Test Audiences Just Don't Seem to Care About Johnny Depp's Legal Saga

Test audiences just don't seem to care about Johnny Depp's legal saga

The Johnny Depp image rehabilitation campaign is in full swing. The actor, who will star Ebenezer this Thanksgiving, made his biggest public appearance since his prolonged legal battle with ex-wife Amber Heard at Comic-Con last month. (Though there was a different result in the U.S. trial, a U.K. judge did rule in 2020 that Heard’s statement that Depp was a “wife beater” was “substantially true.”) The trailer for the movie focused more on Depp’s…

What If Moviegoers Want Johnny Depp Back?

On August 11, Paramount studio heads Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg trudged to Paramus, New Jersey, for a test screening of Ebenezer, their gothic take on A Christmas Carol. The results were promising: The Ti West–directed movie scored an 80, meaning four-fifths of the audience rated it excellent or very good. That’s solid-ish for the […] The post What If Moviegoers Want Johnny Depp Back? appeared first on Puck.