Previously announced Edward James Olmos is out...
Previously announced Edward James Olmos is out and Anthony Quinn is in as a Mexican drug czar who locks horns with Kevin Costner in Rastar’s “Revenge.†Olmos is about to announce his first project as a director in an Hispanic-themed drama. . . . It’ll be Victor Garber--he was Christ in the film version of “Godspellâ€--as Liberace in the CBS “Liberace†TV bio, to film in Toronto mid-August. ABC’s competing “Liberace†will start shooting here Aug. 8 with a “name performer†yet to be signed, the producers tell us. . . . Timothy Hutton wings to Italy to star in “Torrents of Spring,†a loose adaptation of the Ivan Turgenev drama. Jerzy Skolimowski directs Nastassja Kinski and newcomer Valeria Golino as Hutton’s romantic interests.
German film maker Percy Adlon (“Bagdad Cafeâ€) will make another comic observation on America in “Rosalie Goes Shopping,†which starts filming mid-September in Stuttgart, Ark. Again, he’s cast his favorite actress, Marianne Sagebrecht, in the title role--as woman using her wiles to balance a precarious family budget. . . . Larry Hankin, in addition to starring as a down-and-outer in L.A., wrote the script for “Behind the Eight Ball,†an independent comedy to film next month. Ruben Blades and Burt Young have also been set for key roles, with Tom Moody directing. . . . Just when you thought you’d seen Orson Welles’ last screen performance (in “Someone to Loveâ€), along comes word of “Jaded,†described as a drama about the people who hang out on the local Venice boardwalk. Written and directed by Oja Koder, Welles’ longtime companion and collaborator, it was recently completed with Welles’ appearance--from an unfinished version of “The Merchant of Veniceâ€--incorporated in novel fashion.
Boys of Summer Productions--Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis--just opened shop at Columbia, going before the cameras in NYC at the end of October in a “Ghostbusters II.†Ivan Reitman again produces/directs. . . .
Columnist Marilyn Beck’s roman a clef “Only Make Believe,†on the stands Nov. 1, will feature a character who’s a Hollywood gossip columnist--a “non-pivotal, not-autobiographical†character she tells us. . . . Michael Ontkean plays a dedicated physician whose wife becomes a big band singer during the 1940s in the Canadian production “Bye Bye Blues,†currently filming in Alberta. Canadian rock star Rebecca Jenkins plays the wife for writer-director Anne Wheeler.
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