Proyas ' first feature film was the independent science fiction thriller Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds, which was nominated for two Australian Film Institute awards in 1988, for costume design and production design and which won a Special Prize at the 1990 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival.

He also won an Academy Award for Special Effects Make-up on " The Fly " and is well known for his creation of the Gremlins.

He has also worked heavily as a voice actor with numerous film, television, and video game credits including Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Doug ( as Skeeter Valentine, Mr. Dink, and other characters ), and Grand Theft Auto 2, Harry and the Hendersons, Gremlins, Munchies, Storybook World, Wolf, and Men in Black.

Novel Furbies were also released, including an interactive Furby-like " Gizmo ", from the film Gremlins, a Furby-like " Interactive Yoda " based on the Star Wars character, and a Furby-like " Interactive E. T.

The publication of The Gremlins by Random House consisted of a 50, 000 run for the U. S. market with Dahl ordering 50 copies for himself as promotional material for himself and the upcoming film, handing them out to everyone he knew, including Lord Halifax, and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt who read it to her grandchildren.

At the time of the film's release, an interactive fiction game based on scenes from the film titled Gremlins — The Adventure ( 1985 ) was released for various home computers, including the Acorn Electron, the BBC Micro, the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum.

While working as Dr. Fiscus, and continuing to work as a comedian, he also did movies, including his role as the voice of Gizmo in the 1984 hit Gremlins and its 1990 sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch.

Other Gremlins devour serums and are genetically altered, including an electrical Gremlin which Billy traps in Clamp's answering machine.

Several actors from the original film returned to make Gremlins 2, including Galligan, Cates, and Dick Miller.

Dante's garage is frequently mentioned in audio commentaries as holding many of the props from his various films, including the Peltzer Peeler Juicer from Gremlins, and where the mock-pornographic scene in The Howling was shot.

The publication of The Gremlins by Random House consisted of a 50, 000 run for the U. S. market with Dahl ordering 50 copies for himself as promotional material, handing them out to everyone he knew, including the British Ambassador in Washington Lord Halifax, and First Lady of the U. S. Eleanor Roosevelt who loved to read it to her grandchildren.

In September 2006, Dark Horse Comics published The Gremlins: The Lost Walt Disney Production, a faithfully restored and updated version of The Gremlins including an introduction by acclaimed film historian Leonard Maltin as well as creating a series of Gremlin-inspired toys and figurines, that were patterned after the original Dahl-inspired characters.

These movies included Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter ( 1984 ), Gremlins ( 1984 ), The Goonies ( 1985 ), and Stand By Me ( 1986 ), alongside River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, and Jerry O ' Connell.

Gremlins was released on VHS in 1985, and made $ 79, 500, 000 in video rental stores.

He played a number of roles in Dante's 1985 family science fiction film Explorers, and later appeared in Dante's The ' Burbs, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Matinee, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Small Soldiers, and Innerspace, as the Cowboy.

Dante's films include Piranha ( 1978 ) and The Howling ( 1981 ) ( both from scripts by John Sayles ), Gremlins ( 1984 ) and its sequel ( 1990 ), Explorers ( 1985 ), Innerspace ( 1987 ), The ' Burbs ( 1989 ), Matinee ( 1993 ), Small Soldiers ( 1998 ), and Looney Tunes: Back in Action ( 2003 ).

All Gremlins received a new body-colored front fascia treatment for 1972.

Robby made few film appearances after the 1970s, but there is a cameo appearance in Gremlins ( 1984 ), where he can be seen standing in the background and speaking some of his trademark lines ; he was also featured in a 2006 commercial for AT & T.

" Surprise, You're Dead " plays in the background in a scene from Gremlins 2: The New Batch and was also featured in the trailer for Violent Shit III: Infantry of Doom.

Although Gershwin himself spoke of the rhapsody as " a musical kaleidoscope of America ", Rhapsody in Blue has often been interpreted as a musical portrait of New York City ; it is used to this effect in the films Manhattan and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, as well as extensively in this context in a segment from the film Fantasia 2000, in which the piece is used as the lyrical framing for a stylized animation set drawn in the style of famed illustrator Al Hirschfeld, to critical acclaim.

* The original idea for the episode B-17 was for Gremlins to attack the plane and try to dismantle it in the air, instead of the undead crewmembers used.

Phoebe Cates Kline ( born Phoebe Belle Cates ; July 16, 1963 ) is an American film actress, model, and entrepreneur known for her roles in several teen films, most notably Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Gremlins.

Gremlins borrowed the Concord instrument panel, as well as a Hornet AMX-inspired GT sports appearance package and a new striping treatment for X models.

He also produced a series of stories based on the Our Gang film series, provided covers for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, illustrated the aforementioned adaptations of two Disney animated features, drew stories featuring Raggedy Ann and Andy and Uncle Wiggily, wrote and drew a lengthy series of comic books promoting a bread company and featuring a character called " Peter Wheat ", and did a series of pantomime ( i. e. without dialogue ) two-page stories featuring Roald Dahl's Gremlins for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 34 – 41.

Feldman starred in Gremlins, The Goonies, and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter while Haim starred in Silver Bullet and Lucas before the duo were paired for the first time in 1987's The Lost Boys.

In Joe Dante's 1990 film Gremlins 2: The New Batch, in a corridor of the Clamp Tower, one of the door nameplates is for " Dr. Quatermass ".

Glitch is also said to be an acronym standing for " Gremlins Living In The Computer Hardware ".

Unlike the lighter sequel, the original Gremlins opts for more black comedy, which is balanced against a Christmas-time setting.

Gremlins has been criticized for more than its depictions of violence.

No definitive origin for mogwai or gremlins is given in either Gremlins film.

In addition, the game Gremlins was released for the Atari 2600, while a far superior version appeared on the Atari 5200.

* ( 1990 ) Gremlins 2: The New Batch-Grandpa Fred Director / voices of Beanie Gremlin and Wicked Witch Gremlin

Examples include An American Werewolf in London, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Gremlins, Bad Taste, Braindead, Beetlejuice, Arachnophobia, Scary Movie, Eight Legged Freaks, Shaun of the Dead, Evil Dead II, Tucker & Dale vs Evil, and Slither.

In 1992, The United States and Canada saw the release of two sets of their own: The Frozen Horror, with a snow and ice theme, featured a lone " Female Barbarian ", Mercenaries, Ice Gremlins, Polar Warbears and a pair of yeti as well as the " Frozen horror " of the title, while The Mage of the Mirror

Film critics ' reviews of Gremlins were mixed to positive.

Film critics varied in their reviews of Gremlins 2, it scored a 68 % on Rotten Tomatoes.

Along with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, also rated PG, Gremlins was one of two films in 1984 to influence the MPAA to create the PG-13 rating, with Red Dawn being the first film given the new rating in August 1984.

In his opinion, Gremlins did this partly through depictions of mysterious worlds ( the shop in Chinatown ) and tyrannical elderly women ( Mrs. Deagle ).

New enemies include Centroids, large cybernetic scorpions with nailguns, Gremlins, small goblins that can steal weapons and multiply by feeding on enemy corpses, and Spike Mines, floating orbs that detonate when near the player.

Chris Columbus — who had written the Spielberg-produced Gremlins, The Goonies, and Young Sherlock Holmes — was hired to write the script.

25, 300 Gremlins were sold in the abbreviated first model year.

" There is product placement of Jolt Cola in the movies Deep Impact, Cops and Robbersons, Trust ( film ), Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Men at Work, Basket Case 2, 11: 14, Due Date and Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

* Black Magic and Gremlins: Analog Flight Simulations at NASA's Flight Research Center by Gene L. Waltman

He became known during the 1980s, with roles in the films Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, The Goonies, Stand by Me, The Lost Boys, License to Drive, Dream a Little Dream, Gremlins, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and The ' Burbs.

Her later film roles were more modest and largely oriented toward younger audiences, such as the two Gremlins films and the 1991 film Drop Dead Fred.

In 1984, in response to public complaints regarding the severity of horror elements in PG-rated titles such as Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the PG-13 rating was created as a middle tier between PG and R. In 1990, the X rating was replaced by NC-17, partly because the X rating was not trademarked by the MPAA, whereas pornographic bookstores and theaters were using their own X and XXX symbols to market products.

* The Motion Picture Association of America institutes the PG-13 rating, as a response to violent movies such as Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

The College's original mascot was the Gremlins but changed in the early 20th century to the Panthers.