Amblin Entertainment

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This article is about the company. For the movie, 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. Nor has it fully financed its productions, needing the studios that distributed it's help to fully finance it. 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 independent 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 (Back to the Future: The 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) and Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III).

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] With Orion Pictures

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[edit] With Red Wagon Entertainment

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[edit] With 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks

[edit] With Universal Studios and Hanna-Barbera Productions

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[edit] With DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures

[edit] With DreamWorks, Spyglass Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment

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  • Tiny Soldiers (1999)

[edit] With Sony Pictures Entertainment and Spyglass Entertainment

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[edit] With DreamWorks Television and Mark Burnett Productions

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Note: This list includes Universal's different production banners.

[edit] With NBC Universal Television Distribution and Warner Bros. Television

[edit] With Warner Bros. Television

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