If you happen to be watching MTV UK & Ireland this weekend, try and keep an eye out for their film show Screenplay. Why? Because Sean Astin takes us on a trip of Blockbuster Video and picks out some of his favourite films. When asked to pick his preferred three, he chose Gandhi, L.A. Confidential and Patton. What can I say? The man has taste…

Maddy R writes: There will be a live chat with Andy Serkis on SciFi.com tonight @ 9 EST. SciFi’s servers are VERY bad, so I wouldn’t advise many people to go on there at once. [More]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – For a classically trained British actor, it can be a lot of work to play a shriveled-up, power-mad freak of nature with bulging eyes and a bad comb-over hairdo, especially when it is not you on screen but a digitally done animation. [More]

LOTR 2 tops box office for 6 weeks. While Americans flock to see movies about a rap-singing kangaroo, oversexed honeymooners and a child-stealing witch called the Tooth Fairy, Canadian moviegoers are sticking to The Lord Of The Rings, with Chicago closing quickly in the box-office rankings as it moves into more theatres. [More]

So how do you follow the eye-popping grandeur of a three-year labour of love the size of The Lord of the Rings trilogy? Let your ego expand to the size of Jupiter, recklessly go hell for leather at another huge project and land roundly on your arse? Not if you’re Peter Jackson, you don’t. [More]

Juuch writes: Thought you might like to know that The One Exhibit currently going on here with the props/artwork from the movies has been extended a month, until the 31st of March. They have had 90 000 people through since it opened the day after the premiere, and despite needing some of the props for pickups for ROTK, looks like we have another month to try and see if the prosthetic Boromir is breathing!