Toronto festival details lineup

World premieres of movies featuring Academy Award winners Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt were among the titles announced Tuesday for next month’s Toronto Film Festival.

Spacey writes, directs, stars and even sings in “Beyond the Sea,” the story of Bobby Darin’s dogged pursuit of fame, while Hunt stars in “A Good Woman,” based on the Oscar Wilde play “Lady Windemere’s Fan,” as a scheming older woman with designs on rich, married men; Scarlett Johansson costars as the young wife, Meg Windemere, in this tale of Americans in 1930s Italy.

The Toronto festival, running Sept. 9-18, will show 328 films from 61 countries. Of the 253 features, 100 are world premieres.

“Filmmakers and distributors have just decided that we are the first place they want their films shown and we are very honored to have been given that privilege,” said Noah Cowan, the festival’s co-director.

The world premiere of Istvan Szabo’s “Being Julia,” starring Annette Bening, will open the festival. She plays a star of London’s West End stage seeking revenge on a manipulative lover in an adaptation of the Somerset Maugham novel “Theatre.”