The 51st Toronto International Film Festival is underway, with steady parades of premieres running like traffic jams through downtown Toronto. Here are glimpses of what's happening on the ground, and what festivalgoers are talking about.
Eight years after "Green Book” took the Toronto International Film Festival by storm, Peter Farrelly may have done it again.
Farrelly’s "I Play Rocky,” a boisterous tale about the making of Sylvester Stallone’s "Rocky,” was an immediate crowd-pleasing hit Saturday night at TIFF. Its raucous reception at the Princess of Wales Theatre suggested Farrelly may have again thrown a dark horse contender into the Oscar race.
At the least, "I Play Rocky” is sure to be a top contender for TIFF’s top prize, the People’s Choice Award, given how enthusiastic the festival crowd jumped to its feet to applaud the movie. In 2018, Farrelly's "Green Book” picked up that festival-goer-voted award on its way to winning best picture at the Academy Awards.
"I read this script and I thought it was the greatest script I’d ever read,” Farrelly said of Peter Gamble’s screenplay in a brief Q&A following the screening.
