Cinefile

Danny DeVito is Larry the Liquidator, a voracious buyer and seller of distressed companies, and Penelope Ann Miller an attorney trying to save her mom’s boyfriend’s company from his clutches in Warners’ “Other People’s Money.” Norman Jewison will direct Alvin Sargent’s script in New York and Los Angeles starting Nov. 12.

Lainie Kazan will play Danny Aiello’s wife in Fox’s “29th Street,” which goes before the cameras Oct. 22 in North Carolina and New York. Writer-director George Gallo bases his script on the true story of Frank Pesce, a.k.a. Frank the Fish, an actor he met on the set of “Midnight Run.” The film, produced by David Permut, focuses on Pesce’s relationship with his father in a New York Italian neighborhood during the ‘70s. The film also stars Anthony LaPaglia, Robert Forester and, yes, Frank Pesce as his own older brother.

Oliver Reed has been cast as the Cardinal in Full Moon Entertainment’s “The Pit and the Pendulum,” which Stuart Gordon is directing in Rome. Lance Henriksen , Jeffrey Combs and Grace Zabriskie also star for producer Albert Band.