Martin Landau plays a painter frustrated by...

Martin Landau plays a painter frustrated by his inability to create an inspired work of art in Christara Pictures’ “The Color of Evening.” Tamara Lynn Roth and Hesper Anderson’s screenplay is based on a novel by Robert Nathan (whose “Portrait of Jenny” and “The Bishop’s Wife” were turned into films in the ‘40s). Writer-producer Stephen Thomas Stafford rolls cameras in Southern California July 16.

Apollonia will star opposite martial artist Larry Tatum as an undercover agent in Red Rock Productions’ “Thunder and Lightning,” a spy thriller with a martial arts setting. Debra Thornton and Audrey Meadows co-star for producer Jan Leonard and director John Stewart. Production begins Sept. 20 in Baja California, Mexico, and L.A.

Lisa Pelikan will play the only adult role in Columbia’s “Return to the Blue Lagoon,” which is getting under way in Fiji. She plays a young mother, who is put to sea with her infant daughter and the surviving male child from the previous film when cholera breaks out on the rescue ship. Milla Jovovich, a Russian-born model, and Brian Krause will play the two young people stranded on an uncharted island in a film that sounds more like a remake than a sequel. William A. Graham will direct the Leslie Stevens screenplay for Price Entertainment.

Meanwhile, Christopher Atkins, who co-starred with Brooke Shields in the original “Blue Lagoon,” has written his first feature script, “Fire, Ice and My Wife,” which he’ll star in for Florida-based Quest Studios. The film is described as a light-hearted look at today’s romantic relationships. Producer-director Hugh Parks launches production in August in Florida.

Collin Bernsen, younger brother of Corbin and son of Jeanne Cooper, who has appeared in the day-time soap “The Young and the Restless” for 17 years, joins the cast of “Hangfire,” currently filming in the L.A. area. The film, which also stars Brad Davis, Kim Delaney, George Kennedy, Jan-Michael Vincent, Lyle Alzado and Lou Ferrigno, is being directed by Peter Maris and produced by Brad Krevoy and Steven Stabler for the Motion Picture Corp. of America.

David Rasche and Joseph Mahar join Sheryl Lee Ralph and Glenn Plummer in Hollywood Pictures’ “Randall & Juliet” (expect a title change) as back-stabbing corporate executives. However, Richard Dreyfuss left the picture last week, citing “creative differences.” His departure will force writer-director Coline Serreau and producer Laurence Marks to postpone the July 9 start date for the Buena Vista release while they cast a new male lead. The film will probably go in September.

Finally, honors for the best movie title of the week go to writer-director Philippe Mora’s “Pterodactyl Woman From Brentwood.” Brion James and John Dennis Johnston will star in this satire of Brentwood Yuppie life. The title role is still uncast. Mora and his co-producer Michael Duffy will launch production in late September for the Really Unbelievable Picture Co. in--where else?--Brentwood.