office bomb,  and Sherwood Studios went bankrupt. After its release on video and  cable, however, BB became a cult favorite, much in the same way as  _Mad Max (1979)_ (qv) (which crawled from obscurity to spawn two  sequels). Legal wranglings due to the bankruptcy prevented any other  studios from picking up the sequel rights, and even years later MGM  had to fight through a pile of red tape simply to get the OK to  release it on DVD.