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First films announced for Toronto International Film Festival include 'A Star Is Born,' 'Widows' and Barry Jenkins' 'Beale Street'

The increasingly tangled web of the fall festival season has begun to come into focus, with the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival releasing its initial program announcement of galas and special presentations.

Some of the season's most anticipated titles are among the galas, including the high-profile remake of "A Star Is Born," starring Lady Gaga alongside the film's director, Bradley Cooper, and Damien Chazelle's follow-up to "La La Land," the astronaut drama "First Man" starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong.

Though both of those films are confirmed to bow at the Venice Film Festival shortly before Toronto, the Canadian festival will include several high-profile world premieres, including Barry Jenkins' "Moonlight" follow-up "If Beale

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