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!"
- Whos 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.
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