{"id":9941,"date":"2019-07-24T10:30:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T10:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=9941"},"modified":"2020-09-02T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T14:08:00","slug":"tiff19-announces-first-galas-and-closing-film-radioactive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=9941","title":{"rendered":"TIFF19 announces first galas and closing film \u2018Radioactive\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n

LONDON \u2013 Working Title\u2019s 19th-century biopic \u201cRadioactive\u201d, starring Rosamund Pike (pictured) as Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie, will have its world premiere at the closing gala of the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 14.<\/p>\n

Organisers announced a first raft of 18 galas and 38 special presentations including 29 world premieres and six international debuts for the 44th TIFF, which runs Sept. 5-15.<\/p>\n

\u201cRadioactive\u201d, produced by Working Title\u2019s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner and Paul Webster of Shoebox Films, is based on a graphic novel by Lauren Redness that tells of Marie Curie\u2019s work and relationship with fellow scientist Pierre Curie, played by Sam Riley (\u201cMaleficent\u201d). The film is directed by Iranian filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her 2007 animated feature \u201cPersepolis\u201d.<\/p>\n

British filmmaker Roger Michell\u2019s \u201cBlackbird\u201d, starring Kate Winslet, Sam Neill and Rainn Wilson in a drama of a terminally ill woman who tries to get her family back together, also will have its world premiere at a TIFF gala.<\/p>\n

Other British films to have world premieres at the festival will include Armando Iannucci\u2019s \u201cThe Personal History of David Copperfield\u201d starring Dev Patel, Ben Whishaw, Tilda Swinton and Hugh Laurie; Lisa Barros D\u2019Sa and Glenn Leyburn\u2019s \u201cOrdinary Love\u201d starring Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville; Michael Winterbottom\u2019s \u201cGreed\u201d starring Asa Butterfield and Isla Fisher; William Nicholson\u2019s \u201cHope Gap\u201d starring Annette Bening and Bill Nighy; Coky Giedroyc\u2019s \u201cHow to Build a Girl\u201d starring Emma Thompson and Beanie Feldstein (\u201cBooksmart\u201d) and Peter Cattaneo\u2019s \u201cMilitary Wives\u201d starring Sharon Hogan (\u201cWomen on the Verge\u201d) and Kristin Scott Thomas.<\/p>\n

Marielle Heller\u2019s \u201cA Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood\u201d starring Tom Hanks as legendary American children\u2019s television host Fred Rogers will have its world premiere at a gala. Matthew Rhys (\u201cThe Americans\u201d) co-stars as a journalist who interviews him while going through troubles with his own father, played by Chris Cooper (\u201cAdapatation\u201d).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Other titles with world premieres include Jill Culton\u2019s animated feature \u201cAbominable\u201d; Lorene Scafaria\u2019s \u201cHustlers\u201d starring Jennifer Lopez; Justin Kursel\u2019s \u201cTrue History of the Kelly Gang\u201d starring George MacKay, Russell Crowe and Charlie Hunnam; Destin Daniel Cretton\u2019s \u201cJust Mercy\u201d starring Brie Larson, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx; and Francois Girard\u2019s \u201cThe Song of Names\u201d starring Tim Roth and Clive Owen.<\/p>\n

More films will be announced over the coming weeks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ray Bennett LONDON \u2013 Working Title\u2019s 19th-century biopic \u201cRadioactive\u201d, starring Rosamund Pike (pictured) as Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie, will have its world premiere at the closing gala of the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 14. Organisers announced … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,1770],"tags":[5046,1307,5040,1192,1553],"class_list":["post-9941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-news","category-tiff-toronto-international-film-festival","tag-radioactive","tag-rosamund-pike","tag-tiff19","tag-toronto-international-film-festival","tag-working-title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10074,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941\/revisions\/10074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}