The Box Office Movie News for May 9 to May 13

Here is your lengthy box office news for the week of May 9 to 13:

Actor Stanley Tucci will appear in the film adaptation of The Hunger Games, playing the role of Caesar Flickerman, the iconic host of the Hunger Games. Meanwhile, newcomers Annie Thurman and Imanol Yepez-Frias will play the tributes for District 9, newcomers Jeremy Marinas and Dakota Hood will play the tributes from District 10 and actor Alexander Ludwig (Race to Witch Mountain and actress Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan) will play the pivotal roles of District 2’s tributes. Lastly, actor Woody Harrelson will play Haymitch Abernathy.

Looks like Johnny Depp will be working with Rob Marshall again for a remake of the classic movie The Thin Man – the 1934 film that starred William Powell and Myrna Loy.

Actor Michael Fassbender is in talks to appear in the thriller called Trance that follows an assistant at an auction house who masterminds an art heist with a gang of crooks. Afterwards, he suffers a blow to the head and wakes up with amnesia. The problem is he’s the only one who knows where the painting’s location is. The gang begins to get suspicious and hire a female hypnotist to get into his brain. Fassbender would play the shady leader of the gang.

Actor Garret Dillahunt (Raising Hope and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) will have a cameo appearance in the box office film called Cogan’s Trade. The film stars Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins and Ben Mendelsohn.

Actress Amber Heard (Drive Angry) and actor Shiloh Fernandez (Red Riding Hood) are set to star in the upcoming film Syrup that is about the backstabbing and corporate ladder climbing of twenty-somethings trying to make it to the top in the soda industry.

Actresses Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight) and Viola Davis (Doubt) will star in the film called Still I Rise that takes aim at the crisis of public education in America with the pair playing two mothers who channel frustration into action and join forces to transform an inner-city public school.

Actor Mark Strong will join James McAvoy in the crime thriller called Welcome to the Punch that deals with a London detective whose old nemesis, an armed robber, reappears after five years away.

Actor Ethan Hawke has joined the cast of the upcoming remake of Total Recall, which stars Colin Farrell as Douglas Quaid, a man haunted by a recurring dream of journeying to Mars and buys a literal dream vacation from a company which sells implanted memories. The man comes to believe he is a secret agent and ends up on a Martian colony, where he fights to overthrow a despotic ruler controlling the production of air. Hawke’s role is being kept secret and is a cameo in nature.

Actors Katie Holmes and Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl will star in the rom-com Responsible Adult that follows a 30-year-old med student (Holmes) who meets and falls for a younger man (Crawford) only to realize she was his baby sitter fifteen years beforehand.

Actors Orlando Bloom, Nick Nolte, Stanley Tucci and Cristiana Capotondi have joined the cast of the comedy Idea in America that is a coming-of-age road-trip following a young Italian ornithologist who travels from California to Georgia in the pursuit of the American bald eagle, a dream job and her independence.

French acting legend Jean Reno has joined the cast of the film adaptation of the James Patterson novel I, Alex Cross that has Tyler Perry playing forensic psychologist Dr. Alex Cross who manages to save a victim from a brutal death at the hands of an assassin named Michael Sullivan (Matthew Fox), aka. the Butcher of Sligo. The Butcher kills Cross’ wife and then it becomes a battle of wits between the two. Ed Burns also stars as Cross’ partner Tommy Kane. Details of Reno’s role haven’t been revealed.

Actors Kiefer Sutherland, Gerard Depardieu, Thomas Jane and Til Schweiger are to star in the ensemble heist comedy Sleight of Hand that revolves around a crew of small-time crooks in Paris who inadvertently end up possessing a rare gold coin belonging to a notorious French gangster.

Actor Aaron Eckhart and actress AnnaSophia Robb will star in a dark re-imagining of Peter Pan where Captain Hook (Eckhart) is a tormented former detective on the trail of a childlike kidnapper with Robb playing Wendy, the lone survivor who leaves an asylum to help in the hunt. Sean Bean has already been cast as Smee, a chief detective and Hook’s only ally on the force.

Actress Rachel Weisz is in talks to take the lead female role in the franchise spin-off The Bourne Legacy with Jeremy Renner. The role would have her playing an operative from a covert government program that is even more dangerous than the Treadstone brainwashing program that hatched Matt Damon’s Bourne character. Though the story exists in the same universe, the character is new. Meanwhile she is supposed to be close to taking a role as one of the witches in the upcoming film Oz: The Great and Powerful. This could create a conflict schedule-wise; but neither role has been confirmed yet.

Actor Ryan Reynolds may star in a movie called A Boy Named Sue. That is presumably a comedy about a guy who decides to disguise himself as a woman to win his ex-girlfriend back. There is no full confirmation on this film or Reynolds’ role in it yet. (Deadline and First Showing)

Actor Colin Firth and actress Emily Blunt are set to team for a dark comedy that follows two damaged souls fleeing their pasts who meet and break into empty homes to assume the identities of the absent owners. Over the course of their misadventures the pair fall in love.

Actors Julianne Moore, Steve Coogan and Alexander Skarsgård (True Blood) will co-star in the dramedy movie What Maisie Knew that is a contemporary-set adaptation of the Henry James novel, centering on Maisie, a six-year-old girl enmeshed in the bitter divorce of her mother (Moore), a rock and roll icon, and her father (Coogan), a charming but distracted art dealer. Skarsgård will play Moore’s new husband.

Actors Ben Whishaw and Hugo Weaving are to play major roles in the ambitious adaptation of the David Mitchell novel Cloud Atlas, joining the already confirmed Halle Berry and Tom Hanks in the ensemble drama which spans six different story lines over a millennia. Each tale is revealed to be a story that is read (or watched) by the main character in the next.

Actors Luke Evans and Kristin Scott Thomas are set to star in the box office film called Only God Forgives, which is a story of a Thai police lieutenant whose rivalry with a gangster sees the two settling their differences in a Thai boxing match.

Actors Emile Hirsch and Penelope Cruz are set to star in film Twice Born, which is based on the book Venuto Al Mondo, which tells the story of a woman who returns to Sarajevo with her son in tow and revisits the tumultuous past she shared with his late father.

Recent Aussie acting graduate Elizabeth Debicki will play Jordan Baker in the remake of The Great Gatsby. Baker is a famed golfer and love interest of narrator Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire).

Actor Dylan McDermott certainly is busy. He has been cast in the FX pilot American Horror Story from the men behind the FOX musicomedy Glee; but he has signed on for two movies as well. First is Nobody Walks that is about a Los Angeles family that takes in a stranger who winds up disrupting their lives. John Krasinski, Olivia Thirlby and Jane Levy also star. Second is Perks of Being a Wallflower that revolves around a boy whose life dramatically changes as he learns about secrets buried deep in his past during his freshman year of high school. McDermott will also play the father of the main character.

Actress Helen Hunt is set to star in, produce and direct the romantic comedy Ride, playing the mother of a 20-year-old NYU student. When he leaves for a summer in California, this strong-willed magazine-editor mother is alarmed. When he reveals he’s abandoning school for the surfing life, she follows him to L.A. There, each finds their own version of love, sex and self-discovery.

Actors Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Katherine Heigl and Amanda Seyfried will star in the comedy called Gently Down the Stream. De Niro and Keaton play a long-divorced couple who, for the sake of their adopted son’s wedding and his biological mother, pretend they are still married. They quickly learn that acting the part isn’t easy, especially when their ‘relationship’ unravels for all to see.

Actress Mary Lynn Rajskub (24) joins Aubrey Plaza and Kristen Bell (among others) in the film called Safety Not Guaranteed that is a real-life-inspired story of three magazine employees sent to investigate a classified ad from a man seeking a partner for time travel.

French star Dany Boon and actress Diane Kruger have joined the high-concept action-adventure comedy film Fly Me to the Moon. Kruger plays a 30-something woman who has a great career and a loving boyfriend, though her family is plagued with a curse that turns every first marriage into a divorce. So when her boyfriend presses her to get hitched, she embarks on a mission to marry and divorce a stranger before her actual wedding.

Actress Zoe Saldana will join actors Bradley Cooper and Jeremy Irons in the film The Words that tells the story of a writer (Cooper) who discovers the price he must pay for stealing the work of another man (Irons). Actor Dennis Quaid will also star in the film as Clay Hammond, another celebrated writer.

Actor Rob Lowe will star in Knife Fight, a film that deals with the dark side of political operatives. He will play a political crisis specialist who plays hard and tough in dealing with various October campaign surprises.

Actor Paul Wesley (The Vampire Diaries) has joined the cast of the film The Baytown Disco that stars Eva Longoria and Billy Bob Thornton. He will play Anthony Reese, a federal agent who comes into a small Southern town to investigate the Oodies — three redneck brothers who get more than they bargained for after agreeing to help a woman get her son back from his seemingly abusive father.