'Page Eight' to close Toronto fest Gala

"Page Eight""Trespass""Hysteria""Winnie"TORONTO -- Writer-helmer David Hare's modern spy thriller "Page Eight" (BBC/PBS), starring Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz and Ralph Fiennes, will close the Toronto Film Festival's Gala slate, it was announced Tuesday.The fest's final major announcement unveiled eight Galas and 18 Specials Presentations, as well as the Contemporary World Cinema (51 titles, 18 world preems), Visions, Wavelengths and Future Projections programs.The Gala screen will world preem Nick Murphy's psychological thriller "The Awakening," starring Rebecca Hall and Dominic West, Joel Schumacher's home-invasion chiller "Trespass," with Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman, Tanya Wexler's comedy about the invention of the vibrator "Hysteria," with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy, Gary McKendry's special-ops actioner "Killer Elite," with Jason Statham, and Darrell J. Roodt's "Winnie," starring Jennifer Hudson as Winnie Mandela. Christophe Honore's "Beloved," receiving its international preem, and Marc Forster's previously announced (in a different program) "Machine Gun Preacher" also join the Gala slate.Special Presentations adds eight world preems, including Anne Fontaine's "My Worst Nightmare," Ian Fitzgibbon's "Death of a Superhero," Gianni Amelio's "The First Man," Agnieszka Holland's "In Darkness," Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's "Intruders," Pankaj Kapur's "Seasons of Love," Mathieu Kassovitz' "Rebellion" and Geoffrey Fletcher's "Violet and Daisy."U.S. titles world preeming in Contemporary World Cinema include Lynn Shelton's "Your Sister's Sister," Nancy Savoca's "Union Square" and Bryan Wizemann's "Think of Me." The global cinema program also world preems Ridha Behi's "Always Brando," Joao Canijo's "Blood of my Blood," Maggie Peren's "Color of the Ocean," Faouzi Bensaidi's "Death for Sale," Nacho Vigalondo's "Extraterrestrial," Ozcan Alper's "Future Lasts Forever," Jose Henrique Fonseca's "Heleno," Stefano Chiantini's "Islands," Alejandro Brugues' "Juan of the Dead," Christophe Van Rompaey's "Lena," Avie Luthra's "Lucky," "Akin Omotoso's "Man on the Ground," Ribhu Dasgupta's "Michael," Mohamed Asli's "Rough Hands" and Xiaolu Guo's "UFO in her Eyes."Visions' 18 boundary-pushing titles include the world preems of Matias Meyer's "The Last Christeros," Toshiako Toyoda's "Monsters Club" and Joaquim Sapinho's "This Side of Resurrection." The fest's Wavelengths present five programs of experimental film and video work, such as Tacita Dean's portrait of the late Cy Twombly, "Edwin Parker," Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Empire," Ben Rivers' Balouis Art Prize-winner "Sack Barrow," James Benning's "Twenty Cigarettes" and Mark Lewis' "Black Mirror at the National Gallery."Future Projections, the fest's city-wide program of moving-image art, will unleash the world preems of James Franco and Gus Van Sant's collaborative "Memories of Idaho (1991, 2010 and 2011)," multiple projects by Mr. Brainwash (a.k.a. Thierry Guetta), Peter Lynch's "Buffalo Days," Nicholas and Sheila Pye's "Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board," David Rokeby's "Plot Against Time," and Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatsky's "Road Movie."The Toronto Film Festival run Sept. 8-18. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com