TORONTO (Reuters) - Boxing movies are making a comeback lately, although they are often more about the struggles of fighters outside the ring than the punches they land on their opponents.

LONDON (Reuters) - Former Beatles Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunited for a walk down memory lane on Thursday for the premiere of a documentary by Oscar winner Ron Howard about the Fab Four as they toured the world in the 1960s.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - The movies, in case you didn't notice, are having an LBJ moment. It began two years ago, when Tom Wilkinson played President Lyndon B. Johnson in "Selma" as a cagey but courtly political warrior whose hand was forced by Martin Luther King Jr. More recently, the Broadway drama "All the Way" was made into an HBO movie -- 20 years ago, it would have been big-screen awards bait -- with Bryan Cranston reprising his edgier, closer-to-the-bone performance as LBJ (more cussed, better accent, truly astonishing makeup). Cranston has made a specialty of playing decent men in scurrilous armor, and his LJB was a cunning vulgarian blowhard saint, with a bark worse than his bite -- a cracker-barrel curmudgeon.

TORONTO (Reuters) - The director and star of a film about a hitman who is put through gender reassignment surgery by a relative of one of his victims defended the project as it had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Wednesday.

CHIBA (Reuters) - Sony Corp <6758.T> aims to extend content for its dedicated virtual-reality (VR) headset into non-gaming areas such as TV and film, and has no plans to join the burgeoning market for smartphone-based headsets, its gaming division chief said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will recognize the comedic talents of Mel Brooks, the Motown sound of Berry Gordy and the iconic voice of Morgan Freeman on Sept. 22 when he hands out the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal at the White House.

TORONTO, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Filmmaker Vikram Gandhi's 'Barry' tells the story of a young man with an absent father struggling to find his identity in a big city. It is also the tale of an individual who would decades later become U.S. President Barack Obama.

TORONTO (Reuters) - A top priority for a new movie about the deadly 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill was ensuring it accurately depicted the disaster that killed 11 workers, its director and main actor said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three rights groups launched a campaign on Wednesday to try to persuade President Barack Obama to pardon former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden on U.S. theft and espionage charges before Obama leaves office in January.