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MGM Files Suit Against BUCKAROO BANZAI Writer/Director Team Over TV Rights

November 28, 2016 Rich Drees

And Writer/Director Kevin Smith drops out of the TV project [click for more]

W D Richter Speaks More On BUCKAROO BANZAI Rights Issue

October 13, 2016 Rich Drees

Last week, we broke the story of the rights issues that may hold up MGM moving forward on a planned TV series for Amazon based on the 1984 cult classic The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai: [click for more]

Rights Issues Stymie BUCKAROO BANZAI Amazon Series

October 4, 2016 Rich Drees

The announced adaptation of the cult classic for Amazon Studios could be hitting a road block. [click for more]

BUCKAROO BANZAI Director W. D. Richter: Ancient Secrets & New Mysteries – Part 1

October 4, 2016 Rich Drees

We talk to the director of the 1980s cult film The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai: Across The Eighth Dimension. In part 1 we learn how he met the film’s screenwriter Earl Mac Rauch, and how Rauch first pitched him the idea of a “country western, action adventure serial.” [click for more]