Oliver Stone returns to the Philippines this...

Oliver Stone returns to the Philippines this fall for Universal’s “Born on the 4th of July,” the story of paraplegic Vietnam War Marine Ron Kovic. Kovic co-wrote the screenplay with Stone. At one time it was to star Al Pacino. Negotiations are under way for Tom Cruise. . . . Add two more Oscar winners--Shirley MacLaine and Olympia Dukakis--to the cast of “Steel Magnolias.” Starts filming in July in Louisiana. . . . Ted Danson and Isabella Rossellini are “Cousins” in the Americanization of the French comedy “Cousin, Cousine.” Shoots in Vancouver for Paramount in late May. The yarn of infidelity and blood ties casts Sean Young and William Petersen as their legal mates and Norma Aleandro as Rossellini’s mother. Joel Schumacher directs the William Allyn production, adapted by playwright Stephen Metcalfe.

Carolco is about to start “Watchers,” starring Corey Haim as a young man who befriends a canine that’s escaped from a hush-hush government experiment. Everything is blissful until a mutant mutt is sent to sniff them out. David Hess directs. To shoot in Vancouver.

Mama Anne Ramsey plays a gravedigger with real-life husband Logan Ramsey in “Dr. Hackenstein.” The title character, played by David Muir, is a medico who rebuilds his wife using very human body parts. Phyllis Diller is the mother of several missing kids in the film, written and directed by Richard Clark. . . . Columbia’s “Nightlife,” literally a teen-age zombie comedy, pits newcomers Scott Grimes and Cheryl Pollak against their classmates. David Eaton directs.