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William Hurt, River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves join the cast of Tri-Star’s “I Love You to Death.” The trio play friends and accomplices of Tracey Ullman, a woman who is ready to murder her philandering husband, Kevin Kline. John Kostmeyer’s screenplay, based on a true, if bizarre, incident in the annals of crimes of passion, films in Tacoma next month for director Lawrence Kasdan and producers Ron Moller and Jeff Lurie. And for an bit of luster, add the names of Joan Plowright and Norma Aleandro to the cast, playing respectively Ullman’s Croatian and Kline’s Italian mothers. . . .

Sissy Spacek plays a woman who unlocks the key to an amnesiac’s memory in Davis Entertainment/ FilmAccord’s “The Plastic Nightmare,” scheduled to film in August. The thriller, based upon the novel by Richard Neely, was adapted by film maker Wolfgang Petersen who co-produces with John Davis. Michael Lehman (“The Heathers”) directs. . . .

Kevin Bacon becomes an inadvertent hero when incredibly hungry underground creatures surface in Universal’s “Tremors.” The homage to ‘50s monster movies--written and produced by Brent Maddock and S.S. Wilson--films next month in Northern California. Gale Anne Hurd exec produces and Ron Underwood directs. . . .

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Peter Weller dons armor and dispenses justice when “RoboCop II” rolls this summer. Jon Davison again produces for Orion with Tim Hunter directing. Frank Miller, author of 1987’s “Batman: The Dark Knight,” makes his screenwriting debut. . . . Weller then segues to “Scapa Flow,” as a German skipper in the factual World War II saga of how a lone U-boat eluded detection and destroyed a pen of British war ships. Britt Lomand wrote and produces for Lisada Productions in Germany and Britain in early autumn. . . .

Winona Ryder plays a young woman caught up in the fanfare of celebrity in “Welcome Home, Roxie Carmichael,” filming in May for producer Penney Finkelman-Cox. Writer Karen Leigh Hopkins off-beat coming-of-age yarn centers on the small-town Ohio celebrations when its most famous native--a glamorous star--returns home. Jim Abrahams (“Big Business”) directs. . . . Bruno Kirby joins the cast of Tri-Star’s “The Freshman” as shadowy underworld type Marlon Brando’s henchman to film in Toronto this summer for producer Michael Lobell. Andrew Bergman directs and wrote the yarn in which Matthew Broderick gets an education of a different kind. . . . C.Thomas Howell joins Jonathan Silverman and Jason Bateman in MCEG’s “Sketches,” a sad, comic cross-country trip of personal discovery. Neal Israel directs the Paul Shapiro screenplay. . . . Director Alan Parker’s next (and first as part of his Tri-Star pact) is “Come See the Paradise,” a World War II romantic drama set in the U.S. Asian community. Robert Colesberry produces Parker’s script with filming to start in May. . . .

Andrei Konchalovsky locks horns (figuratively) with Sylvester Stallone who will director Guber-Peters’ “The Set-Up” at Warner Bros. Set to begin in May, the Randy Feldman script has the Italian stallion framed for a murder but clever enough to turn the tables on the gangsters who set him up. . . .

Dueling Projects: Medical schools are the focus of two upcoming films--Disney’s “Gross Anatomy” and Fox’s “Vital Signs.” “Gross,” from Sandollar Productions, is described as a “Med School Paper Chase” written by Mark Spragg and Ron Nyswaner. Thom Eberhardt directs for producers Howard Rosenman and Debra Hill. “Vital,” to be directed by Marisa Silver, centers on the conflict between a student and his famous surgeon doctor. It’s a Larry Ketron script for producer Laurie Perlman. . . .

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