Films now going into production: Cold...

Films now going into production: Cold Dog Soup (Soup/HandMade). Shooting in California. A comedy about a young man (Frank Whaley), driven by his passion for a beautiful woman, who hooks up with an eccentric cabbie (Randy Quaid) in an all-night quest to bury her dead dog. Producers Rich Abramson and Bill McEuen. Director Alan Metter. Screenwriter Tom Pope. Also stars Chrissie Harnos and Sheree North.

Double Fault (Panorama/All American). Shooting in Malibu. Chad Lowe stars in this youth comedy as a tennis star of a small college who must deal with his troubles after getting booted off the team. Producers Benni Korzen and Just Betzer. Director Robert Kaylor. Screenwriters Joel Block and Annie Korzen. Also stars Gail O’Grady and Patrick Breen.

Everybody Wins (Recorded Picture). Shooting in Wilmington, N.C. Debra Winger and Nick Nolte star in a tale of small-town corruption and sexual intrigue against a New England backdrop. Producers Jeremy Thomas and Ezra Swerdlow. Director Karel Reisz?. Playwright Arthur Miller scripts. Also stars Will Patton, Judith Ivey and Jack Warden. Distributor Orion.

The French Revolution (Adriane/Films A2/Laura/Antea/Skriba). Shooting in France. Klaus Maria Brandauer stars with Jane Seymour (as Marie Antoinette) and Sam Neill (as Lafayette) in this historic epic scheduled to be released on the Revolution’s bicentennial. On the same scope as the recent Dickens adaptation “Little Dorrit,” this mammoth project will be shot in both French and English during dialogue scenes. Executive producer Alexandre Minoushkine. Producer Monique Guerrier. Directors Robert Enrico and Richard Heffron. Screenwriters Alain Decaux and Daniel Boulanger. Christmas release.

Music Box (Carolco). Shooting in Chicago and Budapest. Jessica Lange stars in a Costa-Gavras directed drama as a criminal attorney who takes on the case of her life when she unexpectedly finds herself representing her father on a charge of murder. Producer Irwin Winkler. Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas. Also stars Armin Mueller-Stahl. Distributors Tri-Star (domestic) and Carolco (foreign). Summer release.

Uncle Buck (Hughes/Universal). Shooting in Chicago. John Candy stars in this John Hughes comedy as the flustered title character who’s left in charge of his nephew and two nieces, aged 6 to 15. Executive producer Ray Hartwick. Producers Hughes and Tom Jacobson. Also stars Amy Madigan. Distributor Universal. Summer release.

Untitled Steve Martin Comedy (Imagine). Shooting in Orlando, Fla. Martin appears as Jason Robards’ son in a look at modern day parenting. Executive producer Joe Carracciolo. Producer Brian Grazer. Screenwriter Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. Also stars Tom Hulce, Mary Steenburgen, Rick Moranis, Dianne Wiest, Martha Plimpton, Keanu Reeves and Leaf Phoenix. Distributor Universal.