The director and stars of the new cop comedy "The Heat" say they hope their film will provide some comic relief to Bostonians in the wake of Monday's marathon bombings.

Director Paul Feig, and actresses Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy promoted "Heat" Thursday at CinemaCon, the annual convention of theater exhibitors. "The Heat" casts Bullock and McCarthy as an FBI agent and a Boston cop forced together to take on a violent drug lord.

Hunky love interest Liam Hemsworth is promising the highly-anticipated "Hunger Games" sequel will not disappoint fans.

It was a low-key pitch at the movie theater convention CinemaCon, where most stars boasted their films would be the biggest, loudest, splashiest blockbusters of the summer.

British graphic designer Storm Thorgerson, best known for designing the iconic cover of Pink Floyd's 1973 classic album "The Dark Side of the Moon", has died aged 69, his family announced on Thursday.

More recently, Thorgerson created the artwork for records released by Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro, British stadium band Muse and Australian dance-rock outfit Pendulum.

The lineup for the Cannes Film Festival includes 19 films and lots of world cinema, including from some of the globe's most difficult locales for artists.

Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux said Thursday that the high-profile festival protects talent in countries where freedom of expression is threatened.

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye called Thursday for a "paradigm shift" to a creative economy and hailed "Gangnam Style" star Psy for honoring a copyright on his latest dance moves.

In a meeting with policymakers, Park said the nation needed to shift its reliance on big manufacturers like Hyundai or Samsung to IT and software industries to create more jobs and sustain growth.

Grammy award winning U.S. musician Will.I.Am was allowed into Paris's Louvre museum at two in the morning to record part of a song entitled "Smile Mona Lisa" in front of the famed painting by Leonardo da Vinci, he told reporters in Paris on Wednesday.

"That song touches me because I recorded a large portion of that song inside the Louvre, next to Mona Lisa's picture," the lead singer of the Black Eyed Peas said, adding that the song would appear on his next solo album.

A 34.64-carat pink diamond has sold at auction in New York for nearly $40 million, setting a new record for Christie's auction house.

Dubbed the "Princie Diamond," the gem is "one of the largest and finest pink diamonds in the world," with a "fabulous provenance," Christie's jewelry chief Francois Curiel said ahead of the sale.

"Gangnam Style" star Psy's new music video crossed the 100 million views mark on YouTube Wednesday, shattering another record on the video-sharing site since its much-anticipated weekend debut.

The video for "Gentleman", the long-awaited follow-up to the South Korean singer's global hit, has received 105.4 million hits, topping 100 million in record time since it was posted Saturday.

India's most elaborate theme park opens this week with special-effect Hindu gods and Bollywood-themed rides, aiming to tap a thirst for family entertainment among the country's rising middle-class.

Adlabs Imagica, which cost about $294 million to create, opens its doors to the public on Thursday between the western cities of Mumbai and Pune, with capacity for 10,000 to 15,000 visitors a day.

A Ukrainian television prankster who gatecrashed this year's Grammy Awards show has been charged and could face up to six months in jail, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

Vitalii Sediuk managed to get into a VIP seating area at the music industry's biggest awards show on February 10 and walked up on stage just as British singer Adele stepped up to receive her award.