Jake Gyllenhaal's 'Demolition' to open Toronto Film Festival

The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled its first selections, with "Wild" director Jean-Marc Vallee's drama "Demolition", starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts, set to open the event on September 10.
Directors of the festival, which runs September 10-20, announced on Tuesday the inclusion of "Demolition" as a world premiere, one of 49 galas and special presentations on a slate that will eventually include several hundred films and television shows, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"Demolition" is a story about the disintegrating emotional life of an investment banker. Fox Searchlight released the winner of this year's best picture Oscar, "Birdman," as well as "Wild," which was directed by Vallee and received Oscar nominations for two of its stars, Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern.

The 2015 edition of the festival will also host world premieres for Ridley Scott's "The Martian", Roland Emmerich's "Stonewall" and Stephen Frears' Lance Armstrong biopic "The Program", starring Ben Foster as the disgraced cyclist.
Those titles are among the first 13 features tapped to receive gala treatment at Roy Thomson Hall, with Matt Damon, Liam Hemsworth, Salma Hayek, Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Donald Sutherland and son Kiefer Sutherland, Christopher Plummer and Kate Winslet among those set to walk its red carpet.
Other noteworthy titles screening at Toronto include Tom McCarthy's Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal film "Spotlight" starring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams and Stanley Tucci, which was shot in Toronto; Tom Hooper's "The Danish Girl", starring Eddie Redmayne as transgender artist Lili Elbe; Johnny Depp starrer "Black Mass", which will bow in Venice; and Cary Fukunaga's Netflix movie "Beasts of No Nation", starring Idris Elba.

Toronto will also host gala world premiere for Peter Sollett's "Freeheld", which Lionsgate acquired at the Berlin Film Festival and stars Moore and Page; Julie Delpy's latest directorial turn, "Lolo", a satirical comedy in which she stars opposite Danny Boon, Vincent Lacoste and Karin Viarde, will receive a North American premiere; and Wayne Blair's "Septembers of Shiraz", which stars Salma Hayek and Shohreh Aghdashloo, also will debut in Toronto.
There's a gala first look for the Hemsworth-starring Aussie romantic drama "The Dressmaker", from director Jocelyn Moorhouse and with Winslet and Judy Davis in lead roles.
And Oscar winner Brian Helgeland will receive an international premiere for his cockney gangster film "Legend", starring Tom Hardy and Emily Browning.