/
1x
Proudly Canadian, obsessively Toronto. Subscribe to Toronto Life!
Culture

Inside the best parties from night six of TIFF, with Luke Evans, Annette Bening and Vince Vaughn

Add as preferred on Google(opens in a new tab)
Copy link
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool party at RBC House

The Storys Building hosted a party for the film, a drama based on a memoir by Peter Turner (played by Jamie Bell) about his relationship with 1950s film star Gloria Grahame (Annett Bening).

Here’s a look inside the lounge:

Inside the best parties from night six of TIFF, with Luke Evans, Annette Bening and Vince Vaughn
Photograph by Sonia Recchia/Getty Images for RBC

Bell, wife Kate Mara, Bening and hubby Warren Beatty posed for pictures and mingled together inside the RBC House (apparently Bening and Beatty held hands all night):

Inside the best parties from night six of TIFF, with Luke Evans, Annette Bening and Vince Vaughn
Photograph by Sonia Recchia/Getty Images for RBC

Elvis Costello arrived solo to the party:

Inside the best parties from night six of TIFF, with Luke Evans, Annette Bening and Vince Vaughn
Photograph by Sonia Recchia/Getty Images for RBC

He spent most of the night chatting with pals. He’s pictured here with Matt Greenhalgh, director Paul McGuigan and Natasha Noramly:

Advertisement
Inside the best parties from night six of TIFF, with Luke Evans, Annette Bening and Vince Vaughn
Photograph by Sonia Recchia/Getty Images for RBC

Jason Isaacs showed up to support the film:

Inside the best parties from night six of TIFF, with Luke Evans, Annette Bening and Vince Vaughn
Photograph by Sonia Recchia/Getty Images for RBC

So did Sony Pictures Classics CEO Tom Bernard:

Inside the best parties from night six of TIFF, with Luke Evans, Annette Bening and Vince Vaughn
Photograph by Sonia Recchia/Getty Images for RBC

Beatty shook hands with Mara:

Inside the best parties from night six of TIFF, with Luke Evans, Annette Bening and Vince Vaughn
Photograph by Sonia Recchia/Getty Images for RBC

And Bening laughed with guests:

Inside the best parties from night six of TIFF, with Luke Evans, Annette Bening and Vince Vaughn
Photograph by Sonia Recchia/Getty Images for RBC

 

Advertisement
Birks Tribute to the Year’s Women in Film bash at The Spoke Club

The jewellery brand held its annual celebration of women in film last night, honouring directors Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Ashley McKenzie, Catherine Bainbridge, Chloé Leriche and Mina Shum; actors Amanda Brugel, Ellen Wong, Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, Mylène Mackay and Shailyn Pierre-Dixon; and screenwriters Joanne Arseneau and Sherry White.

There was a “women” cheer:

Honouree Brugel (she plays servant Rita in The Handmaid’s Tale) posed in front of some greenery:

Guests ran into 90210 actor Dustin Milligan:

Honourees got to take home some hardware:

Advertisement

Sarah Gadon also showed up:

 

Brawl in Cell Block 99 party at Cactus Club Cafe

The restaurant hosted a celebration for the film, in which Vince Vaughn plays an imprisoned former boxer forced into acts of violence. Vaughn and co-star Don Johnson ditched their VIP booths and mingled with the crowd. Victoria’s Secret model Devon Windsor and actor Ron Perlman also partied with the cast.

Here’s Vaughn and Johnson:

Inside the best parties from night six of TIFF, with Luke Evans, Annette Bening and Vince Vaughn
Photograph by George Pimentel/Getty Images for Cactus Club Cafe

Producer Jack Heller, actor Udo Kier, Windsor, producer Dallas Sonnier and Johnson all hung out together:

Advertisement
Inside the best parties from night six of TIFF, with Luke Evans, Annette Bening and Vince Vaughn
Photograph by George Pimentel/Getty Images for Cactus Club Cafe

 

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women premiere parties at Soho House

Soho House and Grey Goose held a cast party yesterday for the biographical drama, about how a Harvard inventor (Luke Evans), his wife (Rebecca Hall) and lover (Bella Heathcote) created the comic book superhero Wonder Woman. Evans reportedly worked the room, stopping for photos with guests. He was spotted sipping espresso-based Grey Goose cocktails.

Stars Heathcote and Evans posed together:

Inside the best parties from night six of TIFF, with Luke Evans, Annette Bening and Vince Vaughn
Photograph by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Grey Goose

Writer and director Angela Robinson was in attendance:

Inside the best parties from night six of TIFF, with Luke Evans, Annette Bening and Vince Vaughn
Photograph by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Grey Goose

So was producer Terry Leonard:

Advertisement
Inside the best parties from night six of TIFF, with Luke Evans, Annette Bening and Vince Vaughn
Photograph by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Grey Goose

Heathcote and Robinson hung out together and chatted with fans:

Jean Grant has been a freelance writer since 2015, covering a range of lifestyle topics like shopping, interiors, wellness and culture for publications like Maclean’s and Toronto Life. She also enjoys working with brands to develop custom content, and shares personal essays through her Substack newsletter, Nobody is Thinking About You.
Advertisement
Advertisement

More TIFF

How filmmaker Clement Virgo and writer Tamara Faith Berger spend a day off in Toronto

How filmmaker Clement Virgo and writer Tamara Faith Berger spend a day off in Toronto

Inside the Latest Issue

The July issue of Toronto Life features the monster cottages of Muskoka versus the resistance. Plus, our obsessive coverage of everything that matters now in the city.