Movies featuring Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Kate Beckinsale, Edward Norton and Colin Farrell and a documentary about Paris Hilton have joined the lineup for the Toronto International Film Festival.
North America’s largest cinema showcase announced Tuesday that the schedule will include Joel and Ethan Coen’s CIA comedy “Burn After Reading,” with Pitt, Clooney, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich.
Among other additions were Gavin O’Connor’s cop drama “Pride and Glory,” starring Norton and Farrell; Rod Lurie’s Washington journalism tale “Nothing But the Truth,” with Beckinsale, David Schwimmer and Angela Bassett; and Adria Petty’s nonfiction Hilton chronicle “Paris, Not France.”
Also, Neil Burger’s Iraq War homecoming saga “The Lucky Ones,” with Tim Robbins, Rachel McAdams and Michael Pena; Toa Fraser’s British historical tale “Dean Spanley,” starring Peter O’Toole, Sam Neill and Jeremy Northam; and Jodie Markell’s “The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond,” based on a Tennessee Williams screenplay and featuring Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Evans, Ellen Burstyn and Ann-Margret.
The festival also will feature “New York, I Love You,” a collection of 12 short films about New York City directed by such talents as Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner and Mira Nair.
Previously announced movies among Toronto’s slate of 249 feature films include Spike Lee’s World War II tale “Miracle at St. Anna,” featuring Derek Luke; Saul Dibb’s historical pageant “The Duchess,” starring Keira Knightley; David Koepp’s supernatural romance “Ghost Town,” with Ricky Gervais, Tea Leoni and Greg Kinnear; Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Southern drama “The Secret Life of Bees,” with Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and Sophie Okonedo; the Western “Appaloosa,” in which director Ed Harris stars with Viggo Mortensen and Renee Zellweger; and Kevin Smith’s comedy “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” starring Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks.
Opening the festival Sept. 4 will be the World War I drama “Passchendaele,” directed by and starring Canadian actor-filmmaker Paul Gross. The festival closes Sept. 13 with Charles Martin Smith’s “Stone of Destiny,” a Scottish drama with Robert Carlyle, Brenda Fricker and Billy Boyd.
Disney Pledges $15 million In L.A. Fire Aid As More Celebs Learn They’ve Lost Their Homes
The Pacific Palisades wildfires torched the home of "This Is Us" star Milo Ventimiglia, perhaps most poignantly destroying the father-to-be's newly installed crib.
CBS cameras caught the actor walking through his charred house for the first time, standing in what was once his kitchen and looking at a neighborhood in ruin. "Your heart just breaks."
He and his pregnant wife, Jarah Mariano, evacuated Tuesday with their dog and they watched on security cameras as the flames ripped through the house, destroying everything, including a new crib.
"There's a kind of shock moment where you're going, 'Oh, this is real. This is happening.' What good is it to continue watching?' And then at a certain point we just turned it off, like 'What good is it to continue watching?'"
Firefighters sought to make gains Friday during a respite in the heavy winds that fanned the flames as numerous groups pledged aid to help victims and rebuild, including a $15 million donation pledge from the Walt Disney Co.
More stars learn their homes are gone
While seeing the remains of his home, Ventimiglia was struck by a connection to his "This Is Us" character, Jack Pearson, who died after inhaling smoke in a house fire. "It's not lost on me life imitating art."
Mandy Moore, who played Ventimiglia's wife on "This Is Us," nearly lost her home in the Eaton fire, which scorched large areas of the Altadena neighborhood. She said Thursday that part of her house is standing but is unlivable, and her husband lost his music studio and all his instruments.
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