'Gremlins 3' is real: Steven Spielberg, Chris Columbus reuniting for 2027 Mogwai movie

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More Mogwai mayhem is on the way.A third “Gremlins” movie is officially in the works and eyeing a theatrical release ahead of the 2027 holiday season, Warner Bros.

Discovery President and Chief Executive David Zaslav announced Thursday during the company’s third-quarter earnings call.The upcoming project is set to hit theaters Nov.

19, 2027, and will reunite original “Gremlins” scribe Chris Columbus with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, which produced the first two “Gremlins” films.Columbus will direct and produce the film and Spielberg returns as an executive producer, Zaslav said.

The new “Gremlins” film will be franchise’s first movie in more than 30 years.Columbus will write the script with “Final Destination Bloodlines” directing duo Zach Lipovsky and Adam B.

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Wing and reclaiming “the somewhat throwaway origins” of the Mogwai in their new animated show on Max.Oscar nominee Columbus introduced audiences to the mysterious and maniacal ways of the Mogwai — furry, wide-eyed bipeds with giant ears — with the release of “Gremlins” in 1984.The first film, directed by Joe Dante, established the three nonnegotiables of Mogwai care: Don’t get them wet, don’t feed them after midnight and don’t expose them to bright light.

Both the 1984 release and its 1990 sequel, also directed by Dante but written by Charles S.Haas, tracks the havoc that arises when the first two rules are ignored, from unstoppable spawning to unruly mutation into Gremlins.

The “Gremlins” films starred Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Howie Mandel as the voice of two-toned Mogwai Gizmo and Frank Welker as the voices of the films’ antagonists.Though it has been decades since the last “Gremlins” movie hit the big screen, the furballs got their own spotlight in the 2023 anima...