MOVIES - Aug. 21, 1989

The June 3 massacre in Beijing is having lasting effects in Hollywood. An agreement between Gibraltar Releasing Corp. and China Film Corp. calling for the Cannes Film Festival hit, “Rising Storm,” to be the first film released simultaneously in the United States and China has been scrapped and locations for another Gibraltar film, “Crime Lords,” have been shifted from Beijing to Taipei and Hong Kong. Director Frankie Schaeffer and “Rising Storm” star Wayne Crawford were in Beijing in late May, and departed the country just prior to the June 3 government crackdown. “The atmosphere in China was very open and very exciting when we left,” said Crawford, “but now, China is not the place to be working on location for three months.”