Broadcaster Chris Evans is to replace Jeremy Clarkson as lead presenter of the BBC's hit motoring show "Top Gear", the corporation announced Tuesday.

The BBC said Evans, 49, had signed a three-year deal to present the world's most popular factual TV program -- and announced that Clarkson's former co-presenters, James May and Richard Hammond, would not be returning, after months of speculation.

Downloading may be eviscerating the music industry, but rock legends KISS say they are pioneers in monetizing their image -- from a limo service, cruises, and even lunch with "Lord Simmons." 

The U.S. band recognizes it has escaped the worst impact of the availability of cheap music online thanks to the fact that its glory years were in the 1970s and 1980s, when the Internet was in its infancy. 

Entertainer Jennifer Lopez is no longer from the block, but British rocker Phil Collins is. He snapped up a Miami Beach mansion she once called home for a cool $33 million.

"It's true, Mr. Collins purchased this house," Mathieu Rochette at Barclay's Real Estate Group, who represented Collins in the transaction, told AFP on Tuesday.

British actor John Hurt said on Tuesday he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer but would keep working and was "more than optimistic" about his future.

"I have recently been diagnosed with early stage pancreatic cancer," the 75-year-old Hurt, who appeared in the cult film "Alien" and the Harry Potter series, said in a statement to Britain's Press Association.

China has become one with the Force by showing the original "Star Wars" film at cinemas for the first time, nearly four decades after it became a global hit and cornerstone of Western popular culture.   

The Shanghai International Film Festival is showing all six "Star Wars" films this week, including the first screenings in mainland Chinese theaters of the original trilogy, festival organizers said. There are no plans for nationwide release.

Men dressed in lace by Burberry, Christopher Kane's colorful tweeds, and 1980s-style footwear by Jimmy Choo: London's men's fashion week bowed out Monday with plenty of daring designs.

Lace was not just for women at Burberry, where the material lent a romantic feel to white shirts and finished straight-cut, mid-length coats.

Google teamed up with five leading orchestras Monday in a bid to draw more classical music lovers to digital music as the streaming sector booms.

Dubbed Classical Live, the initiative will offer exclusive recordings through the Internet giant's Google Play service from orchestras including the New York Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra.

William Friedkin, the U.S. director who made the Oscar-winning movies "The Exorcist" and "The French Connection", is dismissive about the flood of superhero and sci-fi movies that have taken over today's box office.

"Films used to be rooted in gravity. They were about real people doing real things," the acclaimed 79-year-old filmmaker told Agence France Presse as he attended the Champs-Elysees Film Festival in Paris.

The Shanghai film festival has yanked the Japanese anime movie "Attack on Titan" from screening, an organizer said Monday, after it appeared on a "black list" issued by Chinese cultural authorities.

The 2014 animated movie about monstrous "titans" making humans their food was scheduled to be screened at the Shanghai International Film Festival which started on Saturday and runs until June 21.

The fearsome "Jurassic Park" dinosaurs have done it again, gobbling up the competition to score the biggest worldwide box office opening weekend ever with the latest franchise.

Action-packed "Jurassic World," featuring a new and particularly lethal hybrid dino, raked in a whopping $511 million globally in its debut at cinemas, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations on Sunday.