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Entertainment - Thursday, July 23, 2026

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Entertainment headlines for Thursday, July 23, 2026

Summary of this day news

Entertainment headlines for 2026-07-23 focused on 3 major developments:

  • 1) ‘Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol’ Trailer: Johnny Depp Stars as Grouchy, Snowball-Throwing Scrooge (Variety)
  • 2) Johnny Depp Crashes Comic-Con Hall H Panel As Scrooge To Reveal ‘Ebenezer’ Trailer: “It’s Good To Be Back” (Deadline)
  • 3) ‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ Season 2 Reveals Joker Voice Actor: ‘House of the Dragon’ Star Matthew Needham (Variety) Across these stories, coverage emphasized high-impact updates, policy shifts, and events with broad audience relevance.

Together they provide a representative view of the day in entertainment news before diving into each full report.

Why it matters: This snapshot shows where entertainment attention concentrated on 2026-07-23, highlighting the themes, entities, and geographies that dominated publisher coverage. Because ranking blends freshness, engagement, and source diversity, it helps separate signal from noise. Use it as a quick daily briefing and then open the top stories for fuller context.

Key Points

3 highlights

  1. ‘Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol’ Trailer: Johnny Depp Stars as Grouchy, Snowball-Throwing Scrooge

    Sources: #1 Variety

  2. Johnny Depp Crashes Comic-Con Hall H Panel As Scrooge To Reveal ‘Ebenezer’ Trailer: “It’s Good To Be Back”

    Sources: #2 Deadline

  3. ‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ Season 2 Reveals Joker Voice Actor: ‘House of the Dragon’ Star Matthew Needham

    Sources: #3 Variety

Top 12 Stories

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  1. ‘Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol’ Trailer: Johnny Depp Stars as Grouchy, Snowball-Throwing Scrooge
    #1 Score 80
    ‘Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol’ Trailer: Johnny Depp Stars as Grouchy, Snowball-Throwing Scrooge

    Paramount Pictures has released the first trailer for “Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol,” starring Johnny Depp in his first major Hollywood role since his 2022 trial against ex-wife Amber Heard. Directed by Ti West, the holiday film is described as a dark reimagining of the Charles Dickens’ classic, with Depp playing the infamous Christmas grouch Ebenezer […]

    Variety 3 days ago
  2. Johnny Depp Crashes Comic-Con Hall H Panel As Scrooge To Reveal ‘Ebenezer’ Trailer: “It’s Good To Be Back”
    #2 Score 80
    Johnny Depp Crashes Comic-Con Hall H Panel As Scrooge To Reveal ‘Ebenezer’ Trailer: “It’s Good To Be Back”

    Comic-Con got a double dose of three-time Oscar nominee Johnny Depp, who after showing up as Scrooge character on the streets of the Gaslamp district Thursday crashed Collider’s Directors on Directing panel in Hall H with the trailer for Ebenezer, the Ti West-directed holiday movie coming out November 13. Hysterical is all we have to […]

    Deadline 3 days ago
  3. ‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ Season 2 Reveals Joker Voice Actor: ‘House of the Dragon’ Star Matthew Needham
    #3 Score 72
    ‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ Season 2 Reveals Joker Voice Actor: ‘House of the Dragon’ Star Matthew Needham

    “Batman: Caped Crusader” has unmasked its Joker. “House of the Dragon” star Matthew Needham will voice the villain in Season 2 of the animated noir series after the Clown Prince of Crime was teased at the end of Season 1. (John DiMaggio, who voices Detective Harvey Bullock on the show, is credited with voicing the […]

    Variety 3 days ago
  4. ‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ Season 2 Adds Matthew Needham To Voice The Joker
    #4 Score 72
    ‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ Season 2 Adds Matthew Needham To Voice The Joker

    Matthew Needham is voicing The Joker in the upcoming second season of Prime Video’s Batman: Caped Crusader. The news was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday that the House of the Dragon actor would be adding his name to the list of prolific actors who have lent their talents to the Clown Prince of Crime. […]

    Deadline 3 days ago
  5. #5 Score 66
    ‘The Odyssey’ Hired Their Viking Ship. They Say It Came Back Damaged.

    A Swedish Viking center said its vessel was used in the filming of Christopher Nolan’s epic but needed repairs when it was returned. Now, the center is seeking compensation.

    NYT Arts 3 days ago
  6. Rebelle Media & MGM Television Win Rights To Adapt ‘When In Rome’ Series By Sarah Adams
    #6 Score 64
    Rebelle Media & MGM Television Win Rights To Adapt ‘When In Rome’ Series By Sarah Adams

    Rebelle Media and MGM Television have acquired the rights to adapt Sarah Adams’ book series Rebel Moon for the small screen. Co-Founder of Rebelle Media Amanda Palley announced the news at San Diego Comic-Con in the “Romance on the Big Screen: Why It’s About Damn Time” panel Thursday. “You guys know this series, correct?” cofounder […]

    Deadline 3 days ago
  7. Charli xcx Cranks Up the Guitars and Launches Her Post-‘Brat’ Era With the Razor-Sharp ‘Music, Fashion, Film’: Album Review
    #7 Score 63
    Charli xcx Cranks Up the Guitars and Launches Her Post-‘Brat’ Era With the Razor-Sharp ‘Music, Fashion, Film’: Album Review

    When an artist is as prolific — and as easily bored — as Charli xcx, “How much is too much?” becomes a significant question, and one she herself addressed in “The Moment,” the mock-umentary on her “Brat” era released earlier this year. That remarkably self-aware film, in which she plays a sort of parallel-universe version of […]

    Variety 3 days ago
  8. Audiobook Narrator Jeff Hays Joins Peacock’s ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ TV Series To Voice Princess Donut The Cat
    #8 Score 61
    Audiobook Narrator Jeff Hays Joins Peacock’s ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ TV Series To Voice Princess Donut The Cat

    Attention crawlers! The voice of popular cat character Princess Donut in Peacock’s live-action adaptation of Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl has been found. Jeff Hays, a voice narrator and producer behind the LitRPG audiobook series version of Dinniman’s dystopian comedy novel has joined the Peacock and Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door television adaptation to bring the […]

    Deadline 3 days ago
  9. Shaking Up the Emmys By Moving Five Categories Out of the Telecast Might Not Work, But at Least the TV Academy Is Trying Something
    #9 Score 60
    Shaking Up the Emmys By Moving Five Categories Out of the Telecast Might Not Work, But at Least the TV Academy Is Trying Something

    Richard Gadd, change your flight plans. The creator and star of HBO Max’s “Half Man” wound up with the series’ only Emmy nomination this year — via his supporting actor in a limited/anthology series or movie nod. But as of last week, that category will no longer be presented during NBC’s Emmy telecast on Sept. […]

    Variety 3 days ago
  10. ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Set Designer Mary Kate Golding Fatally Stabbed In Apparent Murder-Suicide
    #10 Score 58
    ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Set Designer Mary Kate Golding Fatally Stabbed In Apparent Murder-Suicide

    Mary Kate Golding, a 34-year-old New York City set decorator whose credits include The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Goosebumps and the 2025 Netflix docuseries Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer, died Tuesday at her Queens residence in what police say was a possible murder-suicide. Golding’s husband, Joseph Azzaretto, 33, was later found dead in a […]

    Deadline 3 days ago
  11. ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ TV Series Casts Audiobook Star Jeff Hays as Princess Donut’s Voice
    #11 Score 58
    ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ TV Series Casts Audiobook Star Jeff Hays as Princess Donut’s Voice

    Attention, crawlers: Seth MacFarlane’s live-action “Dungeon Crawler Carl” TV series has found its Queen Anne Chonk. Jeff Hays, the narrator and producer behind all eight of the currently released “Dungeon Crawler Carl” books, has been cast as the voice of Princess Donut on the Peacock TV adaptation of Matt Dinniman’s best-selling LitRPG novels. For those […]

    Variety 3 days ago
  12. Marlboro Music: Where Artists Have Time to Chase Perfection
    #12 Score 57
    Marlboro Music: Where Artists Have Time to Chase Perfection

    The Marlboro Music festival, now in its 75th summer, allows artists to practice for however long they’d like, with no pressure to perform.

    NYT Arts 3 days ago

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