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factoids

Amblimation was the British animation production subsidiary of Amblin Entertainment.NEWS,www.nytimes.com/1994/10/17/business/hollywood-falls-hard-for-animation.html, Hollywood Falls Hard for Animation, Sallie, Hofmeister, The New York Times, October 17, 1994, NYTimes.com, “A look inside Hollywood and the movies” - Los Angeles Times It was formed by Steven Spielberg in May 1989, following the success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), and after he parted ways with Don Bluth, due to creative differences. It was stationed in what was originally the D. Napier & Son factory in Acton, London and had 250 crew members from 15 different nations.NEWS,www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1991-11-17-2826530-story.html, Animation Really Keeps Steven Spielberg Moving, The Morning Call, November 17, 1991, May 30, 2020, Mcall.com, It only produced three feature films: (An American Tail: Fievel Goes West) (1991), We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story (1993), and Balto (1995), all three of which were composed by James Horner and distributed by Universal Pictures. The company’s mascot, Fievel Mousekewitz, appears in its production logo.The studio closed in 1997 after only eight years of operation and its office building became a self-storage facility called Access Self-Storage. All 250 of Amblimation’s crew members went on to join DreamWorks Animation,WEB,archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/15/reviews/spielberg-walt.html, Film: The Man Who Would Be Walt, archive.nytimes.com, which was later acquired in 2016 by Universal’s parent company NBCUniversal for $3.8 billion.WEB,www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-nbcuniversal-buys-dreamworks--20160428-story.html, Comcast’s NBCUniversal buys DreamWorks Animation in $3.8-billion deal, James, Meg, Los Angeles Times, 28 April 2016, 2019-01-16,

Filmography

Theatrical feature films{| class“wikitable sortable”

! Release date! Title! Box office gross November 22, 1991 (An American Tail: Fievel Goes West) $40.6 million November 24, 1993 ‘’We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story (film)’’ >|$9.3 million (US) December 22, 1995 ‘’Balto (film)’’ >|$11.3 million

See also

• Illumination
• Amblin Entertainment
• DreamWorks Animation
• Universal Interactive
• Universal Animation Studios
• Sullivan Bluth Studios
• List of Universal Pictures theatrical animated feature films
• List of unproduced Universal Pictures animated projects

References

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