Amblin Entertainment

**Amblin Entertainment** is an American film 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 in Bungalow 477 of the Universal Studios Lot in Universal City, California.

## Logo History

Amblin Entertainment print logo (1984-2015)
## 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 of Amblin's 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*.

Amblin produced its first film, *Continental Divide*, in 1981, with Steven Spielberg serving as executive producer. Founding partners Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall of Amblin caught the attention of film production company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1982, of which they both produced *Poltergeist*, which was directed by filmmaker Tobe Hooper. The following week, Kathleen Kennedy, another founding partner of Amblin produced the film *E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*, which ended up being the highest-grossing film of the year. In 1983, one of the founding partners produced *Twilight Zone: The Movie*. Amblin went on to produce more films that received critical and commercial success, including *Gremlins*, *Who Framed Roger Rabbit?*, and the *Back to the Future* trilogy. In 1991, founding partner Frank Marshall left the company after 10 years. The next year, Kathleen Kennedy left the company.

In 1989, they set up an animated unit called Amblimation. It went defunct in 1997. In 1993, Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald joined the company.

## Distribution Deals

### Film Distributors

* Universal Pictures (1981-present) (Worldwide)
* Warner Bros. Pictures (1983-present) (Worldwide)
* Paramount Pictures (1985-present) (Worldwide)
* DreamWorks Pictures (1997-present) (Worldwide)
* Columbia Pictures (1997-present) (Worldwide)
* TriStar Pictures (1991-present) (Worldwide)
* Entertainment One (2016-present) (UK)

### Production Companies

* Amblin Partners (2016-present) (Worldwide)

## Films

### Production Company

1. *Gremlins 3* (TBA) - **TBA**
2. *Robopocalypse* (TBA) - **TBA**
3. *Distant* (2023) - **PG-13** - 10/02/2023
4. *Jurassic World: Dominion* (2022) - **12A** - 10/06/2022
5. *West Side Story* (2021) - **12A** - 10/12/2021
6. *Bios* (2021) - **TBA** - 20/08/2021
7. *The Turning* (2020) - **15** - 24/01/2020
8. *Cats* (2019) - **U** - 20/12/2019
9. *Men in Black: International* (2019) - **12A** - 14/06/2019
10. *The Post* (2017) - **12A** - 19/01/2018
11. *Men in Black 3* (2012) - **PG** - 25/05/2012
12. *Monster House* (2006) - **PG** - 11/08/2006
13. *War of the Worlds* (2005) - **12A** - 01/07/2005
14. *Catch Me If You Can* (2002) - **12** - 27/01/2003
15. *Men in Black II* (2002) - **PG** - 02/08/2002
16. *A.I. Artificial Intelligence* (2001) - **12** - 21/09/2001
17. *Jurassic Park III* (2001) - **PG** - 20/07/2001
18. *The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas* - **PG** - 28/07/2000
19. *Small Soldiers* (1998) - **PG** - 23/10/1998
20. *Saving Private Ryan* (1998) - **15** - 11/09/1998
21. *Amistad* (1997) - **15** - 27/02/1998
22. *Men in Black* (1997) - **PG** - 01/08/1997
23. *The Lost World: Jurassic Park* (1997) - **PG** - 18/07/1997
24. *Twister* (1996) - **PG** - 26/07/1996
25. *Casper* (1995) - **PG** - 28/07/1995
26. *The Flintstones* (1994) - **U -** 27/05/1994
27. *Jurassic Park* (1993) - **PG** - 16/07/1993
28. *Hook* (1991) - **U** - 10/04/1992
29. *Cape Fear* (1991) - **18** - 06/03/1992
30. *Gremlins 2: The New Batch* (1990) - **12** - 27/07/1990
31. *Back to the Future Part III* (1990) - **PG** - 11/07/1990
32. *Always* (1989) - **PG** - 23/03/1990
33. *Back to the Future Part II* (1989) - **PG** - 24/11/1989
34. *Who Framed Roger Rabbit* (1988) - **PG** - 02/12/1988
35. *The Land Before Time* (1988) - **U** - 01/12/1988
36. *\*batteries not included* (1987) - **PG** - 25/03/1988
37. *Harry and the Hendersons* (1987) - **PG** - 11/12/1987
38. *An American Tail* (1986) - **U** - 24/07/1987
39. *Young Sherlock Holmes* (1985) - **PG** - 21/03/1986
40. *Back to the Future* (1985) - **PG** - 04/12/1985
41. *The Goonies* (1985) - **PG** - 29/11/1985
42. *Gremlins* (1984) - **15** - 07/12/1984