London's Leicester Square movie premieres: Start times, end times, red carpet fan zone, tickets and more

The premiere capital of London, Leicester Square, regularly hosts some of the UK film industry’s biggest events.

Cineworld, Vue and Odeon all have cinemas within the famous spot which transform throughout the year and host premieres for the biggest blockbusters.

Essentially if you’re walking through and see a section gated off its likely a movie event is set to take place that evening.

For those curious here’s how movie premieres usually go down in London including how you can get into the fan zones by the red carpet.

When do London premieres typically start?

Set up for premieres usually starts early on the day of the event as organisers transform sections of Leicester Square to make way for the red carpet.

The carpet starts filling up from around 5pm as press and fans are led into the allocated sections of the carpet.

The main stars typically start walking the carpet at around 5.45pm until around 6.30pm after which the festivities continue inside the venue.

Watch the red carpet from a fan zone

Ahead of some premieres, lucky fans have a chance to stand in the dedicated fan areas of the red carpet and see the film's stars up close.

For the recent Warner Brother London premieres for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Joker: Folie À Deux which were held in Leicester Square, fans were able to sign up to a ballot for fan zone access.

The ballots which were drawn at random allowed winners to watch the red-carpet arrivals from the fan areas of the premiere.

When is the next premiere in London?

Movie fans can keep up with the latest London movie premieres with our 2025 calendar. We predict some of the biggest events will celebrate the new Bridget Jones film Mad About The Boy and highly anticipated zombie thriller 28 Years Later.

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