Toronto Film Festival: Exclusive Portraits of Jason Bateman, Nicole Kidman and More

Benedict Cumberbatch

Sherlock Holmes actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who covered this week's The Hollywood Reporter New A-List issue, stars as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the upcoming drama, The Fifth Estate, which premiered at this year's Toronto Film Festival. "The thing is this: I have a profound respect for Julian," Cumberbatch told THR. "I also have a profound respect for the need of states to have a currency of secrets in order for Western democracy to exist and for fundamentalism to be defeated. And I don't think Julian is interested in fundamentalism triumphing."
Bill Condon

Bill Condon, director of The Fifth Estate director, said of Cumberbatch's character: "You had this extraordinary situation for an actor in the last few days of rehearsal, where he is channeling Assange at the same time as the real Assange is begging him to drop out of the film. You can imagine what pressure that put on him. But he handled it with remarkable grace and tenacity."
Alfre Woodard

Starring in 12 Years A Slave, Alfre Woodard is featured in the Steve McQueen-helmed biopic about a free man named Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor), who is sold into slavery. Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender also star in the film.
Chris Cooper

Chris Cooper joins Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts in the dark dramedy, August: Osage County, which was adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play written by Tracy Letts. The John Wells-directed movie opens on Nov. 8.
Dermot Mulroney

Actor Dermot Mulroney also joins Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts and Chris Cooper in August: Osage County.
Julianne Nicholson

In August: Osage County, Julianne Nicholson plays Ivy, who is described by THR's film critic David Rooney as a "seemingly mousy one who stayed single and close to home, enduring more than her share of their parents’ dysfunction."
Daniel Bruhl

Daniel Bruhl plays Formula One racer Niki Lauda in Ron Howard's period piece, Rush, where he tries to win the gold against British bad boy James Hunt (played by Chris Hemsworth). "What's fascinating about Ron, and I've told him this, is that he's tried to explore every genre," Bruhl said of his Rush director in a THR interview.
Eli Roth

Premiering at the festival's Midnight Madness event, Eli Roth's horror flick, The Green Inferno, follows a group of university students in New York concerned about the Amazon rainforest traveling to Peru to raise awareness about endangered natives.
Dan Stevens

Joining Benedict Cumberbatch in The Fifth Estate is Dan Stevens, who starred as Matthew Crawley in Downton Abbey from 2010-12.
Jacki Weaver, Zac Efron, Colin Hanks, Peter Landesman and Paul Giamatti

From left: Parkland's Jacki Weaver, Zac Efron, Colin Hanks, director Peter Landesman and Paul Giamatti had a great laugh during a photo shoot for The Hollywood Reporter. The film, which first premiered in Venice and then Toronto, recounts the JFK assassination through the eyes of a several people in Dallas in November 1963.
Paul Giamatti

In Parkland, Paul Giamatti plays the amateur photographer Abraham Zapruder, who had captured the details of JFK's assassination on camera.
Peter Landesman

THR film critic Stephen Farber described director Peter Landesman's historical drama as "well made": "Filled with sharp details that will be eye-opening to most viewers, the film is exceptionally well made, with a fine cast making the most of small but telling roles."
Jacki Weaver

The actress plays the mother of JFK's assassinator Lee Harvey Oswald in Parkland.
Colin Hanks

Colin Hanks, along with Zac Efron, play nursing residents who tend to the wounded JFK in Parkland.
Asghar Farhadi

The director of The Past, which first premiered in this year's Cannes, told THR about how making his film in France instead of Iran was different, "I must say here in France I had more serenity or security as I was working, because I knew I was making the film the way I wished and that the film would be seen ultimately, which is not always the case in Iran. In Iran, you always work having in mind this worry of will I be able to carry on my project as I wish and will the audience see the film. Here, I didn't have these worries, for sure."
Michael Barker and Tom Bernard

Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese

Michael Barker, left, and Tom Bernard of Sony Pictures Classics posed for THR as they attended the annual film festival.
Rohan Chand, Jason Bateman and Kathryn Hahn

From left: Rohan Chand, Jason Bateman and Kathryn Hahn star in Bateman's feature directorial debut, Bad Words. THR's film critic John DeFore said "Bateman demonstrates the same knack for timing and fine shadings of attitude as he does onscreen."
Jonathan Teplitzky, Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Jeremy Irvine

From left: The Railway Man director Jonathan Teplitzky posed with the film's cast members Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Jeremy Irvine. The movie, which received a standing ovation at its world premiere in Toronto, tells the true story of a World War II British Army officer whose wife decides he must meet his former Japanese POW tormentor.
Tom Williamson, Amanda Grace Cooper, Sianoa Smit-McPhee and Brooke Butler

Clockwise from top left: Tom Williamson, Amanda Grace Cooper, Sianoa Smit-McPhee and Brooke Butler star in the horror film, All Cheerleaders Must Die, which kicked off this year's Midnight Madness.
Kristen Wiig

Kristen Wiig stars in Hateship Loveship, a drama about a girl who tries to set up her father with her nanny.
Liza Johnson

The Hateship Loveship director smiled for the cameras during THR's photo shoot.
Eve Hewson

Eve Hewson, daughter of U2's Bono, stars in the romantic comedy Enough Said, which also features the late James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Nicole Holofcener

THR's chief film critic Todd McCarthy said in his review that director Nicole Holofcener's Enough Said "is never at a loss for words, many of them quite amusing, making this Fox Searchlight release a leading contender for best girls’ night movie of the season."
Catherine Keener

The actress, who stars in Enough Said, posed for THR.
Sarah Paulson

Actress Sarah Paulson appears in Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave, which THR's Todd McCarthy said in his review, "the film can’t help but be obvious and quite melodramatic at times, but it gets better as it goes along and builds to a moving finish."
Mia Wasikowska, Richard Ayoade and Jesse Eisenberg

From left: Mia Wasikowska, director Richard Ayoade and Jesse Eisenberg stopped by THR's photo shoot as their comedy, The Double, premiered at this year's film festival.
Dakota Fanning

The actress stars in the biographical drama, The Last of Robin Hood, with Kevin Kline and Susan Sarandon. The film, directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, takes a look back on legendary Hollywood actor Errol Flynn's last days.
Clive Owen

Clive Owen plays a drunken English teacher in romantic comedy, Words and Pictures. The Fred Schepisi-directed flick also stars Juliette Binoche.
John Carney

Writer-director John Carney's Can a Song Save Your Life? stars Keira Knightley as a frustrated singer and Mark Ruffalo as a washed-up producer.
Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brosnan, along with Emma Thompson, star in The Love Punch, a British comedy directed by Joel Hopkins.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Bill Condon

Alfre Woodard

Chris Cooper

Dermot Mulroney

Julianne Nicholson

Daniel Bruhl

Eli Roth

Dan Stevens

Jacki Weaver, Zac Efron, Colin Hanks, Peter Landesman and Paul Giamatti

Paul Giamatti

Peter Landesman

Jacki Weaver

Colin Hanks

Asghar Farhadi

Michael Barker and Tom Bernard

Rohan Chand, Jason Bateman and Kathryn Hahn

Jonathan Teplitzky, Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Jeremy Irvine

Tom Williamson, Amanda Grace Cooper, Sianoa Smit-McPhee and Brooke Butler

Kristen Wiig

Liza Johnson

Eve Hewson

Nicole Holofcener

Catherine Keener

Sarah Paulson

Mia Wasikowska, Richard Ayoade and Jesse Eisenberg

Dakota Fanning

Clive Owen

John Carney

Pierce Brosnan