Toronto fest teaming with true-life tales, big and small

NEW YORK - Hank Williams, Dan Rather and Lance Armstrong: The fictional guest list to the 40th Toronto International Film Festival is a curious group.
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Superheroes, for once, don't rule at box office

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'Compton' tops box office for 3rd week; 'War Room' surprises

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A not-so-fantastic debut

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'Ant-Man' debuts with $58M; 'Trainwreck' opens with $30.2M

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Review: 'Jurassic World' bites into the modern blockbuster

Along the scaly spine of the Tyrannosaurus Rex runs the evolution of Hollywood blockbustering.
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McCarthy's 'Spy' tops with $30 million; 'Entourage' lags

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Cannes kicks off with French drama, Coen brothers, ballet

CANNES, France - The Cannes Film Festival unrolled its red carpet with a socially minded French drama as the usually glitzy festival began Wednesday on a more serious note after January's terror attacks in Paris.
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Shifting in a new direction, Black rides 'The D Train'

NEW YORK - At an East Village restaurant over dinner recently, after ordering mussels and selecting a white wine, Jack Black proffered a theatrical "Gratzi" to the waitress. He then leaned in expectantly, his gymnastic eyebrows raised, eagerly awaiting a response that didn't come.
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'Furious 7' holds on at box office; 'Age of Ultron' looms

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Sequels multiply in summer movie season

NEW YORK - "I'll be back," the line Arnold Schwarzenegger first uttered more than 30 years ago in that indelible manly monotone, belongs to the Terminator, of course. But it also might as well be the official slogan of the summer movie season.
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'Home' soars past 'Get Hard' to top spot

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Smith's 'Focus' tops box office with $19.1M

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'American Sniper' astounds with $105.3M over MLK weekend

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For Dardennes and Cotillard, cinematic love at first sight

NEW YORK - The great reservoir of the Dardenne brothers' nine feature films has been their Belgium hometown, to which they've returned again and again to plumb the daily struggles of the poor and the working class, and writ them large on the big screen.
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Bilbo Baggins big at box office

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Review: 'The Interview' deserves to be seen

That I was one of the relative few to see "The Interview" is not a boast in which I take any pleasure.
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Spirits move 'Ouija' to No. 1 at the box office

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Answering the 'Birdman' signal, Keaton soars again

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Bacall, sultry-voiced actress, dies at 89

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'Transformers' tops 'Tammy' on weak Fourth of July weekend

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'Spider-Man 2' ropes in $92 million opening

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What to look for in 2014 at the movies

NEW YORK - Hollywood may be hoping for a little less drama in 2014.
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Disney's 'Frozen' freezes out 'Paranormal' spinoff

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'Hustle,' '12 Years' top a varied Globes field

Heaping seven nominations on both the con-artist melodrama "American Hustle" and the grimly historical "12 Years a Slave," the Golden Globes nominations set up a showdown of contrasts: comedy and drama, light and dark, white and black.
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