Amblin Partners

**Storyteller Distribution**, also known as **Amblin Partners**, is the successor to the live-action counterpart of DreamWorks and a production company, led by Steven Spielberg, that develops and produces films using the Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks Pictures and Participant banners and includes Amblin Television. The company's investment partners include Participant, Reliance Entertainment, Entertainment One, Alibaba Pictures and Universal Pictures. Films produced by Amblin Partners are mostly distributed by Universal and by third-party distributors through Mister Smith Entertainment in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

## Company History

Amblin Partners was founded by Steven Spielberg, Jeff Skoll of Participant, Anil Ambani of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group and Darren Throop of Entertainment One on December 16, 2015. The company will primarily focus on producing and distributing films and television using the DreamWorks Pictures, Amblin Entertainment and Participant brands. For films, it uses the DreamWorks label for mature content, Amblin label for family-friendly content, and Participant label for social justice content, although the latter remains a separate company.

On the same day as the company's formation, Amblin Partners announced that it entered into a five-year distribution deal with Universal Pictures by which the films will be distributed and marketed by either the main Universal banner or its specialty label, Focus Features. *The Girl on the Train* was the first film released under the new agreement. Mister Smith Entertainment, which began its international distribution deal with DreamWorks in 2012, continues to handle distribution sales for Amblin Partners in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

On October 9, 2016, Amblin Partners struck a deal with China's Alibaba Pictures, in which Alibaba acquired a minority stake in the company and will handle marketing, distribution support and merchandising of Alibaba Pictures films in China in addition to co-financing Amblin and DreamWorks films worldwide. On February 15, 2017, Comcast's Universal acquired a minority stake in Amblin Partners, strengthening the relationship between Universal and Amblin, and reuniting a minority percent of the DreamWorks Pictures label with its former animation division DreamWorks Animation, which was acquired by Universal's parent company NBCUniversal on August 22, 2016.

In December 2017, Amblin Partners signed a music publishing deal with BMG Rights Management, covering music from its film and TV series.

On August 22, 2019, Hasbro announced that it will acquire Entertainment One for at least $4 billion. The acquisition was completed on December 30, 2019, resulting in the toy company inheriting eOne's stake in Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures.

## Distribution Deals

### Film Distributors

* Entertainment One (2016-present) (UK)
* Paramount Pictures (2016-present) (Worldwide)
* Universal Pictures (2016-present) (Worldwide)

### Home Media Distributors

* Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (2017-present) (Worldwide)

### Production Companies

* Amblin Entertainment (2016-present) (Worldwide)
* DreamWorks Pictures (2016-present) (Worldwide)
* Participant (2018-present) (Worldwide)

## Films

### Production Company

1. *Distant* (2022) - **PG-13** - 16/09/2021
2. *West Side Story* (2021) - **12A** - 10/12/2021
3. *Stillwater* (2021) - **TBA** - 03/09/2021
4. *Bios* (2021) - **TBA** - 20/08/2021
5. *Come Play* (2020) - **PG-13** - 30/10/2020
6. *The Trial of the Chicago 7* (2020) - **15** - 02/10/2020
7. *1917* (2019) - **15** - 10/01/2020
8. *Captive State* (2019) - **12A** - 29/03/2019
9. *Green Book* (2018) - **12A** - 30/01/2019