the first gremlins movie came out on june 8, 1984.
when did the first gremlins movie come out?
june 8 , 1984
"gremlins" was released into north american theaters on june 8, 1984, the same day as ivan reitman's "ghostbusters". "gremlins" ranked second, with $12.5 million in its first weekend, $1.1 million less than "ghostbusters". by the end of its american screenings on november 29, it had grossed $148,168,459 domestically. this made it the fourth highest-grossing film of the year, behind "beverly hills cop", "ghostbusters", and "indiana jones and the temple of doom". in august 1984, it opened in argentina and spain, and in october it premiered in west germany. screenings began in mexico, australia, and much of the rest of europe in december. since "gremlins" had an international audience, different versions of the film were made to overcome cultural barriers. mandel learned to speak his few intelligible lines, such as "bright light!", in various languages, including german. regional music and humor were also incorporated into foreign-language versions. dante credited this work as being one of the factors which helped to make "gremlins" a worldwide success. however, many critics questioned the summer release date of the film in america, as the film takes place during the christmas holiday season, causing them to comment that it should have had a christmas release date instead.
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in january/february, the band again entered the abyss studio, enlisting the help of producer peter tägtgren and studio technician lars szöke, to record their third full-length album, "diabolis interium". due to the overwhelming positive response to the new album from both the public and the press, the band was able to secure deals that brought their music across to a much wider audience, with licenses in japan (soundholic co. ltd), brazil (hellion records), poland (mystic productions), romania (rocris disc), bulgaria (rocris disc), thailand (s.stack co. ltd), russia (irond records ltd), taiwan, hong kong, and china (magnus music). with the exceptional response to the album in brazil, which was released through hellion records, another local label, somber records licensed the band's entire back catalogue. as soon as "diabolis interium" was released, dark funeral once again went on tour. first they toured europe, supported by tidfall (no), anorexia nervosa (fr) and ragnarok (no). on this tour, the band brought in mikael hedlund (hypocrisy) to play the bass. after this tour, mikael resumed duties with his main band. they recruited richard cabeza for the session bassist slot. the band also toured the us, supporting their longtime friends cannibal corpse. with "diabolis interium", the swedish radio station rocket 95.3 fm nominated dark funeral in the category “best swedish hard rock band”. other bands nominated at the same time and in the same category were breach, entombed, and arise.
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