Martin Landau joins in Tribeca Productions’ “Mistress,”...

Martin Landau joins in Tribeca Productions’ “Mistress,” a darkly comic tale about Hollywood has-beens trying to get a movie off the ground. A major obstacle develops when everyone’s mistress wants to be in the movie. Actor Barry Primus makes his directorial debut with a script he wrote with J. F. Lawton. Production starts in February in L.A. Meir Teperand Ruth Charny produce and Robert De Niro executive produces and makes a cameo appearance.

Mary Stuart Masterson stars as a rebellious woman on the lam in Just Betzer Productions’ “Vanished,” scheduled to shoot July 1, probably in Atlanta. Dutch director/cinematographer Kees van Oostrum directs Thom Thomas’ screen adaptation of Mary McGarry Morris’ novel about a makeshift family of misfits traveling rootlessly across rural America.

Writer-director Zalman King (“Wild Orchid”) continues his pursuit of cinematic eroticism with “Blue Movie Blue,” a drama shooting in L.A., starring Wendy Hughes, Robert Davi, Joe Dallesandro, Tom Skerritt and Brent Fraser. Set in Central California in 1958, the story concerns a young woman, played by Nina Siemaszko, who turns to prostitution after her father dies. David Saunders and Rafi Eisenman produce.

Tim Thomerson will reprise his role as a futuristic cop in “Tracers II,” Full Moon Productions’ sequel to the 1985 cult sci-fi social thriller. Helen Hunt and Art Lafleur also star for director Charles Band. The script is by Jackson Barr. Production gets underway in L.A. Jan. 15.

Julie Carmen will star in Concorde’s “Kiss Me a Killer,” a thriller set in East L.A., in which a dangerous love triangle quickly turns into a deadly game of murder. Mike Elliott will produce and Marcus DeLeon direct a script by Christopher Wooden. Production gets underway next month.

San Francisco 49ers star running back Roger Craig, who makes his movie debut in Concorde’s “Naked Ambition” opening next month, will star this spring in Ashby Productions’ caper comedy “Mary Eight.” He plays an LAPD motorcycle cop involved in a bank robbery by eight females. Clyde Ware directs his own script.

The Barbarian Brothers, Peter and David Paul, weigh in for their third film, Motion Picture Corp. of America’s “Twice as Hard,” a tongue-in-cheek action-adventure directed by John Paragon (“Pee Wee’s Playhouse”). Roddy McDowall, Collin Bernsen and “Star Trek’s” James Doohan co-star for producers Brad Krevoy and Steven Stabler. Filming is underway in L.A.

A recent item about “For the Boys” starring Bette Midler failed to mention Linda Laub as one of the screenwriters.