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Spielberg heads starry Toronto festival line-up

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="US director Steven Spielberg attends the 40th Anniversary Screening of " E.T.="" the="" presented="" on="" Opening="" Night="" of="" TCM="" Classic="" Film="" Festival="" at="" TCL="" Chinese="" Theater="" in="" April="" Robyn="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/tvpatrol/08/09/steven-spielberg.jpg"/><figcaption>US director Steven Spielberg attends the 40th Anniversary Screening of &quot;E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial&quot; presented on the Opening Night of the 2022 TCM Classic Film Festival at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, April 21, 2022. Robyn Beck, AFP</figcaption></figure></div>LOS ANGELES, United States - Steven Spielberg, Jennifer Lawrence and Harry Styles will bring their world premieres to Toronto, as North America&#x27;s largest film festival signaled a return to full strength with the unveiling of a star-studded lineup Thursday.The Toronto International Film Festival, which bills itself as &quot;the world&#x27;s biggest public film festival&quot; and has launched countless Oscar winners, will welcome back A-listers to glamorous red carpets and exclusive after-parties after two heavily scaled-back editions during the pandemic.Spielberg&#x27;s eagerly awaited and deeply personal &quot;The Fabelmans&quot; will be among the hottest tickets during the festival, which begins September 8.Based on the revered director&#x27;s childhood in Arizona, exploring the family secrets of a young man with an early passion for filmmaking, the coming-of-age drama stars Michelle Williams, Paul Dano and Seth Rogen.Director Rian Johnson launches &quot;Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,&quot; a whodunit sequel from Netflix in which Daniel Craig&#x27;s gentleman sleuth meets a new star-studded cast including Edward Norton, Ethan Hawke and Jada Pinkett Smith.Peter Farrelly, whose 2018 race drama &quot;Green Book&quot; began its path to Oscars glory at Toronto, will bring &quot;The Greatest Beer Run Ever,&quot; another world premiere. Zac Efron plays a merchant seaman who travels to Vietnam in the 1960s to deliver a case of beer to his army buddies, alongside co-stars Bill Murray and Russell Crowe.TIFF is a key part of the fall festival lineup, along with Venice and Telluride, at which movies hoping to build early Oscars momentum typically hold lavish premieres.Toronto&#x27;s annual People&#x27;s Choice Award has become an increasingly accurate Oscars bellwether, predicting eventual best picture winners such as &quot;Nomadland,&quot; which took home the Academy Award in 2021, and &quot;Green Book.&quot;Last year, organizers held a reduced in-person event over Covid-19 fears, while a year earlier the festival took place almost entirely online.Stars expected to return to the Toronto red carpets this year include Oscar winners Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne -- in &quot;The Good Nurse&quot; -- and pop mega-star Harry Styles, who plays a closeted 1950s cop in &quot;My Policeman.&quot;Jennifer Lawrence stars in &quot;Causeway,&quot; a drama about a solider suffering from a traumatic brain injury, while Viola Davis plays &quot;The Woman King,&quot; and Nicolas Cage appears in &quot;Butcher&#x27;s Crossing.&quot;Ewan McGregor and Hawke will feature in the world premiere of &quot;Raymond &amp; Ray,&quot; produced by Alfonso Cuaron for Apple which -- fresh from its historic best picture win with &quot;CODA&quot; -- is also bringing a Sidney Poitier documentary produced by Oprah Winfrey.&quot;Sidney&quot; will feature Halle Berry, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington and Quincy Jones. Billy Eichner&#x27;s &quot;Bros&quot; -- billed as the first gay rom-com from a major studio -- will have a splashy first showing, as will movie mogul Tyler Perry&#x27;s &quot;A Jazzman&#x27;s Blues.&quot;Additionally the festival will play host to several major movies expected to premiere weeks earlier at other festivals, including Sam Mendes&#x27; &quot;Empire of Light,&quot; Darren Aronofsky&#x27;s &quot;The Whale,&quot; and &quot;Women Talking&quot; starring Frances McDormand.TIFF runs from September 8-18.

Steven Spielberg, Jennifer Lawrence and Harry Styles will bring their world premieres to Toronto, as North America's largest film festival signaled a return to full strength with the unveiling of a star-studded lineup Thursday.