Films beginning production this week :...

Films beginning production this week : THE HAUNTING OF HAMILTON HIGH (Higher Education Film Productions). Shooting in Edmonton, Canada. Horror-thriller about a girl who is accidentally killed on prom night back in 1957. She possesses a young girl and they both attend the senior prom in present time to wreak revenge. Producer Peter Simpson. Director Bruce Pittman. Screenwriter Ron Oliver. Stars Wendy Lyon, Terry Hawkes, Justin Louis and Brock Simpson. Distributor Simcom. Release date undetermined.

INNERSPACE (Warner Bros.). Shooting in Los Angeles and other California locales. Action-adventure-comedy on the unlikely relationship between a supermarket clerk and a hard-living test pilot. Executive producers Steven Spielberg, Peter Guber, Jon Peters, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall. Producer Michael Finnell. Director Joe Dante. Screenwriter Jeffrey Boam. Stars Dennis Quaid, Martin Short and Meg Ryan. Release date undetermined.

THE LAST EMPEROR (Recorded Pictures/Hemdale). Shooting in China and Italy. John Lone portrays Pu Yi, the Chinese emperor who ascended the throne at the age of 3 and died at the beginning of the cultural revolution in 1967. Producer Jeremy Thomas. Director Bernardo Bertolucci. Screenwriters Bertolucci, Mark Peploe and Enzo Ugari. Also stars Joan Chen and Peter O’Toole. Distributor Hemdale. Fall 1987 release.

LETHAL WEAPON (Silver Pictures Productions). Shooting in L.A. Two Vietnam vets turned cops are partnered to investigate a suicide that turns out to be a murder--and much more. Producers Richard Donner and Joel Silver. Director Donner. Screenwriter Shane Black. Stars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. Distributor Warner Bros. Release date undetermined.

ROBOT HOLOCAUST (Tycin Productions). Shooting in NYC. Futuristic action-adventure focusing on one man’s struggle against the destructive forces that control the earth’s survivors. Producer Cynthia DePaula. Director/screenwriter Tim Kincaid. Cast undetermined. Distributor Empire. Spring release.