Andy Serkis might return to the scorched Middle-earth sooner than expected as The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum ...

Like the even more celebrated "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949), Orwell's "Animal Farm" — marking its 80th anniversary this month — is a political broadside.

Andy Serkis, known for portraying characters such as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings and Caesar in the Planet of the ...