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MGM has filed suit against the writer, Earl Mac Rauch, and the director, Walter Richter, to clarify who has the rights to make a television version of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension The 1984 cult classic starred Peter Weller as the titular character, a rock star / inventor / brain surgeon and his band[...]

  I imagine this'll be a Kickstarter that launches a thousand news stories with clever quotes in the title, and there's a good reason for that:

It seems Kevin Smith enjoy his directing stint on the Flash enough that now he wants his own TV series… and Deadline is reporting that the Clerks director/writer and MGM may be close to a deal with Amazon to bring back Buckaroo Banzai. This is still in the development stage, but if the deal can be[...]

Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) is taking on the role of video game icon Laura Croft in a new Tomb Raider film by Warner Bros and MGM Tomb Raider was created by Eidos in 1996 that grew into a multi-game franchise and two feature films starring Angelina Jolie In 2013, the game franchise was rebooted by[...]

One of the all-time classic films, Ben-Hur, is being remade by MGM and will feature Boardwalk Empire's Jack Huston in the title role as Judah Ben-Hur Joining him in the cast are Tony Kebbell, Ayelet Zurer and Morgan Freeman The video below is a featurette for the film that lays out the story of the[...]

Alan Moore recently called on readers to eschew the film Hercules, based upon comics written by his close friend Steve Moore, on the basis that Steve did

We've now learned that Radical have been instructed by MGM not to respond to the story of Alan Moore's accusations This is why, even as the story raced across social media, we received no responses from them regarding our enquiries. C0-founder of Radical, and one mentioned in a negative fashion by Alan Moore in the interview, is Dave[...]

While Brendon gets progressively more ill, Michael Moran writes for Bleeding Cool: Hard on the metal-encased heels of the news that a statue of the cyborg crimefighter is to be erected in Detroit, news reaches us that Robocop will also be returning to the cinema. Paul Verhoeven's darkly satirical 1987 movie spawned a brace of more[...]