10 hot titles at Toronto Film Fest
The movie industry has headed north for the Toronto International Film Festival. Like an all-you-can-eat buffet, the 11-day blowout features just about every Oscar contender that isn't still in the editing room. Here are a few of the festival's most promising titles.
1. "Wild Rose": Director Tom Harper's highly anticipated movie follows a young musician from Glasgow who wants to become a star in Nashville.
2. "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile": Zac Efron stars as Ted Bundy, one of America's most notorious serial killers, alongside Lily Collins, Jim Parsons and Kaya Scodelario. While the movie isn't screening in competition, sources say producers are screening the film outside the festival for potential buyers.
3. "High Life": Robert Pattinson has been enjoying a post-"Twilight" renaissance for a few years now, with breakout performances in "Good Time" and "The Lost City of Z." Which makes Claire Denis' "High Life" all the more curious given how under-the-radar it's been. The film features an intriguing cast (led by Pattinson) and story, with a group of criminals sent to space under dubious circumstances.
4. "Her Smell": Elisabeth Moss shines as Becky Something, the frontwoman for a '90s rock band, in a movie that also stars Amber Heard, Cara Delevingne, Virginia Madsen, Dan Stevens and Ashley Benson.
5. "Vox Lux": Brady Corbet follows up his award-winning directorial debut, 2015's "The Childhood of a Leader." Described as "a 21st-century story of Celeste, a pop star who comes to success as a result of unusual circumstances," the film stars Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe and Jennifer Ehle. It already premiered at the Venice Film Festival to stellar reviews — currently, it's rated 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
6. "The Weekend": "Everything Everything" director Stella Meghie offers a blissful rom-com starring "SNL" alum Sasheer Zamata. It follows a comedian who gets romantically entangled with three other people during a weekend getaway.
7. "A Million Little Pieces": In Sam Taylor-Johnson's first movie since "Fifty Shades of Grey," her husband, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, stars alongside Charlie Hunnam and Billy Bob Thornton in an adaptation of James Frey's book that was originally marketed as a "memoir" of addiction but turned out to be heavily fictionalized.
8. "The Death and Life of John F. Donovan": This film is the long-awaited English-language debut by international film festival l'enfant terrible Xavier Dolan, as well as an anticipated leading man debut by "Game of Thrones" star Kit Harington. The A-list cast also includes Natalie Portman, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates, Thandie Newton, Jacob Tremblay and Ben Schnetzer.
9. "Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy": Justin Kelly directs the dream cast of Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern, based on the true story of a middle-aged woman who wrote novels under the guise of a teenage boy named J.T. LeRoy — while her sister-in-law made public appearances as the author.
10. "American Dharma": The latest documentary by "Fog of War" and "Gates of Heaven" director Errol Morris follows controversial Breitbart editor and former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon.
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