An award-winning Turkish-German director, Fatih Akin, says he dropped plans to make a film about an Armenian journalist murdered in 2007 because no Turkish actor wanted to play the lead role in a movie about the hugely sensitive case.

In an interview with Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos, Akin said he instead turned to making another controversial film, "The Cut", which deals with the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Those slaying are seen in Armenia and several other countries -- but not by Turkey -- as a genocide.

Production on a new season of "The Big Bang Theory" is being delayed because of a contract dispute with its top actors.

The Warner Brothers Television studio, which makes television's most popular comedy, said that Wednesday's scheduled first day of work after the summer hiatus was postponed. There's no word on when "The Big Bang Theory" team will be back at work.

Paramount Pictures apologised Thursday after publishing a poster of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film that showed the characters jumping from a burning building, with its Australian release date -- September 11 -- printed at the bottom.

Priscilla Presley is scheduled to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for a new hotel at Graceland, the Memphis tourist attraction centered on the longtime home of her late ex-husband, rock and roll icon Elvis Presley.

Elvis Presley Enterprises, the operators of Graceland, said Tuesday the groundbreaking for the 450-room hotel called The Guest House is set for Aug. 14. Once built, the hotel will include two restaurants, meeting and special events space, and a 500-seat theater for live performances.

George Lucas, the man behind the mega-successful interplanetary saga "Star Wars," may well have retired, but his spirit looms large at the famous Skywalker Ranch.

Doutzen Kroes announced via Instagram Wednesday that she'd given birth to her second child. The Dutch supermodel and her DJ husband Sunnery James are already parents to 3-year-old son Phyllon.

"A miracle saw the light of day this morning. Welcome Myllena Mae," the 29-year-old blond beauty wrote in the photo caption. Kroes added, "Mommy, Daddy and big brother Phyllon are super proud!"

Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Pedro Almodovar are among the Spanish stars behind an open letter condemning Israel’s bombardment of Gaza as “genocide”.

The actors and the director demanded a stronger response by the European Union to stop the military operation that has so far killed more than 1,200 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

"The Honorable Woman" is a meditative thriller that investigates a woman's inner life and a global hot spot. Poised between dream-state and tough reality, it exposes timeless truths while remaining as current as the next Israeli-Palestinian clash.

An eight-hour miniseries premiering Thursday at 10 p.m. EDT on SundanceTV, "The Honorable Woman" is a virtuoso effort by Hugo Blick, who wrote and directed it.

Despite its flawless superhero pedigree, there's always been apprehension about "Guardians of the Galaxy."

Since the president of Marvel Studios first teased the possibility of making a movie based on the comic book about a team of intergalactic do-gooders, the proposition has been called risky — by critics, by fans and by Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige himself. That never mattered to writer-director James Gunn, the horror maven best known for 2006's "Slither."

A stampede during a rap concert on a Conakry beach Tuesday left at least 24 people dead, Guinean hospital officials said.