You’ve read about Argo, Cloud Atlas and The Master as the Toronto International Film Festival rolled along. Yet now that the festival has drawn to a close, you’re wondering when the major films will trek south from Canada to play in your local multiplex.
 
Fandango has you covered. Below is a list of the high-profile films that screened at TIFF ’12. We’ve linked to our page for each film (where available), and have marked the current release dates – which, mind you, are subject to change. These are the films we believe you are going to want to circle on your calendars, so be sure to grab tickets to these hot titles while they last.
 
GALA SCREENINGS
 
Ben Affleck’s third directorial effort recreates a tense hostage rescue in Iran. 
Opens Oct. 12
 
Robert Redford directs the story of a an ex-activist who is outed by a snooping journalist (Shia LaBeouf).
Opens 2013
 
Mike Newell tackles Dickens, with Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter and more in a stellar cast. 
Opens December 2012
 
FDR (Bill Murray) hosts the King and Queen of England, but finds true comfort in a relationship with his distant cousin (Laura Linney).
Opens Dec. 7
 
Rian Johnson opened the fest with a time-traveling thriller starring Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon- Levitt and Emily Blunt.
Opens Sept. 28
 
David O. Russell’s surprise hit follows a mentally ill man (Bradley Cooper) who thinks he can reconnect with his estranged wife. 
Opens Nov. 21   
 
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
 
Joe Wright and Keira Knightley collaborate on an intoxicating adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s famed novel. 
Opens Nov. 16
 
Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant and Jim Broadbent are among the award-winning talents who contribute to this sprawling story of interwoven centuries. 
Opens Oct. 26
 
Jake Gyllenhall and Michael Pena are police officers waging a war against the drug-peddling gangs of Los Angeles. 
Opens Sept. 21
 
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach do their best Annie Hall impersonation in this story of a Brooklyn resident who’s in no rush to grow up. 
Opens TBA
 
Michael Shannon plays real-life hitman Richard Kuklinski, who is credited with offing more than 200 victims. 
Opens TBA
 
Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor brave tsunami waves in Southeast Asia to reunite their family members. 
Opens Dec. 21
 
Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest casts Philip Seymour Hoffman as the leader of a suspect cult, and Joaquin Phoenix as his latest disciple.
Expands on Sept. 21
 
Much Ado About Nothing
Joss Whedon trades The Avengers for Shakespeare in a loose, winning adaptation of the Bard’s play. 
Opens TBA
 
Kerouac meets KStew in this shaggy but endearing adaptation of the infamous Beat Poet novel.
Opens Dec. 21
 
Emma Watson, Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller shine in this high-school-based adaptation of Stephen Chbosky’s own novel. 
Opens Sept. 21
 
A single father (Matthias Schoenaeris) and a wounded woman (Marion Cottilard) try to help heal each other’s broken souls in this offbeat drama. 
Opens Nov. 23
 
A TIFF crowd-pleaser follows a spunky group of Aboriginal singers as they head to Vietnam to entertain the troops. Chris O’Dowd of Bridesmaids steals the show as the group’s alcoholic manager.
Opens Nov. 2
 
A polio survivor (John Hawkes) who’s basically paralyzed from the neck down recruits a sex therapist (Helen Hunt) to help him lose his virginity. William H. Macy co-stars.
Opens Oct. 19
 
Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem and Rachel McAdams star in Terrence Malick’s latest reflection on love and loss. Though if you hated The Tree of Life, brace yourself, as this one moves slower and features far less dialogue. 
Opens 2013
 
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