MOVIES - April 6, 1988

The British entertainment company Goldcrest has signed a $40-million deal with animation director Don Bluth and partner Morris Sullivan to produce three animated features at Sullivan Bluth Studios Ireland Ltd.--their Dublin facility--over the next three years. Production is already under way on the first feature, “All Dogs Go to Heaven.” Sullivan Bluth’s “The Land Before Time Began,” will be released this Christmas by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin’ Productions.