Earth's lost frontier is about to be explored firsthand after more than half a century. It's a mission to the deepest part of the ocean, so deep that the pressure is the equivalent of three SUVs sitting on your toe.

And it is being launched by the rich and famous.

DreamWorks Animation this week unveiled clips from the latest installment of its "Madagascar" franchise, planned as a summer blockbuster seven years after the original movie.

The Hollywood studio also revealed details of its pre-Christmas offering "The Rise of the Guardians," a good-versus-evil story featuring children's heroes including Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, due out in November.

A distant cousin of Prince William's wife Kate Middleton wore a crown -- and nothing else -- in a royally raunchy New York strip show.

Katrina Darling, 21, the second cousin once removed of the Duchess of Cambridge, was the star attraction at the W.i.P club in Manhattan on Tuesday night.

Actress Charlize Theron is a mother: The actress has adopted a child.

In a statement to The Associated Press on Wednesday, Theron's publicist said the actress is a "proud mom of a healthy baby boy named Jackson."

Lindsay Lohan said Wednesday that allegations that her car grazed a man's knee outside a Hollywood nightclub are "a complete lie."

Lohan went straight to her 3 million Twitter followers to respond to the latest in a long-line of car-related troubles for the "Mean Girls" actress and recent "Saturday Night Live" host.

A hit U.S. television series starring Dustin Hoffman has been canceled after three horses died during filming, the channel which makes the show announced Wednesday.

"Luck," about thoroughbred racing and also starring Nick Nolte, launched in January and had already been picked up for a second season, with production mostly at a horse track east of Los Angeles.

French actor Gerard Depardieu said on Thursday he would play the "arrogant, smug" former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a film about his fall from grace in a series of sex scandals.

"I will do it, because I don't like him," said Depardieu, best known for his larger-than-life swashbuckling roles like warrior poet Cyrano de Bergerac or comic book hero Asterix's huge sidekick Obelix.

The Rolling Stones are staying put this year, Rolling Stone reported Wednesday, leaving fans to look forward instead to a major documentary marking the rock band's 50th anniversary.

"Basically, we're just not ready" for a fresh concert tour, guitarist Keith Richards told the pop culture magazine, adding that 2013 was the group's "more realistic" target for hitting the road.

A judge dismissed Tuesday a claim of battery by a former "Desperate Housewives" actress who said she was struck by the creator of the hit TV series about lust and scandal in Wisteria Lane.

Nicollette Sheridan claims she was fired for complaining that the show's creator, Marc Cherry, slapped her on the head during rehearsals for a scene in September 2008.

A horse was injured and euthanized Tuesday during production of the cable television racetrack drama "Luck," the third death in connection with the series, and HBO agreed to suspend filming with horses while the accident is investigated.

The humane group that oversees Hollywood productions had issued an immediate demand "that all production involving horses shut down."