Amblin Entertainment

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Amblin Entertainment
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "This article is about the production company. For the parent company, see Amblin Partners. For the television division, see Amblin Television.""'Amblin' redirects here. For the movie, see Amblin'."

Amblin Entertainment, Inc. 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 backlot in Universal City, California. The company distributes all of the films from Amblin Partners under the Amblin Entertainment banner.

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 Amblin 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 first produced its 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 producer 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 the most successful films, like 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 Amblimation. It was defunct in 1997 and was transferred to DreamWorks Animation. In 1993, Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald joined the company.

Motion pictures
Note: The films marked with "*" are ones that Spielberg had no involvement with.

Short films

 * Tummy Trouble (1989)
 * Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990)
 * Trail Mix-Up (1993)
 * I'm Mad (Animaniacs short) (1994)

Direct-to-video

 * Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992)
 * Wakko's Wish (1999)

Television shows
"Main article: Amblin Television"

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


 * Back to the Future: The Ride, a simulator ride at Universal Studios Japan. Also existed at Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood.
 * Gremlins Invasion, a ride at Warner Bros. Movie World and Warner Bros. Movie World Germany.
 * Jurassic Park: The Ride, a water ride at Universal Studios Hollywood.
 * Men in Black: Alien Attack, a dark ride at Universal Studios Florida.
 * Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin, a dark ride in Mickey's Toontown, a land at Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland.
 * Twister...Ride it Out, a simulator ride at Universal Studios Florida.
 * E.T. Adventure, a dark ride at Universal Studios Florida. Also existed at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Studios Japan.