Jim Belushi will bicycle between two movie...

Jim Belushi will bicycle between two movie sets this month in Chicago as he acts in two John Hughes productions simultaneously. While starring in “Curly Sue,” which writer-director Hughes launches for Warners Oct. 15, Belushi has also agreed to play John Candy’s Italian cop friend in Hughes Entertainment and Fox’s “Only the Lonely,” already filming in the Windy City. In the latter film, produced by Hughes and written-directed by Chris Columbus, Ally Sheedy and Milo O’Shea join Candy, Maureen O’Hara and Bert Remsen. Sources expect Anthony Quinn to join the cast soon.

By year’s end, Sandollar Productions will have three features rolling at two studios. In Fox’s romantic thriller “Shining Through,” Melanie Griffith stars as an American in 1941 Germany who winds up working for--and spying on--a Nazi played by Liam Neeson. Michael Douglas is her ex-boss, an American lawyer who must rescue Griffith. John Gielgud and Joely Richardson co-star for writer-director David Seltzer, who adapted Susan Isaacs’ best-selling novel. Production begins in Berlin and London this month.

Then for Touchstone “True Identity,” also getting under way next month, has Charles Lane directing British comic Lenny Henry in an Andy Breckman-written comedy about a black man who disguises himself by changing his skin color. Touchstone has also green-lighted Sandollar’s remake of MGM’s “Father of the Bride,” the lighthearted 1950 Vincente Minnelli film that starred Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Bennett. James Orr and James Cruikshank (“Three Men and a Baby”) have adapted the original script and Orr will direct starting in December. Actress Cindy Williams, who brought the project to Sandollar, will receive a producing credit but doesn’t intend to star in the film. Carol Baum and Howard Rosenman will produce all three Sandollar films.

In addition, Sandollar and Warner Bros. have just acquired film rights to Avery Corman’s latest novel, “Prized Possession,” which Simon & Schuster will publish early next year. It concerns a New York family whose daughter is date-raped her first week at college.

Paramount’s romantic comedy, “The Butcher’s Wife,” starring Demi Moore and Jeff Daniels, gets under way tomorrow in North Carolina with Mary Steenburgen (as a blues singer), George Dzundza, Frances McDormand, Helen Hanft and playwright-actor Christopher Durang playing supporting roles. Terry Hughes directs Ezra Litwak and Marjorie Schwartz’s script for producers Wallis Nicita and Lauren Lloyd. Production will later move to New York and L.A.