The chill of October is in the air, and that means the next few months are going to be logjammed with blockbusters and awards-season movies as we head toward the end of the year. And this weekend certainly wasn’t lacking in spectacle for moviegoers.

Leading the way at the multiplex was Tim Burton‘s “Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children,” which took the number one slot with $28.5 million.

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TORONTO – In this age of Trump where any statement is somehow a fact regardless of the truth, there should be something incredibly poignant about “Denial,” a film about the libel case between Holocaust denier David Irving and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt at the turn of the century. And outside of two fine performances by Tom Wilkinson and Timothy Spall that’s pretty much all director Mick Jackson’s on the nose courtroom drama has going for it.

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The organizers of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival announced its initial slate of Gala and Special Presentation films coming to Toronto this fall, and the slate spans blockbusters to auteur cinema.

READ MORE: 50 Films We Hope To See At The 2016 Fall Film Festivals 

The most exciting thing about any festival is discovering something new, and there are any number of titles in Toronto that could end up being something special.

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It’s six weeks away from the start of the Toronto International Film Festival, and the launch of the awards season. It surely will amount to a bounty of offerings for cinephiles, as Hollywood puts a troubling summer in the rear view and gets ready to show off prestige pictures. This morning, organizers at TIFF raised the curtain on the first wave of Gala and Special Presentation pictures.

Among the highlights of the films coming to Toronto this year in the Special Presentation slate are: Marc Forster‘s “All I See Is You” starring Blake Lively, Andrea Arnold‘s “American Honey,” Ewan McGregor‘s “American Pastoral,” Nate Parker‘s Sundance sensation “Birth Of A Nation,” Miles Teller‘s boxing flick “Bleed For This,” western “Brimstone” starring Guy Pearce, Rachel Weisz‘s “Denial,” Paul Verhoeven‘s controversial “Elle,” Park Chan-Wook‘s “The Handmaiden,” musical “La La Land” starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, Kenneth Lonergan‘s “Manchester By The Sea,” Christopher Guest‘s “Mascot,” Pablo Larrain‘s “Neruda,” Tom Ford‘s “Nocturnal Animals,” Jim Jarmusch‘s “Paterson,” Asghar Farhadi‘s “The Salesman,” Werner Herzog‘s “Salt And Fire,” “Toni Erdmann,” “Trespass Against Us” starring Michael Fassbender and “Una” starring Ben Mendelsohn and Rooney Mara.

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We’re weeks away from TIFF and Venice Film Festival starting to unveil the high-profile movies that will premiere on their screens, with many angling for awards season glory. And one you can be sure will pop up somewhere on the fall circuit is “Denial.” The film is getting ahead of the pack early, with the first trailer landing this afternoon.

Rachel Weisz leads the drama that chronicles the rather intriguing story that unfolded when Holocaust denier David Irving took Deborah E.

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