Films beginning production this week: ...

Films beginning production this week: GOOD MORNING, BABYLON (Pressman Film/Film Tre/R.A.I./M.K.). Shooting in Italy, New York, San Francisco, L.A. Two brothers from Italy set out to America in the early 1900s to find their fortune and wind up in Hollywood working on D.W. Griffith’s epic “Intolerance.” Executive Producer Edward R. Pressman. Producer Giuliani De Negri. Directors Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani. Screenwriters the Tavianis, Tonino Guerra and Lloyd Fonvielle. Stars Charles Dance, Vincent Spano, Joaquim De Almeida, Greta Scacchi and Desiree Becker. Distributor Vestron Pictures. Spring release.

HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS (Universal). Shooting in Seattle and L.A. Comedy around the head of a normal family that finds adventure when they collide with an unusual creature. Producer Richard Vane. Director William Dear. Screenwriters Dear, William Martin and Ezra Rappaport. Stars John Lithgow, Don Ameche and Melinda Dillon. Easter release.

GARDENS OF STONE (Tri-Star). Shooting in Washington, D.C., Virginia and New York. Dramatic fare from Nicholas Proffitt’s novel about a burned-out Vietnam vet who falls in love with a Washington Post reporter. Executive Producers Jay Emmett, Stan Weston and Fred Roos. Producers Michael Levy and Francis Coppola. Director Coppola. Screenwriter Ronald Bass. Stars Anjelica Huston, James Caan and Laura Dern. Release date undetermined.

GOTHIC (Virgin/Atlantic Entertainment Group). Shooting in Great Britain. Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his future wife Mary Wollstonecraft spend a night at Lord Byron’s just prior to her creation of “Frankenstein,” the novel. Executive Producers Al Clark and Robert Devereux. Producer Penny Corke. Director Ken Russell. Screenwriter Stephen Volk. Stars Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson and Timothy Spall. Co-distributors Atlantic/Virgin. Release date undetermined.

DOWNTWISTED (Cannon Films). Shooting in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico City and L.A. New-wave adventure-thriller involving a dangerous double-cross, priceless artifacts and romance. Producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus. Director Albert Pyun. Screenwriters Gene O’Neill and Noreen Tobin. Stars Carey Lowell and Thom Mathews. Release date undetermined.

I LOVE N.Y. (Manhattan Film). Shooting in NYC and Rome. Romantic comedy on the relationship between a Big Apple photographer and the daughter of a tremendously successful actor. Executive Producer Edward Meadow. Producers Gianni Bozzacchi, Andrew Garroni and Ruth Hercolani. Director/screenwriter Bozzacchi. Stars Scott Baio, Christopher Plummer, Kelley VanDerveldan, Virna Lisi and Jennifer O’Neill. Distributor and release date undetermined.

THE SURVIVALIST (Lodestar Productions). Shooting in Moab, Utah. Action-drama about a group of neighbors who band together amid terror and chaos as the Soviet Union threatens a retaliatory nuclear attack against the U.S. Producers Steven Shore and David Greene. Director Sig Shore. Screenwriter John V. Kraft. Stars Steve Railsback, Susan Blakely, Cliff deYoung and Marjoe Gortner. Distributor undetermined. Fall release.