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Blood Games (Fortune). Shooting in L.A. Actioner involving members of a traveling all-girl baseball squad who inadvertently murder a player on the opposing team after a bench-clearing brawl. They’re chased into the woods by the furious locals and must eventually defend themselves. Producer Yakov BenTsvi. Director Tanya Rosenthal. Screenwriters undetermined. Stars Bill Hamilton, Carol Jaymes, Arthur Aronson and Diane Kane.

Cadence (Cadence). Shooting in Vancouver. Martin Sheen directs son Charlie and motorcycle enthusiast Gary Busey in this drama set on a 1965 W. Germany armed forces base. Sheen finds trouble and lands in the stockade where he forms an antagonistic relationship with established inmate Busey. Executive producer Peter E. Strauss. Producer Richard Davis. Screenwriters Dennis Schryack and Ramon Estevez (a.k.a. Martin Sheen).

Naked Tango (Sugerloaf/Gotan). Shooting in Argentina and Uruguay. “Full Metal Jacket’s” Vincent D’Onofrio stars in this Leonard Schrader written and directed illustration of 1920s Buenos Aires. Set in the seedy world of tango bordellos, D’Onofrio is a tango gangster who pursues a woman set to marry another man. Producer David Weisman. Also stars Mathilda May and Esai Morales.

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The Neverending Story II (Scriba/DeyhleoHG). Shooting in Munich. 1984’s original “Story” grossed over $100 million worldwide, ergo the sequel. George Miller directs as this one chronicles young Bastion Balthasar Bux as he ventures to the Land of Fantasia to protect it from the threat of The Emptiness. Executive producer Tim Hampton. Producer Dieter Geissler. Screenwriter Karin Howard. Stars TK. Distributor Warner Bros. Intl. (foreign).

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