A rush of newcomers couldn't shake "Shazam!" from the top spot, as the superhero comedy led the box office for the second straight weekend with $25.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Hellboy is back and he's got a dirty mouth and a man bun.

A new Netflix series billed as the teenage "Breaking Bad" is inspired by a real-life German youth who ran an online drug empire from his bedroom, its creators told AFP.

Paramount Pictures didn't make CinemaCon wait for "Rocketman."

Decades after Kurt Cobain's guttural rasp seduced Generation X from its collective bedroom and into the post-punk clubs of 1990s Seattle, the late Nirvana frontman remains a talisman for the young and disaffected the world over.

It's not uncommon for Hollywood studios to show a sizzle reel to kick off a CinemaCon presentation, but Wednesday afternoon in Las Vegas, "Avatar," ''Deadpool," ''Toy Story" and "The Avengers" all made their way into the same montage. As the new owners of 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight and Blue Sky Studios, the Walt Disney Co. wasted no time demonstrating that all the brands are now under one umbrella.

The World Health Organization has launched a strategy to protect people worldwide over the next decade against the threat of influenza, warning that new pandemics are "inevitable".