Pink Floyd's first album in 20 years will be the rock legends' last and will end on a "lyrical" note about the band's legacy, guitarist and singer David Gilmour said.

"It's a shame, but this is the end," Gilmour told the BBC in an interview released Thursday ahead of the eagerly awaited November 7 release of "The Endless River."

"Sherlock" star Benedict Cumberbatch says his latest role as a code-breaking genius doesn't mean he's only capable of playing brainy characters.

Cumberbatch stars as computer pioneer Alan Turing in "The Imitation Game," which opens the London Film Festival on Wednesday.

Tunisia's audiovisual regulator said Wednesday it was suspending a television programme for one month for "glorifying terrorism" after a guest boasted of his friendship with a wanted jihadist leader.

Depeche Mode's new live album will feature an acoustic session recorded inside a Berlin brothel in footage shot by celebrated rock photographer and director Anton Corbijn.

Pink Floyd's first studio album in two decades will be without estranged ex-member Roger Waters, but one vocalist from the last record is staying on -- physicist Stephen Hawking.

"Whiplash," about a young jazz drummer and his bullying music teacher, is generating Oscar buzz even before its release this week.

The movie, which won two top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is even being mentioned as a possible Best Picture nominee for the Academy Awards in February.

Biographical films are the toast of the 58th London Film Festival, which opens on Wednesday with "The Imitation Game", the tale of the British mathematician Alan Turing who broke Nazi code but was persecuted for being gay.

Franz Kafka's seminal work, “The Metamorphosis”, is famous for its themes of alienation, absurdity and now androids, as a robot takes center stage in a new theatrical adaptation.

Acclaimed Japanese director Oriza Hirata worked with leading roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro to create the star of the show, a tall gangly robot with a metal skeleton and white human-like face and hands.

He is already Hollywood's highest-paid actor. Now Robert Downey Junior is increasing his Tinseltown heft by branching out into production as well as a serious dramatic role, in his latest movie.

Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence has spoken publicly for the first time after naked pictures of her were hacked and posted online, angrily slamming the leak as a "sex crime."