Films going into production: City...

Films going into production: City of Joy (Lightmotive). Shooting in Calcutta. Patrick Swayze and Pauline Collins star in director Roland Joffe’s interpretation of the Dominique La Pierre bestseller about an American who travels to Calcutta and finds beauty and hope amid the city’s crushing poverty. Producers Joffe and Jake Eberts. Screenwriter Mark Medoff. Distributor Tri-Star.

Knight Moves (Lamb Bear Ent./Slinger Prods.). Shooting in Vancouver. Christopher Lambert and Diane Lane star in a thriller about an international chessmaster who’s enlisted by authorities to decipher the strategies of a serial killer. Producer Zaid El-Khoury and Jean Luc Defait. Director Carl Schenkel. Screenwriter Brad Mirman.

My Cousin Vinnie (Palo Vista Prods.). Shooting in Georgia. “Ruthless People’s” Dale Launer wrote this comedy starring Joe Pesci as an overbearing New Jersey attorney who’s called on to clear his accused cousins. Producers Launer and Paul Schiff. Director Jonathan Lynn. Also stars Ralph Macchio and Fred Gwynne. Fall release.

Soulmates (Boomerang Pics.). Shooting in L.A. Tristan Rogers, Tyrone Power Jr. and Griffin O’Neal star in this darkly comic look at an immortal man who intermittently kills young women to keep alive the soul of his beloved but deceased wife. Producer Matt Devlen. Director Thunder Levin. Screenwriters James Hawkins, Adam Winston and Devlen. Also stars Arabella Holzbog, Dawn Wells (“Gilligan’s Island’s” Mary Ann), Paul Bartel and Tony Peck.