Richard Dreyfuss will play legendary Broadway producer...

Richard Dreyfuss will play legendary Broadway producer Jed Harris in “Curse of Genius.” Oscar-winner Frederic Raphael (“Darling”) wrote the screenplay for producer Joel Silver to shoot late summer ’89 . . . . Ciao, Federico! Maestro Fellini is back behind the cameras with “Voices from the Moon,” filming next month at Empire Studios in Rome for producers Mario and Vittorio Cecchi Gori. The loony tale concerns two men recently released from an asylum literally and metaphorically searching for the title heavenly orb. Robert Benigni (“Down by Law”) co-stars with Italian comic Paolo Villaggio.

Robert Ginty hyphenates in TWE’s social thriller “The Orange Curtain,” filming locally in January. Ginty stars as a Catholic priest who discovers he has a teen-age daughter from his tour of duty in Vietnam--also directs, produces and co-wrote the screenplay with C. Courtney Joyner. Haing Ngor, Vietnamese actress Kieu Chinh and John Pleshette round out the cast . . . . Woody watching: add Alan Alda, Daryl Hannah (but not her sisters), Martin Landau, Tony Roberts and Sam Waterston to the cast of the currently filming “Woody Allen Untitled” for Orion. Alda plays a movie producer, Woody’s a documentary film maker and Mia Farrow is featured as a social worker in what’s described as a comedy about contemporary New York Jewish Angst . . . . Rebecca Miller, currently filming Hemdale’s “The Artisan” opposite Klaus Maria Brandauer, is novelist Henry Miller’s daughter.

Val Kilmer next shows up as Billy the Kid in the Turner Network’s “The Kid,” filming in Phoenix next month. William Graham directs . . . . Levinson/Rosenfelt’s “The Hunchback of UCLA”--scheduled for a spring ’89 release via Vestron--is no longer waging a war with the university, having opted for a new name: “Big Man on Campus.”