Amblin Entertainment
Amblin Entertainment is an American film and television production company, which was founded by Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall film producer in 1983 together. Amblin is only a production studio and has never distributed its own movies. The company's own logo is the silhouette of ET, who, sitting in Elliot's bike basket, flying past the moon, a scene from the movie ET - The Extra-Terrestrial.
Amblin is named after Spielberg's first officially released film Amblin ' from 1968, a short film about a man and a woman hitchhiking through the desert. The film, which amounted to production costs in the amount of $ 15,000, ran at Universal Pictures and secured Spielberg directing new projects. Universal Studios sell many Amblin productions and Amblin itself operates out of a building, which is located on the Universal site.
In addition to numerous Spielberg films Amblin also produced films by other directors, for example, by Joe Dante ( Gremlins movies, Innerspace, Small Soldiers ), Robert Zemeckis ( the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), Don Bluth ( an American Tail walkers and in a land Before Time ), Thomas Rickman ( Redinger ), Gil Kenan (Monster House) and Barry Sonnenfeld ( the Men in Black films).
The Amblin production, which was hailed by the critics most is Schindler's List from the year 1993. The film was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and won seven, including Best Picture. The film is also become an educational film to high school students. An accompanying study guide, Facing History, was designed with the permission of Amblin and Universal.
The department Amblin Television owes you et al following television series: Amazing Stories, SeaQuest DSV, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, Earth 2, Emergency Room - The emergency room and An American Tail & his friends!. An American Tail & his friends and a few other films have been produced by Amblins animation department Amblimation that was active from 1991 to 1997 inclusive.
Other studios selling Amblin productions were / are Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures (Movie Studio), TriStar Pictures, Columbia Pictures, and Warner Bros. and DreamWorks, the latter since 1994 ( partly in cooperation with already mentioned studios, as well as with 20th Century Fox).