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Hot Spot (Hot Spot). Shooting in Texas. Don Johnson is a man who retires to a small-town flophouse to get away from it all for a spell. He instead gets tangled up in a love triangle and murder conspiracy with two very beautiful but mysterious women. The mysterious Dennis Hopper directs. Producer Paul Lewis. Screenwriter Charles Williams. Also stars Virginia Madsen.

Postcards From the Edge (Bridgewater). Shooting in L.A. Director Mike Nichols has assembled a superstar cast to flesh out this screen adaptation of Carrie Fisher’s autobiographical novel. Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Dreyfuss, Dennis Quaid and Gene Hackman all pitch in to tell the story of a girl in her 30s who struggles to rebuild the life her Hollywood upbringing has shattered. Executive producers Robert Greenhut and Neil Machlis. Producers Nichols and John Calley. Screenwriter Fisher. Distributor Columbia.

Sideout (Tri-Star/Columbia). Shooting in L.A. Peter Horton and C. Thomas Howell star in this look at a youthful attorney (Howell) who gets caught up in competitive volleyball as he seeks to obviate the headaches inherent in his work. Executive producer Jay Weston. Producers Gary Foster and John Zane. Director Peter Israelson. Screenwriters David Thoreau and Brianne Leary.

Texasville (Nelson/Cine-Source). Shooting in Archer City, Tex. At long last, the sequel to Peter Bogdanovich’s “The Last Picture Show” unfolds and once again stars Cybill Shepherd and Jeff Bridges. Based on Larry McMurtry’s 1986 follow-up to “Picture Show,” it’s a look at that same sleepy Texan town and its inhabitants some 30 years later. Executive producers Jake Eberts and William Peiffer. Producers Bogdanovich, Henry Weinstein and Robert Whitmore. Screenwriter Bogdanovich. Also stars Timothy Bottoms, Eileen Brennan, Cloris Leachman, Randy Quaid, Annie Potts and William MacNamara. Distributors Columbia (U.S.) and Nelson/Majestic (Intl.).

Wild at Heart (Lava/Propaganda). Shooting in Texas, New Orleans and California. David Lynch’s first film since “Blue Velvet” toplines Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Harry Dean Stanton, Isabella Rossellini, Willem Dafoe (in a cameo) and Crispin Glover. Cage and Dern are a couple on the run as her unsmiling mom maintains a heated pursuit. Producers Monty Montgomery, Steve Golin and Joni Sighvatsson. Distributor Goldwyn.