Trading name Amblin Partners Area served Worldwide Founded 2015 | Industry Entertainment Founder Darren Throop Headquarters Universal City | |
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Founders Steven Spielberg
Jeff Skoll
Darren Throop
Anil Ambani Key people Steven Spielberg
(Chairman)
Michael Wright (CEO)
Jeff Small
(President and Co-CEO)
Holly Bario
(President of Production) Products Motion pictures
television Subsidiaries Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks, Amblin Television, DreamWorks Television Type Joint venture, Limited liability company | ||
Amblin Partners is an American content creation and entertainment company which produces and develops films and television programming. Amblin is a restructured DreamWorks Studios.
History
Amblin Partners was founded by Steven Spielberg, Jeff Skoll of Participant Media, Anil Ambani of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group and Darren Throop of Entertainment One on December 16, 2015. The company will primarily focus on producing and distributing films and television using the DreamWorks Pictures, Amblin Entertainment and Participant Media brands. For films, it will use the DreamWorks label for mature content, Amblin label for family-friendly content, and Participant label for social justice content, although the latter will remain a separate company.
On the same day as the company's formation, Amblin Partners announced that it entered into a five-year distribution deal with Universal Pictures by which the films will be distributed and marketed by either the main Universal label or its specialty label, Focus Features.
On October 9, 2016, Amblin Partners struck a deal with China's Alibaba Pictures, in which Alibaba acquired a minority equity stake in the company and will handle marketing, distribution support and merchandising of Amblin Partners films in China in addition to co-financing Amblin and DreamWorks films worldwide. On February 15, 2017, Universal Pictures acquired a minority stake in Amblin Partners, strengthening the relationship between Universal and Amblin, and reuniting a minority percentage of the DreamWorks Pictures label with DreamWorks Animation.