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[mrkgoo]

I just watched Déjà Vu (film was ok). During the beginning as the production company logo animations were playing, it looped them a couple times each, obviously as a play to the movie coming up.

It reminded me that a few movies have done this for playful effect.

For example, the matrix opens with the standard Warner brothers logo, but in green with an interlaced effect.

I know there are loads more - what are some of your favourites?

 

[Currygan]

Warner Bros did it a lot with the HP movies

 

[Arthr2ShdsJcksn]

Waterworld.... Universal logo shows the polar ice caps melting and the continents being submerged in water. Corny... a bit, but who cares. Its Waterworld..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWjsHoDNy6s

 

[bidguy]

a lot of companies do this for horror movies

 

[RSP]

Matrix had this as well I think

 

[WPS]

Scott Pilgrim Vs The World starts off with a retraux low-res filter over the Universal Logo, complete with a chiptune rendition of the fanfare. It's a pretty great way of setting the tone for the whole movie.

For bonus points, the regular fanfare turns up later to introduce the movie star character. I always wondered whether that was an artistic choice (it does fit pretty well) or if they were contractually obliged to have the fanfare unaltered at least somewhere.

 

[KeyBladerXIII]

 

[Bleepey]

Suicide squad did this a lot.

 

[Ventilaator]

I love when movies do this.

The Simpsons Movie had a solid one.

 

[strafer]

I love the one for The Grudge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXGjoWK2qlU

 

[120v]

i read Universal used to be really weird about letting directors do this. i guess by the 90s or so they stopped caring

 

[thebeeks]

I wish The Flintstones' Univershell wasn't the first thing I thought of, but it was.

 

[Magnetic_North]

Warner Bros did it a lot with the HP movies

Man I love how each logo got darker and more worn down and rusted as the series went on like how the books/film got darker

 

[gamz]

Raiders of the Lost ark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HZHJcPuN2U

 

[Venture]

Loved these in Where The Wild Things Are.

 

[Fancy Clown]

Finally, something where Alien 3 is the best

 

[Arkanius]

One of my favorites.

Tron: Legacy was a fantastic movie.

 

[Commander Jameson]

Finally, something where Alien 3 is the best

Yes! I love that one.

Doom is a good one too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it5gv7pJ8zo

As is Go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdF_3U16SHk

I liked Watchmen's take on the WB colours too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFcQZx217ko

I loved Sunshine playing the Fox Searchlight credits in reverse to end up staring at the sun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XJrlXKHs1E

 

[heliosRAzi]

The first one I remember was for X2, I think, when the "X" in "FOX" stayed on the screen just a little bit longer after everything else faded out.

 

[t-storm]

The best.

 

[obin_gam]

The Disney castle is by far the best company logo there is. Beautiful, epic, playful, stoic, eventful and simple at the same time.

 

[Viewt]

Regardless of how I feel about the movie itself (a'ight, and saved by a great OST), that one is fucking great.

 

[LordOfLore]

It's a trope(Logo Joke).

 

[SJRB]

I always really liked the FOX Searchlight logo transition into the sun in the movie Sunshine.

You see the FOX logo, then it sways around and focusses on the sun, starts zooming in for a pretty long time, and then it turns out it's actually the Icarus solar shield reflection.

It's simple but really neat.

 

[CalamityPixel]

The Disney castle is by far the best company logo there is. Beautiful, epic, playful, stoic, eventful and simple at the same time.

Since when did they drop the "Walt"?

 

[PantherLotus]

The Dreamworks fishing-boy-sitting-on-the-moon in sepia before Gladiator is one of my favorites. Just a nice touch to show the audience we're in antiquity.

 

[ascii42]

Flintstones movie. Has Pangea and "Univershell"

 

[Ghost Rider]

I think Dreamworks has done this with some movies like shrek

 

[ascii42]

I think Dreamworks has done this with some movies like shrek

Yep, found a list of some http://www.listal.com/list/dreamworks-logo-vaiation

 

[Scorpion Soldier]

Since when did they drop the "Walt"?

Around 2011 I believe. The official name is still Walt Disney Pictures though.

 

[robotrock]

This one is so good

 

[obin_gam]

Since when did they drop the "Walt"?

Around 2011 I believe. The official name is still Walt Disney Pictures though.

Winnie the Pooh from 2011 seems to be the last one using Walt and Pictures, and John Carter from 2012 is the first one using only Disney

 

[TimmiT]

Not from a movie but Futurama had the 30th Century Fox logo:

Also video game publishers (mainly EA and Ubisoft) like to do this a lot too.

 

[NekoFever]

One of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies (maybe even all of them) has a Jolly Roger flag on top of the Disney castle at the beginning.

The Universal logo in Brüno says Üniversal.

Tron Legacy is probably my favourite, though. That looks so good.

 

[Jedi2016]

Came here for this one.

 

[SpaceWolf]

The Disney castle is by far the best company logo there is. Beautiful, epic, playful, stoic, eventful and simple at the same time.

Can anyone identify all the movies these belong to?

 

[GCX]

This is a pretty small detail but I always found it striking how Hideaki Anno's "Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo" short film has a bright red Studio Ghibli logo instead of the familiar blue one:

 

[kiri]

Can anyone identify all the movies these belong to?

Fairly sure the gear one is Inspector Gadget

 

[Parallax]

i like the dreamworks interactive logos

the lost world

small soldiers

 

[Shig]

Warner Bros did it a lot with the HP movies

WB does it with most movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1evlzPYVVfY

 

[Currygan]

WB does it with most movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1evlzPYVVfY

yup. awesome shit

also love the Sherlock Holmes' movies one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=098QxdbedQI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvIU3NcXpqA

 

[Sectorseven]

How do the altered logos work from a legal perspective? Like, can the director do whatever he wants with it, or does it have to be proposed to some board of directors who have to sign off on it?

 

[PROh1bited]

Seeing this in 3D was great.

 

[NekoFever]

How do the altered logos work from a legal perspective? Like, can the director do whatever he wants with it, or does it have to be proposed to some board of directors who have to sign off on it?

They need permission to do it. Not sure who exactly has to give permission.

 

[The Real Abed]

Can anyone identify all the movies these belong to?

I'm wondering if the 4th one, with the corrupted 8-bit graphics, is Wreck-it Ralph?

But yeah, can someone identify them all? I'm curious. Is there somewhere to watch them all on YouTube?

How do the altered logos work from a legal perspective? Like, can the director do whatever he wants with it, or does it have to be proposed to some board of directors who have to sign off on it?

I'm sure there's plenty of paperwork. But I'd bet it's pretty easy to get permission if you're the director. As long as it's still identifiable as the studio there's no problem.

 

[obin_gam]

Can anyone identify all the movies these belong to?

But yeah, can someone identify them all? I'm curious. Is there somewhere to watch them all on YouTube?
.

here's a 10 minute video of all variations up until 2015: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noHhkzBmhRE

 

[banefirelord]

There was a great (if mildly sexist) one from back in the day for the movie The Mouse That Roared where the lady in the Columbia logo sees a mouse scurry past her pedestal, panics and runs off screen.

 

[Hilbert]

There the "8-bit" universal logo from Scott Pilgrim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT6UH9DGqgc

 

[The Real Abed]

here's a 10 minute video of all variations up until 2015: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noHhkzBmhRE

Then which movie was this one from?

Because it wasn't in the video.

 

[Alucard725]

One of my favorites.

Tron: Legacy was a fantastic movie.

Sucks that Tron 3 was killed.