Films beginning production this week :...

Films beginning production this week : BLUE MOVIES (Blue Partners). Shooting in L.A. Comedy about a couple of guys desperate for money who set out to make an adult film to generate some quick cash. Producer Maria Snyder. Directors/screenwriters Paul Koval and Edmund Fitzgerald. Stars Steve Levitt, Larry Poindexter and Lucinda Crosby. Distributor undetermined. Spring release.

CUTTING LOOSE (Aurora). Shooting in Southern California. Comedy about five friends and the 24 hours preceding their college graduation. Executive producer James L. Stewart. Producer/director Tamar Simon Hoffs. Screenwriters M. L. Kessler and Hoffs. Stars Susanna Hoffs, Dedee Pfeiffer and Joan Cusack. Distributor undetermined. Spring release.

GISELLE (Cannon Films). Shooting in Italy. Mikhail Baryshnikov stars as the company director in this “film within a film” as his troupe prepares to shoot the famous ballet. Executive producers Nora Kaye and Jack Brodsky. Producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus. Director Herbert Ross. Screenwriter Sarah Kernochan. Stars Baryshnikov, Alessandra Ferri, Lynne Seymour and Julie Kent. Release date undetermined.

JIMMY REARDON (Jimmy Reardon Productions). Shooting in Chicago. How a 17 year-old boy deals with life after high school. Producers Russell Schwartz and Richard Prince. Director/screenwriter Bill Richert. Stars River Phoenix. Distributor Island. Release date undetermined.

REAL MEN (UA). Shooting in Visalia and L.A. Jim Belushi and John Ritter head the cast of this “absurdist-action-comedy.” Executive producer Louis A. Stroller. Producer Martin Bregman. Director Dennis Feldman. Stars Belushi and Ritter. Distributor MGM/UA Distribution Co. Release date undetermined.

TERROR SQUAD (Matterhorn Productions). Shooting in Indiana. A band of terrorists botch an attempt to sabotage a nuclear plant facility and take over a high school in a last-ditch effort to free themselves. Executive producer Ken Kimura. Producer/director Peter Maris. Screenwriter Chuck Rose. Stars Chuck Connors, Ravi Kaz and Brodie Greer. Distributor and release date undetermined.