Its recent films include "Platoon," "Robocop," "No Way Out" and "Throw Momma From the Train," and its television series include "Cagney and Lacey."

It is the third and final film in Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, which also included Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989).

MGM did not acquire the Hemdale films, however, (which includes The Terminator, Hoosiers, and Platoon) until it bought the Epic Productions library in 1998.

Other successful Orion films in recent years include "Platoon," "Mississippi Burning" and "Mermaids."

The Platoon Headquarters includes the PL, PSG, along with the PL's Radio-Telephone Operator (RTO), Platoon Forward Observer (FO), the FO's RTO and the Platoon Medic.

Mr. Stone, whose films include "Platoon," "Born on the Fourth of July" and "J.F.K.," also made the Castro documentary "Commandante."

Oliver Stone, the writer and director whose hits include "Wall Street" and "Platoon," has agreed to direct the project.

The company's hits include "Platoon," "RoboCop" and "Bull Durham," but in 1989 and the first half of 1990 it issued a series of flops, including "Valmont" and "Everybody Wins."

This season Oliver Stone, whose films include "J.F.K." and "Platoon," is acting as executive producer for "Wild Palms," a six-part "event series" on ABC.

Orion's popular releases include "Platoon," "Dances With Wolves" and "Silence of the Lambs," but it has made far more money losers, including "Robocop 3," "Clifford" and "Car 54, Where Are You?"