![]() might bring Joker to TIFF means that they have as much confidence in its placement in their Fall line-up as they did with Ben Affleck’s Argo (which won Best Picture at the Oscars that year) and the aforementioned Gravity. and Fox) as prestige films that might be up for awards… and they were right! Both those science fiction movies ended up being in the Oscar conversation and even won Matt Damon a Golden Globe for the amazing “musical comedy” that was The Martian. Sometimes, you’d see a movie like Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity or Ridley Scott’s The Martian premiere at TIFF, but these were both seen by their respective studios (Warner Bros. I went to TIFF for about 13 years, and you’d have a hard time finding any genre films there other than in its “Midnight Madness” section where films like last year’s Halloween and movies like Hostel and Insidious had World Premieres in that section. It’s also been fairly well-known that this was going to be a stand-alone movie that has nothing to do with the DC Expanded Universe, and there may not even be a mention of “Batman” We already knew that this was going to be very different from any of the previous film or television incarnations of the Joker from when the first trailer debuted in April. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Toronto International Film Festival (affectionately known as “TIFF”) might not be on Beat readers’ radar, but the annual September film festival has become synonymous with the prestigious fall movie season that ostentatiously leads right into “awards season.” Imagine our surprise here at The Beat when this year’s line-up was announced and among the prestigious World Premieres was Todd Phillips Joker, starring Joaquin Phoenix as the Clown Prince of Crime, best known as Batman’s arch-nemesis. ![]()
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