Reuters - The curtain rose on the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday night with romance "Passchendaele" playing to a packed theater and starting a 10-day parade of films and stars at one of the world's top movie gatherings.

E! Online - No need to believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis.

Reuters - Samuel Goldwyn Films has nabbed domestic rights to the 1930s-era blues musical "Dark Streets," which features the first film score from B.B. King.

Reuters - Actors Paul Walker and Hayden Christensen have been cast in "Bone Deep," a crime thriller being directed by John Luessenhop.

Reuters - Seems you can't even be nasty to Nazis anymore.

Reuters - The Imax-format release of Warner Bros.' "The Dark Knight" has blown past "The Polar Express" as the giant-screen exhibitor's top first-run release.

Reuters - The fall box-office season gets off to a rather sedate start this weekend, with just one film opening in wide release -- Lionsgate's "Bangkok Dangerous," starring Nicolas Cage and going out without advance screenings for the press.

E! Online - The second-biggest movie in Hollywood history. Sky-high ticket prices. Put them together, and what do you get? Surprisingly, not a record.

AP - Bill Melendez, the animator who gave life to Snoopy, Charlie Brown and other "Peanuts" characters in scores of movies and TV specials, has died. He was 91.

AP - The Army, with a hand from Hollywood, has received a long-lost Oscar back into its ranks.