WarnerMedia Orders GREMLINS Prequel for Streaming Service

WarnerMedia has ordered "Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai," a 10-episode, half-hour prequel to original "Gremlins."

In the animated television adaptation, we travel back to 1920s Shanghai to reveal the story of how 10-year-old Sam Wing (future shop owner Mr. Wing in the 1984 movie) met the young Mogwai called Gizmo. Along with a teenage street thief named Elle, Sam and Gizmo take a perilous journey through the Chinese countryside, encountering, and sometimes battling, colorful monsters and spirits from Chinese folklore. On their quest to return Gizmo to his family and uncover a legendary treasure, they are pursued by a power-hungry industrialist and his growing army of evil Gremlins.

"Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai" will be produced by Amblin Television in association with Warner Bros. Animation. The series will be written by Tze Chun and executive produced by Darryl Frank ("The Americans, "Animaniacs," "Amazing Stories"), Justin Falvey ("The Americans," "Animaniacs," "Amazing Stories") and Sam Register ("Teen Titans Go!" and the upcoming series "Animaniacs") with Chun and Brendan Hay ("Dawn of the Croods," "Robot Chicken") serving as co-EP. Dan Krall ("Coraline," "Scooby-Doo!") will serve as supervising producer.

WarnerMedia is a leading media and entertainment company that creates and distributes premium and popular content from a diverse array of talented storytellers and journalists to global audiences through its consumer brands including: HBO, Warner Bros., TNT, TBS, CNN, DC Entertainment, New Line, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies, truTV and others. WarnerMedia is part of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T).

Amblin Television, a long-time leader in quality programming, is a division of Amblin Partners, a content creation company led by Steven Spielberg. Amblin Television's co-presidents, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, oversee all development, production and programming for the company. Amblin Television currently has twelve projects in various stages of production including "Tommy" for CBS, a second season of "Roswell, New Mexico" for the CW, "The Haunting of Bly Manor" for Netflix - the follow-up chapter to "The Haunting of Hill House," "Halo" for Showtime, a straight-to-series order for "Brave New World" from USA Network, "Amazing Stories" for Apple, "Cortés and Moctezuma" for Amazon, "Animaniacs" for Hulu, "Why We Hate" for Discovery, "Resident Alien" for SYFY, and the documentary films "Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind" for HBO and "Laurel Canyon" for Epix. Some of Amblin Television's previous credits include the Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning drama "The Americans" for FX, Emmy-nominated HBO movie "All The Way" starring Bryan Cranston, "Smash" for NBC, "Under the Dome: for CBS, "Falling Skies" for TNT, "The Borgias" and "The United States of Tara" for Showtime, and "Las Vegas" for NBC. http://www.amblin.com

Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) is one of the leading producers of animation in the entertainment industry, producing and developing projects for multiple platforms, both domestically and internationally. WBA's TV series include "Teen Titans Go!," "Unikitty!," "DC Super Hero Girls" and the upcoming "ThunderCats Roar" for Cartoon Network; "Bunnicula," Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz," "The Tom and Jerry Show," "New Looney Tunes," "Wacky Races" and the upcoming "Scooby-Doo! and Guess Who?" and "Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs" for Boomerang; "Mike Tyson Mysteries" for Adult Swim; "Green Eggs and Ham" for Netflix; "Harley Quinn" and "Young Justice: Outsiders" for DC UNIVERSE; "Animaniacs" for Hulu; and the upcoming "Looney Tunes Cartoons" content initiative. Theatrically, WBA's full-length film, "Teen Titans GO! to the Movies," released in summer 2018. As home to the iconic animated characters from the DC, Hanna-Barbera, MGM and Looney Tunes libraries, WBA also produces highly successful animated films - including the DC Universe Animated Original Movies - for DVD, Blu-ray(R) and digital media. One of the most-honored animation studios in history, WBA has won six Academy Awards(R), 35 Emmy(R) Awards, the George Foster Peabody Award, an Environmental Media Award, a Parents' Choice Award, the HUMANITAS Prize, two PRISM AWARDS and 20 Annie Awards (honoring excellence in animation).

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