مهرجان تورونتو السينمائي: تشكيلة هيلين ميرين وكريس روك وسيث روجن الرائدة | Toronto Film Festival

World premieres of films led by Helen Mirren, Seth Rogen and Chris Rock lead this year’s Toronto Film Festival lineup.

The September festival, which takes place after the Venice Film Festival, saw the premieres of Oscar-winning films such as Green Book, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Still Alice, Dallas Buyers Club and Silver Linings Playbook.

Mirren will play Patricia Highsmith in A Talent for Killing, a twisty thriller starring recent Tony Award winner Alden Ehrenreich, who plays a literary agent sent to Switzerland to convince the author to write another Ripley novel. الفيلم من إخراج أنطون كوربيجن، الذي تشمل أعماله السابقة فيلمي Control وA Most Wanted Man.

Rogen, who was in Toronto last year with Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune, will star alongside Anna Kendrick in Babies, a comedy-drama written and directed by his wife, Lauren Miller Rogen. The film, which also stars Issa Rae, Kate Berlant and Sharon Stone, centers on a childless couple who are forced to raise children when their divorced friend moves in with her three-year-old daughter.

Rock will return to the festival with his latest film as a writer and director, the Hollywood comedy Misty Green. The star, whose latest Top Five effort just premiered in Toronto, also leads the A24 film that centers on a director who offers a comeback opportunity to an actress whose career was derailed by her vices. The all-star cast also includes Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, and British actor Rosalind Eleazar in the lead role.

The festival will also witness the world premiere of I Play Rocky, a drama about Sylvester Stallone’s Oscar-winning success. The film is directed by Peter Farrelly, whose 1960s-set drama Green Book went from premiering in Toronto to winning the Oscar for Best Picture, and stars Anthony Ippolito as Stallone.

كما ستقدم Courteney Cox’s Evil Genius قوسها في المهرجان. The crime thriller, which marks the actor’s second film as a director after Tallhotblond, is based on the true crime docuseries of the same name which tells the story of so-called “Pizza Bomber” Brian Wells. ويضم طاقم العمل باتريشيا أركيت وديفيد هاربور.

قال كوكس عن المشروع: “إنه أغرب من الخيال”. “At moments darkly funny but deeply emotional. A story about love, loneliness, manipulation and people on the margins who are drawn to something much bigger than themselves.”

After legal issues affected the release of her first film as a director, Rebel Wilson’s Girl Group will also be shown in Toronto. The film stars Wilson as a singer who begins her own group’s reunion tour and later returns by associating herself with a younger teen group. The cast also includes Jennifer Coolidge, Sheridan Smith, Melanie C, and Nicole Scherzinger.

Shakespeare in Love director John Madden will also head to Toronto with the drama Onwards and Sideways, a film starring Laura Linney and Rhys Ifans as two people who receive a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis on the same day.

Other premieres include the thriller comedy Everybody Wants to Fuck Me starring Taron Egerton about the world of modern dating, the prison drama The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd starring Amanda Seyfried, the supernatural drama Faith starring James McAvoy and Erin Doherty, Takashi Miike’s Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo with Lily James, a coming-of-age drama called The Julia Set starring One Battle After Another breakout Chase Infinity, director of Joy Luck Club. Wayne Wang’s drama The Diary of a Mad Old Man is a romantic comedy directed by Trudie Styler and led by Antonio Banderas.

Previously announced premieres include the romance Love of Your Life starring Margaret Qualley, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Aaron Bier, a big-screen adaptation of the hit stage drama Prima Facie starring Cynthia Erivo, the revenge thriller Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother led by Mahershala Ali and Being Heumann, the new film from Coda director Sian Heder.

Last year Toronto saw the premiere of horror film Obsession which has since become the highest-grossing festival acquisition of all time having grossed $442 million worldwide.