Amblin Entertainment
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- This article is about the company Amblin. For the movie by Steven Spielberg, see Amblin'.
Amblin Entertainment is an American film and television production company founded by Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall in 1982. Amblin is only a production studio, and has never distributed its own movies. Its logo features the silhouette of E.T. riding in the basket on Elliot's bicycle flying in front of the moon from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
Amblin is named after Spielberg's first commercially-released film Amblin' (1968), a short film about a man and woman thumbing through the desert. The film, which cost $15,000 to produce, was shown for Universal Studios and won Spielberg more directing roles. Universal distributes many Amblin productions and Amblin operates out of a building on the Universal lot.
In addition to various Spielberg films, Amblin has produced movies by other directors including Joe Dante (the Gremlins movies, Innerspace, Small Soldiers), Robert Zemeckis (the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), Brian Levant (the Flintstones duology), Penelope Spheeris (the 1994 film remake of The Little Rascals), Don Bluth (An American Tail, The Land Before Time), Gil Kenan (Monster House), Richard Donner (The Goonies) and Barry Sonnenfeld (the Men in Black duology).
Amblin's most critically acclaimed production is Schindler's List (1993). The film was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and won seven, including Best Picture. The movie has also become a teaching tool in high schools. A companion study guide, Facing History, was prepared through a grant from Amblin and Universal.
Amblin's television series credits include Amazing Stories, seaQuest DSV, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, Earth 2, ER, and Fievel's American Tails. 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.
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[edit] Motion pictures
[edit] With Universal Studios
- Continental Divide (1981)
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
- Back to the Future (1985)
- An American Tail (1986)
- The Money Pit (1986)
- *batteries not included (1987)
- Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
- The Land Before Time (1988)
- Dad (1989)
- Always (1989, also with United Artists)
- Back to the Future Part II (1989)
- Back to the Future Part III (1990)
- An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)
- Cape Fear (1991)
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- Schindler's List (1993)
- We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)
- The Flintstones (1994, also with Hanna-Barbera)
- The Little Rascals (1994)
- Balto (1995)
- Casper (1995)
- How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
- To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
- The Trigger Effect (1996)
- Twister (1996, also with Warner Bros.)
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
- Small Soldiers (1998, also with DreamWorks)
- The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000, also with Hanna-Barbera)
- Jurassic Park III (2001)
- Munich (2005, also with DreamWorks)
- Jurassic Park IV (2008)
[edit] With Warner Bros.
- Gremlins (1984)
- The Color Purple (1985)
- Fandango (1985)
- The Goonies (1985)
- Empire of the Sun (1987)
- Innerspace (1987)
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
- Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
- Little Giants (1994)
- The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
- Twister (1996, also with Universal Studios)
- Wakko's Wish (1999)
- A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001, also with DreamWorks)
- Flags of Our Fathers (2006, also with DreamWorks)
- Letters from Iwo Jima (2006, also with DreamWorks)
[edit] With DreamWorks
- Saving Private Ryan (1998, also with Paramount Pictures)
- Small Soldiers (1998, also with Universal Studios)
- In Dreams (1999)
- A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001, also with Warner Bros.)
- Catch Me If You Can (2002)
- Minority Report (2002, also with 20th Century Fox)
- The Terminal (2004)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (2005, also with Sony Pictures Entertainment)
- Munich (2005, also with Universal Studios)
- War of the Worlds (2005, also with Paramount Pictures)
- Flags of Our Fathers (2006, also with Warner Bros.)
- Letters from Iwo Jima (2006, also with Warner Bros.)
[edit] With Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Hook (1991)
- Men in Black (1997)
- The Mask of Zorro (1998)
- Men in Black II (2002)
- The Legend of Zorro (2005)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (2005, also with DreamWorks)
- Monster House (2006)
[edit] With Paramount Pictures
- Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998, also with DreamWorks)
- War of the Worlds (2005, also with DreamWorks)
- Indiana Jones 4 (2008)
- Interstellar (2009)
[edit] With Buena Vista Pictures
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (with Touchstone Pictures)
- Arachnophobia (1990) (with Hollywood Pictures)
- Noises Off... (1992) (with Touchstone Pictures)
- A Far Off Place (1993) (with Walt Disney Pictures)
[edit] With United Artists
- Always (1989, also with Universal Studios)
[edit] With 20th Century Fox
- Minority Report (2002, also with DreamWorks)
[edit] Other films
- A Brief History of Time (1991)
- A Dangerous Woman (1993)
[edit] Television shows
[edit] With Warner Bros. Television
- Animaniacs
- ER
- Family Dog (also with Universal Television)
- Freakazoid!
- Pinky and the Brain
- Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain
- The Plucky Duck Show
- Tiny Toon Adventures
[edit] With Universal Television
- Note: This list includes Universal's different production banners.
- Amazing Stories
- Back to the Future: The Animated Series
- Fudge (produced under the MTE banner)
- Earth 2
- Family Dog (also with Warner Bros. Television)
- Fievel's American Tails (also with Nelvana)
- Harry and the Hendersons (syndicated by Universal's MCA TV banner)
- The Land Before Time
- SeaQuest DSV
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