Orlando's play and The Hobbit

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/108445.html

Casting Complete for London Revival of In Celebration with Orlando Bloom
By Andrew Gans
31 May 2007

Casting is now complete for the upcoming London revival of David Storey's 1969 drama In Celebration, which will star screen actor Orlando Bloom.

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And about The Hobbit:

I only copied over the Hobbit relevant part of this article.

New Line's Shaye won't yield to Jackson
Co-chief Lynne wants to settle 'Rings' dispute
By DADE HAYES
Posted: Tue., May 22, 2007, 6:15am PT

New Line founder Bob Shaye shows no signs of yielding in the company's legal squabble with Peter Jackson over profits from "The Lord of the Rings."
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And there's a related story on TORn, also based on a Variety article, regarding some of the Kiwi actors suing New Line for much the same reasons PJ sued them. I've copied over the Variety article in case someone who doesn't have a subscription is interested:

Posted: Thurs., May 31, 2007, 9:40pm PT

New Zealand actors sue New Line
'Rings' players question merchandising revenue

By LINDSAY CHANEY

Fifteen Kiwi actors who appeared in various installments of "Lord of the Rings" got a lesson in Hollywood accounting when they opened royalty statements from New Line and found that despite millions of dollars in sales of lunchboxes, T-shirts, caps and other LOTR gimcrack, there was -- gasp! -- zero "net merchandising revenue."
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Good luck to them!

Scroll by if you're bored of my Nightrunner related posts :D

All right - anyone who hasn't read/doesn't intend to read the Nightrunner books can safely scroll by this post. Unless you're incurably curious. ;)

So I had intended to make a post about possible actors to play the characters in these books. Well I ended up doing a bit more. May I present:

http://nightrunnercasting.ourdramaqueen.com/

*giggle* One would think I had too much time on my hands, but hey, I still need practice with GoLive and particularly CSS, so this was a great little project for that! Obviously a lot of characters are still missing, but those can be added anytime.

So, any comments or suggestions? *eyes samena, forestrane and mtngoat* :D

Oh yes and GIP! Based on a drawing by Konstanze Faust.