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\n\tThe Toronto Film Festival has unveiled new star-driven Gala and Special Presentations titles, including Aziz Ansari\u2019s Good Fortune<\/em>, Maude Apatow\u2019s Poetic License<\/em>, Isabel Coixet\u2019s Three Goodbyes<\/em>, David Michod\u2019s Christy<\/em>, James Vanderbilt\u2019s Nuremberg<\/em> and Alice Winocour\u2019s Couture. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tSet for the buzzy red carpet at Roy Thomson Hall are world premieres for Bobby Farrelly\u2019s road trip comedy\u00a0Driver\u2019s Ed<\/em>, which stars Alyssa Milano, Kumail Nanjani and Molly Shannon; Russell Crowe\u2019s Nazi thriller Nuremberg <\/em>from director James Vanderbilt and Sony Pictures Classics, with the historical drama also starring Rami Malek, Michael Shannon and Leo Woodall; Succession<\/em> actor Brian Cox bringing his directorial debut Glenrothan<\/em>, where he stars alongside Alan Cumming and Shirley Henderson in a film about estranged brothers looking to save a family whisky distillery; and David Freyne\u2019s romantic comedy Eternity<\/em> for A24, which stars Da\u2019Vine Joy Randolph, Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen and Callum Turner.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tNuremberg<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKata Vermes<\/p>\n \n\tOther first looks in the Gala section include Aziz Ansari\u2019s directorial debut Good Fortune<\/em>, a Lionsgate release about a struggling gig economy worker (Ansari) meeting a tech giant, played by Seth Rogen, in a union overseen by an inept angel (Keanu Reeves); Hulu\u2019s Swiped<\/em>, with Lily James starring as Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd in the biopic from\u00a0Unpregnant <\/em>director Rachel Lee Goldenberg; Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir\u2019s epic period drama Palestine 36<\/em>,\u00a0which has Jeremy Irons appearing alongside Hiam Abbass, Kamel Al Basha\u00a0and Liam Cunningham; and Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery<\/em>, director Ally Pankiw\u2019s documentary about Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan\u2019s 1990 all-female music festival that\u2019s co-produced by Dan Levy and Elevation Pictures.<\/p>\n \n\tThere\u2019s also world bows for Alex Winter\u2019s murder mystery Adulthood<\/em>, led by Josh Gad, Kaya Scodelario, Billie Lourd, Winter and Anthony Carrigan; Outlaw King<\/em> director David MacKenzie\u2019s Fuze<\/em>, a crime thriller starring Sam Worthington, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James; Arnaud Desplechin\u2019s Two Pianos<\/em>, which stars Charlotte Rampling and Francois Civil in a drama about a virtuoso pianist living in an impossible love story. And there\u2019s North American premieres for Scarlett Johansson\u2019s Eleanor the Great <\/em>dramedy, which bowed in Cannes and has Sony Pictures Classic releasing the feature directorial debut and award season contender on Sept. 26; and Ramesh Sippy\u2019s Sholay<\/em>, a remake of the Bollywood epic. <\/p>\n \n\tQuebec director Anne Emond\u2019s Peak Everything<\/em>, which bowed in Berlin, will close TIFF on Sept. 14. Toronto earlier announced Gala titles for films by Rebecca Zlotowski, Chloe Zhao, Derek Cianfrance, Peter Ho-Sun Chan and Nicholas Hytner. <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tPeak Everything.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMetafilms<\/p>\n \n\tToronto\u2019s Special Presentations sidebar also unveiled new titles, including world premieres for Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein<\/em>, a remake of the classic monster tale that stars Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth and was shot in Toronto for Netflix; Euphoria<\/em> actress Maude Apatow\u2019s feature directorial debut Poetic License<\/em>; and Jonatan Etzler\u2019s Bad Apples,<\/em> where Saoirse Ronan plays a primary teacher forced to make bad decisions over an unruly child in her class.<\/p>\n \n\tThere\u2019s also world debuts for Baz Luhrmann\u2019s Elvis Presley documentary EPIC: Elvis Presley in Concert<\/em>; James McAvoy\u2019s directorial debut California Schemin\u2019<\/em>, starring Seamus McLean Ross and Samuel Bottomley as two Scottish friends pretending to be Californian rap duo; David Michod\u2019s biopic Christy,<\/em> with Sydney Sweeney transformed into U.S. boxing legend Christy Martin; and another pugilist biopic, Bennie Safdie\u2019s The Smashing Machine<\/em>, where Dwayne Johnson plays two-time UFC heavyweight champ Mark Kerr.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAlso getting first looks is True Detective<\/em> creator Nic Pizzolatto\u2019s Easy\u2019s Waltz<\/em>, a Las Vegas-set drama starring Vince Vaughn as a lounge singer getting a chance for a second act with an old school entertainment manager played by Al Pacino; Romain Gavras\u2019s Sacrifice<\/em>, an action comedy co-written with Will Arbery (Succession) and starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Evans and Salma Hayek; First Nations\/Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard\u2019s Meadowlarks,<\/em> top-lined by Michael Greyeyes, Carmen Moore, Alex Rice and Michelle Thrush; director Nick Davis\u2019s You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution<\/em>, a documentary about a 1972 star-making stage production in Toronto; the romance movie Charlie Harper<\/em> from directors Tom Dean and Mac Eldridge and starring Emilia Jones and Toby Wallace; Alice Winocour\u2019s high fashion drama Couture<\/em>, featuring Angelina Jolie; and Yaniv Raz\u2019s romantic epic Eternal Return<\/em>, toplined by Kit Harington, Naomi Scott and Jeremy Irons.<\/p>\n \n\tOther new world debuts in Toronto include Train to Busan <\/em>director Yeon Sang-ho\u2019s latest film, the \u00a0mystery thriller The Ugly<\/em>; Isabel Coixet\u2019s Three Goodbyes,<\/em> led by Italian stars Alba Rohrwacher and Elio Germano; Mariana Rondon\u2019s It Would Be Night in Caracas<\/em>; Leon Le\u2019s Ky Nam Inn<\/em>; Philippe Falardeau\u2019s Lovely Day<\/em>; Anurag Kashyap\u2019s Monkey in a Cage<\/em>; Damiano Michieletto\u2019s Primavera;<\/em> Lee Hwan\u2019s Project Y;<\/em> and Lisa Rideout\u2019s Degrassi documentary Degrassi: Whatever It Takes.<\/em><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tNouvelle Vague.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJean Louis Fernandez<\/p>\n \n\tToronto has also booked an international premiere for Train Dreams, Clint Bentley\u2019s take on the Denis Johnson novella that stars Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones and bowed at Sundance; and Canadian premieres for Daniel Roher\u2019s Tuner,<\/em> a crime thriller starring Dustin Hoffman that marks the Oscar-winning Navalny<\/em> director\u2019s first narrative fiction film; Conclave<\/em> director Edward Berger\u2019s new thriller Ballad of a Small Player<\/em>, starring Colin Farrell; \u00a0Richard Linklater\u2019s Cannes competition title Nouvelle Vague<\/em>; and Joachim Trier\u2019s Sentimental Value,<\/em> the Cannes Grand Prix winner that stars Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgard and Elle Fanning.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Toronto Film Festival, set to run Sept. 4 to 14, will open with Colin Hanks\u2019s John Candy documentary, John Candy: I Like Me.<\/em> More lineup announcements will be made in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled new star-driven Gala and Special Presentations titles, including Aziz Ansari\u2019s Good Fortune, Maude Apatow\u2019s Poetic License, Isabel Coixet\u2019s Three Goodbyes, David Michod\u2019s Christy, James Vanderbilt\u2019s Nuremberg and Alice Winocour\u2019s Couture. \u00a0 Set for the buzzy red carpet at Roy Thomson Hall are world premieres for Bobby Farrelly\u2019s road trip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[4975,4974,4027,4973,4977,4976,4978],"class_list":{"0":"post-11560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ansari","9":"tag-aziz","10":"tag-brian","11":"tag-cox","12":"tag-del","13":"tag-guillermo","14":"tag-toro"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}