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Old 07-24-09 | 10:25 AM
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Movies that "play with" the Studio's logo

some of the most well known are the Indiana Jones movies with the Paramount logo

also The Cannonball Run has an animated car on the Fox logo
what are some lesser known movies that do this?
Old 07-24-09 | 11:07 AM
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What Planet Are You From? replaced the columbia girl with Annette Bening. I think Go may have used this opening too.

Waterworld had the Universal globe turn all to water.

Watchmen turned the WB and Paramount logos all yellow and black.
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Mars Attacks: has a UFO during the Warner logo
E.T. : the Universal logo runs backwards
The Aviator and Zodiac use vintage Warner and Paramount logos
Benjamin Button used a custom one with buttons
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I love the penguins at the beginning of Madagascar 2 beating the shit out of the Dreamworks kid fishing off the moon.

The MGM lion burping at the beginning of Strange Brew and then them trying to crank its tail to get him going.

The Matrix movies have a green digital WB logo.

Here's a good list ones:

http://members.fortunecity.com/teamf...ogovariations/

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Old 07-24-09 | 11:51 AM
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Drag Me to Hell uses the vintage Universal logo.
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In the Bob Hope/Bing Crosby film, ROAD TO UTOPIA (1945), there was a gag involving the Paramount logo (mountain and stars), but it was embedded in the film during their Alaska jaunt.

In the 1960s, Chuck Jones played with the MGM logo on his Tom & Jerry cartoons by putting a meowing Tom in place of the roaring MGM lion.

BLAZING SADDLES (1974) opened with the Warner Bros. logo suddenly being set ablaze (an obvious reference to the opening of "Bonanza").

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Old 07-24-09 | 12:19 PM
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Alien 3 plays with the 20th Century Fox theme music ...
Live Free or Die Hard shuts off 20th CF lights one by one
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The X in the Fox logo holds on screen a few moments longer in the X-Men Movies

G-Force 3D has one character running down the street in the Bruckheimer logo then gets scared by the lightning hitting the tree.
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Re: Movies that "play with" the Studio's logo

The Simpsons Movie has Ralph singing alone with the Fox logo.
Old 07-24-09 | 01:18 PM
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Ben-Hur
Leo on freeze frame!
Old 07-24-09 | 01:53 PM
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some goodies here as well...
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/...udio-logo.html
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/...ogo-movie.html
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I really liked seeing Romero use the old-school Uni logo for Land of the Dead.
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Zodiac use vintage Warner and Paramount logos
That's my personal favorite.
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Love the vintage logos.

Didn't it snow on the Fox logo for Die Hard 2 or Home Alone?
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The Simpsons Movie has Ralph singing alone with the Fox logo.
That was my favorite.
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Originally Posted by Snowmaker
I love the penguins at the beginning of Madagascar 2 beating the shit out of the Dreamworks kid fishing off the moon.

The MGM lion burping at the beginning of Strange Brew and then them trying to crank its tail to get him going.

The Matrix movies have a green digital WB logo.

Here's a good list ones:

http://members.fortunecity.com/teamf...ogovariations/
Cool list. Thanks for posting the link.
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Re: Movies that "play with" the Studio's logo

Strait-Jacket (1964)

Old 07-24-09 | 05:09 PM
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Bruno had an umlaut over the Universal logo.
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Re: Movies that "play with" the Studio's logo

Originally Posted by Snowmaker
From that list:



Edward Scissorhands.

Also, the Warner Bros. logo 'morphed' into the Bat symbols for both Batman Forever and Batman and Robin.

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Old 07-24-09 | 11:19 PM
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Gladiator tweaked the Universal and Dreamworks Logo if I recall correctly
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Originally Posted by TheMovieman
That's my personal favorite.
Yeah, me too. I also like Curious Case of Benjamin Button's playing around with studio logos...
Old 07-24-09 | 11:49 PM
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Re: Movies that "play with" the Studio's logo

Batman Begins presented the studio logos in black & white.

The Dark Knight recolored the studio logos in a blue shade.

Minority Report made the studio logos extra grainy, blue-grey, and added an underwater effect over them.

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Old 07-25-09 | 12:23 AM
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Just got out of Orphan a short while back and they had this cool thing where the WB and Dark Castle logos were splattered in various colors like sploches of paint.
Old 07-25-09 | 02:50 AM
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It's not a film, but Matt Groening spent his own cash on changing the 20th Century Fox logo to 30th Century Fox for Futurama. Fox didn't like the last-minute idea but when they saw it they absolutely adored it, of course.


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