Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg is to make a television mini-series about Napoleon, based on a screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, he told a French broadcaster.

The 66-year-old "Schindler's List" and "E.T." filmmaker is working on the basis of a five-decade old script by Kubrick, who directed classics including "A Clockwork Orange" and "2001: A Space Odyssey."

Hollywood star James Franco has lashed out at Australia for banning the U.S. gay-themed film "I Want Your Love", calling the decision embarrassing.

Australia's Classification Board deemed the movie's sex scenes too explicit and refused to allow it to be screened at the upcoming Melbourne Queer Film Festival and the Brisbane Queer Film Festival.

Two lesbians have become the first gay couple to tie the knot at Tokyo Disney Resort, both decked out in fairy tale white dresses despite an initial ruling that one had to wear men's clothes.

"My love Hiroko and I wore wedding dresses and had a mini-parade in DisneySea, a place I also love," Koyuki Higashi, 28, said on Twitter.

NBC says Heidi Klum has been added to "America's Got Talent" as its fourth judge.

The network announced Monday that the supermodel will join fellow incoming judge Mel B this summer for the talent competition's eighth season. Howie Mandel and Howard Stern will be back on the judges' panel.

Spanish fashion retailer Mango on Monday apologized on Twitter for a necklace advertised on its website as "slave style", blaming a translation error.

"We regret the translation error. The relevant services have been alerted and will make the correction immediately," the company said on its official Twitter account.

French actor Omar Sy, who won praise for his starring role in the film "The Intouchables," has been added to the star-studded cast of the next "X-Men movie," director Bryan Singer has said.

"X-Men: Days of Future Past" -- a follow-up to the 2011 reboot "X-Men" First Class," already boasts best actress Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, Ian MacKellen and Patrick Stewart among the cast.

There was a toughness in the air on the Paris catwalks Sunday.

But it wasn't just in the black or the more grown-up styles that continued to dominate fall-winter shows.

Peter Gabriel joined big thinkers and one of the Internet's founding fathers Friday in launching an "Interspecies Internet" for animals to communicate with us and each other.

"Perhaps the most amazing tool man has created is the Internet," the famous British singer said.

The fourth day of Paris fashion week saw Raf Simons unveil the latest chapter of his journey after nearly a year at the design helm of Christian Dior.

Following his acclaimed debut last year, the pressure has been stacked on the Belgian designer to deliver again in what is only his second ready-to-wear show in one of the most influential jobs in fashion.

A judge refused to drop two of the three criminal charges against U.S. actress Lindsay Lohan and confirmed Friday that the troubled starlet's trial would take place in Los Angeles on March 18.

The 26-year-old, who has lived in New York since last summer, did not appear at her latest court hearing, leaving attorney Mark Heller to address the judge.