Gremlins Animated Series Adds Ming-Na Wen And BD Wong The annual talk of continuing the Gremlins franchise is guaranteed to happen every Christmas, as fans around the world revisit the beloved holiday favorite. Joe Dante’s creature feature has endured for over 35 years as a staple of the festive viewing schedule, but despite plenty of attempts to get it off the ground, a third installment in the live-action series never materialized. A lot of that had to do with the dismal performance of first sequel The New Batch, which failed to even recoup the $50 million budget in theaters, a far cry from the original, which cost almost five times less and made well over $200 million. However, because everything that’s old will eventually become new again, the animated