LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - The best courtroom dramas are riveting intellectual thrillers. They're about legal and moral puzzles heroically assembled, piece by piece, in a flow of interlocking information. That's true of such classic films as "12 Angry Men," "Anatomy of a Murder," or "The Verdict," and it was true of last year's superb "Woman in Gold," in which Helen Mirren played a Jewish refugee who fought, in the courts of Austria and the U.S., to reclaim a legendary Klimt painting stolen from her family 60 years before by the Nazis.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Comedy animation feature "Sing" premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on Sunday to an enthusiastic reception from filmgoers before Academy award winner Jennifer Hudson and singer-songwriter Tori Kelly performed songs from the movie.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Transgender actress Alexis Arquette died Sunday morning, her brother Richmond Arquette revealed in a Facebook post. She was 47.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Tom Hanks' "Sully" has taken off with a stellar $35.5 million at 3,525 North American locations, marking a solid start to the fall box office season.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - In a year full of fantastic creatures and imaginary friends -- in which orphan Pete adopted his own dragon and lonely Sophie found a Big Friendly Giant to keep her company -- 12-year-old Conor O'Malley, the young hero of "A Monster Calls," may as well have drawn the short end of the stick: His CG buddy is a tree.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Nate Parker, the star and director of slavery historical drama "The Birth of a Nation," avoided a question on Sunday about whether he should have apologized to his accuser in a 17-year-old rape case, saying he did not want to "hijack" attention from the film at the Toronto International Film Festival.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Scottish actor Ewan McGregor admitted to being "very nervous" about making his directorial debut with the movie adaptation of Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "American Pastoral".

VENICE (Reuters) - A nearly four-hour long movie about a woman's thirst for revenge and her feelings of forgiveness after 30 years in jail for a crime she did not commit won the Venice Film Festival's top prize on Saturday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - "The Birth of a Nation" director Nate Parker and his cast are playing challenging parts this weekend as they try to keep the spotlight trained on their acclaimed slavery drama while acknowledging concern about a rape case involving Parker.