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Christmas in November at the World Premiere of A Christmas Carol!

It was a cold dark night in ye olde London town, and thanks to the lovely people at Sky Movies HD, I had the chance (along with ex-Barquester Sam) to attend the World Premiere of Disney’s A Christmas Carol.

The premiere was a huge construction having taken over the whole of Leicester Square with christmas trees and grand archways marking the entrances to the red carpeted area in the centre. By night time the whole area had been turned into a winter wonderland, complete with falling snow, and  carolers in full period costume.

A couple of records were also broken in the course of the premiere. Not only was this the worlds largest premiere for a 3D movie, they also broke the world record for the largest number of people carol singing at one time. The singing was led by none other than Andrea Bocelli, who also gave a brilliant performance of a song from the movie (’God Bless Us Everyone’ – see it here). Don’t think i’ve ever felt so Christmasy in November before!

We spent a bit more time celeb spotting as Jim Carrey, Bob Hoskins, and Colin Firth worked the crowd. Eventually we made our way over to the Odeon (tripping over some of the X-Factor finalists on the way… the guy with the hair, and those annoying twins), to watch Disney’s A Christmas Carol – Click here to read the review of the movie!