No George Clooney, but Brad Pitt, Renee Zellweger and other stars will shine at the Toronto film festival
The Toronto International Film Festival has revealed its full roster, which includes 312 movies from 64 countries — 76% will be world, international or North American premieres. Lots of stars will attend to add hype to pix with Oscars potential. George Clooney can't make it, but Brad Pitt and Tilda Swinton will be on hand to 
help Joel and Ethan Cohen to add media heat to "Burn After Reading." Also: Viggo Mortensen and Renee Zellweger ("Appaloosa"), Anne Hathaway and Debra Winger ("Rachel Getting Married"), Bill Maher ("Religulous"), Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore and Gael Garcia Bernal ("Blindness"), Jennifer Hudson and Queen Latifah ("The Secret Life of Bees").
Read more info in reports from Canada's National Post, the AP and Reuters, Variety, Hollywood Reporter. Check out the festival's website here.
Toronto's slate of films doesn't seem as good as it was last year. There are no "big" year enders -- where is Doubt, Revolutionary Road, Ben Button, or Autstralia?
I hope that some of the less high profile films are surprisingly great!
Posted by: C.S. | August 20, 2008 at 08:29 AM