Tim Robbins plays a confused oddball who...

Tim Robbins plays a confused oddball who turns Robin Williams’ life topsy-turvy in Orion’s “Cadillac Man,” beginning principle photography later this month in the Big Apple. Ken Friedman’s screenplay delves into the bizarre world of a car salesmen, with thriller elements. Roger Donaldson directs. . . .

Andrew Dice Clay will be rubbing shoulders with some rock legends when he investigates murder in music city in Fox’s “Ford Fairlane,” filming locally in May. Already set for the ride in dramatic roles are David Bowie and Billy Idol with more music notables on the way. Renny Harlin directs the Jay Cappe-David Arnault screenplay. Cheryl Ladd stars as the single mother of a precocious 14-year-old who fantasizes a father figure in MGM’s “Lisa,” filming locally in May. Gary Sherman directs and co-wrote the suspense tale with writer Karen Clark. D.W. Moffett plays a man whose identity is not what it seems. . . .

James Spader comes under the evil aegis of Rob Lowe in Trans World’s “Bad Influence,” a Steve Tisch production going before the cameras next month. Curtis Hanson directs the yarn of misspent youth from an original screenplay by David Koepp. . . . Jason Miller will be back in Morgan Creek’s “Exorcist: 15 Years Later,” not as the dearly departed Father Karras he portrayed in 1973 but as “Patient X,” a man with an important clue about the identity of a ritualistic serial killer tracked by George C. Scott. Ed Flanders will don a cleric’s collar in the film written and directed by William Peter Blatty. . . . Scott Grimes and Sean Astin star in ITV Productions’ maiden theatrical effort “Our Time,” the unusual, funny and tragic relationship between two young men in a cancer ward. Gabe Sachs wrote and co-produces with David Shapiro. John Robbins directs. . . . Immediately following “Our Time,” Astin segues into Fox’s “War of the Roses” as the son of Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. . . .

Film maker Jonathon Kay (“Walking After Midnight”) makes his dramatic film debut in August with “Starlight,” the story of an alien sent to earth to contact a woman--the offspring of an earth woman and an alien. Rae Dawn Chong stars, with negotiations being completed for Kiefer Sutherland to play the alien. Also cast in the John Gray-Hart Hanson screenplay are Margot Kidder and Gordon Pinsent. . . . Harry Dean Stanton portrays a U.S. General embroiled in a smoldering international incident when commander Roy Scheider heats up a normally quiet border crossing patrolled by Soviet officer Jurgen Prochnow in Kodiak’s “The Fourth War.” John Frankenheimer directs. . . . Adrian Pasdar plays a third-year med student and son of a noted surgeon in the Fox comedy “Vital Signs,” which Marisa Silver directs next month in L.A. . . . Charles Fleischer, the voice and persona of Roger Rabbit, adds songwriting to his resume with two toons he penned for Disney’s forthcoming Lou Diamond Phillips-Corbin Bernsen comedy “Disorganized Crime.” Fleischer earlier co-wrote the Chaka Khan hit “So Naughty.”