“Bull Durham’s” strong-armed, weak-headed Tim Robbins will...

“Bull Durham’s” strong-armed, weak-headed Tim Robbins will set sail Sept. 12 as “Erik the Viking.” The wacky revisionist comedy is the concoction of Terry Jones, who’ll double the Nordic terrain on a back-lot in Malta. Supporting stars for the Orion release: John Cleese, Bob Hoskins, Sean Connery, Alec Guinness and Susan Sarandon. . . . Milos Forman’s “Valmont,” based upon the novel (but not the recent stage version) of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” gets under way in Paris next month with Meg Tilly joining Colin Firth and Annette Bening in a principal role. Tilly was to play Mozart’s wife in Forman’s “Amadeus” in 1984 but was sidelined on that film when she broke her ankle during the rehearsal period. . . .

Rick Rossovich and Rebecca De Mornay will star in Winmill Entertainment’s “Heart Rage,” a thriller about a thief trying to go straight. Written by Albert Magnoli and Barnett Bain. The September shoot will be directed by John Frankenheimer. . . .

Writer-director-producer John Derek’s “Ghosts Can’t Do It,” a comedy starring wife Bo, starts production late August in Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. George Grizzard plays Bo’s recently deceased hubby who communicates from the beyond in a plot to engineer his return in a young man’s body (newcomer Leo Damian). Don Murray completes the cast as a former Bo beau who interferes. . . .

Queens of Marvin Gardens: That’s “The Lemon Sisters”--Diane Keaton, Carol Kane and Kathryn Grody--three Atlantic City denizens who dream of the Big Time, and their own club, for their singing act. The offbeat comic drama films on the Boardwalk late September under the direction of Joyce Chopra. Keaton and Joe Kelly are producing for Miramax. . . . Lou Ferrigno plays a mentally handicapped Vietnam vet tricked into a brutal contest of strength in “The Cage,” filming locally mid-August. Lang Elliott produces and directs.

Producer Bruce Gilbert will make his directing debut this fall with HandMade’s “Another World,” the story of a young boy who escapes his terrible home life by entering into a fantasy world. Barry Opper produces the Don Opper script scheduled to film in Kansas. . . . In a similar vein, Vestron starts “Little Monsters”--a yarn of a young boy who discovers that those imaginary creatures under his bed are real--in North Carolina next month. Howie Mandel has been cast in a principal role for first-time director Richard Greenberg. . . .

Boys of Summer Productions just opened shop at Columbia. To the uninitiated that’s Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, who’ll go before the cameras in NYC at the end of October in “Ghostbusters II.” Ivan Reitman again produces and directs. . . .