Scrooge

Even Ebenezer Scrooge might have been impressed with how TV networks are profiting from holiday movies.

When Taylor Swift is making $2bn in ticket sales, and Coldplay can sell out 10 nights at Wembley Stadium, it’s easy to conjure an image of touring musicians swimming in sweet piles of cash, like guitar-wielding Scrooge McDucks.

And she is framing it all as an appeal to the innate, cross-ideological American desire to have an absolutely disgusting, Scrooge McDuck level of wealth tied up in one’s property value.

He returned to Britain, and acted in a number of films in the period after World War Two, including The Captive Heart and Scrooge.

“Disney is a massive company. They know the law. But just like their character Uncle Scrooge, they choose to be cheap.”