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If we take a look at the worldwide box office, there is a clear winner this week. It’s Bridget Jones’s Baby, which had a $30 million international weekend and was No.

On a week with Beatlemania in the air - thanks to the release of Golden Globe winner Ron Howard's documentary The Beatles Eight Days a Week:The Touring Years - Julian Lennon met up with the HFPA at a gallery Los Angeles currently showing his Cycle series of photos, focused on the lives of diverse people who inhabit the borders of the South China Sea. Lennon talked to us about his many interests in music and philanthropy - John Lennon’s first son is a kind and generous man with his many talents.

TIFF heralds the movies everyone will see over the next few months as we run toward the Golden Globes. Already there are standouts and must-sees.

Ever since causing a sensation at an Eccles screening since entered in Sundance lore, last winter Nate Parker’s, The Birth of a Nation has been one of the most buzzed-about films of the year. The story of Nat Turner’s historic slave uprising of 1831, with its title polemically echoing D.

In a career spanning two decades Ewan McGregor has appeared in over 60 films. This year he premieres his directorial debut American Pastoral, an adaptation of the Philip Roth novel of the same title.

Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona busts on the international scene with The Orphanage, which earned him a Goya for Best New Director in 2007. In 2012 he followed that up with The Impossible starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts on the Indian Ocean Tsunami.

Colleen Atwood is among the most celebrated costume designers working today. A total of eleven Oscar nominations (Little Women, Beloved, Sleepy Hollow, Chicago, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Memoirs of a Geisha, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Nine, Alice in Wonderland, Snow White and the Huntsman and Into the Woods) and three victories (Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha and Alice in Wonderland) are the best proof of her talent.

Denzel Washington plays Sam Chisolm, the bounty hunter who heads up a rogue team of mavericks enlisted as a ragtag defense force by a beleaguered Western village in Antoine Fuqua’s retooling of John Sturges’ 1960 original (itself based on Akira Kurosawa’s classic Seven Samurai). Washington, who steps into the role played by Yul Brynner spoke to the HFPA in Toronto.

Chris Pratt has not been sitting around. Not only does he star in The Magnificent Seven, Antoine Fuqua’s remake of the John Sturges classic western from 1960, he will be seen in the upcoming Sci-fi epic Passengers opposite Jennifer Lawrence and to the anxiously awaited follow up to Guardians of the Galaxy whose presentation had fans in a frenzy at Comi-Con last July.

Not counting the experimental crowd-sourced Entertainment Experience (2012), 78 year-old Dutch iconoclast Paul Verhoeven hadn’t directed a film since Black Book ten years ago. He’s back to his old tricks with Elle in which Isabelle Huppert plays a French businesswoman, who after being brutally raped in her home stalks her assailant.