Amblin Entertainment is a company founded by Steven Spielberg in 1981, originally serving as his main production company. It is named after Spielberg's first completed film, a short called Amblin. From 1991 to 1997, the company had an animation unit called Amblimation.
Largely due to Spielberg's clout, Amblin became one of the biggest independent production companies in Hollywood. Its best-known output was released during The '80s, when Spielberg oversaw the production of blockbuster family comedy/adventure films such as The Goonies and the Back to the Future trilogy. Nowadays, the term "Amblin-esque" is used frequently by entertainment websites to describe the tone of recent movies and television series influenced by the aforementioned films, including Super 8 (itself an Amblin production) and Stranger Things.
In December 2015, Amblin underwent a major reorganization and became a unit of the new Amblin Partners. Under this structure, it will focus primarily on family-themed films.
Films produced:
- The Adventures of Tintin (2011; with Paramount, Nickelodeon and Columbia Pictures)
- A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
- Always (1989)
- An American Tail series
- An American Tail (1986)
- An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991; officially the first film by Amblimation)
- Arachnophobia (1990; with Disney)
- The Back to the Future series:
- Back to the Future (1985)
- Back to the Future Part II (1989)
- Back to the Future Part III (1990)
- Balto (1995)
- *batteries not included (1987)
- The BFG (2016; with Disney and Walden Media)
- Bridge of Spies (2015)
- The Bridges of Madison County (1995; with Warner Bros.; released by Warner Home Video as one of the Clint Eastwood Collection DVDs)
- Cape Fear (1991 remake)
- Casper (1995; with Universal)
- Cats (2019; with Universal)
- Catch Me If You Can (2002)
- The Color Purple (Both 1985 and 2023 versions; with Warner Bros.)
- Come Play (with Focus Features)
- Dad (1989)
- A Dangerous Woman (1993)
- A Dog's Purpose (2017)
- Empire of the Sun (1987; with Warner Bros.)
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
- Fandango (1985; with Warner Bros.)
- A Far Off Place (1993; with Disney)
- Clint Eastwood's World War II duology:
- Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
- Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
- The Flintstones live-action adaptations:
- The Flintstones (1994; with Universal and Hanna-Barbera)
- The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000; with Universal and Hanna-Barbera)
- The Goonies (1985; with Warner Bros.)note
- Gremlins films:
- Gremlins (1984; with Warner Bros.)note
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990; with Warner Bros.)
- Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
- Hereafter (2010; credit onlynote )
- Hook (1991; with TriStar Pictures)
- The House With a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
- How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
- Innerspace (1987; with Warner Bros.)
- Joe Versus the Volcano (1990; with Warner Bros.)
- Jurassic Park:
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
- Jurassic Park III (2001)
- Jurassic World (2015)
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
- Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
- The Land Before Time (1988)
- The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
- Lincoln (2012)
- Little Giants (1994; with Warner Bros.)
- The Little Rascals (1994)
- The Mask of Zorro (1998; with TriStar Pictures)
- The Legend of Zorro (2005; with Columbia Pictures)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
- Men in Black:
- Men in Black (1997; with Columbia Pictures)
- Men in Black II (2002; with Columbia Pictures)
- Men in Black 3 (2012; with Columbia Pictures)
- Men in Black: International (2019; with Columbia Pictures)
- Minority Report (2002)
- The Money Pit (1986)
- Monster House (2006; with Columbia Pictures)
- Munich (2005)
- Noises Off (1992; with Disney)
- Poltergeist (1982)
- The Post (2017)
- Ready Player One (2018; with Warner Bros.)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Schindler's List (1993; Spielberg wisely left the company's whimsical logo off of the credits to respect the film's subject matter)
- Small Soldiers (1998)
- Super 8 (2011)
- The Terminal (2004)
- To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
- The Trigger Effect (1996)
- The Turning (2020; with Universal and DreamWorks SKG)
- Twister (1996; with Universal and Warner Bros.)
- Twisters (2024)
- War Horse (2011; with Disney)
- War of the Worlds (2005)
- We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)
- West Side Story (2021) (with 20th Century Studios)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988; with Disney)
- Young Sherlock Holmes (1985; with Paramount)
TV shows produced:
- See Amblin Television and Amblimation.