Entertainment

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has blocked a planned release of new Prince music on the first anniversary of his death this week.

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – “The Fate of the Furious” is roaring to a record-setting global debut over the weekend even as domestic audiences showed less enthusiasm for the latest installment in Universal’s long-running “Fast and Furious” series.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Pennsylvania’s high court has rejected Bill Cosby’s latest appeal in his sexual assault case, ensuring the 79-year-old comedian will face trial in June.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – J. Geils, leader of The J. Geils Band whose hard-driving hits of the late 1970s and early 1980s included “Centerfold,” “Freeze Frame” and “Love Stinks,” died on Tuesday at his home in Groton, Massachusetts, police said.

(Reuters) A film about a young man suffering from depression and the good Samaritans who help him won the top honour at India’s National Film Awards on Friday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – J. Geils, leader of The Geils Band whose hard-driving hits of the late 1970s and early 1980s included “Centerfold,” “Freeze Frame” and “Love Stinks,” died on Tuesday at his home in Groton, Massachusetts, police said.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Pop star Janet Jackson has split up with her Qatari businessman husband just three months after giving birth to her first child, according to media reports.

LOS ANGELES,  (Variety.com) – The Smurfs may be feeling kind of blue.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Grammy award-winning artist Sheena Easton has made her West End debut in the musical “42nd Street”, with Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton, actor Morgan Freeman and tennis coach Judy Murray attending the show’s premiere.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Barry Manilow has spoken publicly for the first time about being gay, saying he feared he would disappoint his mostly female fan base had he come out decades ago.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Fast car chases, daring stunts and explosions return to the big screen in the eighth instalment of the “Fast and Furious” racing film franchise and Oscar winner Charlize Theron joins the cast with her own “badass jet”.

(Reuters) – Chuck Berry, who duck-walked his way into the pantheon of rock ‘n’ roll pioneers as one of its most influential guitarists and lyricists, creating raucous anthems that defined the genre’s sound and heartbeat, died on Saturday at his Missouri home.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Sporting a bleached-blond buzz cut, American actress Kristen Stewart hit the red carpet in New York to promote her new film “Personal Shopper”, saying she hoped to help others by going public about her sexual orientation.

LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When “Game of Thrones” fans blasted a scene involving the brutal rape of Sansa Stark by her sadistic husband on their wedding night, Sophie Turner, who plays the TV show’s popular character, was shocked.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Activist and actress Jane Fonda has spoken for the first time about being raped and sexually abused as a child, saying she was raised with “the disease to please” others.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – One of Hollywood’s most famous rivalries is taking centre stage in a new television series, as “Feud” explores a salacious battle between Golden Age screen legends Joan Crawford and Bette Davis.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A new film exploring the partition of India will offer audiences a poignant reminder, 70 years on, that using politics to divide communities is nothing new, its British director says.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Australian actor Hugh Jackman returns as Wolverine in “Logan”, playing the clawed mutant one last time after 17 years in the popular “X-Men” franchise.

Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs.   Late actor Heston’s insult of judge helps upend murder conviction A decades-old feud between a Philadelphia judge and the late actor Charlton Heston may have helped a Pennsylvania man get his 1998 murder conviction overturned on Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – The two accountants found at fault for botching the climactic announcement of the winner for best picture at the Academy Awards have been officially declared unfit for any future Oscar duty, organizers of the ceremony said yesterday.