Casting call trumps cattle call

When Hollywood calls, Val Kilmer gets moving.

Kilmer has put part of his 6,000-acre Pecos River Ranch near Santa Fe, N.M., on the market. The actor, a native of L.A., has listed about 1,800 acres at $18 million because he will soon star in two films shooting back to back and “won’t be able to spend as much time on the ranch as he would like,” said his publicist Christina Papadopoulos.

The ranch, once owned by actress Greer Garson and her husband, Buddy Fogelson, is in high-desert canyon country and looks as if it’s straight out of the Old West. The Santa Fe Trail runs through it, and there are four miles of trout-filled river as well as fields of wildflowers and ponderosa-lined limestone cliffs. There is wildlife -- deer, turkeys, black bears, cougars, beavers, eagles and falcons.

The part of the ranch Kilmer is selling has a log-and-stucco ranch house with four bedrooms and four bathrooms in 5,600 square feet and two guest cottages. Each cottage is about 1,000 square feet and has one bedroom and one bathroom.

There are extensive staff quarters, heated stables, foaling barns and corrals. Kilmer said that he grew up riding horses in Chatsworth and has several on the ranch, which feeds more than 100 animals, among them buffalo and llamas that roam the property.

Two tracts are available. As separate purchases, the one with the house and stables on nearly 963 acres with three miles of river is listed at $14 million; the other, about 842 acres with three-quarters of a mile of river, is listed at $7 million.

On the land he is keeping, Kilmer plans “to build another home to his own specifications,” Papadopoulos said. The actor said that he wants to build a house that will be eco-friendly and hopes to include wind power and solar energy.

Kilmer, 46, has lived in New Mexico for more than 20 years, eight of which were on his ranch. Known to stay at the Chateau Marmont when in L.A., he now rents a house.

He will star in Jerry Bruckheimer’s “Deja Vu” with Denzel Washington and in “Dark Matter” with Meryl Streep. The movies are expected to be filmed this year.

Santa Fe-based Garrett and Annie VeneKlasen of InterAngler are handling the listing.

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Hollywood Hills passes doc’s exam

Khandi Alexander, who performs those blood-and-guts autopsies on “CSI: Miami,” has purchased a Hollywood Hills home for close to its $3-million asking price.

Alexander, once a Broadway chorus line dancer, bought a contemporary Mediterranean built in 1991. It has four bedrooms and 4 1/2 bathrooms in 5,000 square feet.

It also has five fireplaces, a pool, a spa, a patio and a three-car garage.

The home is in the hills overlooking the Sunset Strip and has views from downtown L.A. to the ocean.

Alexander, 48, was Whitney Houston’s choreographer before going on tour in 1998 as Velma Kelly in the stage musical “Chicago.” Alexander joined “CSI” in 2002 as chief medical examiner Alexx Woods.

Mark Wollman of Hilton & Hyland, affiliated with Christie’s Great Estates, Beverly Hills, had the listing.

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Trading L.A. for L.R. (Little Rock)

Now that they’ve sold their Hollywood Heights cottage for slightly more than its asking price of $690,000, Lisa Blount and Ray McKinnon plan to buy a house in her hometown of Little Rock, Ark., and rent at the beach when visiting L.A.

The house they sold has one bedroom in 990 square feet. The cottage, built in 1935, has a wood-burning fireplace, vaulted ceilings and a patio. There is a guest quarters with a small kitchen and a separate entrance.

McKinnon, who has a recurring role as a preacher in the HBO series “Deadwood,” wrote, directed and starred in the Oscar-winning best short film “The Accountant” (2001), which Blount produced.

McKinnon also wrote and directed the movie “Chrystal” (2004), in which Blount costarred with Billy Bob Thornton. Blount played Lynette Pomeroy, the husband hunter whose feigned pregnancy leads to a suicide, in the movie “An Officer and a Gentleman” (1982).

Joseph Reichling of Sotheby’s International Realty, Sunset, had the listing, and Mark Odell of Geary Family Real Estate represented the buyer.

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In Beverly Hills, a no Wynn situation

Las Vegas hotel-casino developer Steve Wynn had plans two years ago to build a Beverly Hills house, presumably as a retreat. He apparently has changed his mind.

The 25,000-square-foot lot where he intended to construct the home is on the market at $7.25 million. Stephen Shapiro at Westside Estate Agency, Beverly Hills, has the listing, according to the Multiple Listing Service.

A former longtime home of Wynn’s is also on the market, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The four-bedroom, 12,000-plus-square-foot Vegas mansion is listed at $25 million. Meanwhile, Wynn is ensconced in a villa at his new Wynn Las Vegas hotel-casino, the newspaper said.

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Flea makes jump from Los Feliz

Flea plans to flee Los Feliz. (How many times can you say that in 30 seconds?)

Bassist Michael Balzary, better known as Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, has listed his Los Feliz pied-a-terre at just under $1.2 million.

A founding member of the funk-rock band in 1983, Flea, 43, lives in Malibu and doesn’t use his in-town house much.

The home has three bedrooms or two bedrooms and a den in 1,700 square feet. The traditional-style house also has a sunken living room. It will be open today from 1 to 4 p.m.

The band has produced eight studio albums. The ninth, “Stadium Arcadium,” is to be released in May. The Chili Peppers have sold nearly 50 million copies of their albums worldwide.

Catia Salvadori and Sherri Rogers at Sotheby’s International Realty, Los Feliz, have the listing.