The Box Office News for April 25 to April 29

Here is your box office news for the week of April 25 to 29:

Actress Mireille Enos (The Killing) will play the wife of Brad Pitt in the upcoming film World War Z, which is an adaptation of the Max Brooks novel that is set ten years after a global zombie epidemic. Brad Pitt is playing a U.N. worker collecting testimonials from various people around the world about the events of the war.

Actress Vera Farmiga (Source Code and Up in the Air) is set to star in the action thriller called Safe House that follows the only surviving CIA agent (Ryan Reynolds) after an attack at an agency Safe House. He must go on the lam with a dangerous prisoner (Denzel Washington) to get him back to safety. Farmiga will play a CIA operative supervising Reynolds’ character. Brendan Gleeson, Sam Shepard, Robert Patrick and Liam Cunningham also star. Additionally, actor Joel Kinnaman (also from The Killing) also has a part in the film, playing the key role of a man who operates the titular CIA safe house which comes under attack.

Actor Johnny Depp will indeed make a cameo in the long-in-gestation box office adaptation of the TV series 21 Jump Street, which stars Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube and Alison Brie (among others).

Actress Elizabeth Banks has been confirmed to play Effie Trinket in the upcoming movie adaptation of the Suzanne Collins book The Hunger Games. Also, Newcomers Kalia Prescott and Ian Nelson have been chosen to portray the unnamed tributes of District 3 while newcomers Chris Mark and Jackie Emerson will play the District 5 tributes and newcomers Ethan Jamieson and Tara Macken will play the kids from the wealthy District 4.

Actor Paul Walker will star in the upcoming thriller Vehicle 19 that centers on an unsuspecting traveler (Walker) in a foreign country who picks up the wrong rental car and becomes tangled in a web of corruption by the local police.

Jeremy Renner, Wanda Sykes, Keke Palmer, Jennifer Lopez, Aziz Ansari and hip hop star Drake will lend their voices to the upcoming animated sequel Ice Age: Continental Drift. Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Seann William Scott and Josh Peck are all returning for the story in which a cataclysm sets an entire continent adrift. Using an iceberg as a makeshift ship, our animal gang launches themselves on an epic seafaring quest. Renner will portray Gutt, a self-styled master of the high seas while Lopez will play Shira, a sabre toothed who melts the heart of Diego. Roles for the others have not been announced.

Actor Armie Hammer (The Social Network) is in talks to play the title character in the upcoming film The Lone Ranger, taking over for Ryan Gosling who had previously been linked to the role. Johnny Depp is already set to play Tonto.

Dwayne Johnson will star in and produce a box office film about black country music star Charley Pride. Pride was one of eleven children born to Mississippi sharecroppers who became a musician and went on to sell more than 70 million records.

Actors Travis Fimmel (The Beast), Daniel Cudmore (X2) and Andre Braugher (Primal Fear) have joined the cast the upcoming box office film called The Baytown Disco, which follows the foibles of three redneck brothers (Fimmel, Cudmore and Clayne Crawford) who get more than they bargained for when agreeing to help a woman (Eva Longoria) get her son back from his seemingly abusive father (Billy Bob Thornton). Serinda Swan, Thomas Sangster and Meagan Good also star.

Now that actor Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover) is out of the film adaptation of the Dark Horse graphic novel R.I.P.D. (or Rest In Peace Department), starring Ryan Reynolds, it looks like legendary actor Jeff Bridges is in talks to join the supernatural action comedy. Bridges would be playing Reynolds partner in the story of a dead cop who makes a deal to work one hundred years in divine law enforcement in exchange for a shot at finding who killed him.