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Films now going into production: Black Snow (Houston Cinema Group). Shooting in Houston. A man gets caught up in the cocaine racket and is murdered, and the subsequent investigation is pursued by his brother. Executive producer James W. Patterson. Producers Frank Patterson and Don Daniel. Director Frank Patterson. Screenwriter Joel Smith. Stars Yaphet Kotto, Peter Sherayko, Julie Montgomery and Jane Badler. Spring release.

The Favorite (Ascona). Shooting in Bulgaria, Turkey and the South of France. F. Murray Abraham stars as an Ottoman Empire sultan in a true, late-18th-Century saga of Aimee Dubucq de Rivery. Newcomer Amber O’Shea plays an abducted French girl who’s sold as a slave in Algiers to serve the sultan. Executive producers Guy Collins and Klaus Hellwig. Producer Georges-Alain Vuille. Director Jack Smight. Screenwriter Larry Yust. Also stars Barbara Carrera, Ron Dortch and Andrea Parisy.

Getting It Right (M.C.E.G.) Shooting in London. Lynn Redgrave and Helena Bonham Carter star in a coming-of-age British comedy (a 30-year-old fellow, played by Jesse Birdsall, who still hasn’t shaken his virginity) patterned after the likes of “Alfie” and “Georgy Girl.” Elizabeth Jane Howard adapts her best-selling novel. Executive producer Rusty Lemorande. Producers Jonathan D. Krane and Randal Kleiser. Director Kleiser. Also stars Richard Haw and Jane Harrocks.

Welcome Home (Martin Ransohoff). Shooting in Toronto, the Far East, Woodstock and Vermont. Kris Kristofferson, Jobeth Williams, Sam Waterston and Brian Keith star in this contemporary love story of a Vietnam MIA (Kristofferson) who shows up 20 years later to learn that life has indeed changed. Executive producer Don Carmody. Producer Martin Ransohoff. Director Franklin J. Schaffner. Screenwriter Maggie Kleinman. Distributor Columbia.