The Toronto International Film Festival has added more star power to its Galas and Special Presentations lineup with Brie Larson’s directorial debut Unicorn Store; Louis C.K.’s black and white I Love You, Daddy; Aaron Sorkin’s gambling drama Molly’s Game; Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer; John Curran’s Edward Kennedy biopic Chappaquiddick and Liam Neeson as the most famous anonymous man in American history in Mark Felt – The Man Who Brought Down the White House among the new titles announced Tuesday.

Stars include Jessica Chastain as poker princess Molly Bloom (Molly’s Game); Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell (The Killing of a Sacred Deer); Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson (Unicorn Store) and Jason Clarke as blueblood senator Edward Kennedy (Chappaquiddick).

In an interview withthe Sun last year,Kidman said that Killing of the Sacred Deer was going to surprise moviegoers.

“I’m used to people being shocked. But they’re going to be shocked at the thing I’m doing now – The Killing of the Sacred Deer. I’ll just let that sit there for a moment. That’s the title, get ready.”

For her directorial debut, Larson toldUSA Today she was aiming to achieve something symbolic.

"The idea of directing is not about success for me personally, it’s about putting more pieces on the board," Larson said. "My hope is that people watch the movie, and women can watch it and they can either go, 'Wow, I can’t believe she did that, I want to do that.' Or you can look at it and go, like, 'She did that?! I can do better than that! I’m up for the challenge.'”

Once again TIFF will foray into the world of TV with HBO’s The Deuce, which hails from The Wire creator David Simon and stars James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhall in a storyline set in the ‘70s porn industry. In addition, the Netflix thriller Dark and the first four episodes of Season 2 of The Girlfriend Experience will also screen. These titles follow last month’s announcement that TIFF will debut the first two episodes of the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.

TIFF also made announcements in its Masters, Wavelengths and Contemporary World Cinema programs.

The festival will also spotlight Michael Jackson's Thriller 3D, which will screen with a making-of doc, and Sean Baker’s The Florida Project, his follow-up to the iPhone-shot Tangerine.

The full festival schedule will be released August 22 with several high-profile fall films still up for grabs. Festival fave Xavier Dolan’s first English-language feature The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (with Jessica Chastain, Natalie Portman, Kit Harington and Susan Sarandon); Tom Cruise’s America Made and Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 could still make their splashy debuts at TIFF.

The festival runs Sept. 7-17. For more info, visit TIFF.net.