“This movie is about judgment, family, reconciliation and salvation,” said Robert Downey Jr. (third from left), star of Warner Bros.’ legal drama. From left: Jeremy Strong, Dax Shepard, Downey, director David Dobkin, Vera Farmiga, Downey’s wife and Judge producer Susan Downey and Vincent D’Onofrio.
.“At first I turned it down. It was so negative … some of those scenes,” said Robert Duvall ?of his gruff title character in The Judge. “But my agent, wife and I talked and [decided it] was a worthwhile project. If you decide to do it, you’ve got to jump in and really do it.”
The Parenthood actor appears opposite Robert Downey Jr. in The Judge.
Jeremy Strong stars alongside Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall in The Judge, which opened the fest.
Captain America himself came to Toronto with his directorial debut Before We Go.
Evans made Before We Go with (from left) producers James McGough, Mary Viola and producer/star Mark Kassen.
Writer/director Josh Lawson (center) stars alongside T.J. Power (left) and Damon Herriman (right) in The Little Death.
Afia Nathaniel brought her directorial debut Dukhtar to Toronto. The Pakistan-set drama centers on a mother and her young daughter who leave their home so the girl will be spared from an arranged marriage.
Acclaimed Japanese writer Isao Takahata has the animated The Tale of the Princess Kaguya in Toronto, where it will get its North American premiere.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars in the music industry-set Beyond the Lights.
NBA pro Amar’e Stoudemire produced Beyond the Lights.
From left: Octavia Spencer, Kevin Costner, Jillian Estell, Mpho Koaho and Bill Burr.
Peter Strickland directed Duke of Burgundy.
Arielle Holmes and Caleb Landry Jones posed for THR.
The Warm Bodies actress stars in Kill Me Three Times.
Kriv Stenders directed Kill Me Three Times, which stars Simon Pegg as an assassin.
The Kill Me Three Times actor is the older brother of Chris and Liam Hemsworth.
David Gordon Green directed the Al Pacino film Manglehorn.
Holly Hunter plays a woman who helps an eccentric small-town locksmith (Al Pacino) start his life over after heartbreak.
Hunter stars opposite Al Pacino in Manglehorn.
James Franco directed and stars in this adaptation of William Faulkner's tale about the ill-fated Mississippi Compson clan.
From left: Jacob Loeb, James Franco, Scott Haze and Janet Gretsky.
Scott Haze stars in director James Franco's adaptation of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.
Wayne Gretsky's wife also stars in The Sound and the Fury.
Clockwise from top left: Tom Hardy, director Michaël Roskam, Matthias Schoenaerts and Noomi Rapace.
Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts stars in The Drop.
Maika Monroe stars in David Robert Mitchell's horror flic.
Maika Monroe, who also stars in festival entry The Guest, plays a 19-year-old girl who, stuck with a sexually transmitted serial haunting after a romantic night out, finds herself pursued by a legion of malevolent, lumbering phantoms that will pursue her forever — unless she passes the curse on to someone else.
David Robert Mitchell also wrote the script for It Follows.
Ansel Elgort stars in the dramedy.
Kaitlyn Dever plays Brandy in the Jason Reitman film.
The young stars' film opens wide Oct. 17.
Kevin Kline came to the fest with My Old Lady, the feature debut of veteran playwright Israel Horovitz.
Director Ed Zwick and his star Tobey Maguire came to Toronto to show off their film.
Zwick's film Pawn Sacrifice centers on the life of chess great Bobby Fischer.
David Harbour stars alongside Denzel Washington.
Director Susanne Bier and Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau teamed up for A Second Chance.
Susanne Bier's A Second Chance centers on a desperate father.
The Good Lie screenwriter Margaret Nagle.
Director Philippe Falardeau brought his film to Toronto.
From left: Emmanuel Jal, Kuoth Wiel, director Philippe Falardeau, screenwriter Margaret Nagle, Arnold Ocean and Ger Duany.
The Good Lie's Kuoth Wiel.
From left: screenwriter Julia Hart, actors Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld, Muna Otaru, director Daniel Barber and Sam Worthington.
Director Jean-Baptiste Leonetti (center) and stars Jeremy Irvine and Michael Douglas.
“I liked the challenge of doing a thriller in broad daylight in a desert landscape,” said Michael Douglas of starring in Jean-Baptiste Leonetti’s movie, about a corporate high roller who connects with a young guide (Jeremy Irvine) on a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert.
THR honored director James Marsh and stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones at a glitzy Toronto bash.
Felicity Jones plays Jane Hawking in the Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything.
“Five days before we started shooting, I met Stephen [Hawking]. I was so nervous! I told him we were both Capricorns. He sat there for five minutes typing away and then, in his iconic voice, said, ‘I’m an astronomer, not an astrologer,’ ” said Eddie Redmayne (with Felicity Jones) of the famed British scientist? at the center of the Focus Features biopic, which has garnered early awards buzz for its two leads.
Time Out of Mind star Jena Malone.
Richard Gere plays a homeless man in Time Out of Mind.
Ben Vereen stars alongside Richard Gere and Jena Malone.
Richard Gere posed for THR.
Jena Malone plays the daughter of Gere's character.
Jena Malone also appears in the Hunger Games movies.
Director Oren Moverman brought his film to Toronto.
“I can’t wait to get home and smoke my own movie — I’ve never done that!” joked writer-director Kevin Smith (left, with actors Genesis Rodriguez, Haley Joel Osment and Justin Long) of the two marijuana strains named after his horror film about a man tortured into becoming a walrus.
Genesis Rodriguez stars in the Kevin Smith film.
Justin Long falls victim to a gruesome plot in Tusk.
Haley Joel Osment plays the best friend of Justin Long's character in Tusk.
Laura Dern earned early awards season buzz for her turn as Reese Witherspoon’s mother in Fox Searchlight’s Wild and also promoted writer-director Ramin Bahrani’s foreclosure drama 99 Homes, in which she stars opposite Andrew Garfield.
Nick Kroll plays a big-city yuppie who, out of a job after a disastrous product launch, retreats to his suburban childhood home.
Rose Byrne plays Nick Kroll's pregnant sister in Adult Beginners. She also was at the fest promoting This Is Where I Leave You.
"The studios know their business, and I accept that. But those films don’t always represent everything ?I want to do,” said Black and White star and producer Kevin Costner of playing the grandfather of a mixed-race child. “I want to be in love with what I want to do, whether it’s a Western or a little movie about racism.”
Octavia Spencer, pitted against Kevin Costner’s widower in a custody battle in director Mike Binder’s Black and White, said the movie “is not necessarily just about race. It’s about the blending of two families from very disparate backgrounds.”
Mike Binder directed the movie.
Jennifer Aniston plays a woman coping with the death of a fellow support-group member, played by Anna Kendrick (pictured), in the movie.
Sam Worthington posed for THR's camera.
“I have friends who’ve had chronic pain and been addicted to meds,” said Jennifer Aniston of researching to play a woman coping with the death of a fellow support-group member (Anna Kendrick). “The movie is about the universal themes of pain and hardship and pushing through them.”
To play Beach Boy Brian Wilson in Bill Pohlad’s Love & Mercy, said John Cusack: “My fulcrum was the Smile sessions, which was such a revolutionary work. That was the work he couldn’t finish before he went into a very dark period of his life. When he came out of that with the love of [his wife] and came back to claim Smile as his own, I could hear his mind at work.”
Elizabeth Banks stars in the Brian Wilson biopic.
?“I love economy. If I were a painter and I could paint the lake, trees and a man fishing in one stroke, that’s what I would do. That’s what I loved about this film: Everything is expressed so succinctly, so tightly,” said Ben Kingsley of playing a Sikh driving instructor opposite Patricia Clarkson in Isabel Coixet’s Learning to Drive.
Jake Gyllenhaal plays a petty thief who gets caught up with the sleazy freelance photographers who scour Los Angeles at night for gruesome crime-scene footage.
Patricia Clarkson plays a doctor who takes in a mysterious man (Scott Speedman) when he washes ashore at her remote cottage with a gunshot wound. But she soon discovers that his would-be killer (Tim Roth) is on his way to finish what he started.
Willem Dafoe portrays legendary Italian filmmaker, poet and novelist Pier Paolo Pasolini in this biopic.
Bill Nighy stars in Pride, set in 1984 Britain, which tells the story of how a ragtag band of activists from London’s queer community formed an unlikely anti-Thatcherite alliance with striking Welsh miners.
From left: Bill Nighy, Faye Marsay, Ben Schnetzer, Jessica Gunning, Dominic West, Andrew Scott, producer David Livingstone, Matthew Warchus and Stephen Beresford.
From left: Leonard Wu, director Andrew Loo, Celia Au, Shuya Chang, Justin Chon and director Andrew Lau.
Michael Moore's film is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
Paul Bettany wrote and directed the gritty drama, which stars his wife, Jennifer Connelly.
The actress stars in gritty drama Shelter, directed by her husband, Paul Bettany.
Kate Bosworth stars alongside Julianne Moore, who is generating early Oscar buzz for the role.
“She is ambitious and controlling, so that juxtaposed with the news she gets is her struggle,” said Kate Bosworth of Still Alice, in which she plays the daughter of Julianne Moore, a professor diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Sony Pictures Classics scooped up domestic rights at the festival.
Josh Charles, who shocked The Good Wife fans with his sudden departure (and character's death) earlier this year, stars in Pascale Ferran's film.
From left: Ethan Hawke, director Andrew Niccol and Jake Abel.
Brit Marling, left, and Hailee Steinfeld star in Daniel Barber's film.
Jeremy Irvine's previous credits include Steven Spielberg's War Horse.
Benedict Cumberbatch stars as British mathematician and cryptologist Alan Turing in the biopic, which won the People's Choice Award at Toronto.
Keira Knightley also stars in the movie.
“Louis said I had to write this one on my own,” joked Chris Rock (with co-star Rosario Dawson) of advice from friend and previous collaborator Louis C.K. on writing, directing and starring in the comedy, which sold to Paramount for $12.5 million after its Toronto premiere sparked a bidding war.
Kristen Wiig stars as a woman suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder who becomes an overnight celebrity after a huge lottery jackpot allows her to launch her own off-the-wall talk show.