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Daisy Ridley, Rupert Grint, More Join Ti West’s ‘Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol’
Rupert Grint (Harry Potter franchise) and Daisy Ridley (Star Wars franchise) have been cast in Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol from director Ti West (X, The House of the Devil), Deadline reports.
Other new additions to the cast include Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games franchise), Charlie Murphy (“Peaky Blinders”), Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), and Ellie Bamber (“Willow”).
Johnny Depp stars in the title role alongside Andrea Riseborough (Mandy), Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings), and Tramell Tillman (“Severance”).
Written by Nathaniel Halpern (“Legion,” “Tales from the Loop”), the new take on Charles Dickens‘ classic 1843 novel will be released on November 13, 2026 via Paramount.
A thrilling ghost story set in Dickens’ London, the film follows one man’s supernatural journey to face his past, present, and future and fight for a second chance.
Sources say Grint will play Bob Crachit, Scrooge’s selfless employee, while Tillman is rumored to be the Ghost of Christmas Present.
Emma Watts is producing. Executive producers include Stephen Deuters, Jason Forman, Adam Bohling, and David Reid.
Rupert Grint in “Servant”
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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