Just Another Christhmas Carol is a 2014 British-American Fantasy Drama Comedy-Horror film written and directed by Tim Burton starring Ian McKellen, Johnny Depp, Kerry Washington, Robbie Coltrane, Elijah Wood, Benedict Cumberbatch and Helena Bonham Carter. The film was released theathrically on December 25, 2014 but was released for both critics and public at Cairns, New York and Los Angeles film festivals to phenomenal praise and reception. The film was an box office sucess and was praised for it strong, phenomenal soundtrack and for its fantastic and vaguely scary plot and scenes.