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Here's the latest intelligence on secret projects, culled from printed reports, insider sources, and current buzz. ALIEN RESURRECTION (Twentieth Century Fox, September) Ripley's back...kind of. Alien doesn't stray far from familiar turf. Ripley -- or rather Ripley's clone -- teams up with a rogue posse of intergalactic smugglers (led by pixie-haired android Ryder) to do battle with everyone's favorite slime-drooling face hugger on a doomed spaceship.
EYES WIDE SHUT (Warner Bros., not yet scheduled) Will Cruise go drag? That's one of the reports to escape from the set of Eyes, which stars Cruise and Kidman as married psychiatrists who get sexually involved with their also-married patients (Jennifer Jason Leigh and Harvey Keitel). All Kubrick has said is that Eyes is a story of ''jealousy and sexual obsession.'' But the script, reportedly cowritten by Kubrick and Frederic Raphael, may be based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1927 book Rhapsody: A Dream Novel, a tale of a husband and wife's extramarital longings.
THE LOST WORLD (Universal, May 23) Spielberg and company have taken a number of liberties with Michael Crichton's best-seller. Picking up six years from where Jurassic left off, a group of trigger-happy businessmen grease a few scientists' palms to clone T. rexes and velociraptors for big-game hunting in California. Naturally, things go awry and the rampaging reptiles make mincemeat out of (ye gods!) San Diego. Jeff Goldblum reprises his role as Ian Malcolm.
