First Tom Hanks experienced the trauma of...

First Tom Hanks experienced the trauma of a new home in “Money Pit.” Now he’s been cast in “The ‘burbs,” an all-stops-pulled comedy from Universal centering on paranoia in a quiet neighborhood. Joe Dante directs the Dana Olsen screenplay, filming starting next month. . . . Hack work: John Travolta plays a cab driver opposite Kirstie Alley in Tri-Star’s “Daddy’s Home,” a June start in Vancouver. Alley, ditched by her boyfriend, flags down Travolta on the way to the delivery room, and they get romantically involved. Amy Heckerling (“Maid to Order”) wrote and directs for producers Simon Lewis and Bob Gray. . . . “Last Emperor” director Bernardo Bertolucci and writer Mark Peploe reteam for “Sheltering Sky.” Peploe has also signed to adapt “Berlin Diaries,” the best seller based upon the memoirs of Marie Vassiltchikov--just optioned by producer Maggie Wilde. Once “Untouchable” Andy Garcia decides that crime pays in “The Sixth Family,” about the creation of a new mob clan. Cast includes Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Grey. . . . Director Renny Harlin, who did the upcoming “Prison” for Empire, goes back behind the cameras for New Line’s “Nightmare on Elm Street IV,” scheduled to open Aug. 19. It’s being filmed on roller skates. . . . Vestron has a fall shoot planned on “Little Monsters,” the story of a young boy who imagines there are things living under his bed--and there are! . . . Fox is developing “Bumby Pal,” in which our adult hero brings back his imaginary childhood buddy to help him through his grown-up traumas. . . . Robin Williams has been huddling with Touchstone producers, as well as . . . something titled “Good Morning, Chicago,” the further adventures of Adrian Cronauer, in the Windy City, circa 1968. Larry Brezner and Mark Johnston will again produce. . . . Lightning strikes twice?: Producer-director Jean-Jacques Annaud took us back in time with “Quest for Fire” and now presents “The Bear,” the story of an adult bear that adopts a small bear to help it escape hunters. The stars are the bears, and the picture has caused quite a bidding war--with Tri-Star winning out to the jingling of $10.5 million for North American rights. . . . Wrong note last week: Yes, Klaus Maria Brandauer will play Beethoven but not in an Italian miniseries as reported. He’ll play the great Ludwig in a film for director Scott Goldstein (“Flanagan”). Starts this fall in Vienna.