MUMBAI: London will host the world premiere of Disney‘s A Christmas Carol in what is claimed will be the biggest UK 3D screening to date. The film that stars Jim Carey, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins and Robin Wright Penn will premiere at the Odeon and Empire cinemas on Leicester Square and the Odeon West End on 3 November.The premiere is part of an event to kick off London‘s festive season. The Christmas lights on the city‘s Oxford and Regents Streets will be themed around the film, adapted by the classic Charles Dickens‘ novel, and will be switched simultaneously on that night.

The event was announced by London major Boris Johnson in New York, as part of campaign to promote the city to American tourists. Tickets to the premiere will be available to the public with proceeds going to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children‘s Charity.