019 \u201cEbenezer\u201d will hit theaters on Nov. 13. The official logline reads: \u201cThe name you know, the story you don\u2019t.\u201d Judging from the trailer, West \u2014 known for directing the horror trilogy \u201cX\u201d \u2014 is zooming in on the darker aspects of Charles Dickens\u2019 beloved story, showing Depp\u2019s character being haunted by some seriously scary ghosts and getting buried alive.<\/p>\n

\n\tDepp stars alongside Rupert Grint, Andrea Riseborough, Sam Claflin, Daisy Ridley, Arthur Conti, Ellie Bamber, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Charlie Murphy, Tramell Tillman and Ian McKellen. Based on \u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d by Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Halpern adapted the screenplay.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEbenezer\u201d marks Depp\u2019s return home to Hollywood for the holidays as his first major movie since his highly publicized 2022 trial against ex-wife Amber Heard. Both Depp and Heard accused the other of domestic abuse and defamation during their relationship, with Depp ultimately awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages from Heard, while Heard was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages. His last major Hollywood studio film was \u201cFantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald\u201d in 2018. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The surly miser Ebenezer Scrooge is no longer just a fictional character haunting the holidays \u2014 he\u2019s on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,63,395410,50544,203,105,22048],"class_list":["post-937678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ebenezer","tag-johnny-depp","tag-mobile","tag-technology","tag-venmo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}