Star Wars and Dirty Dancing are the films people most love to watch over and over again, according to a poll. The Star Wars trilogy topped the list of most-watched movies for male film fans and came second on the list for women, the Sky Movies survey said. Fantasies and thrillers dominated the mens' top 10, with The Terminator, Aliens and Blade Runner highly placed. On the female list, Grease, The Sound of Music and Pretty Woman completed the top five. Full Article

A top director has revealed plans to make the story of the Lockerbie bombing into a Hollywood film. New Zealander Niki Caro - whose previous films include the critically acclaimed Whale Rider - is said to be developing a script for the film. All passengers and crew on board the Pan Am flight 103 died when it exploded over the Scottish town in 1988. Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was convicted of their murders and that of 11 Lockerbie residents in 2001. The film is being adapted from Ken Dornstein's memoir, The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Full Article

Hollywood war epic 300 has remained the number one film in North America for the second week, with its estimated takings now exceeding $100m (£51m). It made $31.2m (£16.1m) at the weekend, beating comedy road-trip Wild Hogs - featuring actors including John Travolta and Tim Allen - into second. The movie stars Gerard Butler as the king of a small Greek army which faces a battle against Persian soldiers. Sandra Bullock's psychological thriller Premonition entered at number three. Dead Silence, a ghost story which revolves around a ventriloquist's dummy, was new at four. Dead Silence, a ghost story which revolves around a ventriloquist's dummy, was new at four. Full Article

Stars of the epic movie 300 have turned out for its UK premiere in London's Leicester Square. The films depicts a small group of Spartan soldiers holding off a huge Persian army which has invaded Greece. Gerard Butler, who plays king Leonidas, was accompanied by Lena Headey who plays Queen Gorgo. The cast were met by a group dressed as Spartan warriors. The film has been called "psychological warfare" by Iranian authorities, but it has broken US box office records. Glasgow-born Butler, 37, said: "I used a lot of the Scotsman in my role because there is a great similarity in what goes on inside the warriors of old that has been very much lost.Full Article

Bob and Harvey Weinstein returned to the box-office lead as "Scary Movie 4" debuted with $41 million, the first No. 1 opening for the new company founded by the former Miramax bosses. It was the best Easter weekend debut ever, beating the $30.1 million opening of "Panic Room" in 2002, according to studio estimates on Sunday. With the success of "Scary Movie 4," Bob Weinstein said he hopes to have a fifth film in the horror-spoof franchise in theaters over Easter weekend next year.Full Article

Film fans in the UK will soon be able to legally download and keep blockbuster movies for the first time, according to film studio Universal. King Kong and Pride and Prejudice will be among the first films available from the new service on the AOL website. Fans will pay £19.99 for a DVD of their chosen film plus two digital copies to keep indefinitely - one for their home computer and one for a portable device. Universal said it could "completely revolutionise" how people watch movies. Full Article

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride has beaten Wallace and Gromit to be named best feature film at this year's British Animation Awards. Last Sunday the roles were reversed with Wallace and Gromit winning the Oscar for best animated feature. Corpse Bride is set in 19th Century Europe, and tells of a man who is transported to the underworld to marry a mysterious stranger. The eight-minute film Rabbit took best short and most cutting edge production. Full Article

If you have played games online in the last year or so, then World of Warcraft is a name that has been hard to avoid. Blizzard's stunning MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) has swept all before it, breaking various genre records and notching up more than 5.5 million regular players in the process. It has been a meteoric rise for a game that was expected to do well, but arguably not this well. "It's pretty surprising to us," said the game's lead producer, Shane Dabiri. Full Article

Hollywood film Memoirs of a Geisha has been banned in China after coming in for criticism in the country's media. The decision to cast Chinese actresses Ziyi Zhang and Gong Li in leading roles as Japanese women has caused controversy in China.Critics say it is insensitive because of Japan's atrocities during their occupation of China in the 1930s. Full Article

The Johnny Cash movie "Walk the Line" failed to secure an Oscar nomination for best picture on Tuesday, despite Golden Globe victories and widespread acclaim for a project that took a decade to get made. Its omission was perhaps the biggest snub handed out by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, although high-profile films such as "Match Point," "Cinderella Man" and "King Kong" were also left out of the big categories. Full Article

Walt Disney has agreed a $7.4bn (£4.1bn) deal to buy Pixar, the animation firm behind films including Toy Story and The Incredibles. The all-share deal will see Pixar chief executive Steve Jobs join Disney's board of directors. Under the agreement, 2.3 Disney shares will be issued for each Pixar share. Disney's distribution deal with Pixar was due to end this year, and it seemed the two would split after failing to agree on how to divide future profits. Full Article