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  'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' wins TIFF People's Choice Award

  The signs could be pointing to award season accolades for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” after the dark comedy captured the People's Choice prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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  Standout Toronto film festival movies that flew under the radar

  Celebrity red carpets, Hollywood premieres and lavish parties dominate the Toronto International Film Festival, but many avid filmgoers will tell you the best part is finding a hidden gem.

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  Star of 'A Fantastic Woman' could lead to trans history at Oscars

  A transgender Chilean actress has turned in one of the most buzzed-about performances of the year and some are hoping she could be the first trans actor to land an Oscar nomination.

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  Makers of Tragically Hip documentary say film 'started on a dime'

  Making the Tragically Hip tour documentary “Long Time Running” was a shotgun project of sorts for its filmmakers. 1

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  Angelina Jolie speaks about Cambodian epic and power of family

  Angelina Jolie arrives for an interview with the familiar harried air of a parent who has just barely managed to withdraw from her children, all six of whom she's left having breakfast upstairs in their Toronto hotel suite.

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  Margaret Atwood says upcoming 'Alias Grace' TV series gave her 'real nightmares'

  Margaret Atwood says the upcoming TV adaptation of her acclaimed historical novel “Alias Grace” is “very powerful” and gave her “real nightmares.”

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  Cult of 'The Room' cheers James Franco's 'Disaster Artist' at TIFF

  The spoon-throwing, football-tossing cult of “The Room” was out in full force at the premiere of James Franco's “The Disaster Artist,” a making-of movie that earned the blessing of the notorious film's creator Tommy Wiseau.

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  Andrew Garfield says TIFF drama 'Breathe' inspires 'more laughter than crying'

  Oscar-nominee Andrew Garfield says he laughed and cried when he read the script for his latest film, "Breathe," about a man afflicted with polio who is given three months to live.

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  James Franco on first seeing 'The Room' before making 'Disaster Artist'

  The path to James Franco's new film "The Disaster Artist" partly began in Vancouver.

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  Angelina Jolie discusses humanitarian crises at Toronto event

  With so many humanitarian crises in the world, it's on everyone to educate themselves and continue pushing for democracy and human rights, Angelina Jolie told a Toronto conference focusing on women Monday. 1

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  Eric Clapton reflects on his 'pompous' youth: 'there's a level of arrogance there'

  Eric Clapton says it's hard to watch himself as a pompous young man in the new documentary "Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars."

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  Jennifer Lawrence says audiences should know TIFF's 'mother!' is an allegory

  Genre-pushing director Darren Aronofsky says it's impossible to spoil the experience of his latest psychological thriller “mother!”, which he calls “really weird and different.”

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  George Clooney on hurricane Harvey legacy: 'Houston is Syria'

  George Clooney says the storm devastation wrought in Houston is akin to the damage suffered in war-torn Syria.

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  Toronto a coming out party for 21-year-old Timothee Chalamet

  The kind of breakthrough performance where it's immediately apparent that an actor is going to be a star for years to come is a rarity in movies. Think of Emma Stone in “Easy A” or Jessica Chastain in “The Tree of Life.”

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  Louis CK premieres his secret, very Woody Allen-esque film

  Louis C.K. on Saturday debuted potentially the most audacious film of the Toronto International Film Festival: a very Woody Allen-esque comedy that simultaneously comments on Allen -- and C.K.'s -- controversies.