Films beginning production this week :HOUSE...

Films beginning production this week :

HOUSE II: THE SECOND STORY (Cunningham Productions). Shooting in L.A. Comedy-horror sequel about a young man who inherits--and then does battle with--an evil old house. Producer Sean S. Cunningham. Director/screenwriter Ethan Wiley. Stars Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark, Lar Park Lincoln, Royal Dano and Amy Yasbeck. Distributor New World. Release date undetermined.

NICE GIRLS DON’T EXPLODE (The Nice Girls Co.). Shooting in Lawrence, Kans. A comedy about the world’s most overprotective mother and her quest to keep her 19-year-old daughter away from boys. Producers Doug Curtis and John Wells. Director Chuck Martinez. Screenwriter Paul Harris. Stars Barbara Harris, Wallace Shawn and Michelle Meyrink. Distributor undetermined. Spring release.

THREE KINDS OF HEAT (Cannon Films). Shooting in New York and London. An Interpol agent enlists two wily female associates to bolster up his efforts to shake down the Asian Mafia. Producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus. Director Leslie Stevens. Screenwriters Stevens and Tudor Gates. Stars Robert Ginty, Victoria Barrett and Shakti Chen. Release date undetermined.

WILDFIRE (Zupnik Enterprises/Jody Ann Productions). Shooting in Marin County. A suspenseful and passionate account of ill-fated lovers, their fragmented lives and sexual obsessions. Executive producer Stanley R. Zupnik. Producers Jerry Tokofsky and Jack Bernstein. Director/screenwriter Zalmann King. Stars Steven Bauer and Linda Fiorentino. Distributor undetermined. Winter ’87 release.