{"id":228480,"date":"2019-08-27T23:58:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T03:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=228480"},"modified":"2019-08-27T23:58:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T03:58:09","slug":"streep-hanks-springsteen-toronto-film-fest-reveals-list-of-expected-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/27\/streep-hanks-springsteen-toronto-film-fest-reveals-list-of-expected-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Streep! Hanks! Springsteen! Toronto film fest reveals list of expected guests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, and Bruce Springsteen are among the stars expected to walk the red carpet at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. (File Photo<\/a>: Marco Manna\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TORONTO \u2014\u00a0Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, and Bruce Springsteen are among the stars expected to walk the red carpet at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

The three are on a newly released list of confirmed talent for the 11-day movie marathon, which runs Sept. 5-15.<\/p>\n

Streep will appear for Netflix’s “The Laundromat,”\u00a0about journalists probing the so-called Panama Papers money laundering scandal.<\/p>\n

Hanks is in the lineup with “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,”\u00a0in which he plays children’s television entertainer Fred Rogers.<\/p>\n

And Springsteen will attend the world premiere of his performance documentary “Western Stars.”<\/p>\n

Other A-listers expected to attend include “Joker”\u00a0star Joaquin Phoenix; Daniel Craig for the murder mystery “Knives Out”; Matt Damon and Christian Bale with the racing biopic “Ford v Ferrari”; Nicole Kidman for the art forgery drama “The Goldfinch”; and Natalie Portman with the space story “Lucy in the Sky.”<\/p>\n

Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu will be at the fest with the stripper story “Hustlers,”\u00a0and Renee Zellweger will be there representing “Judy,”\u00a0in which she plays singer and actress Judy Garland. Co-stars Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver will walk the carpet for “Marriage Story.”<\/p>\n

Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx will appear for the biopic “Just Mercy,”\u00a0about renowned civil rights defence lawyer Bryan Stevenson, while Eddie Murphy will attend for “Dolemite Is My Name,”\u00a0in which he plays comedian Rudy Ray Moore.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Kristen Stewart will be at the fest promoting the historical drama “Seberg,”\u00a0in which she plays real-life actress Jean Seberg, and Lucas Hedges and Sterling K. Brown will appear with the romantic drama “Waves.”<\/p>\n

Canadian stars on the list include Christopher Plummer, Donald Sutherland, Ellen Page, Atom Egoyan, Neve Campbell, and David Foster.<\/p>\n

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