Reuters Entertainment News Summary

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Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs.

Actress Lily James swaps corsets for perfume as Burberry model

British fashion brand Burberry has added another celebrity to its list of models - actress Lily James. The "Downton Abbey" and "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" star fronts a new advertising campaign for fragrance "My Burberry Black."

Belgian jazz musician Thielemans dies aged 94

Toots Thielemans, the Belgian jazz harmonica and guitar player who worked with many of the postwar greats, died on Monday aged 94, his agency said. Born in Brussels in 1922, Thielemans spent the early years of a 65-year career as professional musician touring Europe, playing for the likes of Benny Goodman.

David Bowie plaque unveiled at late star's Berlin home

A plaque honoring David Bowie was unveiled on Monday at the home where the late rock star lived during his stay in Cold War-era Berlin. Bowie, who died in January, moved to Berlin in the mid-1970s. He lived there while he worked on albums "Low," "Heroes" and "Lodger."

Dancers aim to qualify for Argentina's World Tango Championship

Salon tango dancers glided onto a dance floor in Buenos Aires on Monday in the hopes of qualifying for the World Tango Festival and Championship held every year in the Argentine capital. "My expectation is to have the experience of being here, of having personal growth in dance," said Uruguayan tango dancer Maria Poggio, 38.

'Suicide Squad' soundtrack scores second week atop Billboard chart

The soundtrack for comic book movie "Suicide Squad" spent a second week at the top of the U.S. Billboard 200 charts on Monday, fending off competition from country singer Justin Moore's new release "Kinda Don't Care." The "Suicide Squad" soundtrack, which features songs from Twenty One Pilots, Skrillex, Panic! At the Disco and other artists, sold more than 92,000 album units in its second week, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan.

Clinton says U.S. presidential election an "alternative reality"

Democrat Hillary Clinton said on a late-night television show on Monday that sometimes she feels she is in an "alternative universe" in the U.S. presidential race against Republican Donald Trump. "I do feel sometimes like this campaign has entered into an alternative universe," Clinton said on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live. "I have to step into the alternative reality, answer questions about am I alive, how much longer will I be alive."

'Ben-Hur' Flops With $11.4 Million, 'Suicide Squad' Still on Top

"Ben-Hur" derailed spectacularly at the multiplexes this weekend, as the latest attempt to revive the chariot racing epic opened to an anemic $11.4 million. That's a disastrous result for the $100 million production, putting "Ben-Hur" in the ranks of the summer's biggest flops. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount co-produced the remake of Lew Wallace's novel "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ"; the book was the basis for the 1959 blockbuster that followed Charlton Heston into the arena. Here Jack Huston took the reins as a Jewish prince who must exact his revenge after his adopted brother (Toby Kebbell) betrays him.

World's largest indoor theme park to open in Dubai

The world's largest indoor theme park is set to open in Dubai this month to lure back some of the tourists and residents who often flee abroad during the scorching desert summer. In a sandy suburb beyond Dubai's concrete jungle and pockets of artificially green spaces, IMG Worlds of Adventure's boxy exterior belies a 140,000-square meter (1.5 million-square foot) air-conditioned cathedral of entertainment teeming with animatronic dinosaurs, roller coasters, Marvel superheroes and Cartoon Network characters.

Mislabeled pills seized at Prince's home after his death: reports

Mislabeled pills were seized at the home of musician Prince after his death from an overdose of the powerful opioid fentanyl, according to media reports on Monday. Prince died on April 21 at his home and studio outside Minneapolis, and investigators are trying to establish how he ingested fentanyl, with one theory being that he may have accidentally taken the drug because it was not properly labeled.

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