Oscar-winning documentarian Davis Guggenheim directed this film following the unlikely (and incredibly huge) career of the Irish rock band U2. What makes this unusual is that it’s the first time the Toronto International Film Festival has selected a documentary to open the fest. Will Bono and the boys show up to perform? Here’s hoping. (Charles Sykes / Associated Press)
Pop superstar Madonna gets back behind the camera for the second time with this decade-spanning love story about a modern woman (Abbie Cornish) obsessed with the 1930s marriage of King Edward VIII (James D’Arcy) and the American woman Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough). (Evan Agostini / Associated Press)
George Clooney (seen here at the Academy Awards) is all over this year’s edition of the fest. Not only is he co-writing, co-producing, starring in and directing the political drama “The Ides of March,” but he’s also starring in director Alexander Payne‘s new film “The Descendants,” about the last members of a vast family in Hawaii forced to deal with their last bit of real estate on the island. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
