"Star Wars: Episode VIII" has begun filming and has added Benicio del Toro and Laura Dern to its cast.

The Walt Disney Co. announced Monday that "Episode VIII" started principal photography at London's Pinewood Studios on Monday.

Adele isn't competing for Grammys at the awards show Monday, but she has a chance to own the night.

The singer, who has outsold her contemporaries by millions, is set to perform at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, along with other hitmakers such as Rihanna, Lady Gaga, the Weeknd and Taylor Swift, who will open the show.

Prabal Gurung says his muse — that vision of a woman he designs for year after year — has gone a little stir crazy this season, and needs a break.

"I've been taking her out of the city and into the woods," he said in an interview before his runway show Sunday evening, "because I think she wants to celebrate solitude, away from the noise. She's a very curious, intrigued and intelligent woman, and this season she's coming slightly undone. Nothing crazy, just a little tension."

Actress Emma Thompson said Monday that it would be "madness" for Britain to leave the EU, adding that she felt more European than English.

Thompson, 56, was asked about how she would vote in a referendum on a so-called "Brexit", after she presented her new Nazi-era thriller "Alone in Berlin".

New York Fashion Week got pulses racing on Valentine's Day, with boyish allure from Victoria Beckham, a champagne and dance party from Diane von Furstenberg and stunning magic realism from Prabal Gurung.

Supermodel Karlie Kloss and Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour led fashionistas braving 11 degrees Fahrenheit (-12 Celsius) on one of the coldest weekends in 20 years in New York on day four of the style bonanza that wraps up Thursday.

Victoria Beckham sent a boyish yet fine-tailored feminine collection down the New York runway on Valentine's Day, winning lavish praise and supported by her beaming husband and four children in the front row.

Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour led fashionistas braving minus 12 degrees Celsius (11 degrees Fahrenheit) to scurry inside and warm up in the luxuriant surroundings of the Cipriani event space in Manhattan's Financial District for the fall/winter 2016 collection.

All four members of British indie band Viola Beach and their manager have died in a road crash in Sweden following their first international gig, family members said Sunday.

"We can confirm that our son Craig, along with four members of the band Viola Beach, were involved in a fatal accident in the early hours of Saturday morning," said a statement issued by the family of manager Craig Tarry.

Three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep told young actors at the Berlin film festival Sunday that Hollywood would never resolve the diversity row until studio boardrooms became less white and male.

Giving a masterclass for 300 budding actors from around the world at the cinema showcase, where Streep is serving as jury president, the most acclaimed U.S. film actress of her generation was asked whether sexism and racism in show business had waned over her four-decade career.

A new Palestinian satellite sports channel is to carry out a pilot transmission on Wednesday, with plans to start regular broadcasts in the summer, one of its founders said Saturday.

Wael Romana, director of the Palestinian Sport Channel, told Agence France Presse it would cover Wednesday's friendly between the Palestinian and Algerian Olympic football teams in Algeria.

Disgraced U.S. TV legend Bill Cosby on Friday appealed a Pennsylvania judge's refusal to dismiss a sexual assault case against him, according to a document seen by AFP.

The 78-year-old actor and comedian is accused by dozens of women of sexual assault dating back decades, but the vast majority of cases have expired under statutes of limitations.