Crystal gazing: Billy Crystal plays half of...

Crystal gazing: Billy Crystal plays half of the title roles in Castle Rock’s “Boy Meets Girl,” to film in August. Director Rob Reiner describes the story as “what men and women go through to fall in love.” Nora Ephron wrote the script (formerly titled “Isn’t It Romantic”) and we can hardly wait to see who plays “girl.” . . . Bruce Dern is an ex-Marine who takes a decidedly military approach to ridding his neighborhood of an unbelievably boorish new resident in Universal’s dark comedy “The ‘burbs.” Dern joins equally harried neighbors Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher. Starts next month.

Rock ‘n’ roll is here to stay: Warners is developing “Young Men With Unlimited Capital,” the story of the four guys who put together the 1969 Woodstock festival. Written by John Byrum, it will mark editor Billy Weber’s (“Beverly Hills Cop,” “Top Gun”) directing debut and, in case you wondered, the story concludes as the concert begins. . . . And then there’s “Rock Law,” a futuristic yarn set to shoot in Australia this summer: Renegade warriors are enlisted to save rock music against the forces of cultural repression. Kiss’ Gene Simmons plays the leader of this band. . . . Not to be outdone, Concorde has a late summer start on a rock-horror hybrid titled “Transylvania Twist.” Charles Griffith, who did the original “Little Shop of Horrors,” will write and direct this morsel.

Director Francis Coppola’s segment of Touchstone’s “New York Stories” will center on how tough it is to be a preteen in Manhattan. Appropriately, he’s collaborated on the script with his 16-year-old daughter, Sofia. . . .

The landscape is teaming with teamings of stars with Japanese: Awaiting release, Jay Leno teamed with Pat Morita as a U.S.-Japanese cop combo on the trail of international killers in America for DEG’s “Collision Course.” Now, Michael Douglas is set to team with a Japanese cop in Japan for Paramount’s “Black Rain.” And Cannon has a June start for “Kinjite” a.k.a. “Forbidden Subjects,” starring Charles Bronson as a U.S. cop who teams with a Japanese businessman in solving the case of his daughter’s abduction. J. Lee Thompson directs.