LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - "I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House" would make more sense as a first feature from actor turned director Osgood Perkins -- it's an impressively if also somewhat self-defeatingly rigorous, near-abstract take on traditional ghost story terrain, claustrophobic in both physical and presumed budgetary scale. Yet his prior "February" (retitled "The Blackcoat's Daughter" after a successful festival run) was a more accessible horror entry that expertly applied greater psychological nuance to slasher-cinema tropes. In both title and content, this followup is an exercise in willful idiosyncrasy that has some limited appeal of its own. But does not feel like a step forward.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - What was shaping up to be a race between the superhuman and supernatural is looking less so now that "Blair Witch" has stumbled in its opening weekend box office. Earning reports from Friday night show "Sully" will steer clear of its competition and remain on top.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Making good on the promise of his very homegrown fantasy-action hit "Trollhunter," Norwegian helmer Andre Ovredal's first English-language feature is something quite different: a chamber horror piece in which a corpse's stillness only grows more ominously unreliable as it's dissected. "The Autopsy of Jane Doe" stars Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch as father-and-son morticians whose slab subject seems to exert considerable supernatural will on one stormy night, despite her apparently very dead state. A raucous crowd-pleaser at TIFF's midnight premiere, this taut, yet often slyly funny scarefest should do well with genre fans. IFC and Raven Banner have picked up distribution rights for the U.S. and Canada, respectively.

(Reuters) - Miley Cyrus may be better known these days for her twerking dance moves and raunchy image, but veteran director Woody Allen's memory of her comic delivery as a child actress was what led him to cast her as his new leading lady.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Keith Richards returned to the Toronto International Film Festival for a second straight year on Friday, joining band mate Ronnie Wood at the premiere of a documentary of their recent Latin America tour that culminated in an historic Cuban concert.

(Reuters) - Canadian author W.P. Kinsella, best known for his baseball novel "Shoeless Joe" which was adapted into the popular film "Field of Dreams," has died at the age of 81, his literary agent said on Friday.

(Reuters) - A New Zealand dramedy about a teenage boy forming an unlikely bond with his new foster father touches on emotional but not sentimental themes.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - From presidents to serial killers, Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone hasn't shied away from exploring controversial figures, but he initially balked when asked to make a film about former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden.

TORONTO (Reuters) - (This version of the story corrects name to Ella Purnell from Kelly Macdonald in the last paragraph)