NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� The unveiled a starry lineup to its 48th edition on Monday, even if remains unclear if stars will be there to walk red carpets due to the ongoing .
Among the films making their world premieres at TIFF this year are Craig Gillespie's GameStop drama 鈥淒umb Money,鈥� with Paul Dano and Pete Davidson; Ellen Kuras' 鈥淟ee,鈥� starring Kate Winslet at war photographer Lee Miller and Tony Goldwyn's Ezra," with Robert De Niro and Rose Byrne.
Also headed to Toronto are Michael Keaton's 鈥淜nox Goes Away,鈥� starring Al Pacino and James Marsden; Kristen Scott Thomas' 鈥淣orth Star,鈥� featuring Scarlett Johansson and Sienna Miller; David Yates' Netflix drama 鈥淧ain Hustlers,鈥� starring Emily Blunt and Chris Evans; and Maggie Betts' 鈥淭he Burial,鈥� with Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones.
Those films, and many more including directorial debuts by Anna Kendrick ("Woman of the Hour") and Chris Pine ("Poolman"), will make up some of the gala premieres at TIFF, the largest film festival in North America.
The festival is a key platform for Hollywood to debut its fall fare and awards hopefuls. But like the Venice Film Festival, which begins about a week before TIFF launches on Sept. 7, Toronto organizers are anxiously following the .
While those strikes continue, actors and writers are prohibited by their unions from promoting their films. TIFF will go forward, regardless, but an ongoing strike would sap the festival of A-listers and surely lessen the usual
The strike has already led to one of Venice's top titles 鈥� Luca Guadagnino's 鈥淐hallengers,鈥� starring Zendaya 鈥� and postpone its release to April.
Other major titles coming to TIFF include Alexander Payne's 鈥淭he Holdovers,鈥� starring Paul Giamatti as a boarding school professor; Richard Linklater鈥檚 鈥淗it Man,鈥� an action comedy starring Glen Powell and Adria Arjona; Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin鈥檚 鈥淣yad,鈥� starring Annette Bening as long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad; Mahalia Belo's 鈥淭he We End Start From,鈥� starring Jodie Comer as a mother fleeing a flooded London; and Ethan Hawke's 鈥淲ildcat,鈥� featuring his daughter, Maya Hawke, as author Flannery O'Connor.
TIFF previously announced that Taika Waititi鈥檚 soccer comedy 鈥� " will open this year's festival, which runs through Sept. 17.
Jake Coyle, The Associated Press
