Ebenezer No. 1 on Friday — Johnny Depp Tops the Box Office, How to Rob a Bank Stumbles

Johnny Depp is No. 1 again — and he did it as Scrooge.

Ebenezer, the dark new take on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, took the top spot at the US box office on Friday, November 13, 2026, with $7.1 million — including $1.5 million from Thursday previews. It is Depp's first No. 1 movie since Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald in 2018, and his first major studio film since then.

The Paramount Pictures release, directed by Ti West (X, Pearl, MaXXXine), is now pacing toward an opening weekend of $20 million or more in North America, with some projections in the mid-$20s. About $20 million more is expected from 63 international markets, which would take the worldwide opening toward $40 million — roughly the film's reported $38 million production budget.

It is a comeback with an asterisk. Critics are sharply divided: Ebenezer sits at 50% on Rotten Tomatoes, with praise for the gothic atmosphere and Depp's committed performance, but many reviews call it slow and too faithful to Dickens. Audiences will decide the rest of the story this weekend — and the full weekend estimate lands on Sunday.

The same weekend is a very different story for How to Rob a Bank. David Leitch's heist comedy, starring Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz and Pete Davidson, made just $900,000 in Thursday previews and $2 million on Friday, and is now projected to open at only about $4 million — far below the $10–15 million it was once tracking. Critics were not kind either: 33% on Rotten Tomatoes from 63 critics, and 47 on Metacritic.

Meanwhile, last weekend's king is falling fast. Godzilla Minus Zero dropped to third in its second weekend, with about $8 million — down 74% — taking its 10-day US total to about $48.5 million.

So the weekend's question is simple: can Depp's Scrooge hold No. 1 all weekend, or does the holiday crowd have other plans? The final numbers come on Sunday — follow The Movie News Live for the result.

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Did you watch Ebenezer or How to Rob a Bank this weekend? Tell us in the comments — is Depp's comeback real?