As the French film festival reaches its end, Helen Barlow looks at this year’s hits, misses and talking points.

Former heavyweight world boxing champion Mike Tyson plans to open a multi-purpose marijuana resort on a 40-acre plot of land in southern California.

This Wednesday, International Woman’s Day, women everywhere are going on strike, writes Suzanne Harrington. 

We look at some of the best offerings from the Cork Film Fesitval.

The organisers of the Oscars have invited a record number of new people to vote for next year’s Academy Awards following the row over a lack of diversity.

Some say that FIFA never changes year after year, but this year’s inclusion of a ‘Story Mode’ means that there is one drastic new addition that nobody can diminish.

Sony announced the two games that will be given away for free to PlayStation Plus subscribers on PlayStation 4 as part of the Instant Game Collection.

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The Ryan family get their health assessed in Doctor in the House on TV3 on Wednesday at 9pm.

MUSIC NEWS: Though there were all sorts of stories about Michael Jackson’s perilous finances through the years, the late prince of pop did listen to some of the right advice when he managed to amass the rights to songs by an impressive roster of artists. 

“WE all dream in gold,” says the official 2016 Oscars poster. The dreaming may be in gold, but the nominations are most definitely in white, while the boycotts are in black. It’s as if that other dream, the one Martin Luther King had, never happened, writes Suzanne Harrington

The Film Academy is pledging to double the number of female and minority members by 2020, and will immediately diversify its leadership by adding three new seats to its board of governors.

“You ain’t Barack and Michelle Obama".

U2 singer Bono has been caught up in controversy surrounding a film being shot in Chicago against the backdrop of the city’s unrelenting gun violence.

Microsoft is set to release a new and updated Xbox One model this year.

This could be the move that puts the “games as art” debate to rest. Spike Lee, who directed Inside Man, Do the Right Thing, and 25th Hour, is to take charge of NBA 2K16’s career mode.

Olivia Colman is pregnant.

Your spoiler free guide to tonight's TV.

Relatives said goodbye yesterday to the 18-year-old unarmed black man who was shot and killed by a police officer, remembering him as a "gentle soul" with a deep and growing faith in Christianity and ambitions that one day "the world would know his name".

The mourners filled an enormous church to remember Michael Brown – a “gentle giant,” aspiring rapper and recent high school graduate on his way to a technical college but the funeral that unfolded today was about much more than the black 18-year-old who lay in the closed coffin after being shot to death by a white police officer.

It’s 25 years since Public Enemy hit the mainstream with the Do The Right Thing film. Their frontman tells Don O’Mahony why his group’s message remains relevant

A host of Hollywood stars turned out for the private funeral of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman today.

Hollywood stars have paid tribute to Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was found dead in his apartment with what officials said was a needle in his arm.

Former world heavyweight champion boxer and convicted rapist Mike Tyson has been forced to scrap appearances in London after discovering he is banned from entering the UK.

ELECTRIC PICNIC: For many people, this week has revolved around the back to school shenanigans, but a lucky few thousand were preparing bags of a different kind as they set out for the Electric Picnic.

Highlights include Jeremy Irons back for the third series of The Borgias and The Review Show’s interview with author Iain Banks, who died recently.

Prince, Diana Ross and Spike Lee are among the witnesses who could be called in the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial.

The most high profile rebranding of a US sports team of the past decade needs all the help it can get and the Brooklyn Nets ticked two important boxes this week: they beat the New York Knicks on Monday night and got into a fight in Boston on Wednesday.

The response is instant.

Spike Lee couldn't let people down with his Michael Jackson documentary.

Samuel L Jackson is set to make an appearance in the remake of 'Oldboy'.

Pounding out the details of his personal life on a Broadway stage does not seem to faze Mike Tyson – the former heavyweight champ says that is what he is used to doing “and at least now I don’t have to go to hospital every time”.

Spike Lee is in the final stages of completing a Michael Jackson documentary.

Cissy Houston’s tribute to her late daughter was the emotional highlight of the BET Awards, a show that was defined by extended bleeps and the vulgarities that censors failed to catch on stage throughout the night.

Mike Tyson will perform a one-man show on Broadway.

Mike Tyson wants his next knockout to be on Broadway.

Josh Brolin wanted to get Park Chan-wook's blessing before he agreed to sign up to the remake of 'Oldboy'.

An elderly couple have reached a settlement with Spike Lee after the pair said they had to leave their Florida home after the film director helped spread a Twitter posting listing their address as that of the man who shot an unarmed teen.

Clive Owen has been offered a role in 'Oldboy'.