Toronto film festival: Angelina Jolie, Saoirse Ronan and Keanu Reeves lead lineup | Toronto film festival

World premieres starring Angelina Jolie, Saoirse Ronan and Keanu Reeves lead this 12 months’s lineup for the Toronto movie pageant.The fiftieth version of the pageant will once more function a string of movies hoping to achieve awards traction, happening after the Venice movie pageant.Jolie, who premiered a movie ultimately 12 months’s Toronto as director, will return in entrance of the digicam for the French director Alice Winocour’s drama Couture. She is going to play a film-maker arriving in Paris for trend week, following her position as Maria Callas in final 12 months’s Netflix biopic Maria. Winocour beforehand premiered the Eva Inexperienced-led sci-fi movie Proxima on the pageant.Ronan, who was final seen within the alcoholism drama The Outrun and Steve McQueen’s Blitz, will lead the Bristol-set comedy thriller Unhealthy Apples, enjoying a trainer pressured into drastic lengths whereas coping with a very troubling 11-year-old. The official synopsis guarantees “uneasy laughs” and a “provocative” tone.Reeves will lead Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut, Good Fortune, as an angel who engineers a physique swap between a poor and a wealthy man, performed by Ansari and Seth Rogen, respectively. Ansari has mentioned he hopes the movie helps to resurrect the theatrically launched R-rated comedy. “Aziz is nice,” Reeves advised Leisure Weekly. “An amazing author, director, actor. I had such a unbelievable expertise working with him.”Toronto can even see directorial debuts from actors James McAvoy, Brian Cox and Euphoria’s Maude Apatow, daughter of Judd Apatow. McAvoy directed California Schemin’, primarily based on the true story of Scottish rappers pretending to be American, Cox has helmed Glenrothan, a drama described as a “love letter to Scotland”, and Apatow is behind Poetic License, a comedy starring her mom Leslie Mann.The pageant can even see the world premiere of Christy, a biopic of the groundbreaking feminine boxer Christy Martin starring Sydney Sweeney. The movie, from the Animal Kingdom director David Michôd, will cowl Martin’s rise within the Nineties after which later her husband’s try to homicide her. “Our movie is a wild mixture of inspiring underdog sports-world story and private saga,” Michôd mentioned to W Journal. “Sydney skilled her butt off to play the half. The fantastic thing about Sydney is that she turned as much as work every single day along with her tail wagging, able to go. Regardless of how robust it was, she was like a ray of sunshine.”Different true tales premiering embody the Thirties-set Palestine 36 a few Palestinian rebellion in opposition to colonial British rule, the historic drama Nuremberg starring Rami Malek and Russell Crowe, Agnieszka Holland’s Franz Kafka biopic Franz, Swiped which stars Lily James because the founding father of the courting app Bumble and Paul Greengrass’s beforehand introduced survival thriller The Misplaced Bus, which stars Matthew McConaughey as a schoolbus driver making an attempt to save lots of youngsters from the lethal 2018 Camp fireplace in California.Premieres that had additionally already been introduced earlier than Monday embody Rian Johnson’s much-anticipated Knives Out sequel Wake Up Lifeless Man, which brings again Daniel Craig and provides Josh O’Connor, Glenn Shut and Mila Kunis, the buzzy Brendan Fraser-led comedy drama Rental Household from Beef director Hikari, the Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman with Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst, Nicholas Hytner’s interval comedy The Choral starring Ralph Fiennes and primarily based on an unique Alan Bennett script and Steven Soderbergh’s darkish comedy The Christophers with Michaela Coel, Ian McKellen and Child Reindeer breakout Jessica Gunning.Chris Evans can even play a film star kidnapped by a bunch of radicals in Sacrifice, an motion comedy additionally starring Anya Taylor-Pleasure, Salma Hayek, John Malkovich and Charli xcx. Director Bobby Farrelly, identified for co-directing hit movies akin to There’s One thing About Mary, will unveil Driver’s Ed, a brand new comedy starring the White Lotus breakout Sam Nivola. Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James can even headline the heist thriller Fuze from the Scottish director David Mackenzie.Different notable premieres embody the offbeat romantic comedy Eternity with Elizabeth Olsen and Miles Teller, thriller thriller The Ugly from Prepare to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho and Simple’s Waltz from True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto with Al Pacino and Vince Vaughn.Documentaries set to premiere embody Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Live performance and movies about topics akin to John Sweet, teen sequence Degrassi and music pageant Lilith Truthful.The pageant takes place from the 4 to 14 September.