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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 ...
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 ]
The original Gremlins was a financial success, and Warner Bros. asked its director Joe Dante to make a sequel straight away. Dante declined, because he saw Gremlins as having a proper ending, and thus a sequel would only be meant to be profitable. Moreover, the original film was a taxing experience for Dante, and he wanted to move on.
The initial film draws on legends of folkloric mischievous creatures that cause malfunctions—"gremlins"—in the British Royal Air Force, going back to World War II. The film's story follows young man Billy Peltzer, who receives a strange creature as a pet, which then spawns other creatures that transform into aggressive imp -like monsters ...
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Ivan Reitman was born in the town of Komárno, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), on October 27, 1946, the son of Klara (Raab) and Ladislav "Leslie" Reitman. [1] Both of Reitman's parents were Hungarian Jews; his mother survived the Auschwitz concentration camp, and his father was an underground resistance fighter.