A painting produced by an eight-year-old schoolboy is to be shown before all UK screenings of Toy Story 5.
Tommy, from Blackpool, won a competition to design the official British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) Black Card which will be shown at all UK screenings of the film when it opens on Friday.
He was congratulated by the stars of the film, including Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, when he walked the red carpet at a preview screening in London.
“I was really shocked to win. I felt happy, excited, amazed — so many emotions all at once! I didn’t believe it at first,” said Tommy.
Tommy, who used acrylic paint and a mixture of brushes and sponges to achieve different textures, said: ‘I just wanted to make something colourful, plus feet are easier to draw than faces!
“I can’t wait for my friends to see it in the cinema.”
Tom Hanks, who plays pull-string cowboy doll Woody in the Toy Story films, and Tim Allen, who plays astronaut action figure Buzz Lightyear, both congratulated Tommy at the event and signed his framed copy of the winning design.
A BBFC spokesperson said the latest instalment of the Toy Story series sees Woody, Buzz Lightyear and Jessie the cowgirl rag doll face their biggest challenge yet – a world where, as Woody put it: “Toys are for play, but tech is for everything”.
Tommy’s winning design features the feet of some of the characters from the Disney Pixar film, including new character Lilypad, played by Greta Lee.
Lilypad is a new tablet device said by the BBFC to arrive “with her own disruptive ideas about what is best for their kid, Bonnie”.