{"id":166149,"date":"2025-11-06T14:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/166149\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:02:08","slug":"warners-making-gremlins-3-with-steven-spielberg-chris-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/166149\/","title":{"rendered":"Warners Making ‘Gremlins 3’ With Steven Spielberg, Chris Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWarner Bros. is reviving the Gremlins<\/a> franchise after more than three decades and with a couple of powerhouse names back on board.<\/p>\n

\n\tWarner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav announced the greenlight of a new Gremlins film during the company\u2019s third-quarter earnings call on Thursday. <\/p>\n

\n\tZaslav said Steven Spielberg is back on board as executive producer through his company Amblin Entertainment. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe 1984 original film\u2019s writer, Chris Columbus, is also returning to produce and direct the film.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new Gremlins movie will be released Nov. 19, 2027. Upon release, it will be the first Gremlins movie in 37 years. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe first Gremlins movie was a dark horror comedy directed by Joe Dante and introduced an adorable creature called a Mogwai that\u2019s adopted as a pet by a suburban family. But when the creature\u2019s caretaking rules are broken, the Mogwai multiplies into an array of destructive green killer monsters. The film was a box office hit, produced for only $11 million and grossing $151 million domestically. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe film spawned a divisive sequel \u2014 which was also directed by Dante, but not written by Columbus. Released in 1990, Gremlins 2: The New Batch was a broad comedy set in New York City that brutally satirized the original film. The film only made $41 million at the box office and effectively halted the franchise. <\/p>\n

\n\tWarners and Amblin effectively tested modern-day interest in Gremlins with an animated series titled : Secrets of the Mogwai that was launched in 2023 and has aired two seasons on Max. <\/p>\n

\n\tGremlins 2 has also gained a certain level of cult appreciation since its release and has been championed by director Quentin Tarantino.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWith Gremlins 2, [Dante] was able to do a MAD Magazine take-off on the first Gremlins for the entire movie,\u201d Tarantino said (below). \u201cThey actually start goofing on every aspect of Christopher Columbus\u2019 original premise \u2026 and it was hysterical \u2026 it actually gets better every time you see it. It\u2019s the first of those gag-like movies to 100 percent work from beginning to end since Airplane!\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe notion of gremlins was first conceived during the 1920s when mechanical failures in Royal Air Force aircraft were jokingly blamed on the small monsters. The term \u201cgremlins\u201d also entered popular culture as children\u2019s author and RAF pilot Roald Dahl published a book called The Gremlins in 1943. Walt Disney considered adapting the project into a feature film, but it never got off the ground. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. is reviving the Gremlins franchise after more than three decades and with a couple of powerhouse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,95686,19,17,327],"class_list":{"0":"post-166149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-gremlins","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-movies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115503126452988662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}