Cinefile : Outtakes : Pop Eye

Pixie Tracey Ullman gets star billing in Tri-Star’s “I Love You to Death,” the true, if unlikely story of a New Jersey housewife who plots her philandering husband’s murder but, instead, falls in love with him again. The black comedy (a one-time Anne Bancroft vehicle to be directed by her hubby Mel Brooks) is being written/directed by Lawrence Kasden in April with Kevin Kline set to play the errant spouse. . . .

Kevin Bacon stars in Trans World’s “Johnny Destiny Turns on the Radio,” a love story with film noir and weirdly comic twists to film in Las Vegas in April. Lawrence Turman directs the Turman/Foster production based on an original screenplay by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone. . . .

Missing in acting for three years, Jon Voight goes before the cameras shortly in Avatar Prods.’ “Eternity,” a romantic epic spanning several centuries. Voight co-wrote the story with Steven Paul and Stuart Paul, the former Paul also producing/directing. Eileen Davidson stars as the woman whom Voight must convince that he’s loved before in another time. Armand Assante plays a shadowy figure who has thwarted their bliss throughout time. . . .