Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera brought Paul Greengrass's drama of the 2018 Camp Fire school bus rescue to Mayfair for its UK premiere.
Paul Greengrass’s The Lost Bus held its UK premiere at Curzon Mayfair on Sunday 28 September 2025. Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera, the film’s two leads, walked the carpet with their director.
McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas, in 1969 and studied at the University of Texas at Austin. A supporting part in Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused in 1993 broke him, and A Time to Kill made him a leading man three years later.
He won the Academy Award for Best Actor as Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club. True Detective and Interstellar followed in 2014.
Greengrass, the British director of United 93 and Captain Phillips, wrote the screenplay with Brad Ingelsby from Lizzie Johnson’s book Paradise. It returns to the Camp Fire of November 2018, when a school bus driver and a teacher drove 22 children out of Paradise through the blaze.
McConaughey plays the driver, Kevin McKay, and Ferrera the teacher, Mary Ludwig. Jamie Lee Curtis and Jason Blum were among the producers.
The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival that September. It began streaming on Apple TV+ on 3 October.