Largo Entertainment

Background

Largo Entertainment was a production company founded in August 1989. It was run by movie producers and brothers Lawrence and Charles Gordon and was backed by Japanese electronics firm JVC/Victor in an investment that cost more than $100 million. The company released their first film, Point Break, in 1991. The following year, they formed "Largo International N.V.", a short-lived international division. Largo went out of business in 1999, and their film library was acquired by Intermedia in 2001. Today, Warner Bros. holds video rights to most of the Intermedia-owned Largo Entertainment library, with a few exceptions.

(July 12, 1991-September 10, 1999)

Logo: On a black background, a red line scrolls down. As it does this, the word "LARGO" rises up. They both rest in the middle of the screen. Then the word "E N T E R T A I N M E N T" crawls down from below the red line and stops. The byline "IN ASSOCIATION WITH JVC ENTERTAINMENT, INC.", with the JVC logo in red and between "WITH" and "JVC", fades in below.

Variants:

From February 7-November 18, 1992, the word "E N T E R T A I N M E N T" is replaced with the words "I N T E R N A T I O N A L N. V." on international prints of some films.
A still version of this logo appears at the end of John Carpenter's Vampires.

Technique: CGI.

Music/Sounds: A synthesized fanfare with synth "jingles" that play throughout the piece until the JVC byline fades in, composed by James Horner. The "jingles" play seven times before the fanfare switches to a different key for the remainder of the theme. When the JVC byline fades in, the theme ends with what sounds like a synth hum. Sometimes, the opening theme of the movie is heard.

Availability: Rare.

Seen on films from Largo Entertainment such as Point Break (1991), The Super, Dr. Giggles, Judgment Night, Timecop, The Getaway (1994), Mulholland Falls, Omega Doom, Adrenalin: Fear the Rush, Meet Wally Sparks and John Carpenter's Vampires.
On current prints of some of these, with examples being Timecop and Unlawful Entry, this is replaced by the current InterMedia logo, while leaving the respective original distributor's logo (the 1981 20th Century Fox and 1991 Universal Pictures logos, for example) intact; on the Blu-ray of Timecop, the Universal logo is replaced with the 2003 Warner Bros. shield.
The "INTERNATIONAL N.V." variant was seen on international prints of Malcolm X.
The last film to use this logo was Grey Owl, starring Pierce Brosnan; the film also happens to be Largo's final production.
Among the few films that is known to retain this is Point Break; it is retained on at least AMC's print of the film as well as the now out-of-print 20th Century Home Entertainment Blu-Ray.