Kathleen Turner will star in A&M; Films’...

Kathleen Turner will star in A&M; Films’ family drama “House of Cards,” due to start filming April 1 in North Carolina. The film will be directed by Michael Glattes and produced by Dale Pollock, Lianne Halfon and Wolfgang Glattes.

Roy Scheider and Sab Shimono head the cast of “Bar Sinister,” a fantasy-adventure that begins production in March in Malaysia, Thailand and London. Bar Sinister is a soldier-of-fortune comic-strip character. Joe Zito directs from a script by Flint Dille. Zito and Laurence Vanger produce for Eagle/Intermedia and Brault Holdings.

Tommy Davidson of Fox Broadcasting’s “In Living Color” has been cast in his first feature, Island Pictures’ “Go Beverly.” Director Rolando Hudson begins shooting in mid-March in New York. David Kappas, Andre Harrell and Pamela Gibson produce a script written by Gibson and journalist Nelson George.

Bill Paxton will star in Brooksfilms/MGM-Pathe’s “The Vagrant,” in which he portrays a yuppie who buys a new house and is terrorized by a vagrant, Marshall Bell, who used to live there. Michael Ironside, Colleen Camp and Patrika Darbo also star for director Chris Walas and executive producer Mel Brooks.

Laraine Newman joins John Ritter, Jack Warden and Michael Oliver in Imagine Entertainment/Universal’s “Problem Child II,” currently filming in Orlando, Fla.