'the Danish Girl' And 'a Bigger Splash' Join 'everest' And 'black Mass' At Venice Film Festival

The fall awards season is starting to take shape. Already announced were the Venice International Film Festival ( Sept. 2-12) opener, Baltasar Kormakur's mountain saga “Everest," starring Jake Gyllenhaal (Working Title/Universal) and Johnny Depp-starrer “Black Mass” (Warner Bros.). Now Venice confirms what we figured out from Tuesday's Toronto program: World premieres include “The Danish Girl" starring Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne (Focus Features), Charlie Kaufman's Kickstarter-financed animated feature for adults, "Anomalisa," starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Cary Fukunaga’s African actioner “Beasts of No Nation," starring Idris Elba (Netflix), Atom Egoyan’s “Remember,” starring Christopher Plummer, and Tom McCarthy’s “Spotlight,” starring Mark Ruffalo and Michael Keaton, which are also playing Toronto.