Faces to Watch in ’96 : The Year’s in Their Hands : Well, maybe not just theirs (notice we don’t list Jim Carrey). But these artists and entertainers--some you know, some you don’t--are most likely to make some kind of splash in ’96. Ready? Everybody into the pool. : MOVIES : Stacey Snider

After struggling in recent years, TriStar Pictures could be on the verge of a production boom in 1996.

Movies starring Barbra Streisand, Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes and Danny DeVito are either being shot or scheduled for principal photography in the coming months. And, big-budget sci-fi movies “Godzilla” and “Starship Troopers” are in the wings, as is a remake of “Zorro” with Antonio Banderas.

One of the key players in TriStar’s saga--one who has worked largely out of the limelight alongside studio chief Mark Canton and TriStar President Marc Platt--is Stacey Snider, the 34-year-old president of production. Snider’s group of executives has the job of finding scripts to feed the studio’s pipeline. “What my group does is provide makable screenplays,” she says.

She played a role in developing the critically praised “Devil in a Blue Dress” and the current box office hit “Jumanji.”

“There have been years we scrambled,” Snider concedes. “But right now we have depth in the program.”