00:00The first titles for the Toronto Film Festival have been unveiled with Timothee Chalamet and
00:05Steve Carell star Beautiful Boy and This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman's Life Itself among the
00:10most high-profile world premieres. Beautiful Boy is based on a book of the same name about a
00:16father struggling with his drug-addicted son, with Call Me By Your Name's Chalamet playing
00:21the son and Carell his father. Life Itself, written and directed by This Is Us creator
00:26Fogelman, features an all-star lineup with Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening,
00:31Samuel L. Jackson and Antonio Banderas. Both films are Amazon Studio titles and set to hit
00:37theaters this fall. Also making its world premiere in Toronto is Steve McQueen's
00:42Widows, a crime drama starring Viola Davis and based on a U.K. TV series. The film is
00:48co-written by McQueen and screenwriter Gillian Flynn and stars Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth
00:53Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Daniel Kaluuya, Jackie Weaver, Robert Duvall and Liam
00:59Neeson. Certain films are set to take on TIFF after debuting elsewhere, such as
01:04Damien Chazelle's First Man and Bradley Cooper's highly anticipated directorial
01:09debut, A Star Is Born, starring Lady Gaga, both of which have already been set to get
01:14their world premieres at the Venice Film Festival. Elsewhere, Claire Dennis' first English
01:19language feature High Life, which wasn't ready for Cannes, and is headed to Toronto for its
01:23debut, with Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche top-lining the out-of-this-world drama
01:28about a group of criminals sent on a mission into a black hole. Other films headed to
01:33Toronto this September includes Melanie Laurence Galveston, starring Ben Foster and
01:38Elle Fanning, that debuted at South by Southwest. Sarah Collingello's Sundance titled The
01:43Kindergarten Teacher, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal. The can opener Everybody Knows, starring
01:48Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, and directed by Oscar Farhadi. The 20th Century Fox YA
01:54book adaptation The Hate U Give, starring Amandla Stenberg and Issa Rae, and directed by
02:00George Tillman Jr. The Julia Roberts star Ben Is Back, from director Peter Hedges. And
02:05Jason Reitman's Gary Hart biopic The Front Runner, starring Hugh Jackman as the disgraced
02:10presidential candidate, and Vera Farmiga and J.K. Simmons co-starring. The Toronto Film
02:16Festival will make additional lineup announcements in the coming weeks and is
02:20set to run from September 6th through the 16th. To read the full article and see more
02:25of the festival lineup, head to THR.com and let us know in the comments which film
02:29you're most excited to see. Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Meha Joy.
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