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"Beasts," "The House I Live In" win top awards at Sundance

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When Johnny Depp appears on Thursday at a museum to introduce his movie "The Rum Diary," he will be doing what many stars do these days to promote passion projects that are seeing fewer art houses debut their films.

TORONTO (Reuters) - A film about the struggles of a village in war-torn Lebanon took the People's Choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, an audience trophy that has often been a harbinger of Oscar glory.

TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto International Film Festival reached its midpoint on Tuesday with films like the "The Descendants" and actor Michael Fassbender winning praise, but a nagging question about the future of dark dramas in Hollywood has hovered over the event.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Coming off a robust first half of 2011 for independent films, the Toronto film festival kicks off on Thursday with expectations for a generous amount of business deals, Hollywood star power and Oscar hopefuls.

When Chaz Bono takes to the floor on American television's "Dancing with the Stars" later this month, he won't be lacking for fans -- or detractors.

Video-sharing site YouTube, which has been adding professional content in a bid to generate revenue, announced Thursday it has begun renting movies online in Canada.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After Vera Farmiga was nominated for an Oscar for her performance opposite George Clooney in the 2009 film "Up in the Air," the actress was offered the chance of a lifetime -- not just to act in a film, but to direct it as well.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - After Iranian-American filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz made" Circumstance," she knew she would might never be able to return to her homeland again, but that hasn't stopped her from telling the story.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A woman in a headscarf runs into the street to calm a crowd before violence erupts. "This is what a war zone looks like," a voiceover declares.

A new musical based on 'Southern Comfort,' the 2001 documentary film about the life of Robert Eads, will premiere in the fall. A new musical based on Southern Comfort, the 2001 documentary film about the life of Robert Eads, will premiere in the fall. Kate Davis' film covers the final year of Eads' life. The 52-year-old Eads is living in the back hills of Georgia when he is forced to battle ovarian cancer on his own after two dozen doctors refuse to treat a transgender man. By the time Eads finds a physician willing to help him, the cancer is too advanced to be treated. During his final year, Eads falls in love with Lola, a transgender woman, and at the Southern Conference in Atlanta, the nation's preeminent transgender gathering, he takes her to ?the prom that never was.? (A trailer of the film is embedded in the right panel of this page.) The film won the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize and a Special Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. According to The

NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's still very early. In fact, it's not yet awards season in Hollywood, but already movie fans might have their first bona fide contender for this year's best actor Oscar.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Death row, Sarah Palin, and wannabe Vulcans are some of the topics audiences can explore this year through the Toronto International Film Festival's documentary line up, announced on Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It isn't among the most-hyped movies in theaters and won't win the battle of the weekend box office, but "Life in a Day" may just be the most unusual film playing in theaters this weekend.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Irish rockers U2 and American grunge band Pearl Jam will have the Toronto International Film Festival rocking this year, while George Clooney and Brad Pitt bring some A-List star power to the event that helps launch Hollywood's Oscar season.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - It was the case that launched a thousand jokes. The McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit almost 15 years ago came to represent for most people everything that's wrong with the American civil justice system -- a plaintiff with a serious shortage of common sense, a huge windfall in damages and a waste of everyone's time.