AMBLIN ENTERTAINMENT
:''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''), Jan De Bont (''Twister''), Barry Sonnenfeld (the ''Men in Black'' duology) and Martin Scorsese (''Cape Fear'').
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.
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)
★ ''Who Discovered Roger Rabbit'' (with Touchstone Pictures)
With DreamWorks
★ ''Amistad'' (1997)
★ ''In Dreams'' (1999)
★ ''Catch Me If You Can'' (2002)
★ ''The Terminal'' (2004)
With Paramount Pictures
★ ''Young Sherlock Holmes'' (1985)
★ ''The Mistakable Affair'' (1986)
★ ''Indiana Jones 4'' (2008) (co-production with Lucasfilm)
★ ''Interstellar'' (2009)
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)
★ ''Monster House'' (2006)
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)
★ ''Back to the Future Part II'' (1989)
★ ''Back to the Future Part III'' (1990)
★ '' (1991)
★ ''Cape Fear'' (1991)
★ ''Jurassic Park'' (1993)
★ ''Schindler's List'' (1993)
★ ''We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story'' (1993)
★ ''The Flintstones'' (1994, co-production with Hanna-Barbera Productions)
★ ''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)
★ '' (1997)
★ ''The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas'' (2000, co-production with Hanna-Barbera Productions)
★ ''Jurassic Park III'' (2001)
★ ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' (2002) (20th anniversary celebration, edited re-release)
★ ''Jurassic Park IV'' (2008)
With Warner Bros.
★ ''Gremlins'' (1984)
★ ''The Color Purple'' (1985)
★ ''Fandango'' (1985)
★ ''The Goonies'' (1985)
★ ''Empire of the Sun'' (1987)
★ ''Innerspace'' (1987)
★ '' (1990)
★ ''Joe Versus the Volcano'' (1990)
★ ''Little Giants'' (1994)
★ ''The Bridges of Madison County'' (1995)
★ ''Wakko's Wish'' (1999)
With Spyglass Entertainment
★ ''The Legend of Zorro'' (2005)
★ ''Memoirs of a Geisha'' (2005) (also with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Dreamworks and Red Wagon Entertainment)
With The Kennedy/Marshall Company
★ ''Munich'' (2005) (also with Universal Studios and Dreamworks)
★ ''Indiana Jones 4'' (2008) (also with Paramount Pictures)
With Icon Productions
★ ''Boo-gether'' (2008)
With Red Wagon Entertainment
★ ''Memoirs of a Geisha'' (2005) (also with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Dreamworks and Spyglass Entertainment)
With 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks
★ ''Minority Report'' (2002)
★ ''A.I.: Artificial Intelligence'' (2001)
★ ''Flags of Our Fathers'' (2006)
★ ''Letters from Iwo Jima'' (2006)
★ ''Saving Private Ryan'' (1998)
★ ''War of the Worlds'' (2005)
★ ''Transformers'' (2007) (Amblin uncredited)
★ ''Memoirs of a Geisha'' (2005)
★ ''Small Soldiers'' (1998)
★ ''Munich'' (2005)
With Sony Pictures Entertainment and Spyglass Entertainment
★ ''The Legend of Zorro'' (2005)
With United Artists and Universal Studios
★ ''Always'' (1989)
★ ''Twister'' (1996)
★ ''A Brief History of Time'' (1991)
★ ''A Dangerous Woman'' (1993)
===With DreamWorks Television and Mark Burnett Productions===
★ ''On the Lot'' (2007)
===With Universal Television===
: ''Note: This list includes Universal's different production banners.''
★ ''Amazing Stories''
★ ''
★ ''Fudge'' (produced under the MTE banner)
★ ''Earth 2''
★ ''Fievel's American Tails'' (also with Nelvana)
★ ''Harry and the Hendersons'' (syndicated by Universal's MCA TV banner)
★ ''The Land Before Time''
★ ''seaQuest DSV''
★ ''Family Dog''
===With Warner Bros. Television===
★ ''Animaniacs''
★ ''ER''
★ ''Freakazoid!''
★ ''Pinky and the Brain''
★ ''Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain''
★ ''The Plucky Duck Show''
★ ''Tiny Toon Adventures''
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'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''), Jan De Bont (''Twister''), Barry Sonnenfeld (the ''Men in Black'' duology) and Martin Scorsese (''Cape Fear'').
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.
Motion pictures
With one major studio
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)
Never produced
★ ''Who Discovered Roger Rabbit'' (with Touchstone Pictures)
With DreamWorks
★ ''Amistad'' (1997)
★ ''In Dreams'' (1999)
★ ''Catch Me If You Can'' (2002)
★ ''The Terminal'' (2004)
With Paramount Pictures
★ ''Young Sherlock Holmes'' (1985)
★ ''The Mistakable Affair'' (1986)
★ ''Indiana Jones 4'' (2008) (co-production with Lucasfilm)
★ ''Interstellar'' (2009)
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)
★ ''Monster House'' (2006)
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)
★ ''Back to the Future Part II'' (1989)
★ ''Back to the Future Part III'' (1990)
★ '' (1991)
★ ''Cape Fear'' (1991)
★ ''Jurassic Park'' (1993)
★ ''Schindler's List'' (1993)
★ ''We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story'' (1993)
★ ''The Flintstones'' (1994, co-production with Hanna-Barbera Productions)
★ ''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)
★ '' (1997)
★ ''The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas'' (2000, co-production with Hanna-Barbera Productions)
★ ''Jurassic Park III'' (2001)
★ ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' (2002) (20th anniversary celebration, edited re-release)
★ ''Jurassic Park IV'' (2008)
With Warner Bros.
★ ''Gremlins'' (1984)
★ ''The Color Purple'' (1985)
★ ''Fandango'' (1985)
★ ''The Goonies'' (1985)
★ ''Empire of the Sun'' (1987)
★ ''Innerspace'' (1987)
★ '' (1990)
★ ''Joe Versus the Volcano'' (1990)
★ ''Little Giants'' (1994)
★ ''The Bridges of Madison County'' (1995)
★ ''Wakko's Wish'' (1999)
With Spyglass Entertainment
★ ''The Legend of Zorro'' (2005)
★ ''Memoirs of a Geisha'' (2005) (also with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Dreamworks and Red Wagon Entertainment)
With The Kennedy/Marshall Company
★ ''Munich'' (2005) (also with Universal Studios and Dreamworks)
★ ''Indiana Jones 4'' (2008) (also with Paramount Pictures)
With Icon Productions
★ ''Boo-gether'' (2008)
With Red Wagon Entertainment
★ ''Memoirs of a Geisha'' (2005) (also with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Dreamworks and Spyglass Entertainment)
With two major studios
With 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks
★ ''Minority Report'' (2002)
With DreamWorks and Warner Bros.
★ ''A.I.: Artificial Intelligence'' (2001)
★ ''Flags of Our Fathers'' (2006)
★ ''Letters from Iwo Jima'' (2006)
With DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures
★ ''Saving Private Ryan'' (1998)
★ ''War of the Worlds'' (2005)
★ ''Transformers'' (2007) (Amblin uncredited)
With DreamWorks, Spyglass Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment
★ ''Memoirs of a Geisha'' (2005)
With DreamWorks and Universal Studios
★ ''Small Soldiers'' (1998)
★ ''Munich'' (2005)
With Sony Pictures Entertainment and Spyglass Entertainment
★ ''The Legend of Zorro'' (2005)
With United Artists and Universal Studios
★ ''Always'' (1989)
With Universal Studios and Warner Bros.
★ ''Twister'' (1996)
Other films
★ ''A Brief History of Time'' (1991)
★ ''A Dangerous Woman'' (1993)
Television shows
===With DreamWorks Television and Mark Burnett Productions===
★ ''On the Lot'' (2007)
===With Universal Television===
: ''Note: This list includes Universal's different production banners.''
★ ''Amazing Stories''
★ ''
★ ''Fudge'' (produced under the MTE banner)
★ ''Earth 2''
★ ''Fievel's American Tails'' (also with Nelvana)
★ ''Harry and the Hendersons'' (syndicated by Universal's MCA TV banner)
★ ''The Land Before Time''
★ ''seaQuest DSV''
With Universal Television and Warner Bros. Television
★ ''Family Dog''
===With Warner Bros. Television===
★ ''Animaniacs''
★ ''ER''
★ ''Freakazoid!''
★ ''Pinky and the Brain''
★ ''Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain''
★ ''The Plucky Duck Show''
★ ''Tiny Toon Adventures''
External links
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