By Colin McClelland
The Associated Press

World premieres of movies featuring Academy Award winners Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt are among the titles that will be screened at the Toronto Film Festival Sept. 9-18.

Spacey writes, directs, stars and even sings in Beyond the Sea, the story of Bobby Darin, while Hunt stars in A Good Woman, based on the Oscar Wilde play Lady Windemere's Fan, as a scheming older woman with designs on rich married men; Scarlett Johansson co-stars as the young wife Meg Windemere in this tale of Americans in 1930s Italy.

The event will show 328 films from 61 countries. Of the 253 features, 100 are world premieres.

"Filmmakers and distributors have just decided that we are the first place they want their films shown and we are very honored to have been given that privilege," said Noah Cowan, the festival's co-director.

Other world premieres include:

• Arsene Lupin, starring Romain Duris as the 19th century gentleman-burglar and Kristin Scott Thomas in a swashbuckling adventure based on the novel The Countess of Cagliostro.

• Modigliani, with Andy Garcia in the tile role, chronicling the painter's short passionate life and his bitter rivalry with Picasso.

• The Libertine, starring Johnny Depp as a seedy wit and poet in the court of Charles II (John Malkovich) who nearly sparks a war between England and France.

• The world premiere of Istvan Szabo's Being Julia, starring Annette Bening and Jeremy Irons, will open the festival. Bening plays a star of London's West End stage seeking revenge on a manipulative lover in the movie adopted from the Somerset Maugham novel Theatre.

The first public screening of Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal, which will be followed by a live reunion concert of Pete Seeger and the Weavers.

The lineup includes seven films on post-apartheid South Africa and a restored version of Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate.