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See - Sada Elbalad
5 hours ago
- Entertainment
- See - Sada Elbalad
"Gremlins 3" Gets Promising Update
Yara Sameh 'Gremlins' lead actor Zach Galligan recently said during an appearance at Comic-Con Manchester (via Games Radar) that Warner Bros. is 'incredibly interested' in 'Gremlins 3.' Not only that, but the script is on the desk of executive producer Steven Spielberg and awaiting his sign-off. Galligan played the lead role of Billy Peltzer in 1984's 'Gremlins' and 1990's 'Gremlins 2: The New Batch.' 'After 35 years, they've come up with a script,'Galligan said. 'Warner Bros. is incredibly interested in doing it, apparently it's waiting on Mr. Spielberg to read it and approve it. But you can thank the success of 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.'' Warner Bros. released 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' in theaters in September 2024 to the tune of $452 million at the worldwide box office. Like 'Gremlins,' Tim Burton's original 'Beetlejuice' was a beloved movie classic from the 1980s. 'Gremlins' has franchised with the 1990 sequel and various video games. An animated series, subtitled 'Secrets of the Mogwai' for Season 1 and 'The Wild Batch' for Season 2, started airing on HBO Max in 2023, with the last batch of new episodes hitting the streamer earlier this year in April. Galligan had a recurring guest voice role on the animated series. In an April interview with Deadline, Warner Bros. Pictures co-chief Pam Abdy let it slip that the studio was working with Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment on 'developing new entries in the 'Gremlins' and 'Goonies' franchises.' News broke earlier in the year that Potsy Ponciroli had been hired to write the script for 'Goonies 2,' with Spielberg returning as a producer. As far as 'Gremlins 3,' no writer or director has been announced for the project by Warner Bros. The original 'Gremlins,' which famously led to the creation of the PG-13 rating along with Spielberg's 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,' was a box office hit with $212 million dollars worldwide. The sequel was less successful with $41 million but became a cult classic. read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha News Israeli-Linked Hadassah Clinic in Moscow Treats Wounded Iranian IRGC Fighters Arts & Culture "Jurassic World Rebirth" Gets Streaming Date News China Launches Largest Ever Aircraft Carrier News Ayat Khaddoura's Final Video Captures Bombardment of Beit Lahia Videos & Features Tragedy Overshadows MC Alger Championship Celebration: One Fan Dead, 11 Injured After Stadium Fall Business Egyptian Pound Undervalued by 30%, Says Goldman Sachs Lifestyle Get to Know 2025 Eid Al Adha Prayer Times in Egypt Arts & Culture South Korean Actress Kang Seo-ha Dies at 31 after Cancer Battle Arts & Culture Lebanese Media: Fayrouz Collapses after Death of Ziad Rahbani Sports Get to Know 2025 WWE Evolution Results
Perth Now
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Gremlins 3 waiting on Spielberg script approval
Gremlins 3 has a script and is waiting on approval from Steven Spielberg. Gremlins lead actor Zach Galligan has revealed that Warner Bros is 'incredibly interested' in making a follow up to 1984's Gremlins 2 and are just waiting on executive producer Spielberg to approve the script. According to Games Radar, Galligan – who played Billy Peltzer in Gremlins and it's sequel - said during an appearance at Comic-Con Manchester: 'After 35 years, they've come up with a script. Warner Bros. is incredibly interested in doing it, apparently it's waiting on Mr. Spielberg to read it and approve it. But you can thank the success of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.' Back in April, Warner Bros. Pictures co-chief Pam Abdy, revealed new entries in the Gremlins franchise were in the works. She told Deadline: 'Adding to things we're excited about, Andy Serkis doing the Gollum film, Drew Goddard writing a new Matrix. We're super excited about Amblin developing with Chris Columbus new entries in the Gremlins and Goonies franchises. We just had a dynamite check-in with Philippa Boyens on Gollum, and I think we're about to get that script in May. Cat in the Hat and the second Dr. Seuss adaptation Jon M. Chu is co-directing … there's really great stuff on the horizon.' Gremlins was a horror comedy directed by Joe Dante from a script written by Chris Columbus. The first movie starred Galligan, Phoebe Cates and Hoyt Axton with Howie Mandel voicing the character of Gizmo. In the film, Galligan's character is gifted a mogwai named Gizmo but things go horribly wrong after he fails to follow the three strict rules for looking after him.
Geek Tyrant
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
GREMLINS 3 Script Is Written and Ready to Go, but It's Waiting on Steven Spielberg's Greenlight — GeekTyrant
Several months ago we learned that Gremlins 3 was in development, and now it seems like its very close to going into production. According to Zach Galligan, who played Billy Peltzer in the original Gremlins films, the third installment has a completed script. All that's left is a thumbs-up from Steven Spielberg. Speaking at Comic-Con Manchester, Galligan told fans, 'After 35 years, they've come up with a script. Warner Bros. is incredibly interested in doing it, apparently it's waiting on Mr. Spielberg to read it and approve it.' That's big news for fans of the mischievous Mogwai. Galligan also pointed to the success of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice as the driving force behind the revival of legacy sequels. That movie brought back Michael Keaton nearly four decades after Tim Burton's original, and now Warner Bros. seems hungry to revisit more of its classic IPs, including Gremlins 3 and a new The Goonies sequel. Back in April, Warner Bros. Pictures co-chair/CEO Pam Abdy said, 'We're super excited about Amblin developing with Chris Columbus new entries in the Gremlins and Goonies franchises.' If these films are going to actually happen, I just hope that the stories and scripts are strong! I think it's pretty wild that we actually might be getting a Gremlin's 3 movie and it will be interesting to see what story it will tell. This isn't the first time Gremlins 3 has sparked excitement. The film has been in some form of development hell for years, with Chris Columbus, who wrote the original film and directed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone , frequently championing the project. In fact, back in 2017, Columbus revealed he was 'aggressively working' on a 'twisted and dark script' with writer Carl Ellsworth. Importantly, Columbus has made it clear that Gremlins 3 would not be a reboot. It's a direct sequel and he even said in 2020 that the team would stick with practical effects rather than CGI, using classic puppets and animatronics to bring the creatures to life once again. If Spielberg gives his seal of approval and things move quickly, filming could begin next year. That means we might finally see Gremlins 3 hit theaters in 2027. Until then, you can stream Gremlins and Gremlins: The New Batch now on Amazon Prime. Keep your Mogwai dry, and stay tuned for more updates. Via: TikTok
The Guardian
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Big sharks, coded love letters, a movie fiasco: the strange Australian chapter of celebrity cowboy writer Zane Grey
The story begins with a shadow beneath the waves. A great white, pitiless and silent. Dorsal fin like a mean knife. Eyes dark and empty. The setting: a tight-knit coastal town where the locals are being picked off, one by one. They need a hero – a man with the audacity to challenge a legend. There's blood in the water. The cameras are rolling. Movie history is being made. Behind the scenes, it's chaos. There's a mechanical shark that barely resembles a living creature, and is far more trouble than it's worth. The production is beset by so many delays and accidents it begins to feel cursed. But the crew push on. There's a lot riding on this big fish film: fortunes, careers, legacies. You know this story. Or you think you do. But rewind the reel: this isn't Jaws, and Spielberg is nowhere in sight. We're in Australia, four decades earlier – drifting in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef. The film is White Death (1936), and the man calling the shots is a celebrity novelist turned monster catcher: Zane Grey. Today, his name barely registers: a footnote in fishing lore, a ghost in vintage paperbacks. But in his heyday, Grey was stratospherically famous. A reluctant dentist turned adventure novelist, Grey's pulp westerns sold in the millions. His travels made front page news. He was Hemingway before Hemingway (some even say The Old Man and the Sea was cribbed from one of Grey's tall tales). Even death couldn't slow him down: Grey's publisher sat on a stockpile of manuscripts, and kept rolling out new titles for decades. On the page, Grey built a mythic vision of the American West. Hollywood made it global, with dozens of adaptations, including Riders of the Purple Sage, The Lone Star Ranger and The Rainbow Trail. You may not know his name, but you know his frontier. 'It's extraordinary to me that he's fallen from social memory to such a degree,' marvels Vicki Hastrich, Grey's latest biographer. Hastrich stumbled on to the author by accident while tracing the lineage of the literary western. Grey's name popped up, not just as one of the genre's defining figures (he wrote more than 80), but also as the namesake of a caravan park in Bermagui on the coast of New South Wales. Why was a cowboy writer from Ohio venerated in an Aussie beach town? There was a story here, and Hastrich was the perfect person to tell it: author, angler, cartographer of the deep (her 2019 memoir, Night Fishing, is a quicksilver marvel of Australian nature writing). Hastrich knows the cultural weight a fish can carry. Her swashbuckling new book, The Last Days of Zane Grey, is the story of a very big fish; a tale of obsession and fading glory. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning A lifelong sport-fisher, Grey spent his twilight years chasing a dream: to hook a great white. Australia lured him in 1935, and again in 1939, with the promise of shark-rich waters (there was also a secret lover in Sydney). Hastrich traces the arc of that quest: the role Australia played in Grey's final chapter, and the unlikely mark he left on the national imagination. A deep-sea detour into the Australian psyche. 'We just went crazy for him,' Hastrich tells me. 'As far as I can tell, there were something like nine of Grey's films in circulation when he arrived in Australia in 1935.' And arrive he did – with 166 pieces of luggage and the full weight of his own legend. The welcome bordered on hysteria, something the country wouldn't see again until The Beatles. The reporting was relentless. 'If he sneezed or farted, it made the papers,' Hastrich says, not entirely joking. 'I was able to track him day by day – almost hour by hour.' Thousands of people followed Grey up and down the east coast, camping alongside him as he trawled the sea for record-breakers: marlin, swordfish, tuna (Grey is credited with kickstarting Australia's tuna industry with a single hefty catch). But beneath the glitz and spectacle, the 63-year-old author was struggling. He was financially over-stretched and fraying at the edges. The Australia trip wasn't just another adventure; it felt like a last chance to do something magnificent. Underwater photography was cutting-edge. If Grey could land a monster shark on film, he wouldn't just make history, he'd put himself back at the centre of it. Enter White Death. The behind-the-scenes story of Grey's great white flop is pure writer bait: a top-shelf fiasco. Cameras failed. Boats broke. The weather was hellish. The cast and crew were bitten, burned, and blown up. A brush with the notorious 'suicide plant' (the gympie-gympie) nearly cost one actor his sanity. And the star refused to show. No amount of burley or patience could summon a 'villain fish' from the deep, so Grey had to settle for a much smaller reef shark – painted white by the art department, and filmed from a distance. And yet it's here, in this laughable disaster of a film (you can watch chunks of it online), that Hastrich comes closest to understanding Grey's cultural pull. 'He's not a gifted actor, that's for sure. He's very wooden in that film. But there's a presence about him,' she says. 'He has this sort of stillness on screen, a kind of physical charisma.' Sign up to Saved for Later Catch up on the fun stuff with Guardian Australia's culture and lifestyle rundown of pop culture, trends and tips after newsletter promotion For all the drama on screen, Hastrich's richest material turned up elsewhere: a cache of love letters from Grey to his Australian lover, the Sydney poet Lola Goodall. Hastrich still doesn't know how – or why – Grey's letters to Lola were preserved (Lola's replies were destroyed), but reading them required a crash course in code-breaking: all the racy parts were written in cipher. 'I thought I had the key, but it didn't match what I was seeing,' says Hastrich. 'Just when I was about to give up, I realised what was going on, and I could add symbols to the code. It was so slow: literally one alphabet letter at a time for ages.' Lola had always been treated as a blip in Grey's story – dismissed as a dalliance. But the affair Hastrich uncovered was substantial, with hundreds of letters stretching over years. Lola was a middling poet in her mid-50s, still living with her mother, pretending – at least on paper – to be decades younger. Grey was ageing, lonely, carving out space for one last big love. 'I came to think of them like two drowning people,' Hastrich says, 'clutching and clawing at each other as they went down. They could both see their relevance in the world slipping.' It's the women, including Lola, who give this story its guts. There's Dolly, Grey's formidable wife, quietly running the family empire, and largely unfazed by all the girlfriends (she organises their travel). Miles Franklin makes a surprise cameo, impressing and infuriating Grey in equal measure. And we meet Chickie Nathan – an ice-skating socialite turned marlin wrangler – who holds her own against Grey at sea. (Chickie is a scene stealer; she deserves a biography of her own.) Hastrich also offers a fish-eye view of interwar Australia: a country blind to the scale of its ocean bounty, and its fragility. 'That's the story nudging at the edges here,' she reflects. 'Just as we're starting to comprehend how abundant things are, they're already depleting.' Code-breaking wasn't the only new skill Hastrich had to master; she braved a trip in a shark cage, determined to see Grey's nemesis for herself. 'The water was this sort of teal blue, a veil of particles of colour. And this shark loomed out of the veil, scuffed and scarred,' she tells me – still awed. 'It was like this great, slow-moving bomb – and then it was just gone. That was the moment I understood the perennial allure of this formidable fish.' That's the thing about great whites: they come ready-made as metaphors. In the end, The Last Days of Zane Grey isn't just about a man chasing a shark: it's about a man in a duel with death itself. 'This story didn't need any massaging,' Hastrich laughs. 'Everything you needed to make a narrative was already there.' Now she's hauled in Zane Grey, what's next? 'I'm ready to go and catch another fish.' The Last Days of Zane Grey by Vicki Hastrich is out through Allen & Unwin
The Australian
2 days ago
- Sport
- The Australian
Lando Norris pips Oscar Piastri in Austria F1 practice
Lando Norris continued his pace-setting dominance in free practice at the Austrian Grand Prix on Saturday by outpacing Australian McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri to set the fastest lap. The Briton, who is seeking to erase memories of his nightmare in Montreal where he collided with the championship leading Piastri, clocked a best lap of one minute and 4.324 seconds. Piastri was 0.118 seconds off the pace. Four-time world champion Max Verstappen was third for Red Bull ahead of the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton. 'In these temperatures, the McLarens at high speed are going to be very difficult to match,' admitted Mercedes boss Toto Wolff. Wolff again confirmed interest in Verstappen, but added Russell, victorious in Canada two weeks ago, had been 'splendid' and 'has done a great job this year.' Lando Norris set the pace during practice in Austria. Norris, fastest on Friday, was soon in command with a 1min 5.412sec lap and by the midway mark he had trimmed that to 1min 4.888sec with Hamilton second, three-tenths adrift. Russell, seen by many as vulnerable at Mercedes if Verstappen arrived, was third ahead of Piastri. With 20 minutes remaining, Piastri pushed with too much speed into Turn Nine and swept through the gravel, a moment that required a visit to the pits. Verstappen — whose 'orange army' of supporters boosted the size of the crowd — also pitted with his car's floor receiving attention. He was 11th on the time-screens as Norris improved his best lap to 1:04.324, a five-tenths cut to go seven-tenths clear. With 10 minutes to go, Piastri found the pace to go second, 0.118 behind Norris before Verstappen went third ousting Leclerc to fourth ahead of Hamilton. NORRIS, PIASTRI RENEW RIVALRY AFTER CANADIAN GP CLASH Lando Norris bounced back from his Canadian catastrophe with his customary smile on Friday after topping the times ahead of teammate and championship leader Oscar Piastri as McLaren reeled off a solid 1-2 in practice at the Austrian Grand Prix. As the paddock digested news that Mercedes had held talks about possibly signing Max Verstappen from Red Bull alongside George Russell in 2026 Norris clocked a best lap in one minute and 4.580 seconds to beat Piastri by 0.157 seconds. Four-time champion Max Verstappen was third fastest for Red Bull, adrift by 0.318 seconds. For Norris, who sat out the first session at the Red Bull Ring, it was a relief to move on from his collision with teammate Piastri in Montreal where he retired pointless, admitting he had 'made a fool of myself'. 'I didn't mind sitting on the pit wall,' he said, with a grin, referring to missing the morning session. 'I actually felt a lot more relaxed there than in the car, especially here. Oscar Piastri (R) and McLaren teammate Lando Norris have built up a strong rivalry this season. Picture: Getty 'I've always enjoyed this track. The car felt good right from the start. Alex (Dunne, reserve driver) gave solid feedback this morning after FP1 and was on pace straight away, which was encouraging to see.' Norris added that he was pleased with the development of the car with McLaren's latest upgrades. 'They definitely moved the car in the right direction for FP2,' he said. 'Now, we just need to figure out if we want more of that tomorrow, less, or somewhere in between. 'So, it's a good step forward, but hopefully there's still a bit more to come.' McLaren came to the Styrian Alps with three performance-based updates including aerodynamic revisions of the front and rear of the car and suspension. Piastri, who leads Norris by 22 points in the title race, said he was satisfied with his first day in the car. Oscar Piastri flies around the track in practice ahead of the Austria Grand Prix. Picture: Getty 'It looked pretty good,' he said. 'Max is still close, so I think he'll definitely be a threat this weekend, but the car's feeling good. I think the pace is quite good, so a positive first day.' He added that both he and Norris had 'all the parts that we think will make the car faster' on their cars. Verstappen, who took his time to improve through the sessions, said: 'We didn't have any big issues. 'We lack a bit of pace and had too much understeer, both on the short and the long run. So that is something we have to try to get rid of.' Lance Stroll was fourth for Aston Martin ahead of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, George Russell of Mercedes, who won last year and two weeks ago in Canada, and Yuki Tsunoda in the second Red Bull. Gabriel Bortoleto was eighth for Sauber ahead of two-time champion Fernando Alonso of Aston Martin and seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton, struggling in his updated Ferrari. George Russell during practice in Austria. Picture: Andrea Diodato/NurPhoto via Getty Images Norris added: 'We've shown a bit more pace than some others, so I certainly think they're going to catch up. Max is not far behind and they normally improve a lot on Saturday. 'So I expect a good day tomorrow (Saturday) and I'm sure we'll improve on some things, but it's not as easy as maybe it looked. 'I think it's still going to be tight tomorrow – it always is. There's no reason for it not to be, but we'll work hard to make it as big of a gap as possible.' Hamilton struggles again Lewis Hamilton's difficult start to life at Ferrari continued on Friday as he was handed a warning by the race stewards after winding up 10th in second practice for the Austrian Grand Prix. The seven-time champion was alleged to have impeded his successor at Mercedes, Italian teenage rookie Kimi Antonelli, at turn four of the fast and technical Red Bull Ring circuit in the Styrian Alps. Lewis Hamilton's struggles at Ferrari continue. Picture: Luca Martini/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Hamilton apologised immediately and explained that he had not seen Antonelli approaching behind him as he descended over the crest of a hill on a slow lap and drifted into the racing line. Hamilton raised his hand to signal his apology to Antonelli as he passed him. After speaking to Hamilton, the stewards decided to give the Briton a formal warning – the usual sanction for such a misdemeanour in practice. It is the third time this season that Hamilton has been warned. 'The driver of car 44 (Hamilton), although constantly checking his mirrors after being informed by the team about car 12 (Antonelli) closing in, slowly moved on to the racing line on the approach to turn four and thereby unnecessarily impeded car 12 which had to take evasive action,' said the stewards in a statement.
