Amblin Entertainment

Amblin Entertainment
Type Private
Industry Film, television
Founded 1981
Headquarters Universal City, California, United States
Key people Steven Spielberg
Kathleen Kennedy
Frank Marshall
Products Motion pictures
Services Film production

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. Amblin is only a production company, and has never distributed its own movies, nor has it fully financed its productions, needing the help of the studios that distributed it. 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.

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 Spielberg owns shares in both Amblin and DreamWorks, it is Universal that 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 (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), 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 - the Amblin logo does not appear on Eastwood's films, or on Schindler's List), 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 (Cape Fear), Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III), J. J. Abrams (Super 8) and Simon Wells (An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story and Balto).

The majority of these directors are close friends of Spielberg, who has an executive producer or producer credit on many but not all of Amblin's non-Spielberg films (his name does not appear on the credits of Small Soldiers, The Little Rascals or Cape Fear, for which he was an uncredited executive producer.). 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. A companion study guide, 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 and The Land Before Time. 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 Motion Pictures Group has also collaborated with Amblin in such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Arachnophobia, Noises Off, A Far Off Place and War Horse (which is a DreamWorks production but released by Disney`s Touchstone Pictures as part of a 30-picture distribution deal between Disney and DreamWorks) . In 2011 in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox the Terra Nova television series was released.

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Motion pictures

Title Release Date Main Studio 1 Main Studio(s) 2 Other Production Companie(s) Budget Gross
Continental Divide 09-18-1981 Universal Pictures unknown $15,578,237
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 06-11-1982 Universal Pictures $10.5 million $792,910,554
Gremlins 06-08-1984 Warner Bros. $11 million $153,083,102
Fandango 01-25-1985 Warner Bros. $4 million $91,666
The Goonies 06-07-1985 Warner Bros. $19,000,000 $61,389,680
Back to the Future 07-03-1985 Universal Pictures U-Drive Productions $19 million $381,109,710
Young Sherlock Holmes 12-04-1985 Paramount Pictures $18,000,000 (estimated) $19,739,575
The Color Purple 12-18-1985 Warner Bros. The Guber-Peters Company $15 million $142,000,000
The Money Pit 03-26-1986 Universal Pictures U-Drive Productions $24 million $54,999,651 (worldwide)
An American Tail 11-21-1986 Universal Pictures Sullivan Bluth Studios
U-Drive Productions
unknown $84,542,002
Harry and the Hendersons 06-05-1987 Universal Pictures U-Drive Productions $16 million $49,998,613 (worldwide)
Innerspace 07-01-1987 Warner Bros. unknown $25,893,810 (domestic)
Empire of the Sun 12-09-1987 Warner Bros. $35 million $66.24 million
*batteries not included 12-18-1987 Universal Pictures $25 million (est.) $65,088,797
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 06-22-1988 Touchstone Pictures Silver Screen Partners
Walt Disney Feature Animation
$70,000,000 $329,803,958
The Land Before Time 11-18-1988 Universal Pictures Lucasfilm
Sullivan Bluth Studios
U-Drive Productions
$12.5 million $84,460,846
Dad 10-27-1989 Universal Pictures Ubu Productions $19 million $27,503,037
Back to the Future Part II 11-22-1989 Universal Pictures U-Drive Productions $40 million $331,950,002
Always 12-22-1989 Universal Pictures United Artists U-Drive Productions $29.5 million $43,858,790
Joe Versus the Volcano 03-09-1990 Warner Bros. $45 million $39,404,261 (USA)
Back to the Future Part III 05-25-1990 Universal Pictures U-Drive Productions $40 million $244,527,583
Gremlins 2: The New Batch 06-15-1990 Warner Bros. $50 million $41,482,207 (United States)
Arachnophobia 07-18-1990 Hollywood Pictures Tangled Web Productions $31 million $53,208,180
A Brief History of Time 10-16-1991 Triton Pictures Anglia Television
Channel Four Films
NBC
Tokyo Broadcasting System
N/A $2,279,692
Cape Fear 11-13-1991 Universal Pictures Cappa Films
TriBeCa Productions
$35 million $182,291,969
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West 11-22-1991 Universal Pictures unknown $65,435,625
Hook 12-11-1991 TriStar Pictures $70 million $300,854,823
Noises Off...* 03-20-1992 Touchstone Pictures Nothing On Productions
Touchwood Pacific Partners
$19 million $2,280,148
A Far Off Place* 03-12-1993 Walt Disney Pictures Touchwood Pacific Partners unknown $12,890,752
Jurassic Park 06-11-1993 Universal Pictures $63 million $914,691,118
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story 11-24-1993 Universal Pictures unknown $9,315,576 (USA)
A Dangerous Woman* 12-03-1993 Universal Pictures Gramercy Pictures (distributing label)
Island World
Rollercoaster Productions
unknown $1,497,222 (United States)
Schindler's List 12-15-1993 Universal Pictures $22,000,000 $321,000,000
The Flintstones 05-27-1994 Universal Pictures Hanna-Barbera Productions $46 million $341,631,208
The Little Rascals* 08-05-1994 Universal Pictures King World Productions unknown $67,308,282
Little Giants* 10-14-1994 Warner Bros. $20 million $19,306,362
Casper 05-26-1995 Universal Pictures The Harvey Entertainment Company $55 million $287,928,194
The Bridges of Madison County* 06-02-1995 Warner Bros. Malpaso Productions $22 million $182,016,617
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar* 09-08-1995 Universal Pictures unknown $47,774,193
How to Make an American Quilt* 10-06-1995 Universal Pictures unknown $41,600,020
Balto 12-22-1995 Universal Pictures unknown $11,348,324
Twister 05-17-1996 Warner Bros. Universal Pictures Constant c Productions $92 million $494,471,524
The Trigger Effect* 08-30-1996 Universal Pictures Gramercy Pictures (distributing label) $8 million $3,594,848
The Lost World: Jurassic Park 05-19-1997 Universal Pictures $73 million $618,638,999
Men in Black 07-02-1997 Columbia Pictures Parkes/MacDonald Productions $90,000,000 $589,390,539
Small Soldiers* 07-10-1998 DreamWorks Universal Pictures $40 million $54,682,547
The Mask of Zorro 07-17-1998 TriStar Pictures $96 million $250,288,523
Saving Private Ryan 07-24-1998 DreamWorks Paramount Pictures Mark Gordon Productions
The Mutual Film Company
$70 million $481,840,909
In Dreams* 01-15-1999 DreamWorks Unknown $12,017,369
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas* 04-28-2000 Universal Pictures Hanna-Barbera Productions $83 million $59,468,275
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 06-29-2001 DreamWorks Warner Bros. Stanley Kubrick Productions $100 million $235,926,552
Jurassic Park III 07-18-2001 Universal Studios $93 million $368,780,809
Minority Report 06-21-2002 20th Century Fox DreamWorks Blue Tulip Productions
Cruise/Wagner Productions
$102 million $358,372,926
Men in Black II 07-04-2002 Columbia Pictures Parkes/MacDonald Productions $140 million $441,818,803
Catch Me If You Can 12-25-2002 DreamWorks Kemp Company
Parkes/MacDonald Productions
Splendid Pictures
$52 million $352,114,312
The Terminal 06-18-2004 DreamWorks Parkes/MacDonald Productions $60 million $219,417,255
War of the Worlds 06-29-2005 DreamWorks Paramount Pictures Cruise/Wagner Productions $132 million $591,745,550
The Legend of Zorro 10-28-2005 Columbia Pictures Spyglass Entertainment
Tornado Productions
$75 million $142,400,065
Memoirs of a Geisha 12-09-2005 Columbia Pictures DreamWorks Red Wagon Productions
Spyglass Entertainment
$85 million $162,242,962
Munich 12-23-2005 Universal Pictures DreamWorks Pictures Alliance Atlantis
Barry Mendel Productions
The Kennedy/Marshall Company
Peninsula Films
$77 million $130,358,911
Monster House 07-21-2006 Columbia Pictures ImageMovers
Relativity Media
$75 million $140,175,006
Flags of Our Fathers 10-20-2006 Warner Bros. DreamWorks Malpaso Productions $55 million $65,900,249
Letters from Iwo Jima 12-20-2006 Warner Bros. DreamWorks Malpaso Productions $19 million $68,673,228
Hereafter 10-15-2010 Warner Bros. Malpaso Productions
The Kennedy/Marshall Company
$50 million $105,197,635
Super 8 06-10-2011 Paramount Pictures Bad Robot Productions $50 million $259,422,500
The Adventures of Tintin 12-21-2011 Paramount Pictures Columbia Pictures The Kennedy/Marshall Company
WingNut Films
Nickelodeon Movies
$135 million $263,207,000
War Horse 12-25-2011 DreamWorks Touchstone Pictures The Kennedy/Marshall Company $66 million $311,900,450
Men in Black III 05-25-2012 Columbia Pictures
Lincoln 2012 DreamWorks SKG Touchstone Pictures Imagine Entertainment, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Parkes/MacDonald Productions
Cloud Atlas October 2012 Warner Bros.
Robopocalypse 07-4-2013 DreamWorks SKG Touchstone Pictures
20th Century Fox
Jurassic Park IV TBA-2013 Universal Pictures Relativity Media
The 39 Clues TBA-2014 Universal Pictures DreamWorks SKG
Touchstone Pictures
Walden Media
Scholastic Media

Theatrical Shorts

Television shows

Live-action

With DreamWorks Television

With Universal Television

With Warner Bros. Television

With Paramount and Lucasfilm

With 20th Century Fox Television

Animated

With Universal Animation Studios

With Warner Bros. Television Animation

With Universal, WB and Nelvana

Theme park attractions

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

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