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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 ...
The Gremlins is a children's book, written by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1943 by Random House for Walt Disney and serialized in Cosmopolitan . [ 3 ] It was Dahl's first children's book, and was written for Walt Disney Productions , as a promotional device for a feature-length animated film that was never made.
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.
It's time to meet the Wing family in HBO Max's Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai.The upcoming animated series follows the close-knit Wing clan in the Gremlins prequel as it unlocks the mystery of ...
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 ...
Sam, his parents and Elle know they need retrieve the magical knife from the creature if they want to turn the gremlins back into cutesy mogwai (and you know, save the city and whatnot). With ...
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 ...
Articles related to gremlins and their depictions in fiction.Gremlins are mischievous folkloric creatures that cause malfunctions in aircraft or other machinery. The term "gremlin", denoting a mischievous creature that sabotages aircraft, originates in Royal Air Force (RAF) slang among the British pilots stationed in Malta, the Middle East, Australia, Canada, and India in the 1920s, with the ...