Films We’re Most Excited To See At The 2015 Toronto Film Festival

By now, though, shoots are so commonplace it barely rates a mention.

Gyllenhaal himself has also become a fixture in Toronto, appearing in last year’s well-received “Nightcrawler“, as well as “Prisoners“, “Rendition” and previously in Ang Lee’s acclaimed “Brokeback Mountain“.

Vallee was hoping to move people with music on Friday night.

According to Variety, Aretha’s lawyers filed a complaint last week in a Colorado court requesting a temporary injunction to stop the Telluride Film Festival from screening unbelievable Grace this past weekend, arguing that 1972 footage included in the movie “was taken with the express understanding that it would not be used commercially without agreement and consent by Ms. Franklin”.

But the focus for many cinephiles at TIFF, of course, is on finding the upcoming awards-season contenders. A film’s strong reception here often generates early Oscar buzz – which is exactly what’s expected to happen this year for Redmayne’s film The Danish Girl and Moore and her Freeheld. And veterans still talk about the flame-out that was Cameron Crowe’s “Elizabethtown”.

Canadian titles this year include a new outing from Deepa Mehta, who switches gears with an action-packed gangster tale, “Beeba Boys;” “Remember” from festival veteran Atom Egoyan, who enlisted Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau for the Nazi revenge thriller; the war saga “Hyena Road” from actor/director Paul Gross; and “The Forbidden Room” from the assuredly odd Guy Maddin.

The Toronto worldwide Film Festival released a statement about the change to its film schedule.

On learning to direct: “It’s one of the advantages of being on sets for most of your adolescence”.

But let’s face it. All of Hollywood – and all of us – aren’t dropping in just to watch great films and eat poutine. The programming of Moore’s first documentary in six years – an investigation of the American military industrial complex – doubled as a revelation of its existence.

Bryan Cranston of “Breaking Bad” fame returns in “Trumbo“, starring alongside Helen Mirren and John Goodman in the movie about the screenwriter and Hollywood blacklist victim Dalton Trumbo. If history is any guide, the star of the festival will probably be one of the smaller, unexpected films that slip in under the radar.

I’m looking forward to Tom Hardy’s turn in Legend, where he plays both Reggie and Ronnie Kray, identical twin brothers who ruled the London underworld during the swinging 60s.

My plane lands in an hour.

A legal rep for the Telluride Film Festival countered that cancelling the screenings at such short notice would damage its reputation, while adding that an insufficient number of people would see the documentary at the event to damage Franklin’s image.