Joe Dante

3-D Gremlins in the Works?

According to MarketSaw, a blog devoted to 3-D movies, Gremlins is the latest '80s franchise returning to the big screen, following in the footsteps of Tron: Legacy and the long-in-development Ghostbusters III.

I have very good information from a top source that tells me another GREMLINS movie is coming to the silver screens and it will be in stereoscopic 3D! It is in the early stages with still lots of hurdles to pass, but it is being developed. This is not a 3D conversion of the original to be clear.

Among the details still not known: Will Gremlins be rendered as CGI or use puppets, as in the original movies? Will director Joe Dante will be involved? And, perhaps most important, WHY?

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• Gremlins 2: The New Batch
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More Werewolf Movies Coming Thanks to New Moon

Thanks to The Twilight Saga, werewolf movies are making a comeback. The second installment, New Moon, raked in piles of money opening weekend, drawing wolfpack fans along with those of vampires.

In February, Universal's Wolfman arrives, in which Benicio Del Toro contends with the ancient curse. And now Variety has the news that The Howling, the 1981 werewolf movie by Joe Dante that generated a series of six sequels, is set for a franchise reboot with The Howling: Reborn.

The original starred Dee Wallace-Stone as a news anchor stalked by a serial killer, who turns out to be a werewolf. The plot details of the reboot are being kept tightly under wraps for now, but production is already set to start in February for a Halloween release. There's no word yet on whether they'll still use Gary Brandner's original novel as source material.

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• The Twilight Saga: New Moon
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• The Howling: Reborn
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• Gary Brandner
• Benicio Del Toro