The Toronto International Film FestivalNorth America’s largest company unveiled a high-profile array of world firsts on Monday Hollywood Strikes, including films starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Seth Rogen. The festival, which has served as the launch pad for numerous Oscar-winning films, is moving ahead with plans for the September 7-17 event, although there are doubts as to whether the big names will come to promote their works. The Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) is on strike over pay and other working conditions over pay and other working conditions over disputes with studios, meaning its members generally can’t promote films produced by studios and streamers involved in the dispute.
However, SAG AFTRA Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland told Hollywood news outlet Deadline that actors could benefit from a sort of “interim arrangement” to travel to Toronto to support independent feature films. There are several expected award contenders on the list of world premieres planned for TIFF, including “stupid money“, with Rogen and Paul Dano, on the amateur investors that made GameStop a Wall Street phenomenon in 2021. De Niro stars in actor Tony Goldwyn’s “Ezra,” about a man (Bobby Cannavale) who moves back in with his father (De Niro) after his career and marriage were blown up.
Other world premieres include Taika Waititi’s sports comedyThe next target wins‘, the drama ‘Les Indesirables’ by French filmmaker Ladj Ly, Atom Egoyan’s ‘Seven Veils’ starring Amanda Seyfried and Michael Keaton’s ‘Knox Goes Away’ starring Pacino. Also planned is the international premiere of “Awards Hopeful”The Leftovers“From director Alexander Payne (“Sideways”), about a teacher (Paul Giamatti) who is tasked with supervising students at a boarding school who are unable to go home for the Christmas break.
TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey said in a statement that the cast represented a “rich blend of talent, vision and storytelling.” Alongside Venice and Telluride, the Toronto Film Festival is a key part of the fall festival schedule, where films looking to gain momentum at the Oscars usually have lavish premieres.
TIFF’s annual People’s Choice Awards have become increasingly precise oscars Leitwetter and predicts the eventual winners of best films such as ‘Nomadland’, which won an Oscar in 2021, and ‘Green Book’. The event only regained full strength in 2022 after two years of running online or hybrid events amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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