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Logo Variants Listing (Movies)

Compiled by Eric Hartman, Sean Beard, Matt Williams, Nicholas Aczel, Internet Movie Database And Others

Columbia

• The Mouse That Roared (1959): The statue leaves her pedestial leaving her torch behind. In the end credits, you can see her rushing up the stairs of the pedestial grabbing her torch again.
• Bye Bye Birdie (1963): The Columbia torch lady's flame leaps from the torch to form the title of the film.
• Strait-Jacket (1964): At the end of this horror film starring Joan Crawford, the decapitated torch lady appears with her head on the ground.
• Cat Ballou (1965): The Columbia Statue transforms into an animated version of Jane Fonda as a cowgirl who is holding two guns and firing them.
• A Man Called Flintstone (1966): The torch lady is replaced with Wilma Flintstone, dressed as the Torch Lady! Unfortunately, Great American edited out this variation when they owned Hanna-Barbera. Shame.
• Thank God It's Friday (1978): We see the Torch Lady posed as in the start of "The Sunburst/Abstract Torch" logo. Suddenly disco music starts playing and the Lady turns animated and gets into a few seconds of dancing. Then she resumes in Torch pose and the rest of the logo plays as normal.
• What Planet Are You From? (1999): Annette Bening's head is pasted onto where the Torch Lady's head is as an inside joke (as some people have said the 90s TL looks like her)
• Ali (2001) The logo rolls backwards.
• Charlie's Angels (2001): After the normal sequence of the displaying of the Columbia logo, the camera zooms toward the right side of the logo, until the clouds fill up the entire screen, and the opening credits start from there.
• Men in Black II (2002) In the theatrical trailer, the Columbia Pictures woman wears the trademark MIB sunglasses. At the beginning of the movie, the torch in the hand of the Columbia Pictures logo flashes (like a neuralizer).

FOX

• The Robe (1953): That was the first CinemaScope movie. It had a new revamped 20th Century-Fox logo at the beginning. There was no fanfare and instead of the dark evening sky, there was a huge red curtain behind the logo.
• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) At the very start, Tony Randall appears onscreen before the 20th Century Fox logo, with musical instruments, and plays part of the fanfare himself. He then complains about "the fine print" in his contract, before introducing the cast and the movie. As he introduces the film, he forgets the title, first calling it _The Girl Can't Help It_ (q.v.). Then he rummages through his pockets for his notes and comes up with a girl's name and phone number. Finally, his three female co-stars appear to announce the film's correct title.
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975): There is a piano version of the usual Fox fanfare.
• Silent Movie (1976): This Mel Brooks film has the logo about a minute into the movie after the three main characters take the pregnant woman in the car with them; the camera pans, and a 20th Century Fox billboard is seen; the O seems to be coming out at the audience, and from it comes a red screen and the credits begin.
• That's Hollywood (1976, TV): Normal Fox TV (1966) logo, but the fanfare is reorchestrated.
• The World's Greatest Lover (1977): Normal Fox (70s) logo, but the fanfare is a "comic" version.
• Cannonball Run (1981): Had cars driving all around the 20th Century Fox logo. Sadly, this logo is usually edited out of television airings.
• Edward Scissorhands (1990): Snow is falling on the (80s) logo.
• White Men Can't Jump (1992): Normal Fox (80s) logo, but the fanfare is a "funk/rap" version.
• Volcano (1997): The Fox logo moves up until the screen is black and the credits start. After the logo forms, it moves up from the screen and into the credits.
• X-Men (2000): The X in the Fox logo stays on the screen for a split-second after the logo fades out.
• Moulin Rouge (2001): Footage of the Fox logo plays onscreen in a concert hall behind draped red curtains, and the symphony playing the fanfare can be seen below the stage.
• Planet of the Apes (2001) The background fades to a starfield, before the logo itself fades out and the camera pans to the planet below.
• Minority Report (2002): Has both the Fox and Dreamworks logos with fanfares, but are colored a liquid metal-like silver color.

MGM

• An unknown Marx Brothers Short: We don't know the title at this point, but it starts with the 30s MGM logo-the lion roars once and fades into Groucho who roars into the camera. The last one is Harpo who also tries to roar but no sound is heard. He then grabs a horn and does some honking sounds with it.
• Petunia National Park (1939): The MGM logo contains an ANIMATED Leo the Lion!
• Blitz Wolf (1942): We see the red/yellow sunburst MGM Cartoon logo, with Leo the Lion roaring in delayed motion as synched to jazzy opening music.
• Batty Baseball (1944): The main credits (including the MGM lion) don't appear until a character asks to see them.
• North by Northwest (1959): The MGM logo is seen in monochrome over a light cyan background.
• Tom and Jerry theatrical features during the Chuck Jones era (1960s): The MGM lion transforms into Tom who meows and hisses.
• A Gene Deitch Tom and Jerry short (1960): The ending of this cartoon has Jerry climbing into a mousehole decked out with an MGM ribbon. His face gets a bit more vicious as he roars with the MGM lion roar sound!
• MGM's The Big Parade of Comedy (1964, B/W): We see the MGM logo with the sign "Out to Lunch" over the circle, hiding Leo's head as he roars. Suddenly the sign flips up to reveal an animated man trapped in Leo's mouth kicking, beating, and yelling "Ow! Ow! Get me outta here!"
• Dance Of The Vampires/Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967): In the opening credits the MGM-lion transforms into a vampire. [This leads into the animated prologue MGM added (along with 35 minutes of cuts) prior to its release over director Roman Polanski's objections. Polanski deleted this from the 1990s director's cut version. Dont worry-the original's still in print.]
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): Instead of the normal lion, there is an outline of a lion in a white circle on a blue background. MGM is below it, and the lion was used as the symbol for MGM's record label way back.
• Night of Dark Shadows (1971): When the MGM lion roars at the beginning of this film, no sound comes out. The 90s home video release has the normal version instead.
• Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981): The lion's roar is replaced with Tarzan's yell. It was originally replaced wih the regular version on TV, but current Turner/Warner Bros. prints retain this variant.
• Strange Brew (1983): Standard MGM opening, but the lion, instead of roaring, belches and appears disinterested. The camera then pulls back from the logo and pans towards the Great White North set. A few minutes later, the lion roars in the background, and Bob or Doug comments, "Oh, NOW he roars..."
• The Lionhearts (1998): A lame animated sitcom featuring the MGM lion and his family. No, we're not making this up! Anyway, the animated version of the lion seen in this show has a turn in the ribboning.
• Josie and the Pussycats (2001): The MGM lion morphs into a screaming fan.
• The Crocodile Hunter (2002): The TV promos had a croc in place of the lion, while the teaser trailer has Steve Irwin doing his infamous hunting style around the MGM lion.

Paramount

• Alpine For You (Popeye Short, 1951): An end gag that may have started it all. Bluto's on this mountain top and then Popeye grabs the mountain top with Bluto on it with a lasso. He then punches Bluto and lets go of the mountain top and stars emerge from Bluto's head and form the Paramount logo, as the words "A Paramount Picture" appear below Bluto.
• The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978): We see the normal Paramount logo changing into the blue Mountain logo.Nothing unusual so far but then the Blue Mountain silhouette transforms into the Fujiyama vulcan silhouette.The logo looks quite funny with that flat top mountain.
• Indiana Jones Series(1982, 1984, 1989): These logos were replicas of the classic "A Paramount Picture" logo but with Gulf + Western info added at the bottom. The mountain fades from the logo, and are: a real mountain in South America (Raiders), a mountain drawing on a gong (Temple of Doom), and a mountain in the southwest United States (Last Crusade).
• Big Top Pee Wee (1988): The 50s era "A Paramount Picture" logo is seen, without a byline. There is a special, magestic fanfare included as well.
• Coming To America (1988): The CGI Paramountain forms as usual (with a Gulf + Western byline). It then turns into a real mountain (with stars and text intact), and we zoom in over the top, and past the letters. This is done as Eddie Murphy's character lived in the Kingdom beyond the Paramountain.
• Scrooged (1988): The word Paramount and "A Gulf+Western Company" are a blue-silver color, and the camera zooms over the Paramountain into the "Yule Love It!" promo. The theatrical trailer on the DVD has snow coming down from the sky and the camera zooms into the Paramountain.
• Black Rain (1989): Normal logo (with fanfare), but fades onto the red sun in Japan.
• Event Horizon (1997): Standard Paramount logo animation with fanfare;after the logo fully forms,the camera pans upward into space.
• Hard Rain (1998): The Paramount mountain is seen in much worse weather than normal; the camera pans down from the logo to scenes of flooding.

Universal

• The Birds (1963): A rare variation of the Universal globe superimposed into the picture itself. Was also used at Hitchcock's "Marnie".
• The Sting (1973): The Universal 1930s "Art Deco Globe" is seen tinted in brown.
• Smokey & The Bandit II (1980): An animated car chase around the Universal Globe is seen.
• Xanadu (1980): The 1920s Universal globe with biplane flying around opens the film. As the opening credits appear, the globe remains on screen and a succession of increasingly modern flying machines (four-engine airliner, Concorde, flying saucer) emerge from behind the Earth.
• ET (1982): The Universal logo animation is played backward, so we go from the world out to outer space.
• The Burbs (1989): We see the normal Universal Globe (looks computerized tho) but then the text fades out leaving only the globe and then we zoom into the globe- closer and closer until we fly over the town as the start credits roll.
• Mo' Better Blues (1990): Flavor Flav of the rap group Public Enemy spells out the letters in "Universal" (then says "You've been rollin' for 75 years!" and yells "Yo,Spike! Start the movie,man!") as the 75th Anniversary logo appears on the screen.
• Street Fighter (1994): The logo forms as normal. However, after a few seconds, the text fades out, leaving only the globe. The globe shakes and the "Street Fighter" logo forms around it!
• The Flintstones (1994): Variation on the 1990 Universal logo, the logo reads "UniverSHELL" and script is carved in stone.
• Casper (1995): The globe turns into the moon.
• Waterworld (1995): The Universal 90-97 globe stays visible after the text fades out, and we zoom into the globe as the globe is covered with water.
• The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000): Similar to the above, only the variation is on the 1997 Universal logo instead.
• Gladiator (2000): A color-change job, this time the Dreamworks and Universal logos are golden-toned.
• Meet the Parents (2000): During the opening logos, the singers in the theme music are lyrically commenting on the "glowing earth" in the Universal bumper and the "boy in the moon" in the Dreamworks bumper.
• Jurassic Park III (2001) During the studio introduction, each logo (Amblin as well) is accompanied by the 'ripple-in-the-water' effect and the sound of a heavy footstep.

Warner Brothers

• In Our Time (1944): After the WB logo appears at the end, the letters W and B are seperated and letters added to form the words "BUY War Bonds".
• Lumberjack Rabbit (1954, Looney Tunes): The shield shoots up towards us like normal... but overshoots its mark so that it looks like it's crashing into the screen! It then moves back to its normal position though.
• Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Hour (1970s): Instead of the normal \\' logo used at the time, we get treated to Bugs and the Roadrunner standing beside a bannerless WB shield! "WARNER BROS. TELEVISION" and "A WARNER COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY" are above and below it in the fonts used on the \\' logo.
• Blazing Saddles (1974): On a plain blue BG, we see the late 40s-early 50s shield, with the 1936 Max Steiner WB fanfare playing. Suddenly, a blazing fire breaks out and spreads around the logo and across the screen, flaming away the logo and transitioning to the movie opening credits.
• The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979): The "That's All Folks" card keeps appearing at the beginning and end. In the beginning, after they show the Warner Communications logo, they show the traditional "That's All Folks" card that is usually shown at the end. Bugs Bunny appears in front of it and sniffs and gets rid of the background and sniffs again then he pushes the words "That's" and "All Folks" separately and down comes the word "NOT" in red capital letters underlined. Then it reads, "That's NOT All Folks!" Then Bugs pulls the traditional opening Warner Bros. logo shown at the beginning.
• One Crazy Summer (1985): The logo appears as normal. Then, suddenly, it turns into a crudely drawn version of the shield, with wiggling clouds. The Warner Communications byline and clouds dissipate as a REALLY-EVIL looking bunny opens the WB shield from inside. He laughs evilly, and then we zoom into his mouth, seeing the "ONE CRAZY SUMMER" title zoom up on us. Scary as hell.
• Sesame Street's Follow That Bird! (1985): This is an oddity, as it is contained within the movie itself, actually (Oscar does a Patton-like speech at the beginning), and features no banner or Warner Communications byline! It consists of Big Bird blowing up a WB shield balloon, with a voiceover: "This movie is brought to you by the letters W and B!"
• Who’s That Girl? (1987): The Warner Bros. logo with byline appears as animated on a granite background. We zoom up to the logo, the shield opens like a door, and out comes a cartoon Madonna, who closes the shield and poses sexy for the camera. The logo goes up and she moves down to make way for the opening credits.
• Batman (1989): The WB shield is almost a light bronze, and the sky is dark blue.
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990): Instead of the normal shield logo, a replica of the classic 1943-1963 WB "circles" cartoon logo comes up, with its text and minus shield ("PICTURES, INC." is removed in favor of "A TIME WARNER COMPANY"). The shield then zooms up with Bugs Bunny riding it, and the text fades out. Daffy Duck then comes onscreen, angrily, pushes him off the shield ("50 years of you hogging the spotlight is ENOUGH!"), and tries to ride it... well, it doesn't work as good for him :) They also have another Looney Tunes-style ending, with Porky doing the usual "That's All Folks!" ending before Daffy, like before, complains of Porky hogging (no pun intended) the spotlight, saying something to the effect of "60 Years of you doing the end title is enough". Daffy trys to say the end line, but like before, is stopped by Porky, who finishes the line.
• Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers (1991): OPEN: A recreation of "The Bullseye" logo with orange circles, black center and "Bugs Riding The Shield." Animation and music is similar to the 1940s Looney Tunes bumper, but the title of the logo reads "WARNER BROS. ANIMATION INC.," and the "LOONEY TUNES" title card reads below "A WARNER BROS. CARTOON MADE IN N.Y.C. AND BURBANK."
  CLOSE: We see a recreation of the 1944 Porky In The Drum logo, in which a badly animated "stereotype" version of Porky bursts out of the drum and tries to say his famous line in a pale voice imitation as outer-spacey sound-effects play in the background. A frowning Bugs enters from the left and kicks the fake Porky out, then grabs the real Porky and puts him in the drum where he belongs. Porky is surprised for a moment "Oh, oops" then proceeds with his famous line and pose as Bugs exhaustedly exits right.
• Batman Returns (1992): Same as the original Batman, only with snow in the sky as well.
• Batman Forever (1995): The WB shield transforms into the Batman logo.
• From Hare To Eternity (1996): The 1992 Warner Bros. Family Entertainment logo is seen as normal, but we do not hear "Merrily We Roll Along" as often plays over the logo, INSTEAD we hear a reorchestration of the 1936 Max Steiner WB fanfare. Other variations are done on "The Bullseye" opening/closing credits: the open on this cartoon has a Chuck Jones byline, and the close has "That's All Folks!" written over the bullseye in a SMALLER script than usual.
• Batman and Robin (1997): The WB shield transforms into a frozen Batman logo.
• Conspiracy Theory (1997): The initial Warner Bros. logo with the clouds behind is shown - the camera then pulls back to show the logo as a billboard on the side of a bus.
• Mars Attacks (1997): A little flying saucer flys around the WB shield logo.
• Lethal Weapon 4 (1998): The WB shield blows up!
• The Matrix (1999): Current logos for both (also includes Village Roadshow), but the colors have been changed to a green tint and a filter has been applied so they look "computerish".
• True Crime (1999): The 1984 logo appears, as with all post-1999 Eastwood movies.
• Wakko's Wish (1999, WB Family Entertainment): The standard "Bugs walks out from behind the shield, does a Vanna pose, and chews his carrot" logo... until Wakko from Animaniacs walks out, does a Vanna pose... and takes a huge bite of the shield! Bugs is not amused.
• Space Cowboys (2000): The Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow logos aren't animated. Also, they are put on a black background and in the same black-and-white color scheme as the first five minutes of the movie.
• Swordfish (2001): The opening studio logos for Warner Bros and Village Roadshow Productions flicker as if they were on a problematic computer screen.
• Thir13en Ghosts (2001): The opening Warner Brothers logo is in black and white.
• Blood Work (2002): The Warner Bros. logo is the 1984 logo with "An AOL Time Warner Company" on the bottom.
• Scooby-Doo (2002): The Warner Bros. logo turns into a Scooby-Doo dog collar with the initials "SD" on it. This also features a chunk of the WB shield also being eaten before the SD shield morph.
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003): The teaser trailer, which played on prints of Men in Black II, had the shield turning into the liquid metal and melting.

Others

• A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994, Caravan Pictures): The standard Caravan Pictures logo plays, but over the music an insulter yells after the walking man “Come back Shame!!!!”
• Toy Story (1995): In the DVD version, when the THX logo appears it gets burned out like a flashlight then a robot comes out of the logo, fixes it, and the THX sound resumes and the robot goes back inside it.
• Recess (2001, Disney): T.J., Spinelli, Mikey, Gretchen, Gus, and Vince appear on the logo and blow their kazoos to the tune of the Walt Disney Pictures logo music.
• Lilo & Stitch (2002, Disney) At the beginning, they show the traditional Walt Disney Pictures logo, but the beam of light is instead a laser beam and then the logo gets abducted by a flying saucer.
• Snow Dogs (2002, Disney): The logo appears then gets covered with falling snow.
• Shrek (2001, Dreamworks): The two letter "s"s in the DreamWorks SKG logo turn into the "Shrek" S with ogre ears.
• The Amazingly True Story of the Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom (1992?, HBO): The standard HBO Picture logo plays, but with a female voiceover: "Next on HBO, -it's The Amazingly True Story of the Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom!" She then pauses and then incredulously says: "That's REALLY the title?"
• Psycho (1998, Imagine) The logo drips in blood instead of water.
• Joe's Apartment (1996, MTV Productions): After the end credits, the cockroaches come together and form the MTV logo, then they crawl away.
• Detroit Rock City (1999, New Line): The music is a rock version of the normal fanfare.
• Blade (1998, New Line): The logo is tinted in red.
• Ed Wood (1994, Touchstone): The yellow thing that looks like hay in the ball logo appears after a bolt of lightning strikes it.
• Look Who's Talking Too (1989, TriStar): Normal logo, but the pegasus has been given a voice from Bruce Willis! It's just like Mr. Ed's, and they even throw in a "Willlbur! I'm Flyyying!" response in there.
• A Bridge Too Far (1977, United Artists): It begins with the words "United Artists" over a plain black background, zooming out as the Hexagon border fades in layer-by-layer. Then the grainy background fades in with the Transamerica logo and byline below the Hexagon logo.