The line up for this years Toronto Film Festival was announced earlier today and it has been confirmed that Looper will open the festival.
Variety – “Looper,” auteur helmer Rian Johnson’s time-travel thriller starring Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt, will open the 2012 Toronto Film Festival with a genre groove echoing the populist tone set by 2011 opener “From the Sky Down,” Davis Guggenheim’s U2 doc.
The TriStar/FilmDistrict pic’s prime slot was announced Tuesday morning along with 61 Gala and Special Presentation titles. Among the 39 world preems at Toronto, which runs Sept. 6 to Sept. 16, are new films from David O. Russell, Joss Whedon, Neil Jordan, Laurent Cantet and Deepa Mehta.