If you’re a hardcore movie nut, on the other hand, early September marks the start of the fall film festival season and the unofficial starting gun of the year-end awards race. Of the Big Four fests,

Following the summer lull after Cannes, the great race of international film festivals accelerates into full ignition at the end of August every year with the Venice Film Festival, an exotic (and wet) apéritif for what's to follow.

Stephen King adaptation "The Life of Chuck" won Toronto Film Festival's top audience award, which in recent years has been an Oscar harbinger.

Toronto International Film Festival was a success on many fronts, launching many titles into the marketplace looking for buyers, and others into the fall season, including the usual spate of Oscar contenders.

Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation, The Life of Chuck, has won the People’s Choice award at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival. The science fiction drama, starring Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Karen Gillan,

El premio del público del Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto (TIFF) fue para “The Life of Chuck”, lo que le dio a la adaptación de Mike Flanagan de Stephen King uno de los premios más vistos del circuito de festivales de cine del año.