"Star Wars: Episode VII" finally has its stars. May the Force be with them.
After months of carefully guarded secrecy and endless Internet speculation, the cast of the latest incarnation of the space epic was unveiled Tuesday on the official "Star Wars" website by Lucasfilm and the Walt Disney Co.

NBC says Gwen Stefani will be a coach on "The Voice" next season.
The network said Tuesday that Stefani will join Adam Levine, Blake Shelton and another previously announced new coach, Pharrell Williams, on the singing contest's seventh edition.

Looks like George Clooney owes Michelle Pfeiffer a lot of money.
The 52-year-old actor — Hollywood's most determined bachelor, famous for a litany of fleeting loves — has taken himself off the romantic market, even though he once bet Pfeiffer $100,000 that he'd never marry again.

First couple of hip hop Beyonce and Jay-Z are joining forces for a North American tour that will see the husband-wife team stop in 16 cities, they announced Monday.
The "On the Run" tour, which begins June 25 in Miami and ends August 5 in San Francisco, will make stops across the United States, plus Toronto, Canada, the pair said on their web sites.

Legendary singer-songwriter Paul Simon and his wife, singer Edie Brickell, were arrested over the weekend for disorderly conduct at their Connecticut home, police said Monday.
Police in New Canaan, Connecticut -- a suburb of New York -- said they went to Simon's home on Saturday night to "investigate a family dispute."

Romantic comedy "The Other Woman" shrugged off a barrage of negative reviews to claim top spot at the North American box office this weekend, data showed Monday.
The movie, starring Cameron Diaz, Kate Upton and Leslie Mann as three women who gang up on the man they discover has been cheating on them, took $24.8 million on its opening weekend, figures from Exhibitor Relations showed.

When it comes to original programming, Microsoft is going to throw it at the Xbox and see what sticks.
After nearly two years since launching a studio to create new shows to be streamed on Xbox consoles, Microsoft is finally ready to serve an assorted helping of original programming this summer for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. However, viewers shouldn't expect Xbox Originals, as they're called, to be available the same way that content is provided on Netflix and Hulu.

Wiry Zoe Saldana got a kick out of wearing a huge fake belly as she played a young, pregnant wife on the Paris set of the remake of the classic horror tale "Rosemary's Baby."
"Every time I wear the really big ones, it breaks everybody's heart whenever we're doing all those stressful scenes, so I am milking that, I am really milking that," the actress quipped as she sat in a hospital room used as a filming location.

Scripts for "Citizen Kane," Orson Welles' camera and a cigar ashtray were among the late director's belongings sold at a New York auction.
Sixty-seven lots fetched $180,000 at Heritage Auctions on Saturday.

After spending eight years in prison, former "Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato Jr. says he's trying to help young people avoid making similar, drug-fueled mistakes.
"Here I am, I get the opportunity, I get the shot and then squander it, and do what I did, and get addicted to drugs and just make horrible decisions," the 37-year-old Brancato said in an interview broadcast Sunday on WNYM-AM.
