The fourth and final movie in the Hunger Games franchise -- the saga that turned Jennifer Lawrence into a Hollywood mega-star -- ruled the North American box offices over the weekend, early results showed Sunday.

"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2" raked in $101 million in ticket sales in its opening weekend in the United States and Canada, according to ticket sales tracker Exhibitor Relations. 

Jesse Hughes, the Eagles of Death Metal singer who was performing at the Bataclan theater in Paris when gunmen attacked November 13, said many spectators died attempting to protect their friends.

"A great reason why so many were killed is because so many people wouldn't leave their friends. So many people put themselves in front of people," he said in an excerpted interview with Vice.com.

Veteran French rock star Johnny Hallyday said Sunday he would have gladly taken up a weapon to fight jihadists had he not been a singer, in the wake of the Paris attacks.

"If I weren't a singer, I would pick up a weapon and go fight them," the 72-year-old musician told Le Parisien newspaper after the attacks, which were claimed by the Islamic State group.

The long-awaited new album by Adele, "25," looks set to break the modern record for first week sales, the makers of the benchmark U.S. chart said Saturday.

Billboard, the music industry journal that publishes weekly charts, said that "25," released on Friday, appeared likely to sell at least 2.5 million copies in the United States.

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday that he will take two months paternity leave after his wife gives birth to their first child.

"This is a very personal decision, and I've decided to take two months of paternity leave when our daughter arrives," Zuckerberg said in a post on his Facebook page.

A California university on Friday joined a growing number of schools in stripping disgraced U.S. comedian Bill Cosby of his honorary degree over the sex scandal engulfing him.

"Cosby's conduct is contrary to the values of the California State University and inconsistent with the criteria and high standards that honorary degree recipients are expected to exemplify," the university said in a statement.

With its political infighting, tip-of-the-arrow diplomacy and climactic decapitation scene, the National Geographic Channel's film "Saints & Strangers" is the "Game of Thrones" version of the first Thanksgiving.

The four-hour movie will premiere Sunday and Monday on National Geographic (9 p.m. EST on both nights), following a rush to finish in time for the holiday. It tells the story of the religious pilgrims and thrill-seeking opportunists thrown together on the Mayflower and their efforts to build a settlement peacefully among the Native Americans they encounter.

Adele has had nearly five years to savor the massive success of her last album but, on a release that could be even bigger, she is looking back wistfully on what once had been.

On Adele's third album "25," which came out Friday, the singer has little interest in gloating about fame or experimenting in style, instead returning to the emotional depths that have so resonated with her vast fan base.

It's the country that gave the world the Kama Sutra, but India's notoriously prudish film board has ruled that long kissing scenes in the new James Bond movie "Spectre" are not suitable for Indian audiences.

The Mumbai-based Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has reined in the fictional British spy's famously lusty romantic life by cutting the length of two passionate embrace scenes, its chairperson told Agence France Presse.

David Beckham was declared "sexiest man alive" by People magazine Tuesday, joining an elite club including last year's winner, Chris Hemsworth, and a handful of other above-average men.

The announcement was made on ABC's late-night TV show "Jimmy Kimmel Live," where the magazine cover sporting Beckham's face was revealed.