TORONTO -- Profiles on former theatre mogul Garth Drabinsky, disgraced sprinter Ben Johnson and rapper Snoop Dogg are among the documentaries headed to the Toronto International Film Festival.
Festival programmers announced the documentary slate as well as the Midnight Madness and TIFF Kids selections this morning, touting a diverse array from around the world.
Non-fiction picks include Alex Gibney's look at the Catholic Church in "Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God," Ken Burns' examination of a wrongful conviction in "The Central Park Five" and Daniel Gordon's study of Johnson's scandal-plagued 1988 Olympic run in "9.79..."
The Midnight Madness slate includes genre fare boasting star wattage from Abbie Cornish, Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti, Selena Gomez, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Eli Roth, Tom Waits and Christopher Walken.
Meanwhile, kid-friendly flicks include the big-budget animated "Hotel Transylvania," about a lavish "five-stake" resort where monsters and their families can live it up without humans to bother them.
The Toronto International Film Festival runs from Sept. 6 to 16.
Canadian docs include Barry Avrich's account of the Drabinsky story in "Show Stopper: The Theatrical Life of Garth Drabinsky." U.S. director Andrew Capper looks at "Snoop Dogg in "Reincarnated."
Other Midnight Madness picks include Barry Levinson's parasite horror "The Bay," Rob Zombie's "The Lords of Salem," the Gomez vehicle "Aftershock" and the star-packed "Seven Psychopaths," where Farrell plays a struggling screenwriter drawn into the underworld when his oddball friends (Walken and Rockwell) kidnap a gangster's (Harrelson) dog.
