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At this year’s Toronto Film Festival — branded acronymously as TIFF — it’s possible to devour a big chunk of the upcoming movie season in the course of eight crazy days and nights. I’m talking about the prestige stuff, the awards bait, the grown-up menu. Jammed and overlapping, the schedule allows a caffeinated venue-hopper to gulp down The Master, Argo, Cloud Atlas, The Place Beyond the Pines, Silver Linings Playbook, Hyde Park on the Hudson, To the Wonder, Great Expectations… and I’m sure I’m missing a jumble of other titles.

Kristen Stewart walked the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival to support Walter Salles' "On the Road" Thursday night. It was a clear case of a celebrity news or gossip story becoming an important business story for the backers of the independent feature.

U2 singer Bono, guitarist The Edge and their band mates have let their guard down for a revealing documentary about their creative development and a pivotal career shift 20 years ago.

When we spoke with Keanu Reeves at the Toronto International Film Festival last week, we learned a couple of things: one, Reeves does a killer Werner Herzog impression, and two, there's another "Bill & Ted" movie in the works!

In a last-minute burst of activity as the Toronto International Film Festival is winding to a close, Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions once again joined forced to pick up the Will Ferrell drama "Everything Must Go," written and directed by Dan Rush; IFC Films made its third buy of a festival film by scooping up "Peep World," Barry Blaustein's tale of a dysfunctional family gathering; and Oscilloscope Laboratories opted for Kelly Reichardt's Western drama "Meek's Cutoff," starring Michelle Williams and Bruce Greenwood.

MTV News caught up with Michael Caine at the Toronto film festival yesterday, and in-between talking to the British star about his new film Harry Brown, they also quizzed him about the future of Batman 3.

Lee Daniels' inner-city drama, "Precious, Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," nabbed the 34th Toronto Film Festival's People's Choice prize on Saturday.

After making its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, and bowing in the UK in October, Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" will open for business in American theaters on December 25.