George Clooney said he would meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and asylum-seekers about Europe's refugee crisis as he opened the Berlin film festival Thursday.

Clooney, an activist for many humanitarian causes whose new movie "Hail, Caesar!" by the Coen brothers is kicking off the 11-day cinema showcase, said he wanted to hear how he could use his star power to lend a hand.

The script of a new Harry Potter play, which is due to be published on July 31 following its world premiere in London, was already a bestseller on the British version of Amazon on Thursday.

A day after the announcement that it would be published, the script also topped pre-sale orders on the website of British bookshop chain Waterstones.

The production company behind "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is being prosecuted in Britain over an incident on set which left actor Harrison Ford with a broken leg, health and safety officials said Thursday.

Ford, 73, was struck by a heavy door at Pinewood Studios west of London on the set for the film's Millennium Falcon spaceship in June 2014 and airlifted to hospital afterwards.

Days before he died from cancer rock legend David Bowie found out that he would have been a grandfather.

Marking one month since Bowie's death, his son, film director Duncan Jones, said Wednesday that he had revealed the news to his father in the form of a Christmas card.

Saint Laurent showed its new men's collection in Los Angeles on Wednesday in front of a host of stars amid persistent rumors over the future of its artistic director Hedi Slimane.

The French fashion house showcased its autumn-winter collection, and part of its women's range, to a backdrop of raucous punk rock at the Hollywood Palladium, five days ahead of the music industry's prestigious Grammy Awards.

Donald Trump's outlandish campaign claims -- and hair -- are a regular gift to late-night comedy writers. But now Hollywood is getting in on the game with a spoof biopic starring Johnny Depp unveiled after the billionaire's triumph in the New Hampshire primary.

The satirical website Funny or Die began streaming the faux documentary the morning after Trump's resounding victory Tuesday night placed him firmly back atop the Republican field of White House contenders.

French dancer Brahim Zaibat, a former lover of Madonna, was fined one euro by a Paris court Wednesday for sneaking a selfie with far-right patriarch Jean-Marie Le Pen as he snoozed on an airplane.

Zaibat was also ordered to take down the offending picture, which was tweeted more than 12,000 times when posted on December 12, ahead of regional elections in France.

It took cinemas by storm and now the smash-hit Disney animation "Frozen" is heading to Broadway, the entertainment giant said Tuesday, confirming months of fevered speculation.

The musical adaptation will open outside New York in August 2017 and then hit Broadway in spring 2018.

We've all yawned each year as Oscar winners rush through the names of the people they want to thank during their brief acceptance speeches, hoping no one is forgotten.

Well, things are about to change.

"It's like travelling in a time capsule," enthused Jimi Hendrix's former girlfriend, marveling at their old London flat which has been painstakingly recreated to look exactly the way he left it in the swinging Sixties.

The apartment where Hendrix and Kathy Etchingham lived between 1968 and 1969, which opens to the public on Wednesday, reveals the ordered domestic life behind the extraordinary US rock star's mind-blowing music.