Extreme miser Ebenezer Scrooge is no longer a fictional character hanging out on vacation — he’s on Venmo.
To promote TI West’s upcoming adaptation of the infamous character in the film “Ebenezer”, starring Johnny Depp in the lead role, the Paramount publicity team created a Venmo account for Ebenezer Scrooge. official account for Film announced news on XWriting, “Ebenezer Scrooge is now on @venmo. Do you think he’s feeling generous? 💰 Send a request: https://venmo.com/u/EBENEZERmovie”With a video of people requesting various amounts of money and Scrooge’s stingy payment. Regardless of the request, Ebenezer’s response is always the same, giving only a penny in return.
An error message that read, “We’re sorry the transaction could not be completed. Please contact the person you’re trying to pay” appeared when the two Diversity The employees tried to ask for some money. A source close to the promotion confirmed that Venmo is working – it became so popular with requests that it temporarily caused a jam in the system and is being fixed.
Although Scrooge’s Venmo is draining money, he also appears to accept it. The public feed of his account is filled with payments made to him. “For excitement and happiness! (and maybe a little luck please),” one philanthropist wrote. Another wrote, “$ retainer fee – for the Ghost of Christmas Past to haunt my former teammates with little to no sense of bullshit.” Many other people paid Scrooge to promote his Christmas spirit.
It is not clear where exactly this sent money will go.
Paramount Pictures’ “Ebenezer” will be released in theaters on November 13. The official logline reads: “The name you know, the story you don’t know.” As the trailer reveals, West — who is best known for directing the horror trilogy “X” — is zooming in on the darker aspects of Charles Dickens’ beloved tale, including Depp’s character being haunted by some seriously scary ghosts and being buried alive.
Depp is joined by Rupert Grint, Andrea Riseborough, Sam Claflin, Daisy Ridley, Arthur Conti, Ellie Bamber, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Charlie Murphy, Trammell Tillman and Ian McKellen. Nathaniel Halpern adapted the screenplay, based on Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol”.
“Ebenezer” marks Depp’s return home to Hollywood for the holidays as his first major film since his highly publicized 2022 lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard. Both Depp and Heard accused each other of domestic abuse and defamation during their relationship, with Depp ultimately being awarded $10 million in compensation and $5 million in punitive damages from Heard, while Heard was awarded $2 million. His last major Hollywood studio film was “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” in 2018.