The Box Office News for the Week of May 16 to May 20

Here is your box office news for the week of May 16 to 20:

Actors Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska have joined a movie “project” that is to be a “crypto-vampire love story” set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangiers. Tilda Swinton also stars with John Hurt said to be in a featured role.

Actress Yvonne Strahovski (Chuck) is joining Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand in the film My Mother’s Curse that follows an inventor (Rogen) who invites his mother (Streisand) on a cross-country trip as he tries to sell his new product, while also reuniting her with a lost love. Strahovski will play Rogen’s high school sweetheart to whom he once proposed.

Actress Hilary Swank will produce and wants to star in an adaptation of You’re Not You that delves into the relationship between a thirty-something woman with Lou Gehrig’s disease and her female career.

Actors Stanley Tucci and Cloris Leachman have joined the cast of the remake of Gambit that centers on British art curator Harry Deane (Colin Firth) who devises a finely-crafted scheme to con England’s richest man and avid art collector, Lionel Shabandar, (Alan Rickman) into purchasing a fake Monet painting. In order to bait his buyer, he recruits a Texas rodeo queen (Cameron Diaz) to cross the pond and pose as a woman whose grandfather liberated the painting at the end of WWII. No word on what roles either Tucci or Leachman will play.

Actor Dominic Purcell (Prison Break) has joined the cast of the action-adventure film called Vikingdom.

Actors Jamie Campbell Bower (Camelot), Ed Speleers (Eragon) and newcomer Leebo Freeman have all tested for the role of the shadow hunter Jace in the upcoming film adaptation of The Mortal Instruments, which is based on the six-novel young adult series by Cassandra Clare. The story follows a girl whose mother is attacked by a mysterious creature and taken from her home in New York. When the girl, Clary Fray (Lily Collins), tries to get her back, she learns unnerving truths about her own bloodline. All three are up for the male lead part.

Looks like actor Joel Edgerton (Warrior) beat out actor Luke Evans for the role of Tom Buchanan in the upcoming adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

Actor Armie Hammer (The Social Network) has landed the lead role in the upcoming film The Lone Ranger, starring opposite Johnny Depp who will play Tonto.

Actress Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine) has been cast as Glinda, the good witch, in the upcoming film Oz: The Great and Powerful. She will play opposite Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis and James Franco.

Actor Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights) will be re-teaming with Director Peter Berg for the film adaptation of Lone Survivor (from author Marcus Luttrell). The story details a covert mission in the Hindu Kush in 2005 undertaken by the author and his fellow Navy SEALs who struggled to survive an attack by Taliban forces. The mission went wrong after their presence was given away, and Luttrell was the only one who made it out alive.

Actor Jonny Lee Miller (Eli Stone) has joined the cast of Dark Shadows, joining a cast that already Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Bella Heathcote, and Chloe Moretz. He will play Elizabeth’s (Michelle Pfeiffer) ne’er-do-well brother, Roger Collins.

Actor Topher Grace (That 70’s Show) has joined the cast of the upcoming box office film Gently Down The Stream. He will play Jared, the son of the characters played by Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton. Jared is a doctor who ends up falling in love with a young Latin woman, awkward since she’s the sister of his adopted brother. Katherine Heigl and Amanda Seyfried also star.

Actress Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Buton) and Michael Ealy (FlashForward) have joined the film adaptation of comedian Steve Harvey’s book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. The story follows the relationship between a dreamer with culinary talents (Ealy) and a high-powered ad executive (Henson).

English actor Stephen Fry (who American audiences should remember from Bones) has joined the cast of The Hobbit, playing The Master of Laketown.

Actress Mia Maestro (Alias and the soon to be seen Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn movie) will star in the movie The Darkness of the Road, playing a young mother whose daughter disappears after picking up a mysterious hitchhiker.

Actresses Latarsha Rose and Brooke Bundy will portray Portia and Octavia – the Glam Squad – in the upcoming movie The Hunger Games. Rose has had bit parts on All My Children, CSI, Bones and Law & Order while Bundy is a relative newcomer.

Actress Holly Hunter (Saving Grace) will appear in two upcoming films. The first is the film Still I Rise with Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal. This film tells the story of two mothers who channel frustration into action and join forces to transform a Pittsburgh inner-city public school. Hunter will play the head of the teacher’s union. The second film is the latest adaptation of Romeo and Juliet with Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit). At this time, it is unclear what role Hunter will play in the film.