Billy Eichner's gay rom- Bros to world premiere at TIFF 2022 |

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• BILLY EICHNER GAY ROM-COM ‘BROS’ TO PREMIERE AT TORONTO FILM FTIVAL
• BILLY EICHNER BRGS GAY ROM- WH ENTIRELY LGBTQ+ ST TO TORONTO FILM FTIVAL
• BILLY EICHNER'S GAY ROM- BROS EY AWARDS SEASON WH TIFF WORLD PREMIERE
• ‘BROS’: BILLY EICHNER GAY ROM-COM MAKG WORLD PREMIERE AT TORONTO FILM FTIVAL

BILLY EICHNER GAY ROM-COM ‘BROS’ TO PREMIERE AT TORONTO FILM FTIVAL

TIFF prents the world premiere of director Nicholas Stoller’s highly-anticipated Bros, which has already ma movie history as the first major stud feature to star and be -wrten by an openly gay man, Billy Eichner, as well as featurg an all-LGBTQ+ prcipal st.

In wrer-director Elegance Bratton’s eply movg narrative but, spired by his own story, a young Black gay man, rejected by his mother and wh few optns for his future, cis to jo the Mar, dog whatever tak to succeed a system that would st him asi. Alongsi his youthful gang, Julien is termed to sneak to a lol gay club, yearng to experience the wonrs beyond s forbidn walls. Hunter, adapted om his acclaimed play, The Whale stars Brendan Fraser as Charlie, a severely obe reclive gay English teacher who attempts to rennect wh his tranged teenage dghter Ellie (Sadie Sk) for one last chance at remptn.

Universal is distributg the movie, which centers on two gay men wh mment issu who fd themselv gradually fallg love. In another tone, Eichner is the first openly gay man to -wre and star his own major stud film. BenedictnOn June 3rd of 2022, two films featurg lic nstctns of muni of gay men were released on the very same day.

BILLY EICHNER BRGS GAY ROM- WH ENTIRELY LGBTQ+ ST TO TORONTO FILM FTIVAL

One you've surely heard of (Fire Island, which I'll get to later) — and the other was Benedictn, a film that barely seemed to register spe beg helmed by one of our great queer filmmakers, Terence (who directed Rachel Weisz and Cynthia Nixon to arguably their greatt performanc The Deep Blue Sea and A Quiet Passn, rpectively) utiliz a bpic of Brish poet and rated WWI bat veteran Siegied Sassoon (played by Jack Lown his youth and Peter Capaldi olr age) to offer a wdow to the dramatic liv of aristocratic gay men the 1920s. This is where I firmly stand, generally: was an extremely funny, often very sightful movie that served better than was & QueerCome at , Bros: Billy Eichner opens up about his big gay Hollywood rom (that's very, very good)I saw twice 24 hours, and was thoroughly entertaed and ocsnally very moved both tim. Fire IslandWhat more uld you possibly ask for than a loose, queer adaptatn of Pri and Prejudice that's set at the hedonistic gay vatn statn of s tle and featur an all-LGBTQ st pl plenty of sex, dgs and Marisa Tomei-imprsns?

Kicked out of his mother's New Jersey home at the age of 16 for beg gay, Bratton was homels for nearly a before cidg to jo the Mar, where he would end up servg as a bat meraman. The latter experience gave him the ial tools that led to his reer filmmakg, but his entry pot to also serv as the premise for The Inspectn, a look at a young gay man (Jeremy Pope, who has already been nomated for a Goln Globe and a Spir Award for his performance) stgglg to survive boot mp the era of "don't ask, don't tell. One of North Ameri’s leadg gay statns, Toronto has been holdg Pri observanc sce the ’70s.

In Unintified Objects a misanthropic gay dwarf and a plucky sex worker go on a road trip to Canada search of aliens, but what sounds like a wacky premise is actually a heartfelt story about fdg your people. Come for the beefy guys and sweaty scms, stay for the nuanced relatnship drama unfoldg among the players of a gay gby club South London.

BILLY EICHNER'S GAY ROM- BROS EY AWARDS SEASON WH TIFF WORLD PREMIERE

A charmgly gay urban ghost story, The Phantom Project follows meanrg lennial Pablo as he attempts to get his life together. In this sexually explic drama, a sndal driv a young gay man om his small Atralian town to Sydney. Brazil’s submissn for the Amy Award for Bt Internatnal Feature Film is a nny act of fiance agast the homophobic jgoistic nasts of the untry’s current ernment and, unlike Print Jair Bolsonaro, the film is thoughtful, nuanced, sensuo and affirmg.

Whose movi clu a naked man dancg on a eeway, a gay uple at Disneyland, and the world’s first Pri march? Pat Roc, a trailblazg gay pennt filmmaker who is given well-served regnn the charmg documentary, Pat Roc Dared.

Sept 9 (Rters) - Billy Eichner shows an entirely LGBTQ+ prcipal st and the first gay romantic edy om a major stud at the Toronto Internatnal Film Ftival wh “Bros. ”Eichner, the first openly gay man to -wre and star his own major stud film, has st even the heterosexual rol wh openly LGBTQ+ actors. Universal's Bros broke new ground for big-budget productns, beg the first gay-themed rom- to be fund for theatril release by a major stud.

‘BROS’: BILLY EICHNER GAY ROM-COM MAKG WORLD PREMIERE AT TORONTO FILM FTIVAL

"You have scen where Le and I are walkg around on the Upper Wt Si, on what really felt like a scene out of a Nora Ephron rom- that I grew up lovg, but were never about gay upl, " Eichner said. "We weren't even on the sil most of those movi — there wasn't even a gay bt iend at that pot.