Hollywood stars in latest TIFF flicks

Moviesfeaturing George Clooney, Rachel Weisz, Viggo Mortensen and Michael Cera are among the latesttitles confirmed for next month's Toronto International Film Festival.

Organizers announcedThursday seven films that will join the glitzy gala lineup and a dozen that will bolster the special presentations program.

New galas include Agora, a Spanish film starring actress Weisz as an ancient astronomer at the library of Alexandria, and The Men Who Stare at Goats, a U.S. production starring Clooney as a man who claims he is part of a secret military unit.

Also getting the gala treatment will be:

• Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinski (Jan Kouene, France)
• I, Don Giovanni (Carlos Saura, Australia/Italy/Spain)
• Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (Don Roos, U.S.)
• Mother and Child (Rodrigo Garcia, U.S.)
• Phantom Pain (Matthias Emcke, Germany)

Mortensen, a TIFF regular, will be seen in a special presentation screening of The Road, Australian director John Hillcoat's anticipated film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel.

Brampton, Ont.-born Cera is featured in Miguel Arteta's teen "dramady" Youth in Revolt, based onC.D. Payne's hit book.

Other special presentations will include:

• Baaria (Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy)
• L'Affaire Farewell (Christian Carion, France)
• The Joneses (Derrick Borte, U.S.)
• Les Derniers Jours du Monde (Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu, France/Spain/Taiwan)
• My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (Werner Herzog, U.S.)
• Road, Movie (Dev Benegal, India/U.S.)
• A Single Man (Tom Ford, U.S.)
• The Traveller (Ahmed Maher, Egypt/Italy)
• The Waiting City (Claire McCarthy, Australia)
• Wheat (He Ping, China)

The Toronto International Film Festival,the premierefilm event that helps kick off the fall movie seasonand the race towards the year-end film awards, begins Sept. 10 with the Charles Darwin drama Creation. It ends Sept. 19.