Shooting will start next week on a feature film tracing the early career of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from his childhood in a poor district in Istanbul to his rise to become the city's mayor, its producers said Friday.

"Reis" ("The Chief") will star well-known Turkish actor Reha Beyoglu as the Turkish strongman and show his life up to 1999, Turkish media quoted producers Evrensel Medya as saying.

Hollywood actor Sean Penn has expressed regret that the article he wrote after interviewing Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman failed to spark a debate about the U.S. war on drugs.

In an excerpt of the interview broadcast Friday, Penn said his goal in meeting with Guzman was to shine a light on America's role in the international drug trade.

U.S. actor Leonardo DiCaprio on Friday claimed to feel no nerves at the prospect of claiming his first Oscar for his role in "The Revenant", saying he had "done the work" and could do no more.

"The one reassuring thing about all this award season stuff is that you have absolutely no control over the outcome," he told BBC radio.

Celine Dion's husband Rene Angelil, who discovered the Canadian pop diva and long managed her career, died Thursday aged 73, after a struggle with cancer.

Dion announced his passing in a Twitter message, saying: "Rene Angelil passed away this morning at his home in Las Vegas after a long and courageous battle against cancer."

Sean Penn's article about Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has hit a nerve in Mexico, where many journalists have paid dearly for covering drug cartels run by such ruthless kingpins.

The U.S. actor's story published by Rolling Stone has drawn plenty of flak from American journalists, who panned his writing style and questioned the ethics of letting the drug lord vet the story before publication.

David Bowie's family said Thursday it planned a private ceremony to celebrate the late rock legend, honoring his wishes to remain discreet about his death.

Bowie, one of pop culture's most influential figures whose career took him from glam rock to soul to science fiction films, died Sunday after an undisclosed 18-month battle with cancer.

A documentary on late singer Amy Winehouse, which became a blockbuster in her native Britain but upset her family, was nominated Thursday for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.

"Amy," directed by Asif Kapadia, focuses heavily on the substance abuse of the soul singer who died in 2011 at age 27 after a spectacular but brief career.

David Bowie has broken a record for most views of his music videos in the aftermath of his death, online provider Vevo said Thursday.

Vevo, which provides videos licensed by music labels on YouTube and other platforms, said Bowie's videos scored 51 million views on Monday, the day his death was announced.

Music is the top leisure interest for the millennial generation, with the booming festival industry offering vast untapped opportunities for brands, a study said Thursday.

Repucom, which researches sports and entertainment markets, found that 86 percent of millennials said they were interested in music.

"The Revenant," a harrowing survival thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a 19th century fur trapper, topped the Oscars nominations list Thursday with 12 nods, including for best picture, actor and director.

In second place was dystopian action film "Mad Max: Fury Road," with 10 nominations, followed by space blockbuster "The Martian," about an astronaut stranded on the Red Planet, with seven.