Demi Moore is the woman with the...

Demi Moore is the woman with the heart of gold who encounters escaped criminals posing as priests--Robert De Niro and Sean Penn--in Paramount’s “We’re No Angels,” which films next month in British Columbia. Playwright David Mamet reworked the classic French farce by Albert Husson and reset it in a small American border town circa 1935. Neil Jordan directs for producer Art Linson. . . .

Sixties Redux: Mel Gibson stars as an ex-radical brought into the ‘80s by a hip female lawyer in Interscope-Universal’s “Bird on a Wire,” shooting in March. John Badham directs from a screenplay by Eric Lerner and Louis Venosta. . . . About the same time, Dennis Hopper will be in front of the cameras as a former political activist, presumed dead, whose reappearance threatens to create a scandal in Paramount’s “Flashback.” A tongue-in-cheek thriller, the action involves a young FBI agent’s task of keeping Hopper alive. David Loughery wrote the screenplay for producer Marvin Worth, with Italy’s Franco Amurri making his English-language directing debut. . . .

Richard Dreyfuss replaces Sean Connery in Cinecom’s “Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead,” filming in Toronto next month. Roger Rees, Robert Lindsay and Sting co-star in the film version of the Tom Stoppard play which marks the playwright’s feature directing debut. . . .

Newcomer Rebecca Harrell plays a young girl who discovers what she believes is a Christmas reindeer in Cineplex-Odeon’s “Prancer,” filming in Indiana next month. John Hancock directs the Greg Taylor script for producer Raffaella De Laurentiis. Sam Elliott and Cloris Leachman co-star. . . .

Elizabeth McGovern joins Natasha Richardson, Aidan Quinn and Robert Duvall in the cast of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a Cinecom release for producer Daniel Wilson. Shoots in N.C. next month. Volker Schlondorff directs Harold Pinter’s adaptation of the Margaret Atwood novel about a future society where, owing to a disease, only designated women are allowed to procreate. . . . William Hickey is the latest addition to Touchstone’s “Dick Tracy.” He’ll play the nasty B.B. Eyes. . . .

John Carpenter will direct Columbia’s “Pin Cushion,” a futurist yarn by John Raffo about two soldiers of fortune (one to be played by Cher) in a time of plague escorting the human antidote to a secret lab. Filming this summer for producer Scott Rudin. . . . Producer Joe Wizan will remake the 1965 Bette Davis thriller “The Nanny” at Universal. William Friedkin directs Steven Volk’s adaptation in which the title character terrorizes a young couple. . . . Emilio Estevez and Brad Wyman exec produce FilmAccord-National Lampoon’s “Family Dies,” a black comedy in which a lonely young man resurrects the perfect family for himself from a local graveyard. Video director Piers Ashworth wrote the screenplay and directs in April for producer Matty Simmons. . . . In Concorde’s “Our Little Angel,” to shoot in March, the Barbarian Brothers will play truckers who are unwittingly transporting a nuclear weapon and who pick up a pre-teen hitch-hiker who’s escaped from a CIA think tank. John Turtletaub directs for producer Brad Krevoy. . . .