ComingSoon.net's The Weekend Warrior offers a preview of the new releases opening on Friday, April 9, which is essentially the new comedy Date Night (20th Century Fox) starring Tina Fey and Steve Carell. This weekÂ’s "The Chosen One" is Nash and Joel EdgertonÂ’s Australian crime-thriller The Square (Apparition), with an Honorable Mention to Tom DiCilloÂ’s Doors doc When YouÂ’re Strange: A Film About the Doors .

Production Weekly is reporting that 20th Century Fox's Planet of the Apes prequel Caesar has opened production offices at Mammoth Studios in Burnaby, BC. To be directed by Rupert Wyatt, the film is scheduled to start shooting mid-July.

Universal Pictures has pulled the plug on Cartel , five weeks before filming was scheduled to start in New Mexico. Deadline New York says that "there were concerns about the budget and the complexities of shooting a drug-related drama on location in Mexico."

The Los Angeles Times reports that tracking surveys for Iron Man 2 indicate that the movie could potentially top the $158.4 million domestic opening record of The Dark Knight (the foreign record of $236 million is held by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ).

A remake of The Toxic Avenger is in the works and will be produced by Akiva Goldsman, Richard Saperstein and Charlie Corwin. Original Media has acquired the rights to franchise that includes sequels, an animated TV series and comic books. The company will finance the development of a script.

"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling read one of her books to a small group of children at the White House's Easter Egg Roll on Monday.

Mark Strong ( Sherlock Holmes , upcoming Kick-Ass and Robin Hood ) talked to USA Weekend about playing Sinestro in Warner Bros. Pictures' Green Lantern .

Walt Disney Pictures is moving forward with a sequel to Tron Legacy . Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, the "Lost" writers/executive producers who co-wrote the first film, have started writing a sequel to the December 17 release.

David R. Ellis ( The Final Destination , Snakes on a Plane ) is set to direct Shark Night 3D for Incentive Filmed Entertainment, reports Deadline New York .

It's been a while since we've seen Steve Carell and Paul Rudd together on the big screen, but the two have teamed up again for Paramount Pictures' Dinner for Schmucks ( watch the new trailer ) and ComingSoon.net visited the Los Angeles set in December where we talked to both of the comedic actors.