Films going into production: Only...

Films going into production: Only the Lonely (Hughes Ent./20th Century Fox). Shooting in Chicago. John Candy and Ally Sheedy join Maureen O’Hara in her return to the big screen. Chris Columbus directs and writes this bittersweet comedy of Chicago cop Candy who falls for mortician Sheedy but doesn’t want to alienate his loving mother. Producers John Hughes and Hunt Lowry.

Rubin & Ed (Rubin & Ed, Inc.). Shooting in Salt Lake City. Crispin Glover and Peter Boyle are a pair of optimistic losers who despise one another but end up on a desert odyssey in which they bury a deep-frozen cat. We’re serious. Producer Paul Webster. Director/screenwriter Trent Harris. Also stars Karen Black.

Shining Through (Sandollar/20th Century Fox). Shooting in London and Austria. Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith and Liam Neeson star in this World War II romantic spy thriller written and directed by David Seltzer. Griffith portrays a half-Jewish woman who infiltrates the world of a high-ranking German officer as a domestic helper and is soon imperiled--big time. Executive producers Sandy Gallin and David Seltzer. Producers Howard Rosenman and Carol Baum.