Johnny Depp Brings Ti West’s Gothic Ebenezer to Leicester Square

Morning News · Tuesday 10 November 2026

Johnny Depp walked a snow-dressed red carpet in Leicester Square last night for the global premiere of Ti West’s gothic Ebenezer, four days before it opens in UK cinemas. Also this morning: Simon Pegg joins Paul Giamatti in seaside horror Boutique, Carrie-Anne Moss boards Halsey’s Replacer, a cruise-ship horror manga heads for the screen, Longlegs star Alicia Witt leads Incuba Project, and a report sets out what James Gunn and Peter Safran had planned for the DCU, starting with Wonder Woman.

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Johnny Depp and Ti West bring Ebenezer to Leicester Square for its global premiere

• What happened: Paramount held the global premiere of Ebenezer at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on Monday 9 November, with Christmas trees and artificial snow on the red carpet. Depp, who plays Scrooge, was joined by director Ti West and cast members Rupert Grint, Sam Claflin, Tramell Tillman, Ellie Bamber and Robert Strong, Deadline reported
• Why Depp wanted it: West told Deadline that Depp approached him when he heard the film was in the works, saying Alastair Sim’s 1951 Scrooge was “a huge reason why I’m even an actor”. Depp said there is no better Scrooge than Sim, and that “the challenge is to find another angle”
• The tone: West, who grew up reading A Christmas Carol as a ghost story, gives Dickens a gothic horror edge. Bamber, who plays Ebenezer’s lost love, said it is “still very Christmassy with a hint of fright”
• UK availability: In UK cinemas from Friday 13 November 2026 (Paramount)

Ti West turning Dickens into a proper ghost story is an enticing pairing, and Depp clearly sees this as a passion project. It already carries a US PG-13 rating for frightening material, as we reported in our 22 October Evening News, and you can watch the second official trailer here.

Simon Pegg joins Paul Giamatti in seaside horror Boutique

• What’s new: Simon Pegg has joined Paul Giamatti in Boutique, a horror film from Lodge 49 creator Jim Gavin, who writes and makes his feature directing debut, Deadline reported on Friday
• The story: Giamatti plays an American tourist who travels to the eerie English seaside town that inspired his favourite reclusive author, played by Pegg, and gets tangled up with a murderous secret society that runs through the whole town
• Behind it: Prospect, which calls the film Gavin’s “gothic fever dream”, is on board, and Giamatti and Dan Carey’s Touchy Feely, which produced Lodge 49, reunites with Gavin. Tea Shop is also involved, and Manifest Pictures is handling international sales at the American Film Market
• UK availability: UK date not yet confirmed

An English seaside town, a cult and Simon Pegg as a reclusive writer: this one feels made for British horror fans. Tea Shop’s James Harris name-checks Psycho and Hereditary, which sets the bar high.

Carrie-Anne Moss joins Halsey’s subway horror Replacer

• What’s new: Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix, The Acolyte) has joined Replacer, a psycho-sexual horror written by and starring Halsey and directed by Avan Jogia, Deadline reported. The film has already wrapped in Montreal
• The story: Halsey plays Proxy, a troubled Montreal DJ who falls in with an artist and his friends running an underground radio station, until their broadcast is warped by a mysterious signal buried beneath the city’s subway system
• Who else: Karl Glusman (The Neon Demon) and Juliette Gariépy (Red Rooms) also star, Boys Noize is scoring, and Lilly Wachowski is an executive producer, which makes it a small Matrix reunion for Moss
• UK availability: UK date not yet confirmed

A horror film built around sound and signals is a smart fit for a musician-led project. If you like your horror stranger, our definitive horror guide has plenty more.

Cruise-ship horror manga Noah of the Blood Sea is heading for the screen

• What happened: Los Angeles-based Tyrus Pictures has optioned the film rights to Noah of the Blood Sea (Kekkai no Noah), Yu Satomi’s five-volume horror manga from Japanese publisher Takeshobo, Deadline reported. Production is aimed for 2027
• The story: Passengers set off on what should be an idyllic luxury cruise, until people start vanishing and the voyage turns into a fight for survival
• Who’s making it: Michael Zelman and Hamid Mokhneche will produce. No director or cast has been named yet
• UK availability: UK date not yet confirmed

A luxury liner with nowhere to run is a terrific horror set-up, and Japanese horror manga has a strong record on screen. It is very early days, so expect a long wait.

Longlegs star Alicia Witt leads Colombian surrogacy horror Incuba Project

• What happened: Alicia Witt (Longlegs) will star opposite María Camila Giraldo (The Ritual) in Incuba Project, an English-language horror thriller to be directed by Chile’s Juan Pablo Arias and shot in Colombia, Variety reported
• The story: Giraldo plays Jhoana, a Colombian immigrant who turns to surrogacy to support her young son. The agency, Maternity Incuba Care, insists the women spend all nine months of their pregnancy inside its remote facility, and as other women start to vanish, Jhoana uncovers its secret. Witt plays Minerva, who runs the agency
• Who’s making it: It is the first feature from Red Script Factory, the in-house writers’ room of Colombia’s Red Collision Studios, and is written by María Camila Caballero Páez
• UK availability: UK date not yet confirmed

Witt was unforgettable in Longlegs, and a sinister clinic with patients vanishing one by one is a classic horror engine with a sharp social edge.

Update: Man of Tomorrow will reportedly introduce the DCU’s Wonder Woman

• What’s being reported: Hours after James Gunn and Peter Safran left DC Studios, The Wall Street Journal’s Ben Fritz reported that their plans included debuting Wonder Woman in Man of Tomorrow, Gunn’s Superman sequel, as ComicBookMovie.com reported
• The bigger plan: Fritz said the pair hoped to introduce the DCU’s Batman in The Brave and the Bold (he later said 2029 was more likely than 2028), followed by Gunn-directed Superman sequels in 2029 and 2031 that had quietly grown into Justice League films
• What is confirmed: DC has not confirmed any of this. Adria Arjona’s role in Man of Tomorrow remains officially unrevealed, and it is not clear which plans incoming chief Jeremy Latcham, who starts on 1 December, will keep
• UK availability: Man of Tomorrow opens in US cinemas on 9 July 2027; UK date not yet confirmed

This is a report, not an announcement, but it shows how much was riding on Gunn’s Superman films. The leadership change itself is in our 9 November Evening News, and Gunn’s word that there would be no Man of Tomorrow trailer in December is in our 31 October superhero round-up.

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