Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst brought Derek Cianfrance’s true-crime romance Roofman to the BFI London Film Festival for its UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall.
Channing Tatum, of the 21 Jump Street films, brought Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman to the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank on Tuesday 14 October 2025. Kirsten Dunst joined him on the festival carpet for its UK premiere.
Tatum was born in Cullman, Alabama, in 1980 and grew up in Mississippi. He left college, where he had gone on a football scholarship, and worked as a roofer and then as a nightclub dancer. That experience became the idea for Magic Mike.
He made his film debut in Coach Carter in 2005 and broke through the next year with She’s the Man and Step Up.
Roofman tells the true story of Jeffrey Manchester, an Army veteran and struggling father who robbed McDonald’s restaurants by cutting through their roofs. After escaping prison he lived in secret for six months inside a Toys “R” Us. His double life began to unravel when he fell for Leigh, a divorced mother played by Dunst.
Ben Mendelsohn, LaKeith Stanfield, Juno Temple and Peter Dinklage complete the cast. The film had its world premiere at Toronto on 6 September, and Paramount Pictures released it in American cinemas on 10 October.