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Gremlins was released into North American theaters on June 8, 1984, the same day as Ivan Reitman's Ghostbusters. Gremlins ranked second, with $12.5 million in its first weekend, $1.1 million less than Ghostbusters. By the end of its American screenings on November 29, it had grossed $148,168,459 domestically.
Gremlins is an American comedy horror media franchise produced and owned by Warner Bros. and Amblin Entertainment.The franchise centers on a species of creatures known as mogwai (Cantonese: 魔怪, 'devil'), which mutate into the eponymous creatures if the three rules regarding their care are violated; in particular, the franchise focuses on the conflict between the friendly Gizmo and the ...
Gremlin depicted in nose art of a Rockwell B-1 Lancer aircraft of the 28th Bomb Wing.. Although their origin is found in myths among airmen claiming that gremlins were responsible for sabotaging aircraft, the folklorist John W. Hazen states that some people derive the name from the Old English word gremian, "to vex", [5] while Carol Rose, in her book Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins ...
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The Lego Batman Movie features gremlins from the film Gremlins attacking a plane. In the Futurama episode "I Dated a Robot", the main characters watch a TV show entitled The Scary Door, which features a gremlin damaging a plane along with parodies of other story-lines from The Twilight Zone. In the season 7 episode, “Zapp Dingbat,” Zapp ...
Gremlins is an American animated fantasy adventure horror comedy television series. [2] Serving as a prequel to the eponymous 1984 film of the same name and its 1990 sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch , [ 3 ] the series is set in 1920s Shanghai , East China , and tells the story of how 10-year-old Sam Wing met Gizmo , a young Mogwai. [ 4 ]
Falling Hare is a 1943 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Bob Clampett. [1] The cartoon features Bugs Bunny. [2]In this film, Bugs Bunny tries to prevent the wrecking of an American military aircraft by a gremlin.
Among the recognizable gremlins are Leon Schlesinger (who is shown tapping the heads off of rivets with a hammer as he is being raised by a rope), [4] Bob Clampett (shown nude with a pickaxe), Friz Freleng (the little green gremlin sawing), Chuck Jones (the fat blonde haired gremlin who nearly hits Freleng with a mallet), Michael Maltese, Bob ...