The U.K.\u2019s own Charli xcx, Emma Corrin and Nicholas Galitzine will close out the London Film Festival.<\/p>\n
The 69th BFI London Film Festival has confirmed the U.K. premiere of the stars\u2019 new film, 100 Nights of Hero, will screen at the event\u2019s closing night gala Oct. 19.<\/p>\n
More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n The \u201cBrat\u201d singer and The Crown actor Corrin are expected to attend, as well as stars Maika Monroe, Amir El-Masry, Richard E. Grant and Felicity Jones. The film first hits the Lido on Sept. 6, earning its world premiere in Venice Critics\u2019 Week.<\/p>\n \u201cA bold and beautiful fairy tale based on Isabel Greenberg\u2019s graphic novel, 100 Nights of Hero follows Cherry,\u201d a plot synopsis reads, \u201cwhose neglectful husband departs after placing a secret wager to test her fidelity, and her sharp witted maid Hero as they fend off a dangerously seductive visitor.\u201d<\/p>\n Julia Jackman\u2019s second feature marks a return to the BFI London Film Festival with her debut feature Bonus Track premiering at the festival in 2023.<\/p>\n Jackman said:\u00a0\u201cThe BFI London Film Festival has championed my work since my very early shorts, so bringing 100 Nights of Hero here is profoundly special. To return as the closing night gala is an incredible honour, and we can\u2019t wait to share this film on our home turf with a London audience.\u201d<\/p>\n Kristy Matheson, BFI London Film Festival\u2019s director, added:\u00a0\u201cJulia Jackman is a filmmaker of enormous talent whose work we\u2019ve had the pleasure of presenting in previous editions of the festival.\u00a0<\/strong>We were genuinely excited to see 100 Nights of Hero and it won us over immediately with its witty scripting, pitch perfect performances and a joyfully rebellious heart\u2026. I\u2019m personally honoured and delighted to welcome Julia and her talented team to take the stage this year and share this wondrous film with audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n Independent Film Company releases 100 Nights of Hero in the U.S. on Dec. 5. LFF will run Oct. 8-19 2025.<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The U.K.\u2019s own Charli xcx, Emma Corrin and Nicholas Galitzine will close out the London Film Festival. The 69th BFI London Film Festival has confirmed the U.K. premiere of the stars\u2019 new film, 100 Nights of Hero, will screen at the event\u2019s closing night gala Oct. 19. More from The Hollywood Reporter The \u201cBrat\u201d singer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1984616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[356208,356962,356966,356961,356963,356964,356965],"class_list":["post-1984615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-100-nights-of-hero","tag-emma-corrin","tag-hero","tag-london-film-festival","tag-maika-monroe","tag-nicholas-galitzine","tag-richard-e-grant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Charli-xcx-and-Emma-Corrin-to-Close-BFI-London-Film.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}