The Toronto Film Festival has added to its 50th edition world premieres the latest films by Paul Greengrass, Rian Johnson, Hikari, Agnieszka Holland and Canadian auteur Clement Virgo.
Toronto programmers unveiled six news Gala titles on Wednesday, including world premieres for Nicholas Hytner’s The Choral, with the U.K. director reteaming with writer Alan Bennett for a First World War drama that stars Ralph Fiennes, Jim Broadbent and has been picked up by Sony Pictures Classics.
Also getting a first look in Toronto is Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman, an upcoming Paramount release that stars Channing Tatum as a real-life former Army Ranger who turns to robbing McDonald’s restaurants by cutting holes in their roofs.
Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst star in Roofman.
Paramount Pictures
Toronto also added five world premieres to its Special Presentations sidebar. These include Johnson’s third Knives Out installment, Wake Up Dead Man, for Netflix, which stars Daniel Craig as private detective Benoit Blanc and a new cast of suspects in Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner and Kerry Washington, among others.
Also booked into Toronto is Brendan Fraser in Rental Family, the Tokyo-set comedy-drama from Beef director Hikari and Searchlight Pictures; The Lost Bus, a wildfire thriller from director Paul Greengrass and Apple Original Films, and starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera; and Clement Virgo’s the psychological thriller Steal Away, about a teenager bonding with a mysterious refugee taken in by her charitable family.
There’s also a first look in Toronto for Polish writer and director Agnieszka Holland’s new biographical film Franz, about author Franz Kafka and starring German actor Idan Weiss. The Toronto Film Festival‘s 2025 edition is set to run Sept. 4 to 14. More film lineup announcements will be made in the coming weeks.
Brendan Fraser in Rental Family.
Searchlight Pictures
