CORMAN BACK IN DIRECTOR'S CHAIR WITH `HE'S BACK'.

Byline: Daily News Wire Services

Cult film legend Roger Corman will direct the dramatic thriller ``He's Back,'' about neo-Nazis trying to clone Adolph Hitler. The $3.5 million film will be shot in Los Angeles this fall, according to Corman. Corman rarely directs these days; one of his most recent directing efforts was 1990's ``Frankenstein Unbound'' starring Bridget Fonda, John Hurt and Raul Julia. Corman has helmed hundreds of films and given opportunities to other directors such as James Cameron, Jonathan Demme and Francis Ford Coppola.

Fiennes takes `Ivanov' home: Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes will lead the cast of the first foreign production of a Chekhov play to be seen at Moscow's historic Maly Theater. Fiennes, who has been Oscar-nominated for his role in ``The English Patient,'' will play the title role in British playwright David Hare's version of Anton Chekhov's first and little-known play, ``Ivanov.'' Fiennes has been starring in the role at the Almeida Theater in London. Jonathan Kent's critically acclaimed staging of the play caught the attention of the Maly Theater, which has invited the Almeida Theater Company to give three performances April 24-26. The Maly, Russia's oldest theater, last staged ``Ivanov'' more than 35 years ago.

Hot sales trio to front Junos: Celine Dion, Shania Twain and Alanis Morissette are expected to dominate the 26th annual Juno Awards, which will honor the best in Canadian music. The three artists, who have sold 50 million albums among them worldwide, are slated to receive the first-ever International Achievement Award at the Juno celebration in Hamilton, Ontario. Quebec singer Dion will challenge in six Juno categories, Ontario's Morissette will compete in three. Twain, who also hails from Ontario, has two nominations heading into the ceremony. Other multiple nominees include Bryan Adams with four nominations, and Ashley MacIssac and Amanda Marshall with three each.

On the road to `Psychoville': ``Trainspotting's'' Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller and Jude Law (``Shopping'') are set to star in ``Psychoville,'' a satirical contemporary thriller based on the novel by Chris Fowler.