A film about the 2008 U.S. financial crisis, "99 Homes" by Ramin Bahrani, was awarded the Grand Prize at France's Deauville American Film Festival in Normandy on Saturday. 

Part social drama, part thriller, the film centers on a young father who is evicted from his home after it is foreclosed and then agrees to work for the very real estate broker responsible for his troubles.

"The Martian" has landed.

The Ridley Scott, Matt Damon 3-D space adventure premiered Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival, where critics and audiences cheered Scott's latest venture into science fiction as a return to form for the director. "The Martian," adapted from the best-selling Andy Weir novel, stars Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars by his crew.

Two people died when a plane carrying crew members from a film starring Tom Cruise crashed in Colombia, aviation authorities and Universal Pictures said.

The crew had just wrapped up production on the upcoming Doug Liman film "Mena," when it went down on Friday while returning to Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport in Medellin.

Provocateur Michael Moore is back after a six-year absence with a new documentary film, "Where to Invade Next," pitching once again socialist ideals put to the test abroad to his fellow countrymen.

The film premiered at the Toronto film festival.

"Spare change? Any spare change?" The man holding the cup in the street looks, from a distance, like just some guy in a wool cap, formless parka and rumpled pants.

Only this is Richard Gere, and if you looked a little closer, you'd recognize those silver-haired good looks and that chiseled face. And those people on the streets in "Time Out of Mind" are actual New Yorkers who often walked by the movie star, oblivious, as director Oren Moverman was shooting, proving — if it needed to be proven — that we don't really look at homeless people among us, even if we're handing them a few quarters.

The twice-yearly style orgy that is New York Fashion Week kicks off Thursday when the booted and suited may have to sidestep thunderstorms to catch sight of collections for spring-summer 2016.

Hollywood stars, buyers and fashion editors from across the planet descend on Gotham to admire the most coveted talent in US design dominated by the likes of Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger.

Bon Jovi's concert tour in China next week has been abruptly canceled because of what promoters said were "unforeseen reasons."

AEG Live Asia declined to give the reason for the cancellation, but said in a statement Tuesday that refunds will be offered for shows scheduled Sept. 14 in Shanghai and Sept. 17 in Beijing. AEG also apologized "for the inconvenience and disappointment that this will cause."

Hillary Rodham Clinton paid a visit to "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on Tuesday, receiving the host's blessing as a presidential hopeful while touching on issues including equal rights and email and delivering a number of clever lines.

Clinton's appearance on the syndicated TV talk show, which will air on Thursday, was taped on an open-air stage built for DeGeneres at Rockefeller Center, where hundreds of fans gathered.

The latest literary installment of the James Bond saga hit bookshelves on Tuesday, following controversial comments by Anthony Horowitz, the latest author to assume 007 creator Ian Fleming's mantle.

"Trigger Mortis" is the first Bond novel released since the death of British writer Fleming 51 years ago to be set in the "tradition and timeline" of the original series, according to publisher Orion.

Stephen Colbert made his "Late Show" debut, giving Hollywood hunk George Clooney a wedding present and eliciting jokes from White House hopeful Jeb Bush in kicking off a new era in American late-night television comedy.

It was a jubilant start for the 51-year-old Catholic family man as he tries to step into the shoes of one of America's biggest television legends, David Letterman, who retired this summer after a 33-year career.