Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea (12A), which is adapted from Nathan Philbrick’s award-winning book of the same name, opens in Nantucket in 1850, with the young novelist Herman Melville (Ben Whishaw) interviewing retired sailor Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson) about the dramatic events that befell the whale ship Essex some three decades previously.

Little Brooklyn Beckham was among the younger members of the audience for the premiere of Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.

Freddie Prinze Jr, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard and Linda Cardellini have already agreed to star in Scooby Doo 2.