TIFF Adds 20 More Movies To Lineup With ‘Saturday Night’, Jacob Elordi & Daisy Edgar-Jones’ ‘On Swift Horses’, Max Minghella’s ‘Shell’, ‘Megalopolis’ & More

Anthony D'Alessandro
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TIFF Adds 20 More Movies To Lineup With ‘Saturday Night’, Jacob Elordi & Daisy Edgar-Jones’ ‘On Swift Horses’, Max Minghella’s ‘Shell’, ‘Megalopolis’ & More

And the films just keeping on coming as the 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival has announced 20 movies to its official selection, taking its count to 278 titles.

Chief among them is Jason Reitman’s SNL opening-night pic Saturday Night, from Sony which will get its Canadian premiere in the filmmaker’s homeland. With that deduction, this must mean Saturday Night is going to Telluride.

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And you thought Harry Styles was big at TIFF two years ago? Well, here comes Jacob Elordi with Daisy Edgar-Jones in On Swift Horses. The pic also stars Diego Calva. The Daniel Minahan-directed movie follows a woman and her husband who are about to begin a bright new life, which is upended by the arrival of his brother. She embarks on a secret life, gambling on racehorses and discovering a love she never thought possible.

Also, getting their North American premieres are Francis Ford Coppola’s dystopian American movie Megalopolis, after its Cannes premiere this year; Lionsgate has the distribution deal on that film. Luca Guadagnino’s Queer also is TIFF-bound after its Venice premiere.

Max Minghella has his dark comedy/body horror Shell starring his Handmaid’s Tale lead Elisabeth Moss, Kaia Gerber and Kate Hudson. The pic’s blurb: Set in the near future, when society has reached unprecedented heights in its cultural fixation with youth and beauty. The movie is getting its world premiere at TIFF.

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In Gala, there’s also the world premiere of Nick Hamm’s William Tell. Hamm’s movies Driven and The Journey screened at the Toronto and Venice Film Festivals to critical acclaim in 2018 and 2016, respectively. In the new pic, the nations of medieval Europe struggle for power, the ruthless Austrian Empire invades neighboring Switzerland, and peaceful huntsman William Tell is thrust into the heart of their resistance. Claes Bang plays Tell in the pic, which also stars Ben Kingsley, Jonathan Pryce and Emily Beecham.

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There’s also the world premiere of Marianne Elliott’s The Salt Path with Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, which centers on a couple who lose their home and later discover the husband has been diagnosed with a terminal illness as they embark on a yearlong coastal trek.

And look out for the world premiere of Sarah Paulson dust storm horror thriller Hold Your Breath.

Here are the film added to TIFF’s lineup today:

Gala
Megalopolis
Francis Ford Coppola | USA
North American Premiere

William Tell
Nick Hamm | Italy/United Kingdom
World Premiere
Sales Title

Special Presentations
Babygirl
Halina Reijn | USA
North American Premiere

Dahomey
Mati Diop | Benin/France/Senegal
North American Premier

Hold Your Breath
Karrie Crouse, Will Joines | USA
World Premiere

On Swift Horses
Daniel Minahan | USA
World Premiere
Sales Title

Paul Anka: His Way
John Maggio | USA
World Premiere
Sales Title

Queer
Luca Guadagnino | Italy/USA
North American Premiere
Sales Title

Saturday Night
Jason Reitman – USA
Canadian Premiere

Shell
Max Minghella | USA
World Premiere

The Brutalist
Brady Corbet | United Kingdom
North American Premiere
Sales Title

The Luckiest Man in America
Samir Oliveros | USA
World Premiere
Sales Title

The Room Next Door
Pedro Almodóvar | Spain
North American Premiere

The Salt Path
Marianne Elliott | United Kingdom
World Premiere
Sales Title

Vermiglio
Maura Delpero | Italy/France/Belgium
North American Premiere
Sales Title

Discovery
Village Keeper
Karen Chapman | Canada
World Premiere

You Are Not Alone
Marie-Hélène Viens, Philippe Lupien | Canada
World Premiere

Centrepiece
Bliss (Hemda)
Shemi Zarhin | Israel
International Premiere
Sales Title

Special Events
Double Happiness
Mina Shum | Canada

Whiplash
Damien Chazelle | USA

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