{"id":137136,"date":"2026-07-20T22:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/137136\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T22:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:30:26","slug":"toronto-lineup-peter-farrelly-chris-rock-lauren-miller-rogen-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/137136\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Lineup: Peter Farrelly, Chris Rock, Lauren Miller Rogen Films"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tChris Rock<\/a>\u2019s Misty Green; Lauren Miller Rogen\u2019s comedy drama Babies, starring Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Issa Rae, Dan Stevens, Zach Cherry and Kate Berlant; and Courteney Cox\u2019s true crime thriller Evil Genius are set for world premieres at the Toronto Film Festival<\/a> as part of its high-profile Gala sidebar of possible future Oscar contenders.<\/p>\n

\n\tPeter Farrelly<\/a>\u2019s I Play Rocky, where Anthony Ippolito plays Sylvester Stallone in Amazon MGM\u2019s feature about the making of the classic boxing film, will world premiere as part of the Special Presentations sidebar, as will the Annie Murphy and Cooper Raiff-starring romantic comedy All She Wants from directors Scarlette Bermingham and Andrew Rhymer.<\/p>\n

\n\tRock is bringing to Roy Thomson Hall Misty Green, based on a script he wrote and directs about a talented actress, played by Rosalind Eleazar,whose career has been stifled by her vices. Also in the sidebar is Wayne Wang\u2019s Diary of a Mad Old Man, starring Gabriel Byrne and Fan Bingbing; and Rebel Wilson\u2019s Girl Group comedy starring Jennifer Coolidge and Nicole Scherzinger.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s also first looks as part of the Gala program for John Madden\u2019s Onwards and Sideways, a BBC film where the Laura Linney and Rhys Ifans Star duo confront Parkinson\u2019s diagnoses; Sue Kim\u2019s Always Lalisa, where K-Pop superstar Lisa of Blackpink gets a documentary treatment; and Joss Crowley\u2019s Pretenders.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther Gala world bows in a lineup filled as much by international auteurs as Hollywood stars include Anton Corbijn\u2019s A Talent For Murder, starring Helen Mirren as author Patricia Highsmith, alongside Alden Ehrenreich and Olivia Cooke; Trudie Styler\u2019s romantic comedy Up Against It, starring Antonio Banderas and Eva Birthistle; Adrian Buitenhuis\u2019 Man in Motion: The Rick Hansen Story; Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo\u00a0from director Takashi Miike; Paul Andrew Williams\u2019 supernatural drama thriller Faith, starring Erin Doherty and James McAvoy; and Yan Lanouette\u2019s Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend, a biopic about the latest race car legend Gilles Villeneuve, which will close TIFF\u2019s 2026 edition.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe gala sidebar has an international premiere for Nguyen Phan Quang Binh\u2019s Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret of the First Emperor; and North American premieres for earlier Cannes world bows like Florian Zeller\u2019s Bunker, where Pen\u00e9lope Cruz and Javier Bardem play a married couple navigating rough terrain; Call My Agent! director Marc Fitoussi\u2019s All About Corrine, starring Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Bercot and Diane Kruger; Reed Van Dyk\u2019s Iraq war drama Atonement. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Special Presentation program has booked world bows for Niki Byrne\u2019s coming of age drama The Julia Set, starring Chase Infiniti, Christopher Briney, Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs; Jonathan Schey\u2019s Everybody Wants to F*** Me, the dark comedy thriller starring Taron Egerton; Hans Petter Moland\u2019s Growth of the Soil; Happily Ever After, by director Feng-I Fiona Roan; Jaap van Heusden and Vinnie Karetak\u2019s In Alaska; Michael R. Roskam\u2019s Le Faux Soir; Yeon Sang-ho\u2019s Paradise Lost; Richie Mehta\u2019s Phoolan; Mina Shum\u2019s Whatcha Want; Michael Dowse\u2019s The Stunt Driver; and Edmund Yeo\u2019s The Age of Goodbyes.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s also an international premiere for Jesse Eisenberg\u2019s The Debut, which stars Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti; and North American premieres for Cannes premiere titles like Ira Sach\u2019s The Man I Love, an 1980s-set drama starring Rami Malek; Pedro Almodovar\u2019s melodrama Bitter Christmas as the Spanish auteur returns to his cinema roots; Arthur Harari\u2019s The Unknown, starring L\u00e9a Seydoux and Niels Schneider; and Rodrigo Sorogoyen\u2019s The Beloved, which features Javier Bardem and Victoria Luengo as an estranged father and daughter.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s also North American debuts for Lukas Dhont\u2019s Coward; Gael Garcia Bernal\u2019s Hombre al agua; Hirokazu Kore-eda\u2019s Look Back; Shinya Tsukamoto\u2019s Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?; Lee Chang-dong\u2019s Possible Love; and Canadian premieres for Everest: The Other Side, by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, the Oscar-winning team behind Free Solo, and exploring a historic ski descent; Mike Leigh\u2019s Tender Loving Care, toplined by Marion Bailey and Kate O\u2019Flynn; and Josephine, the Sundance award winner written and directed by Beth de Araujo and starring Mason Reeves, Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan.<\/p>\n

\n\tToronto earlier announced Oscar-winning\u00a0CODA filmmaker Sian Heder\u2019s upcoming feature\u00a0Being Heumann\u00a0will open its 51st edition, and other world bows like\u00a0Prima Facie\u00a0from British director Susanna White and\u00a0The Assassin(s)\u00a0from Korean auteur Hur Jin-ho. TIFF also unveiled earlier berths for movies by Rachel Morrison, the Zellner Brothers, Ben Shirinian, Bassam Tariq and Benjam\u00edn Naishtat.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Toronto Film Festival will run from Sept. 10-20. More lineup announcements will be made in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Rock\u2019s Misty Green; Lauren Miller Rogen\u2019s comedy drama Babies, starring Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Issa Rae, Dan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[45523,45578,48,19255],"class_list":["post-137136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-chris-rock","tag-peter-farrelly","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}