A Christmas Carol
Tuesday, November 3: Celebrities from across the globe gathered in London to enjoy the start of the festive season, alongside more than 50,000 Londoners who thronged the city’s streets to enjoy the biggest ever co-ordinated Christmas Lights switch on and celebration before the World Premiere of Disney’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ in a Dickensian Christmas – themed Leicester Square.
The stars of the film switched on the London Christmas lights across the city: Jim Carrey lit up Oxford Circus with Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, after performances from The Saturdays, Taio Cruz and Peter Andre, Colin Firth flicked the switch in Regent Street once Daniel Merryweather and The Noisettes had taken the stage and Bob Hoskins lit up the skies around St Paul’s after Spandau Ballet, Little Boots and Faryl Smith had entertained the crowds in the City of London.
It was a history-making night in the capital as over 14,000 people joined the St Paul’s Cathedral Choir and celebrated Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli in a chorus of O Come All Ye Faithful and Silent Night smashing the Official Guinness World Record for the biggest ever Christmas Carol sing-along. Another record was created as the film screened in three cinemas in Leicester Square and an additional 17 cinemas around the country, to set the Official Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous 3D Film Premiere.
Disney’s A Christmas Carol is released in the UK on Friday 6th November 2009.
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