Toronto double-dipper Gerard Butler joined his director and co-star, a rather hirsute Ralph Fiennes, along with Jessica Chastain and Brian Cox for the Coriolanus leg of his personal TIFF-apalooza yesterday September 12. Butler, exhausted, but still gregarious, charming and gorgeous and company did a press conference in the morning (mere hours, possibly even minutes, after he closed his eyes after the festivities surrounding Machine Gun Preacher the night before, then it was a day of non-stop interviews before the Coriolanus premiere at the Elgin Theater’s Visa Screening Room.

Following the premiere it was off to Toronto’s SoHo House for the after party where the cast was joined by other TIFF attendees like Abbie Cornish, Tahar Rahim and various industry types.

Coriolanus is based on the Shakespeare play of the same name in which a banished hero of Rome, Caius Martius Coriolanus (Fiennes) allies with a sworn enemy, Tullus Aufidius (Butler) to take his revenge on the city. The film stars, along with Cox and Chastain, the ethereal Vanessa Redgrave who has already been tipped for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Coriolanus’ mother, Volumnia.Coriolanus will get an awards qualifying run in December before opening wide in January.  Enjoy the pics!

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Madonna is in Toronto to premiere her film W.E. at the Toronto International Film Festival and she had Toronto all a flutter with her Madgeness.

However her film is getting really bad reviews everywhere it goes and Toronto is no different, and despite that we hear she was very nice to everyone including volunteers. Out on the red carpet.

But an interesting rumor is coming out that when she went backstage after the red carpet there were 8 TIFF volunteers that had to turn and face a wall so as not to have eye contact with Madge as she made her way to her Press Conference for W.E.

Is this biotch for real? Those volunteers are unpaid and do it for the love of celebrity and movies and when she is not in view of the rolling cameras she acts like a diva-biotch who doesn’t want the help to look at her?

First she’s an ingrate for receiving hydrangeas and now this? She really needs to get over herself. I’ve had it with this bitch. I hope her rotten movie makes $50 and no more.

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Fresh from his Best Actor win at the Venice Film Festival, Michael Fassbender jumped a plane to make an appearance at the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of Steve McQueen’s Shame. He missed out on the premiere of his other TIFF contender, David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, to stick around for the prize-giving on the Lido but did make it in time for the screening of the film for which he won the award.

Shame was greeted with much the same sort of enthusiasm in Toronto that it met with in Venice, which should come as no surprise. The Venice/TIFF overlap can often up the buzz on a film coming straight from one festival to the other. By all accounts the film lives up to the hype. So can we expect a repeat? No. TIFF does not have a jury and is non-competitive.  Awards handed out at other festivals for categories such as “Best Actress” or “Best Film” do not exist at the Toronto International Film Festival. The major prize is the People’s Choice Award and is given to a feature-length film with the highest ratings as voted by the movie goers at the festival. (Last year’s winner of that prize was The King’s Speech.)

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Surrounded by the enormous crowds that typically turn out for a movie starring Gerard Butler, Marc Forster’s Machine Gun Preacher had a gala red carpet premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival Sunday night, September 11. Walking the red carpet were the director and his stars Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon and Madeline Carroll. The man on whose life the film is based, Sam Childers, made the trip to Canada along with his wife Lynne, who are portrayed in the film by Butler and Monaghan.

Some accounts have accused Butler of “mugging” for the cameras, as if that’s a bad thing. The man takes so much time, every time, that he appears at these things, to let his fans know he appreciates them almost as they appreciate him, I can imagine it must be exhausting, but in my opinion, it was probably just nerves. Machine Gun Preacher is an important film, for Forster, for Childers, for everyone involved, but especially for Butler who acted in as well as produced it. While it’s not the first time he’s done that, this project has been an affair of the heart from the beginning. He still becomes emotional when talking about his experience. His fans have been hoping the project lends his career the gravitas needed to take him to the next level.

Apparently he needn’t have worried. The audience in Toronto stayed glued to their seats until the final credits rolled and then gave the film and the filmmakers a standing ovation.

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Check out this hot first poster, a TIFF exclusive courtesy of indiewire.com for Terrence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea. I showed you some stills last week along with a clip that promised a good old-fashioned, yet passionate movie full of beautiful people and lots of period details. Well the poster’s got those things, it’s also got steam coming off of it in waves! All you Twi-hards who thought those posters for Breaking Dawn Part Whatever were hot, take a good look at this. This is grown up eroticism between two real people and the chemistry does not come from the Photo Shop.

The Deep Blue Sea is the tale of the wife of a British High Court Judge who is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot and stars Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston as the clandestine lovers and Simon Russell Beale plays the judge. The director, Terrence Davies adapted Terence Rattigan’s play of the same name. It premiered at TIFF this weekend with Weisz, Hiddleston and Davies in attendance. I sincerely hope TIFF generates the buzz this film needs to secure some release dates. Right now, it’s only definite in the UK for a November 11 release.

Enjoy the pics of Weisz and Hiddleston at the TIFF events for The Deep Blue Sea, including the premiere on Sunday September 11.

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Gerard Butler is in Toronto and seems to be everywhere. It’s making stalking extremely difficult but never impossible. He, along with Rhys Ilfan, Juliette Lewis, Anna Kendrick and the biotch whose tummy he’s touching Michelle Monaghan are all at The Creative Coalition’s 2011 Spotlight Initiative Awards at the 26th Annual Toronto International Film Festival at The Roosevelt Room. This all went down last night while I was peeing myself for being so close to George Clooney. These two should just get a room and get it over with.

Tonight Gerard premieres Machine Gun Preacher at Roy Thomson Hall. I’ll be there, but like Killer Elite I’ll be the biotch in the balcony angry-like because I can’t get closer to him. Unless of course I hang outside beforehand to catch him on the red carpet which means I risk losing my seat and missing the movie altogether. Decisions, decisions.

Enjoy the pictures. Gerard is looking mighty fine these days.

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Photos: Dominic Chan/WENN