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The festival, which runs from September 6 to September 15,
also has booked North American premieres for the latest films
from Andrew Dominik, Todd Haynes, Joe Wright and Paul Haggis,
each of which are scheduled to bow first at the Venice
International Film Festival (August 29-September 8). Theron's boyfriend, Stuart Townsend, makes his directing
debut with "Battle in Seattle," which recounts the 1999 clash
between demonstrators and police amid the World Trade
Organization meeting in Seattle. Joshua Jackson, Ray Liotta,
Michelle Rodriguez and Channing Tatum round out the cast. Penn's "Into the Wild" is a fact-based portrait of a young
man who gives up all luxuries to live in the Alaskan
wilderness. The movie stars Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt and
Vince Vaughn, and is due for a late-September theatrical
release via Paramount Vantage. Other titles include Dominik's "The Assassination of Jesse
James by the Coward Robert Ford," the Brad Pitt crime drama
from Warner Bros. Pictures, and Brit director Wright's
"Atonement," a classic British romance drama from Focus
Features that stars Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. Also due here is Haynes' "I'm Not There," a Bob
Dylan-inspired movie starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett,
Richard Gere and Heath Ledger, set for a November release by
the Weinstein Co.; and Paul Haggis' "In The Valley of Elah," a
Warner Bros. September release about parents, played by Tommy
Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon, who attempt to find their son
after he returns from the war in Iraq. Reuters/Hollywood Reporter |
The Toronto International
Film Festival will host the world premieres of "Battle in
Seattle," starring 
