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Films going into production: Delirious (MGM). Shooting in L.A. John Candy stars in this fantasy comedy as as writer on the daytime soaps who suddenly finds himself smack in the middle of one of his scenarios. How will he return to reality? Executive producer Richard Donner. Producers Lawrence J. Cohen and Fred Freeman. Director Tom Mankiewicz. Screenwriters Cohen and Freeman. Also stars Mariel Hemingway, Jerry Orbach, Renee Taylor, Emma Samms, Dylan Baker and Charles Rocket. Distributor MGM/UA Distribution Co. Not Without My Daughter (Pathe). Shooting in Israel. Starring Sally Field, this true event-inspired story centers on a woman held prisoner by her Iranian husband during a trip back to his native Terehan. A full 18 months pass before she and her child are able to flee Iranian borders. Producers Harry and Mary Jane Ufland. Director/screenwriter Brian Gilbert. Also stars Alfred Molina and Sheila Rosenthal. The Recruit (Warner Bros.). Shooting in Yugoslavia. John Stamos and John Stockwell lead the pack in this 1939 wartime story of motorcycle racer Stamos who is enlisted by the U.S. Army to instruct our boys in the ways of two-wheelers in combat. Producer Fred Weintraub. Director Graham Baker. Screenwriters Janice Hickey and Michael Pardridge. Tinsel (White Lion Pictograph). Shooting in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and L.A. A feature documentary concerning itself with America’s fascination, bordering on an obsession, with the movies. Executive producer Wendell Moody. Producers Marge Moody and Michael Moody. Director/screenwriter James F. Robinson. Untitled Gene Hackman, Mikhail Baryshnikov Project (Pathe). Shooting in Washington, D.C., Frankfurt, Berlin and Paris. Writer/director Nicholas Meyer positions Hackman and Baryshnikov in this adventure. Hackman is an ex-CIA agent who drags Baryshnikov to Berlin to exchange him for an accused American spy, but things happen and the two end up being chased all over Western Europe. Producer Steven-Charles Jaffe. Early ’91 release.

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