As the Stallones and Schwarzeneggers get longer in the tooth, Hollywood seeks a new generation of action heroes. Muscle guys like Vin Diesel look the part. But the future may belong to such counterintuitive toughies as… Ben Affleck? Matt Damon? [More]

See Elijah Wood and gang transformed from actors into Hobbits right before your very eyes in MTV News’ exclusive visit to the set of “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.” Get a glimpse of the sequel to “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” during the 2002 MTV Movie Awards Pre-Show Thursday night at 8:30 p.m. (ET). [More]

Some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters will be shown at London’s BFI Imax cinema over the summer. [More]

Cedar Rapids Born writes: Thought you would be interested in knowing that Ian McKellan is up for his performances in LOTR and Dance of Death at GQ. Sir Ian McKellan is up for BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR in a DRAMA for FOTR of course, and , several screens into the survey, for BEST STAGE ACTOR /DRAMA for “DANCE OF DEATH” [More]

From: Slashdot “The IT Director for Weta Digital, Peter Jackson’s company doing the digital effects for the Lord of the Rings movies, is keynoting at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. They use a ton of Linux and Perl.” [More]