LONDON (Reuters) - When television actor Rami Malek took on the role of colorful rock star Freddie Mercury in the film "Bohemian Rhapsody," he found the biggest challenge was capturing the Queen lead singer's commanding presence on stage.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles prosecutors sought on Tuesday to use comments made by Robert Durst praising a feature film based on his life as evidence in the murder case against him, saying the remarks represented admissions of his guilt.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Jean-Marc Vallee is set to direct a film about John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

LONDON, Oct 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In life as in death, Queen frontman Freddie Mercury knew how to cause controversy.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Fresh off his Oscar win for "The Shape of Water," Guillermo del Toro is set to make his animated feature film directing debut. Del Toro has received the green light from Netflix to film "Pinocchio," a stop motion musical version of the classic children's tale about a puppet who wants to be a real live boy. He will write and produce the film in addition to directing it.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Warner Bros. has moved Gal Gadot's "Wonder Woman 1984" back seven months from Nov. 1, 2019, to June 5, 2020.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Stan Laurel, the slimmer British half of Hollywood double act Laurel and Hardy, was not one to wax lyrical about the art or mystique of comedy: "You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proceed accordingly," he said, making vaudeville performance sound altogether as methodical and prosaic as shopping for groceries. No matter how ebullient their joint mugging, Laurel and Hardy's slapstick routines were work, not play.

GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. actress Amber Heard, a star of the upcoming "Aquaman" superhero movie and a U.N. human rights champion, said on Monday her childhood in Texas near the Mexican border helped spark her activism.

GENEVA, Oct 22 (Reuters) - U.S. actress Amber Heard, a star of the upcoming "Aquaman" superhero movie and a U.N. human rights champion, said on Monday her childhood in Texas near the Mexican border helped spark her activism.