Scarlett Johansson is engaged to her French boyfriend Romain Dauriac, two and a half years after splitting from first husband Ryan Reynolds, a publicist for the "Avengers" star said.

Following media reports, spokesman Marcel Pariseau told Agence France Presse: "I can confirm that Scarlett and Romain are engaged. They haven't chosen a date for the wedding." He did not elaborate.

U.S. star Scarlett Johansson spooked the Venice film festival Tuesday with her performance as an alien in human form who hunts men, seduces and feeds on them.

"Under the Skin", by British director Jonathan Glazer, plays with light and polished dark surfaces to evoke a sleek alien environment, which is juxtaposed with shots of Glasgow streets and the Scottish highlands.

Jon Stewart is back as host of "The Daily Show," and the shaggy beard he grew over the summer is gone.

In his return Tuesday, Stewart referenced stories he missed — celebrity cook Paula Deen, New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner's alter ego "Carlos Danger" and Miley Cyrus' sultry MTV dance — then took up the challenge of trying to make comedy and social commentary out of the Syrian poison gas attack.

A rights group has hit out at hip-hop superstar Kanye West for performing at the lavish wedding party of the Kazakh president's grandson, calling the country a "human rights wasteland."

Thor Halvorssen of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation said President Nursultan Nazarbayev's "regime crushes freedom of speech and association."

Delphine Boel, who has long sought recognition as the daughter of former Belgian king, Albert II, launched fresh legal action Tuesday to prove he is her real father as new details emerge about her origins.

Lawyers said they would file new proceedings next week on behalf of Boel, a 45-year-old artist, who in June had tried to get Albert and two of his three children, Prince Philippe and Princess Astrid, to appear in court.

Nehna wel Amar wel Jiran is a free, outdoor cultural event for the entire family.

Organized by Collectif Kahraba, the third annual edition of the festival will take place on the Vendômes staircase on September 6, 7 and 8 of 2013, and will feature theater performances, puppetry, contemporary dance and concerts, a press release said on Tuesday.

Monty Python star Terry Gilliam probes the meaning of life in "The Zero Theorem", premiering in Venice Monday, bringing love and laughs to a tale of solitude in a chaotic, futuristic world.

Actor Christoph Waltz, best known for his roles in Quentin Tarantino films "Inglourious Basterds" and "Django Unchained", plays a tormented computer genius in a society of excess where a master corporation controls all.

Leaving San Francisco, singer Chris Hart has made himself at home in "J-pop."

His album of cover versions of Japanese pop tunes is rising on the charts. And the crooner is scoring on this nation's equivalent of "American Idol," being billed as a genius who understands the musical soul of Japan.

Actor Michael Douglas says he doesn't have a crisis at home and that he and his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones "are fine" and taking a "temporary separation."

Douglas was speaking in Berlin on Monday while promoting Liberace film "Behind the Candelabra."

The film version of erotic best-seller "Fifty Shades of Grey" will star British actor Charlie Hunnam as Christian Grey and Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele, the book's author E L James said on Monday.

The casting of the movie, to be directed by British filmmaker and artist Sam Taylor-Johnson of "Nowhere Boy" fame, has been one of the most hotly anticipated secrets in Hollywood.