Carolco Pictures

Main Trailer Variations

Credits

Descriptions by
Jess Williams, Juniorfan88 and Logophile

Captures by
juniorfan88, mr3urious, Eric S., kidinbed and Logophile

Editions by
mr3urious, V of Doom, DaBigLogoCollector, Vahan Nisanian, Unnepad, TheLogoFan2004 and MitchellShepherd06

Video captures courtesy of
AsdfDailymotion898, TheAccountSecond77, Eric S, TheRedBaron1985, Ryan Holman and Broken Saw

Background

Carolco is a film company that makes stuff

1st Logo (May 22, 1985-September 4, 1987)

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Visuals: some cs come in space

Variant: A still version exists.

Technique: everything

Audio: a music that sounds like a 4yr old made it

Audio Variant: none

Audio Trivia: This was also featured of the First Blood and Rambo: First Blood Part II soundtracks as the thirty-first track and the first track, respectively, as "Carolco Logo". Another track has the slate recording that reveals that the fanfare was made in 75 takes. That version is the twenty-sixth track of the second film's soundtrack as "Carolco Logo (With Slate)".

Availability:

appeard on some stuff

2nd Logo (May 1, 1986-November 30, 1988 as an movie logo, April 14-December 18, 1986 as an television logo)

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Visuals: 2 cs combine for this logo

Variants:

• On the theatrical trailer for Extreme Prejudice, the logo is silent and tinted blue.
• On a French VHS of Red Heat, translated as Double Détente, the logo is shown in a still before the credits appear.

Technique: everything

Audio: funky music from the 80s that will give u nostalgia for old timers

Availability:

seen ona million tings lol

3rd Logo (January 15, 1988-August 26, 1994, 2015-2016)

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Visuals: blue cs make a logo

Trivia: On international prints of The Wizard, this logo didn’t actually plaster over the Universal Pictures logo. Instead, the logo would play as normal with the music and would then be followed by the film with the Universal logo blacked out.

Variants:

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Closing Variant: On the end credits, the print logo is seen with trademark info below. The logo may be seen again with "A Carolco Release" or "A Carolco International, N.V. Release" above or below. Sometimes, legal information is seen below with "® DENOTES A TRADEMARK OF CAROLCO PICTURES, INC., REGISTERED IN THE U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE.".

Technique: everything

Audio: regular msuic

Audio Variant: On some TV airings (including Trifecta's syndicated print) of Lock Up, the 1984 TriStar jingle is heard due to a bad plastering error.

Availability: seen on a trillion things lol iz soo common XD ther iz a 100% chance you will see this

Legacy: dis logo has 62725736345644337282929746464534678554446546655555678900654213 fans so iz cool

4th Logo (December 22, 1995, 2015)

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Visuals: just a pic lol

Variant: Later on, when Carolco was revived, the logo appears larger and has a silver look, with a copyright notice below.

Technique: A printed image made using traditional ink and paint.

Audio: no sound… boring

Availability: seen on 1 ting why lol

5th Logo (2016-2017)

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Visuals: lazy logo iz just the same as in 1988 lol

Technique: CGI.

Audio: THE EXACT SAME AS 1988

Availability: idk

External links

• Carolco Pictures on Wikipedia
• Carolco Pictures Filmography on IMDB