Kerpow! "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" shot straight to the top of North America's box office this weekend -- socking rivals with the biggest U.S. April opening of all time, figures showed Monday.

And buoyed by the news, Marvel filmmakers announced they will release the Captain's sequel on the same 2016 date as rival Warners' Superman/Batman mash-up hits multiplexes.

Four decades on from the flares, fame and fabulousness, the members of ABBA say they have no regrets — not even about the clothes.

Members of the Swedish supergroup marked 40 years since their international breakthrough hit "Waterloo" on Monday with a party for hundreds of guests at London's Tate Modern gallery.

Singer Chris Brown's assault case is going forward after a judge in Washington on Monday rejected a request to dismiss it.

Lawyers for the Grammy-winning singer had argued the case should be dismissed because prosecutors abused the grand jury process to prepare for trial. Brown's lawyer, Mark Geragos, said prosecutors used the grand jury to "freeze" the testimony of the alleged victim in the case, a man who says Brown and his bodyguard punched him outside a Washington hotel in October.

Peaches Geldof has died at the age of 25.

The British socialite and mother-of-two, daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates, was found by police at her house in Wrotham, Kent, at 1.35pm on Monday. Kent Police said the death was "sudden" and "unexplained."

Veteran singer George Strait won the Entertainer of the Year award late Sunday at the star-studded Academy of Country Music Awards ceremony in Las Vegas.

The event, full of performances by country music's top stars and some surprise cross-genre guest appearances, is an annual show where fans vote for the winners.

There's something missing from the handbags that adorn the shelves of Serge Amoruso's Paris boutique. It's certainly not the hefty price tag or the top quality craftmanship.

What you won't find, however, is that universal badge of 1990s consumerism -- a logo.

Beloved U.S. child star and comic actor Mickey Rooney, one of Hollywood's most enduring denizens whose career began in the silent film era, died on Sunday. He was 93.

Rooney's son Michael Joseph Rooney confirmed the actor's death to the New York Times. The celebrity website TMZ said that Rooney died of natural causes.

Jonathan Glazer's "Under the Skin," starring Scarlett Johansson as an alien seductress who trolls Scotland for human prey, is a provocative, disturbing sci-fi shock to the system. The effect is deliberate. The movies, Glazer says, could use a jolt.

"They need a good kick up the ass," says the 49-year-old British filmmaker.

French actor Lambert Wilson, best known for his role as The Merovingian in two Matrix films, is to host the opening and closing ceremonies at this year's Cannes film festival.

Wilson, 55, will introduce president of the jury Jane Campion on stage at the opening ceremony on May 14, as well as steer the closing awards ceremony on May 24, festival organizers said in a statement on Friday.

Malaysia has joined other Islamic countries in banning the Hollywood biblical epic "Noah" starring Russell Crowe, decrying it as irreligious and saying it violates Islamic law against depicting prophets.

A home ministry official Saturday confirmed that Paramount's latest big budget film, which has sparked an outcry among Muslim groups worldwide, will not be screened in predominantly Muslim Malaysia.