Toronto film festival: Helen Mirren, Chris Rock and Seth Rogen lead lineup

Helen Mirren will play Patricia Highsmith in A Talent for Murder. Photograph: John Nacion/Variety/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Helen Mirren will play Patricia Highsmith in A Talent for Murder. Photograph: John Nacion/Variety/Getty Images Toronto film festival: Helen Mirren, Chris Rock and Seth Rogen lead lineup The 51st edition of the Canadian festival will also feature world premieres starring Taron Egerton, Amanda Seyfried and Chase Infiniti World premieres of films led by Helen Mirren, Seth Rogen and Chris Rock lead the lineup for this year’s Toronto film festival . The September festival, taking place after the Venice film festival, has previously seen the premieres of Oscar-winning movies such as Green Book, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Still Alice, Dallas Buyers Club and Silver Linings Playbook. Mirren will play Patricia Highsmith in A Talent for Murder, a twisty thriller starring recent Tony-winner Alden Ehrenreich as a literary agent who is sent to Switzerland to persuade the author to write one more Ripley novel. The film is directed by Anton Corbijn, whose previous credits include Control and A Most Wanted Man. View image in fullscreen A still from Babies Photograph: Toronto film festival Rogen, who was at last year’s Toronto with Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune, will star alongside Anna Kendrick in Babies, a comedy drama written and directed by his wife Lauren Miller Rogen. The film, which also stars Issa Rae, Kate Berlant and Sharon Stone, centres on a childless couple who are forced into parenting when their divorced friend moves in with her three-year-old. Rock will return to the festival with his latest film as writer-director, the Hollywood-set comedy Misty Green. The star, whose last effort Top Five also premiered at Toronto, also leads the A24 film which focuses on a director who offers a comeback opportunity to an actor whose career has been derailed by her vices. The starry cast also includes Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick and the British actor Rosalind Eleazar in the lead role. The festival will also see the world premiere of I Play Rocky, a drama about the making of Sylvester Stallone’s Oscar-winning triumph. Directed by Peter Farrelly, whose 60s-set drama Green Book went from a Toronto premiere to a best picture Oscar win, the film stars Anthony Ippolito as Stallone. Courteney Cox’s Evil Genius will also make its bow at the festival. The crime thriller, which marks the actor’s second film as director after Tallhotblond, is based on a true crime docuseries of the same name that tells the story of the so-called “Pizza Bomber” Brian Wells. The cast includes Patricia Arquette and David Harbour. “It’s stranger than fiction,” Cox has said of the project. “At moments darkly funny and yet deeply emotional. A story about love, loneliness, manipulation, and the people on the fringes who get pulled into something much bigger than themselves.” View image in fullscreen A still from Girl Group Photograph: Toronto film festival