TORONTO \u2014 Stars including Pen\u00e9lope Cruz, Michelle Yeoh and John Malkovich are set to attend the Toronto International Film Festival.<\/p>\n
TIFF announced its list of 800 expected guests on Wednesday, a day before the 51st edition of the festival was set to get underway.<\/p>\n
Cruz is on deck for the films \u201cBunker\u201d and \u201cLa Bola Negra,\u201d and was also tapped to receive a Tribute Award at a TIFF fundraising event on Sunday, while Yeoh stars in the film \u201cThe Surgeon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Malkovich, meanwhile, stars in Martin McDonagh\u2019s CIA black comedy \u201cWild Horse Nine\u201d alongside Sam Rockwell and Steve Buscemi, who are also both due to walk the red carpet.<\/p>\n
Canadian stars attending the festival include Seth Rogen, who features in his wife Lauren Miller Rogen\u2019s film \u201cBabies,\u201d and Rush bandmates Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee for the documentary \u201cNeil Peart: No One\u2019s Disciple,\u201d about the late drummer.<\/p>\n
Also expected are Sebastian Stan, who\u2019s in \u201cFjord;\u201d Cynthia Erivo, who\u2019s in \u201cPrima Facie;\u201d Jesse Eisenberg, who directed \u201cThe Debut\u201d and Fan Bingbing, who is in \u201cDiary of a Mad Old Man\u201d and is also receiving a Tribute Award.<\/p>\n
So too are sisters Kate and Rooney Mara, who star as twins in Werner Herzog\u2019s \u201cBucking Fastard.\u201d <\/p>\n
Absent from the list of attendees is Mark Ruffalo, who stars in opening night film \u201cBeing Heumann,\u201d but who has been at the centre of a dispute with Paramount in recent weeks after criticizing its merger with Warner Bros.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n
Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Stars including Pen\u00e9lope Cruz, Michelle Yeoh and John Malkovich are set to attend the Toronto International…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[76,49,48,361,75,1554,341],"class_list":["post-890118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-arts","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}