Amblin Entertainment: Difference between revisions

'''Amblin Entertainment''' is a production company founded by Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall (the latter two of whom went on to form their own company, [[The Kennedy/Marshall Company]], in 1991) in 1981. Named after a short film titled '''''Amblin<nowiki>'</nowiki>''''' (1968; which Steven Spielberg also directed), its logo features the silhouette of the titular character E.T. riding in the basket of Elliott's bicycle flying in front of the moon, from ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'', in which they are the company's official mascots.

* On ''Gremlins'', the color scheme used is the same as the standard logo, but with the "moon" colored {{color|blue}}; "{{color|red|AN}}" is above the logo, and "{{color|red|PRESENTATION}}" is below it.

** A similar variant appears on ''West Side Story'' (2021), but with the moon colored white.

* Starting in 2015 with ''Jurassic World'', the silhouette of Elliott and E.T. has been updated to match the current onscreen logo, with the cape being redrawn and more accurate. It looks less like a chicken riding a bicycle.

* On ''Men In Black II'', the logo is thicker. "ENTERTAINMENT" is also in a different font.

* On ''Fandango'', the logo scrolls up over the ending scene of the film.

* A shorter version shows the moon and stripes in place without animation, and it just shows the fade in of the company name, as well as the wheels turning. This version first appeared on ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'', and made its last appearance on ''Catch Me If You Can''.

* On some movies such as ''The Goonies'', ''Joe Versus the Volcano'', ''Cape Fear'' (1991), ''Hook'',  ''A Far Off Place'' and ''Twister'', as well as early [[ITV1 |ITV]] airings of ''Back to the Future Part III'' and ''The Flintstones'', the moon is flipped backwards. Full screen versions of some of these movies (e.g. 2001 VHS release of ''The Goonies'') use the normal variant on certain prints.

* A still version appears at the end of ''War Horse'', ''Lincoln'', and ''The Hundred-Foot Journey'' (the final movie to use this logo; with the closing theme), as well as being used as [[Amblin Television|a television logo]].

* A black & white version of the logo appears at the end of ''Hereafter''.

* A medium-length version is known to exist on the original trailer of ''We're Back!: A Dinosaur's Story'', with the logo starting in the middle of its formation and also having the entire name fade in at once.

* On ''Dad'', the logo fades in after the credits roll.

* On 4:3 full screen prints of later films from 2005 until 2014, starting with ''The Legend of Zorro'', the logo zooms out to a much farther distance than usual. This is because the letters were shot and released in 2.35:1 (anamorphic Panavision) and framed for 2.39:1 scope.

* On the ending of ''Memoirs of a Geisha'', it starts with the stripes positioning.

'''Audio:''' A light orchestral theme composed by John Williams was used with this logo on ''Young Sherlock Holmes'', ''The Color Purple'', ''The Money Pit'', and the 1987 theatrical reissue (as well as the 1988 VHS and the 2012/2017 Blu-ray/DVD releases) of ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial''.

'''Audio Variant:''' Sometimes, it is usually silent, or has the film's closing score.

* The flipped moon variant debuted at the end of ''The Goonies'', while the normal variant debuted at the end of ''Back to the Future'', and can be found on every Amblin film from this era ).

* Most prints of ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' don't show this logo despite showing the logo on the packaging, except on the 1988 home video release and ABC Family/Freeform's print of the film.

* It doesn't appear on ''Schindler's List'', ''The Bridges of Madison County'', ''Minority Report'', ''Flags of Our Fathers'', and ''Letters from Iwo Jima'', as well as the three [[Amblimation]] productions which featured that company's special logo, and the aforementioned with the 1st/print logo on the credits.

*On ''Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous'', there is a custom variation, where it picks off where the [[Universal Pictures]]/[[DreamWorks Animation Television]] logo combo left off; we pan to the left of the DreamWorks logo-shaped continent to reveal an Amblin logo-shaped archipelago, where the camera then zooms underneath Elliot's cape to start the show.

*On ''The Fabelmans'', the logo's animation starts over the Universal Pictures logo, but it fades to its background when the logo is nearly done forming.

'''Audio Variant:''' On ''The Fabelmans'', the tail end of the 2012 Universal Pictures fanfare plays over the logo.