Amblin Entertainment

Amblin Entertainment

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Film Television
Founded	1981
Founders	Steven Spielberg Kathleen Kennedy Frank Marshall
Headquarters	Universal City, California, United States
Key people	Steven Spielberg Kathleen Kennedy Frank Marshall
Products	Motion pictures
Services	Film production
Parent	Amblin Partners
Divisions	Amblin Television

Amblin Entertainment is an American film and television production company founded by director and producer Steven Spielberg and film producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall in 1981. The company's headquarters are located on the backlot of Universal Studios in Universal City, California.

Overview

Amblin is named after Spielberg's first commercially released film, Amblin' (1968), a short independent film about a man and woman hitchhiking through the desert. The film, which cost $15,000 to produce, was shown for Universal Studios and won Spielberg more directing roles. Although Amblin is an independent production company, Universal distributes many Amblin productions, and Amblin operates out of a building on the Universal lot.

Its logo features the silhouette of E.T. riding in the basket on Elliott's bicycle flying in front of the moon from the 1982 movie, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

In addition to various Spielberg films, Amblin has produced movies by other directors such as Joe Dante (Gremlins, Small Soldiers, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Innerspace), Robert Zemeckis (the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), Brian Levant (the Flintstones duology), Matthew Robbins (*batteries not included), Barry Levinson (Young Sherlock Holmes), Penelope Spheeris (the 1994 film remake of The Little Rascals), Brad Silberling (Casper), Don Bluth (An American Tail, The Land Before Time), Clint Eastwood (The Bridges of Madison County, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Hereafter), Gil Kenan (Monster House), Martin Campbell (The Mask of Zorro, The Legend of Zorro), Richard Donner (The Goonies), Jan de Bont (Twister), Barry Sonnenfeld (the Men in Black trilogy), Martin Scorsese (the remake of Cape Fear), Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III), J. J. Abrams (Super 8), The Coen Brothers (True Grit), and Simon Wells (An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, Balto).

Most of these directors are close friends of Spielberg, who has an executive producer or producer credit on many but not all of the films that Amblin's produced and were not directed by Spielberg. Amblin's most critically acclaimed production is Schindler's List (1993), which was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning seven, including Best Picture. A companion study guide for it, Facing History, was prepared through a grant from Amblin and Universal.

Amblin's television series credits include Amazing Stories, Tiny Toon Adventures, seaQuest DSV, Animaniacs, Earth 2, Pinky and the Brain, ER, Freakazoid!, Back to the Future, Family Dog, The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper, Fievel's American Tails, The Land Before Time and Men in Black: The Series. The animated title Fievel's American Tails and others were produced by Amblin's animation division Amblimation, which was active from 1991 until 1995. Another studio which has distributed many Amblin productions is Warner Bros. Entertainment. DreamWorks (which was co-founded by Spielberg) has distributed a number of Amblin productions since 1994.

The Walt Disney Studios has also collaborated with Amblin in such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Arachnophobia, Noises Off, A Far Off Place, War Horse, Lincoln, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Bridge of Spies, and The BFG.

Motion pictures

Title	Release Date	U.S Distributor	International Distributor	Other Production Companies
Continental Divide	September 18, 1981	Universal Pictures
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	June 11, 1982
Gremlins	June 8, 1984	Warner Bros.
Fandango*	January 25, 1985
The Goonies	June 7, 1985
Back to the Future	July 3, 1985	Universal Pictures		U-Drive Productions
Young Sherlock Holmes	December 4, 1985	Paramount Pictures
The Color Purple	December 18, 1985	Warner Bros.		The Guber-Peters Company
The Money Pit	March 26, 1986	Universal Pictures		U-Drive Productions
An American Tail	November 21, 1986			Sullivan Bluth Studios U-Drive Productions
Harry and the Hendersons*	June 5, 1987			U-Drive Productions
Innerspace	July 1, 1987	Warner Bros.		The Guber-Peters Company
Empire of the Sun	December 9, 1987
*batteries not included	December 18, 1987	Universal Pictures
Who Framed Roger Rabbit	June 22, 1988	Touchstone Pictures		Silver Screen Partners
The Land Before Time	November 18, 1988	Universal Pictures		Lucasfilm Sullivan Bluth Studios U-Drive Productions
Dad	October 27, 1989			Ubu Productions
Back to the Future Part II	November 22, 1989			U-Drive Productions
Always	December 22, 1989		United Artists
Joe Versus the Volcano	March 9, 1990	Warner Bros.
Back to the Future Part III	May 25, 1990	Universal Pictures		U-Drive Productions
Gremlins 2: The New Batch	June 15, 1990	Warner Bros.
Arachnophobia	July 18, 1990	Hollywood Pictures		Tangled Web Productions
Cape Fear*	November 13, 1991	Universal Pictures		Cappa Films TriBeCa Productions
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West	November 22, 1991			credited under Amblimation
Hook	December 11, 1991	TriStar Pictures
Noises Off*	March 20, 1992	Touchstone Pictures		Nothing On Productions Touchwood Pacific Partners
A Far Off Place*	March 12, 1993	Walt Disney Pictures		Touchwood Pacific Partners
Jurassic Park	June 11, 1993	Universal Pictures
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story	November 24, 1993			credited under Amblimation
A Dangerous Woman*	December 3, 1993			Gramercy Pictures (distributing label) Island World Rollercoaster Productions
Schindler's List	December 15, 1993
The Flintstones	May 27, 1994			Hanna-Barbera Productions
The Little Rascals*	August 5, 1994			King World Productions
Little Giants*	October 14, 1994	Warner Bros.
Casper	May 26, 1995	Universal Pictures		The Harvey Entertainment Company
The Bridges of Madison County*	June 2, 1995	Warner Bros.		Malpaso Productions
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar*	September 8, 1995	Universal Pictures
How to Make an American Quilt*	October 6, 1995
Balto	December 22, 1995			credited under Amblimation
Twister	May 17, 1996	Warner Bros.	Universal Pictures	Constant c Productions
The Trigger Effect*	August 30, 1996	Universal Pictures		Gramercy Pictures (distributing label)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park	May 19, 1997
Men in Black	July 2, 1997	Columbia Pictures		Parkes/MacDonald Productions
Small Soldiers*	July 10, 1998	DreamWorks	Universal Pictures
The Mask of Zorro	July 17, 1998	TriStar Pictures
Saving Private Ryan	July 24, 1998	DreamWorks	Paramount Pictures	Mark Gordon Productions The Mutual Film Company
In Dreams*[1]	January 15, 1999
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas*	April 28, 2000	Universal Pictures		Hanna-Barbera Productions
A.I. Artificial Intelligence	June 29, 2001	DreamWorks	Warner Bros.	Stanley Kubrick Productions
Jurassic Park III	July 18, 2001	Universal Studios
Minority Report	June 21, 2002	20th Century Fox	DreamWorks	Blue Tulip Productions Cruise/Wagner Productions
Men in Black II	July 4, 2002	Columbia Pictures		Parkes/MacDonald Productions
Catch Me If You Can	December 25, 2002	DreamWorks		Kemp Company Parkes/MacDonald Productions Splendid Pictures
The Terminal	June 18, 2004			Parkes/MacDonald Productions
War of the Worlds	June 29, 2005		Paramount Pictures	Cruise/Wagner Productions
The Legend of Zorro	October 28, 2005	Columbia Pictures		Spyglass Entertainment Tornado Productions
Memoirs of a Geisha	December 9, 2005		DreamWorks	Red Wagon Productions Spyglass Entertainment
Munich	December 23, 2005	Universal Pictures		Alliance Atlantis Barry Mendel Productions The Kennedy/Marshall Company Peninsula Films
Monster House	July 21, 2006	Columbia Pictures		ImageMovers Relativity Media
Flags of Our Fathers	October 20, 2006	Warner Bros.	DreamWorks	Malpaso Productions
Letters from Iwo Jima	December 20, 2006
Hereafter	October 22, 2010			Malpaso Productions The Kennedy/Marshall Company
Super 8	June 10, 2011	Paramount Pictures		Bad Robot Productions
The Adventures of Tintin	December 21, 2011		Columbia Pictures	The Kennedy/Marshall Company WingNut Films Nickelodeon Movies
War Horse	December 25, 2011	Touchstone Pictures		DreamWorks Pictures Reliance Entertainment The Kennedy/Marshall Company
Men in Black 3	May 25, 2012	Columbia Pictures		Parkes/MacDonald ImageNation Media Magik Entertainment Hemisphere Media Capital
Lincoln	Limited: November 9, 2012 Wide: November 16, 2012	Touchstone Pictures	20th Century Fox	DreamWorks Pictures Participant Media Reliance Entertainment The Kennedy/Marshall Company
The Hundred-Foot Journey	August 8, 2014	Touchstone Pictures		DreamWorks Pictures Reliance Entertainment Participant Media Image Nation Harpo Films
Jurassic World	June 12, 2015	Universal Pictures		Legendary Pictures
Bridge of Spies	October 15, 2015	Touchstone Pictures	20th Century Fox	DreamWorks Pictures Participant Media Reliance Entertainment Marc Platt Productions TSG Entertainment Afterworks Limited Studio Babelsberg
The BFG	July 1, 2016	Walt Disney Pictures		DreamWorks Pictures (uncredited) Walden Media Reliance Entertainment The Kennedy/Marshall Company
A Dog's Purpose*	January 27, 2017	Universal Pictures		Reliance Entertainment Walden Media Pariah Entertainment Group
Ready Player One	March 30, 2018	Warner Bros.		Reliance Entertainment Village Roadshow Pictures De Line Pictures Farah Films & Management[2]

• Asterisked films indicate that Steven Spielberg is uncredited or uninvolved.

Short films

• Tummy Trouble (1989)
• Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990)
• Trail Mix-Up (1993)
• I'm Mad (Animaniacs short) (1994)

Direct-to-video

• Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992)
• Wakko's Wish (1999)

Television shows

Theme park attractions

While Amblin has never had its own theme park, theme parks have made rides based on Amblin films and co-productions.

• Back to the Future: The Ride, a simulator ride at Universal Studios Japan. Also existed at Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood.
• Gremlins Invasion, a ride at Warner Bros. Movie World and Warner Bros. Movie World Germany.
• Jurassic Park: The Ride, a water ride at Universal Studios Hollywood.
• Men in Black: Alien Attack, a dark ride at Universal Studios Florida.
• Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin, a dark ride in Mickey's Toontown, a land at Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland.
• Twister...Ride it Out, a simulator ride at Universal Studios Florida.
• E.T. Adventure, a dark ride at Universal Studios Florida. Also existed at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Studios Japan.

References

1. Copyright Application for In Dreams (January 27, 1999). United States Copyright Office. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
2. Anita Busch. "Steven Spielberg To Direct 'Ready Player One'; Book Is Sci-Fi Cult Favorite - Deadline". Deadline.

External links

• Amblin Entertainment at the Internet Movie Database