Pitt's film undertakes celebrity, fandom

Pitt is midway through his work on the Coen brothers' New York-set spy thing, Burn After Reading, right now. (His Ocean's Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen associate George Clooney also stars.) Pitt has The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which he shot with Cate Blanchett for Fight Club's David Fincher, in the can. And he'll be starting State of Play, a political thriller adapted from the BBC series, in November. His Fight Club buddy Edward Norton is in that, along with Helen Mirren and Robin Wright Penn.

Pitt's production company, Plan B, has a whole slate of projects in the works, but after State of Play, Pitt's not sure what his next acting gig will be.

In the meantime, at least one person thinks Pitt has done the best work of his career in The Assassination of Jesse James.

"People will come see this movie because they know that Brad consistently gives good performances, and they want to see him," says Casey Affleck, in a separate interview during the festival in Toronto. "They won't be disappointed by that, for sure, because I think this is his finest hour. This is my favorite performance of his. It's a very vulnerable and deep, great performance."