Films going into production:BIG (Gracie). Shooting...

Films going into production:

BIG (Gracie). Shooting in NYC. A 12-year-old boy wakes up one morning to find that he’s been reincarnated into the body of a 35-year-old (Tom Hanks). Producer James L. Brooks. Director Penny Marshall. Screenwriters Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg. Also stars Elizabeth Perkins and Robert Loggia. Distributor 20th Century Fox.

COWBOYS DON’T CRY (Atlantis). Shooting in Edmonton and Alberta. Drama about the relationship between a teen-age boy and his rodeo-star father. Executive producer Peter Sussman. Producer Janice Platt. Director/screenwriter Anne Wheeler. Stars Ron White, Janet Laine Green and Zachary Ansley. January release.

DARK BEFORE DAWN (Lazy E). Shooting in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma. Contemporary murder-mystery set in mid-America involving farmers who are being squeezed out by big bad corporations. Executive producer E. K. Gaylord. Producer Ben Miller. Director Robert Totten. Screenwriter Reparata Mazzola. Stars Sonny Gibson, Mazzola, Richard Farnsworth and Ben Johnson.

SUNDOWN (Irwin Winkler/UA). Shooting in Alberta and Chicago. Tom Berenger and Debra Winger head the cast in a drama about a white supremacist group generating friction in a Northwest community. Producer Irwin Winkler. Director Costa-Gavras. Screenwriter Joe Eszterhascq. Also stars John Heard. Distributor MGM/UA.