Steven Awalt has been busy researching and interviewing cast and crew of the 1984 Joe Dante film Gremlins for the last half-decade. Interviews to date include extensive conversations with Joe Dante, Chris Columbus (screenwriter), Mike Finnell (producer), Frank Marshall (executive producer), cast members including Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Frances Lee McCain, Corey Feldman, Glynn Turman, John Louie, Belinda Balaski, Frank Welker, and Bob Bergen. He’s also talked at length with the film’s crew, including creature creator Chris Walas and a majority of his crew with CWI, Inc.
There’s no official publication date yet announced for the book, but watch this space for news as it comes to (bright) light.
From the Cast & Crew of "Gremlins"
ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
“Swim, Charlie, swim!”: A Dissection of the Dock Scene from Jaws
The famous “dock scene” in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, which arrives just before the film’s 25-minute mark, is a scene that plays out as a pivot point from the tension-building pattern established in the previous shark attack scenes in the film but also presages aspects of what’s to come in the third act of the film.
Along Came a Director…Frank Marshall on the Making of Arachnophobia
Frank Marshall, who along with Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg formed Amblin Entertainment in 1981, has produced some of the most memorable and celebrated movies in cinema history.