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Films going into production: Beaches (Touchstone). Shooting in L.A. Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey star in a drama based on Iris R. Dart’s novel that follows three women friends down the years--their marriages, lovers, frustrations, friends, etc. Producers Bonnie Bruckheimer-Martell, Midler and Margaret Jennings South. Director Garry K. Marshall. Screenwriter Mary Agnes Donoghue. Distributor Buena Vista. Daddy’s Little Girl (WEG). Shooting in L.A. Tony Danza is a perplexed father attempting to cope with his daughter’s seemingly overnight transformation from wallflower to knockout. Producer Stephen Deutsch. Director Stan Dragoti. Screenwriters Seth Winston and Michael Nathanson. Also stars Catherine Hicks and Ami (daughter of Micky) Dolenz. The Good Mother (Touchstone). Shooting in Boston and Toronto. Leonard Nimoy directs Diane Keaton in the movie of Sue Miller’s best-selling novel. Following an amicable divorce, Keaton’s character holds custody of her 3-year-old daughter and starts life anew. Executive producer Ron Silverman. Producer Arnold Glimcher. Screenwriter Michael Bortman. Distributor Buena Vista. I Was a Teen-Age Sex Mutant (Titan). Shooting in L.A. Horror spoof involving a kid who’s subjected to a crazy biology class experiment that renders him irresistible to women. Producers David DeCoteau and John Schouweiler. Director DeCoteau. Screenwriter Ken Hall. Cast still not penciled in at this point. Distributor Urban Classics. Loverboy (Loverboy). Patrick (“In the Mood”) Dempsey takes a pizza delivery job when his college funds are cut off and ends up in a wild occupation “catering” to adventurous women with lots of dough. Executive producers Tom Ropelewski and Leslie Dixon. Producers Gary Foster and Willie Hunt. Director Joan Micklin Silver. Screenwriters Robin Schiff, Ropelewski and Dixon. Also stars Kate Jackson, Carrie Fisher, Barbara Carrera, Robert Ginty, Kirstie Alley, Kim Miyori and Vic Tayback. Distributor Tri-Star. Millennium (Gladden). Shooting in Toronto. Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd and Daniel J. Travanti star in a time-warp adventure triggered by the mid-air collision of two commercial aircraft. Executive producers John Foreman, Freddie Fields, P. Gael Mourant and Louis Silverstein. Producers Douglas Leiterman and Robert Vince. Director Michael Anderson. Screenwriter John Varley. Also stars Robert Joy. Distributor Fox.Mismatch (Martin Bregman/WEG). Shooting in L.A. Kirk Cameron and Jami Gertz are members of a small college debating team who pull out all the stops and beat the big boys at the season championships. Producer Marykay Powell. Director/screenwriter Douglas Day Stewart. Second Sight (Lorimar). Shooting in Boston. John Larroquette, Bronson Pinchot and Stuart Pankin are three “psychic” detectives who are called upon to save a kidnaped woman and her boss--the cardinal of Boston. Executive producer Joe Caracciolo Jr. Producer Mark Tarlov. Director Joel Zwick. Screenwriters Tom Schulman and Patricia Resnick.

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