Amblimation

Amblimation was the animation production arm of Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment.[1][2] It only made three films: An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991), We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993) and Balto (1995), all of which were distributed by Universal Pictures. The studio was shut down in 1997 and some of the Amblimation staff went on to join DreamWorks Animation,[3] which was later acquired in 2016 by Universal's parent company NBCUniversal for $3.8 billion,[4] making it Universal's third animation unit following Universal Animation Studios and Illumination. The company's mascot, Fievel Mousekewitz (An American Tail), appears in its production logo. A project to adapt the 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats was in the making, but was abandoned following the studio's closure.

Amblimation
Subsidiary
FateClosed
SuccessorDreamWorks Animation
Founded1989
FounderSteven Spielberg
Defunct1997
Headquarters
London, England
,
United Kingdom
Key people
Cindy Woodbyrne (Manager)
Simon Wells (Director)
ProductsAnimated films
ParentAmblin Entertainment

Filmography

Theatrical films
Release Date Title Box Office Gross
November 22, 1991An American Tail: Fievel Goes West$40.6 million
November 24, 1993We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story$9.3 million (US)
December 22, 1995Balto$11.3 million

Television

Note: All series were co-produced with Universal Animation Studios.

See also

References
  1. "Hollywood Falls Hard for Animation" - New York Times
  2. "A look inside Hollywood and the movies" - Los Angeles Times
  3. "Film: The Man Who Would Be Walt" - New York Times
  4. James, Meg. "Comcast's NBCUniversal buys DreamWorks Animation in $3.8-billion deal". latimes.com. Retrieved 2019-01-16.


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