Titles and release dates for The Hobbit films were released on Monday, with a new cast member also added recently. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will open on December 14, 2012. The Hobbit: There and Back Again will be released December 13, 2013. 

 

The announcement from New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures, and MGM also confirmed the news last week from Peter Jackson’s Facebook page that Orlando Bloom, who was offered a reprise of his role as the elf Legolas in the Lord of the Rings films (see “Offer Extended to Orlando Bloom”), had accepted and would be joining the production.