Sci-fi thriller "Divergent" pulled apart from rivals at the North American box office in its first weekend, as "Muppets Most Wanted" went in at number two, industry estimates showed Sunday.

Raking in an estimated $56 million, "Divergent," the dystopian tale of a young woman in a futuristic society, is based on the popular young adult novel of the same name.

Ten weeks before the city expects to welcome throngs of World Cup fans, Hollywood star Russell Crowe slated Rio's chaotic traffic during a visit to promote biblical epic Noah.

Although happy to visit Brazil, Crowe admitted he found the traffic a challenge -- not least as he braved the cars for a bicycle ride around the metropolis.

The funeral of Mick Jagger's girlfriend L'Wren Scott will be held in Los Angeles, the Rolling Stones singer's spokesman told Agence France Presse on Saturday.

The model-turned-fashion designer was found hanged in her luxury New York apartment on Monday. She was 49.

In the beginning of their work together on "Noah," director Darren Aronofsky made Russell Crowe a promise: "I'll never shoot you on a houseboat in a robe and sandals with two giraffes popping up behind you."

Decades after Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" and "Ben-Hur," Aronofsky has renewed the tradition of the studio-made, mass-audience Bible epic, albeit as a distinctly darker parable about sin, justice and mercy. While much of his "Noah" is true to Scripture, it's nothing like the picture-book version many encounter as children.

Among the aspiring Asian designers competing for the limelight at Tokyo Fashion Week, one of the most striking was an Indonesian label's bid to blend a traditional Muslim headscarf with haute couture.

The twice-yearly show, which wraps up on Saturday, saw NurZahra roll out its autumn/winter collection "Layers of Fidelity", turning the modest hijab into sophisticated fashion.

A spokesman for Mick Jagger's girlfriend L'Wren Scott on Friday hit back at suggestions the designer's fashion business was in financial trouble before her suicide this week.

Scott's label LS Fashion Ltd reported losses of $5.9 million as of December 31, 2012 according to accounts lodged with Britain's Companies House in October obtained by Agence France Presse.

Kim Kardashian is on the cover of the next issue of American Vogue, the magazine announced Friday, thrilling the reality TV starlet and unleashing a torrent of Twitter outrage among fashionistas.

Kardashian, 33, appears in a strapless gown in the arms of her fiance, hip hop maestro Kanye West, over the headline: "Kim and Kanye: Their Fashionable Life and Surreal Times" and hashtag #worldsmosttalkedaboutcouple.

Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky are celebrating the arrival of twin baby boys in Los Angeles, a spokesman for the Australian "Thor" star said Friday.

Pataky, a Spanish model and actress, gave birth to the boys on Thursday in Los Angeles's Cedars Sinai hospital.

British singer Kate Bush on Friday announced a surprise series of live shows in London later this year, 35 years after her one and only tour.

The 55-year-old, who recently launched a new album, "50 Words For Snow", will play 15 dates at the Hammersmith Apollo in August and September, she announced on her website.

The Genie in the big new Broadway musical "Aladdin" opens the show with a bang, sets up the story and then — poof — he's gone. "Try not to miss me too much!" he says, tauntingly, as he leaves.

The trouble is, it's hard not to. James Monroe Iglehart is just so magically delicious as the guy in the lamp that the show sometimes feels like its holding its breath until he reappears.