Thursday, as part of an update about the state of kids and family programming on HBO Max, Warner Bros. released a first look at the concept art for Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai. The series is an animated prequel featuring the loveable/terrifying creatures from Joe Dante's 1980s comedy-horror cult favorites Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch. (Dante is a consultant.) Also sharing the image on Twitter was showrunner Tze Chun, whose past credits include Gotham, Once Upon a Time, and Little America (specifically the episode "The Grand Prize Expo Winners," which he wrote and directed). This …

While we may have to wait until 2021 to find out just what the secrets are in HBO Max's animated prequel series Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, one of them has already slipped out. It seems as if film franchise director Joe Dante will indeed be consulting on the series. That should come as great comfort for fans of the original 1984 Christmastime horror-comedy and its uproariously raucous sequel in 1990. In a chat with Daily Dead for his latest work as an executive producer on Andy Palmer's Camp Cold Brook, Dante confirmed that he's consulting …

During our recent interview with Harvey Girls Forever executive producer Brendan Hay, we got an update on the status of the upcoming animated Gremlins prequel series. Dubbed Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, the new show will go back 100 years to a time well before the 1984 feature film classic took place. Luckily, fans won't have to wait a century to check it out. Though the series is coming to HBO Max, it won't be ready for the streaming service's launch this May. However, as Hay confirmed in our interview, the show is still on pace for …