MOVIES - June 24, 1988

That large-caliber movie hero Sylvester Stallone has filed a $3-million lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Colt Industries. The suit alleges that a photograph and caption in the July, 1987, issue of Guns magazine falsely implies he endorsed a Colt handgun. Stallone was asked by Colt to endorse its .45-caliber, $1,500 Heirloom pistol, but the actor refused. The suit claims that Colt subsequently placed a phony article and photograph in Guns (which is not a defendant) bearing the caption “Sylvester Stallone’s personal Colt Heirloom gun.” Stallone said his reputation and the market value of his name were damaged. On the other hand, Stallone’s name will probably be enhanced by his recent donation to the Save the Children Federation--which will go directly to its work in Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan, the aid agency announced.

Director Spike Lee’s lawyers are meeting with attorneys for actress-singer Tisha Campbell to discuss the $550,000 suit she filed in New York against Lee. Campbell, one of the stars of Lee’s latest film, “School Daze,” says he is not compensating her for her appearance on the sound-track album and failed to give her credit on one of her songs, “Be Alone Tonight.” Bruce Colfin, who represents Campbell, says the album credits a group called the Rays with the song even though there was no such group in the movie. An employee at 40 Acres & a Mule Productions, Lee’s production company in New York, had no comment on the suit Thursday.

In yet another blow for glasnost, the Soviet Union has pledged to send an official delegation to the Jerusalem Film Festival, raising hopes the two countries could renew cultural relations, severed since 1967. Although Israel officials have requested for years that the Soviet Union send a delegation and films to the festival, the Soviet Union has refused until now. Soviet Film Makers Union chief Andrei Smirnov cabled the decision to Jerusalem, confirming that Moscow officials will attend the event, which begins July 2. Expected to attend the bash is Aleksandr Askoldov, prize winner at the recent Berlin Film Festival. Askoldov had been ignored in the Soviet Union for years because his only film, “Commissar” (now playing in Los Angeles), was shelved for its sympathetic treatment of Jewish problems.

The “Cocoon” sequel is in the can. “Cocoon: The Return,” starring most of the original cast of the 1985 movie, has completed principal photography in Florida. Directed by Daniel Petrie, the science-fiction sequel stars Oscar-winner Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton and Jessica Tandy. Also in the cast are a pair of famed offspring, Tyrone Power Jr. and Tahnee Welch, daughter of Raquel Welch. In the sequel, produced by Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown and Lili Fini Zanuck, the senior citizens who departed Earth in a space ship for planet Antarea return home for a brief visit.

After hearing testimony from 10 House members Thursday, the House Rules Committee postponed until Tuesday a vote on whether to let a bill involving film colorization go to the full House for action. The measure, an amendment to a $9.6 billion Interior Department appropriations bill, would create a National Film Commission that could affect the colorization of classic black-and-white films.