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Still no word on “Evita.”

With a nod to the ongoing financial woes at Jerry Weintraub Productions--which has the film rights--writer/director Oliver Stone mused, “My deepest hope is that if it isn’t doable now, that I could do it later.”

Stone, who has spent 2 1/2 years with the project--and has scouted locales in Argentina, Spain and Italy--predicts: “Everything’s going to come to a head--one way or the other--in September.” (That’s when WEG must come up with an overdue payment to its bond holders.) Meanwhile, Meryl Streep remains committed to the title role. And, said Stone, Mandy Patinkin--who did “Evita” on Broadway--”is very much near the top of the list,” to play her co-star, Che Guevera.

“Evita” may be the most talked-about Latin-themed project--but it’s not the only one. Also looming are:

“A Flag for Sunrise”--Kathleen Turner has optioned Robert Stone’s novel about an American nun involved in political upheaval in Central America. It’s at Columbia, where Richard Gere is also developing “Imagining Argentina,” based on Lawrence Thornton’s novel about an Argentine playwright with mystical powers.

* “Rubirosa”--There are dueling film bios about the famed Dominican Republic playboy-diplomat, who died at the wheel of his sports car. Writer/director Ramon Menendez and producer Tom Musca will begin a production early next year. Director Leon Ichaso is also prepping a version, with Al Ruddy producing and Julius Epstein (“Casablanca”!) scripting.

* “Havana”--Sydney Pollack produces/directs; Robert Redford stars. To film this fall for Universal, it’s a love story set in 1958, against the backdrop of revolution.

* “Little Havana”--Wallace Nitica and Lauren Lloyd produce; Gillian Armstrong directs. For Pathe, it’s an intercultural love triangle starring Greta Scaatchi as a Cuban woman who must choose between her American lover and Cuban husband. Possible co-stars: Willem Dafoe and Ruben Blades.

* “The House of the Spirits”--Bille August directs Isabelle Adjani in an adaptation of Isabel Allende’s four-generational family epic. David Puttnam produces for Warners.

* “Chile Is Not Chilly”--A nerdy American electronics engineer (Robert Carradine is the talked-about star) goes to Chile, where everything goes wrong. Jeff Warner directs the comedy. To go in September.

* “El Cordobes”--Director Luis Valdez and Mickey Rourke may team for a look at the early life of flamboyant matador, Manuel Benitez.

Meanwhile, look for “Romero,” about El Salvador’s slain Archbishop, on Sept. 8 and “Old Gringo,” in October (see related Outtake). Plus the already-filmed emotional/erotic thriller set in Rio, “Wild Orchid,” and “Naked Tango,” an erotic romance set in the tango culture of ‘20s-era Buenos Aires.