Jay Kelly UK premiere set for Cunard Gala at BFI London Film Festival

Noah Baumbach's new comedy drama Jay Kelly will have its U.K. premiere as the Cunard Gala screening at the BFI London Film Festival on Oct. 10, after making its world debut at the Venice Film Festival on Aug. 28, organisers said. The film, starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler and written by Baumbach with Emily Mortimer, arrives amid a flurry of festival promotion that was briefly disrupted when Clooney scaled back his Venice appearances because of illness, his representative said.

Jay Kelly follows a famed movie actor, played by Clooney, and his long time manager, played by Sandler, on a road trip across Europe that forces both men to confront their choices, relationships and the legacies they will leave behind. The ensemble cast also includes Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, Eve Hewson, Greta Gerwig and Jim Broadbent. Baumbach said the production felt like a homecoming in London, where the film was largely shot, edited and scored, and where he and many collaborators are expected to attend the London premiere.

At Venice, Clooney abruptly curtailed a Wednesday press junket and missed a private dinner with cast and Netflix executives, insiders said. He was photographed...