The Toronto International Film Festival has ramped up its star power with titles featuring such top talent as George Clooney, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Natalie Portman and Canadian Michael Cera.
Seven newly added films will get the red-carpet gala treatment, including The Men Who Stare at Goats, starring Ewan McGregor as a reporter chasing a tip from an ex-military figure, played by Clooney.
The dark comedy, co-starring Jeff Bridges and directed by Grant Heslov, is Clooney’s second at the fest this year, after the previously announced Up in the Air, lensed by Montreal’s Jason Reitman.
Theron and Duvall team up with Viggo Mortensen and Guy Pearce in The Road, a post-apocalyptic tale of survival adapted from the …