The Toronto Movie Competition has unveiled its first titles for its upcoming 2024 version, main off with world premieres for Elton John: By no means Too Late, Mike Flanagan’s The Lifetime of Chuck and Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch, the latter which stars Amy Adams as a stay-at-home-mom whose home life takes a surreal flip.
The Lifetime of Chuck relies on the 2020 Stephen King brief story of the identical identify. Toronto, set to run this 12 months from Sept. 5 to fifteen, additionally plans profession honors for David Cronenberg and Adams as a part of its Tribute Awards.
The Elton John doc, from director David Furnish and R.J. Cutler, is about for the gala program at Roy Thomson Corridor, as is a world premiere for South Korean director Woo Min-ho’s Harbin — which stars Hyun Bin, Lee Dong-wook, Park Jeong-min and Jeon Yeo-been — and Chris Sanders’ The Wild Robotic from DreamWorks Animation.
The Wild Robotic is an animated movie that stars Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o as Roz, a robotic shipwrecked on an island that should adapt to its new environment.
Nightbitch, which stars Tom Hiddleston, is booked into the Particular Shows sidebar, as is Sydney Freeland’s Rez Ball, one other world premiere in Toronto.
“We all know the TIFF viewers has been eagerly anticipating what movies shall be coming to Toronto this September, and at present’s announcement is a snapshot of what’s to come back this 12 months: a splendidly big selection of titles that span genres and generations, with discoveries for everybody,” Anita Lee, chief programming officer in Toronto, stated in a press release.