'''Visuals:''' On a black background, a white rectangle fades into the center of the screen, as 3 copies of the text "'''LE STUDIO'''" (in a tall serif font), in {{color|hotpink|pink}}, {{color|dodgerblue|blue}}, and {{color|yellow}}, slide into the rectangle from the top, left, and right side of the screen at once, albeit at different speeds. When they all eventually meet in the center, the colors overlap into forming a mostly-{{color|grey}} color with hints of {{color|hotpink|pink}}, {{color|dodgerblue|blue}}, and {{color|yellow}} along the edges. Then, the Canal+ logo fades in black, lined up so that the "'''+'''" is within the "'''{{color|grey|O}}'''", and the wordmarks slowly fade out, leaving the rectangle.
'''Visuals:''' Inserted into the end credits of a film (instituting that it's a print logo) is "LE STUDIO" in a large font. Inside it is the Canal+ logo, which is the name of the network in an italic form. The plus sign is inside the "O" of "STUDIO".
'''Variants:'''
'''Variants:'''
* Thelogo, was often seen inside a white rectangle with"LESTUDIO"in{{color|gray}} and the "CANAL+"in black.
* An all white, rectangle-less version exists. This is actually the print logo.
** An early opening variant has a white Canal+ logo and "{{color|grey|'''LE STUDIO'''}}" in grey and outlined in {{color|gold}}.
* An animated variant exists, and starts with the rectangle fading in, then three copies of "LE STUDIO" in {{color|hotpink|pink}}, {{color|dodgerblue|blue}}, and {{color|yellow}} flying into the rectangle, then combining and turning {{color|gray}}. "CANAL+" then fades in. Then the logo fades out and "PRESENTE" in white fades in. This animation was used as a de-facto video ident for the company's releases.
* On some VHS releases, after the text fades out, the rectangle and background invert colors for a few frames, with the "'''LE STUDIO'''" text reappearing within the rectangle, before disappearing and being replaced with "'''PRESENTE'''" in white.
* On ''Chaplin'', the logo is seen next to the Carolco logo.
* On ''Chaplin'' and ''Basic Instinct'', the print logo is seen next to the Carolco logo. The former had the rectangle version, the latter had the rectangle-less version.
'''Technique:''' A still graphic.
'''Technique:''' A still graphic.
'''Audio:''' None on the still version. The animated version has a fanfare with four deep synth notes and a choir, piano notes playing as the copies of "LE STUDIO" fly into the rectangle, and a cymbal hit once "CANAL+" fades in.
'''Audio:''' A fanfare with four deep synth notes and a choir, with a descending piano ditty playing as the copies of "LE STUDIO" fly into the rectangle, and a cymbal hit once "CANAL+" fades in.
'''Availability:''' SeenonCanal+airingsandVHSreleases of ''BasicInstinct'',''TheCityofFear'',and''Chaplin''.
'''Availability:''' This was primarily used at the beginning of French TV airings and French tapes of their catalog.
* The early version is found on ''The Undeclared War'' and ''Night on Earth''.
* It was spotted on an TF1 airing of ''Sans Issue (Black Moon Rising)'' on April 16th, 1995.
* Seen on Canal+ airings and French VHS releases of ''Basic Instinct'', ''The City of Fear'', ''Chaplin'', ''Le Retour de Casanova'', ''L.627'', ''Cayenne Palace'', and 'La Crise'', among other films.
===2nd Logo (1995-2000)===
===2nd Logo (1995-2000)===
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'''Audio:''' Same as the Canal+ Video logo.
'''Audio:''' Same as the Canal+ Video logo.
'''Availability:'''
'''Availability:''' Same as before.
* Seen on the 1999 French VHS release of ''Scream 2'', the 2000 French VHS release of ''Jeu Mortel'' and the 1999 French VHS and DVD releases of ''Porco Rosso''.
* Seen on the 1999 French VHS release of ''Scream 2'', the 2000 French VHS release of ''Jeu Mortel'' and the 1999 French VHS and DVD releases of ''Porco Rosso''.
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'''Visuals:''' On a black background, therearetwoconnectedrectangles, one {{color|gray}}, the other {{color|deepskyblue|light blue}}, bothsliding from the center of the screen like a mirror image. The {{color|gray}} rectangle reads "STUDIO" and the {{color|deepskyblue|light blue}} one reads "CANAL"; both texts are in white. The logo and font look similar to the oneusedforitsparentcompanyCanal+.
'''Visuals:''' On a black background, 2 halves of a rectangle, the left {{color|gray}} and the right {{color|deepskyblue|light blue}}, slide out from the center of the screen like a mirror image. The {{color|gray}} rectangle reads "'''ST'''<nowiki></nowiki>'''''UD'''''<nowiki></nowiki>'''IO'''" and the {{color|deepskyblue|light blue}} one reads "'''''CAN'''''<nowiki></nowiki>'''AL'''"; both are in white and in the Canal+ font (a modified version of Futura).
'''Technique:''' Computer animation.
'''Technique:''' Computer animation.
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'''Visuals:''' A comet flies across avery {{color|darkblue|dark blue}} sky, with a few intermittent stars (a homage to the Canal+ feature presentation ident of the time). As the comet passes over the screen, small stars start to flash and random numbers begin to appear in place of the flashes. A lightning bolt strikes from the right side of the screen into the middle of the screen.The numbers disappear and a circular burst of "rain" appears. Large white circles of varying sizes pop up over the screen and disappear almost instantaneously. Another lightning bolt hits.The source of the "rain" switches to the right side of the screen. The rain stops and white lines begin to appear all over the screen (once again disappearing instantly) as the letters for "STUDIO CANAL" appear haphazardly across the screen. A shooting star and a lightning bolt appear at the same time.Rain starts coming from all sides of the screen, as well as small white circles floating upwards. Sparkles of light encompass the screen, culminating in a white flash. The same logo from the previous logo, only the boxfor"STUDIO" is black, appears, surroundedby light streaks.Finallythetext"ACANAL+COMPANY" appears on the bottom right of "CANAL"(withabitofmovinglightappearingonthe corner of the logo simultaneously).
'''Visuals:''' A comet flies across the screen, which slowly fades to {{color|darkblue|dark blue}} throughout the logo, with a few intermittent stars (a homage to the Canal+ feature presentation ident of the time) rotating along. As the comet passes over the screen, small stars start to flash and random numbers begin to appear in place of the flashes. A lightning bolt strikes from the right side of the screen into the middle of the screen, causing the numbers to disappear and a circular burst of "rain" to appear on the left side. Large white circles of varying sizes pop up all over the screen and disappear almost instantaneously, as well as more stars. Another lightning bolt hits the screen, filling the screen with fog for a frame before the source of the "rain" switches to the right side of the screen. The rain stops and white lines begin to appear all over the screen (once again disappearing instantly) as the letters for "'''ST'''<nowiki></nowiki>'''''UD'''''<nowiki></nowiki>'''IO'''<nowiki></nowiki>'''''CAN'''''<nowiki></nowiki>'''AL'''" appear haphazardly across the screen before disappearing just as quickly. A shooting star and a lightning bolt then appear at the same time and cross each other, and rain starts coming from all sides of the screen, as well as small white circles floating upwards. The entire screen then zooms in as sparkles of light encompass the screen, culminating in a cut to black for a frame, followed by a bright flash of white to reveal a black rectangle for a single frame, and then the StudioCanal logo appears as the screen shakes. The logo is the same as the previous logo, but the rectangles are now black and {{color|grey}} respectively, the logo glows with a radiant light border, and "'''''CAN'''''<nowiki></nowiki>'''AL'''" appears as a light quickly appears and dies down just as fast. Another light flash appears on the upper right corner, and a byline reading "'''''A CANAL''''' '''+''' '''''COMPANY''''''" appears quickly one-by-one in the lower right corner, with the Canal+ logo added.
'''Variants:'''
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* An open matte version of the logo also exists on 4:3 prints.
* An open matte version of the logo also exists on 4:3 prints.
* A still version also exists as well.
* A still version also exists as well.
* On the Italian VHS release of ''Pirate Family: The Mystery of The Ghost Treasure'', the logo is on the white background.
'''Technique:''' 2D computer animation with some CG elements. A digital graphic for the still variant.
'''Technique:''' 2D computer animation with some CG elements. A digital graphic for the still variant.
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* It is also seen on most international television and DVD prints of Avco Embassy (though TV rights to those films are with [[Sony Pictures Television|Sony]]), Lumiere, [[Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment|Thorn-EMI Screen Entertainment]], Carolco, [[De Laurentiis Entertainment Group|De Laurentiis]], [[American Zoetrope]], and [[Nelson Entertainment]] films, such as HDNet Movies' prints of ''Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw''.
* It is also seen on most international television and DVD prints of Avco Embassy (though TV rights to those films are with [[Sony Pictures Television|Sony]]), Lumiere, [[Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment|Thorn-EMI Screen Entertainment]], Carolco, [[De Laurentiis Entertainment Group|De Laurentiis]], [[American Zoetrope]], and [[Nelson Entertainment]] films, such as HDNet Movies' prints of ''Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw''.
* On DVD, this logo can be found on prints of library titles from this era through licensed distributors (e.g. [[Anchor Bay Entertainment]]), such as [[The Criterion Collection]]'s ''Day of the Dolphin''.
* On DVD, this logo can be found on prints of library titles from this era through licensed distributors (e.g. [[Anchor Bay Entertainment]]), such as [[The Criterion Collection]]'s ''Day of the Dolphin''.
* It is also seen on the 2001 French VHS release of ''Traffic'' asade-factohomevideologo.
* It is also been used as a de-facto home video logo, such as on the 2001 French VHS release of ''Traffic'' and the Universal UK DVD release of ''Brotherhood of the Wolf''.
* It is also seen on [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]/[[Trifecta Entertainment & Media|Trifecta]] syndicated prints of ''Narrow Margin'', before the [[TriStar Pictures|TriStar]] and Carolco logos.
* It is also seen on [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]/[[Trifecta Entertainment & Media|Trifecta]] syndicated prints of ''Narrow Margin'', before the [[TriStar Pictures|TriStar]] and Carolco logos.
* This logo was also used as a de-facto VHS and DVD logo in France entitled [[StudioCanal Video]].
* This logo was also used as a de-facto VHS and DVD logo in France entitled [[StudioCanal Video]].
* This logo was also seen at the start of a December 27, 2022 UK airing of ''Warlords of Atlantis'' (1978) on LEGEND.
* This logo was also seen at the start of a December 27, 2022 UK airing of ''Warlords of Atlantis'' (1978) on LEGEND.
===3rd Logo (May 22, 2002, February 5, 2003-August 26, 2011)===
===3rd Logo (May 22, 2002-August 26, 2011)===
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'''Visuals:''' A thin rectangle with an image of clouds inside appears in the center of a black background, and slowly grows so that it takes up the whole screen. The camera flies through the clouds, and, after a few seconds, the StudioCanal logo appears, and the surrounding area fades to black.
'''Visuals:''' A thin rectangle with an image of clouds inside appears in the center of a black background, and slowly grows so that it takes up the whole screen. The camera flies through the clouds and, after a few seconds, the StudioCanal logo (with the reflection of the clouds on it) appears, and the surrounding area fades to black when the logo turns flat.
'''Variants:'''
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** It also makes an appearance in most current prints of ''The Mirror Crack'd'' before the film-within-a-film that the people of St Mary Mead have gone to see, plastering [[Columbia Pictures|the 1976-1982 Columbia Pictures logo]].
** It also makes an appearance in most current prints of ''The Mirror Crack'd'' before the film-within-a-film that the people of St Mary Mead have gone to see, plastering [[Columbia Pictures|the 1976-1982 Columbia Pictures logo]].
* A shorter version of the logo also exists, which starts in the clouds. This can be found on ''Inland Empire'' and the Canadian and U.S. releases of ''Franklin and the Turtle Lake Adventure'', as well as the 2003 VHS and DVD releases of ''Stargate''.
* A shorter version of the logo also exists, which starts in the clouds. This can be found on ''Inland Empire'' and the Canadian and U.S. releases of ''Franklin and the Turtle Lake Adventure'', as well as the 2003 VHS and DVD releases of ''Stargate''.
* ''A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures'' uses a variant where all the clouds are lighter and re-rendered to look more realistic. When the StudioCanal logo fades in, it slides to the left a little bit before the background fades to black.
* ''A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures'' uses a enhanced variant where all the clouds are lighter and re-rendered to look more realistic. When the StudioCanal logo (now already in flat) fades in, it slides to the left a little bit before the background fades to black.
'''Technique:''' CGI, done by BUF Compagnie and designed by Laurent Panissier.<ref>[https://viadeo.journaldunet.com/p/laurent-panissier-233404]</ref>
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Background
StudioCanal (formerly known as Le Studio Canal+ until 1999) is the general production and distribution unit of French premium television channel Canal+. It was founded in 1988 by Canal+ president Pierre Lescure as a spin-off of the pay-TV network; its original function was to focus on French and European productions, but later made strategic deals with American production companies.
Over the years, the studio acquired the film libraries of other studios that either became defunct or had merged with it. As a result, StudioCanal now owns the third largest film and television library in the world with over 6,000 titles, behind Warner Bros. and MGM. The library includes titles from Carolco Pictures, Avco Embassy Pictures, and Lumiere, among others.
Visuals: On a black background, a white rectangle fades into the center of the screen, as 3 copies of the text "LE STUDIO" (in a tall serif font), in pink, blue, and yellow, slide into the rectangle from the top, left, and right side of the screen at once, albeit at different speeds. When they all eventually meet in the center, the colors overlap into forming a mostly-grey color with hints of pink, blue, and yellow along the edges. Then, the Canal+ logo fades in black, lined up so that the "+" is within the "O", and the wordmarks slowly fade out, leaving the rectangle.
Variants:
An all white, rectangle-less version exists. This is actually the print logo.
An early opening variant has a white Canal+ logo and "LE STUDIO" in grey and outlined in gold.
On some VHS releases, after the text fades out, the rectangle and background invert colors for a few frames, with the "LE STUDIO" text reappearing within the rectangle, before disappearing and being replaced with "PRESENTE" in white.
On Chaplin and Basic Instinct, the print logo is seen next to the Carolco logo. The former had the rectangle version, the latter had the rectangle-less version.
Technique: A still graphic.
Audio: A fanfare with four deep synth notes and a choir, with a descending piano ditty playing as the copies of "LE STUDIO" fly into the rectangle, and a cymbal hit once "CANAL+" fades in.
Availability: This was primarily used at the beginning of French TV airings and French tapes of their catalog.
The early version is found on The Undeclared War and Night on Earth.
It was spotted on an TF1 airing of Sans Issue (Black Moon Rising) on April 16th, 1995.
Seen on Canal+ airings and French VHS releases of Basic Instinct, The City of Fear, Chaplin, Le Retour de Casanova, L.627, Cayenne Palace, and 'La Crise, among other films.
Visuals: Same as the Canal+ Video logo (which is based on the Canal+ feature presentation ident of the time), but the Canal+ logo is replaced with a black bar. In the end, the words "LE STUDIO" and "CANAL+" are seen in the center, with "LE STUDIO" moved to the left. The square is to the left of "CANAL+".
Technique: 2D computer animation done with a Quantel Paintbox.
Audio: Same as the Canal+ Video logo.
Availability: Same as before.
Seen on the 1999 French VHS release of Scream 2, the 2000 French VHS release of Jeu Mortel and the 1999 French VHS and DVD releases of Porco Rosso.
StudioCanal
1st Logo (April 21, 2000)
Visuals: On a black background, 2 halves of a rectangle, the left gray and the right light blue, slide out from the center of the screen like a mirror image. The gray rectangle reads "STUDIO" and the light blue one reads "CANAL"; both are in white and in the Canal+ font (a modified version of Futura).
Visuals: A comet flies across the screen, which slowly fades to dark blue throughout the logo, with a few intermittent stars (a homage to the Canal+ feature presentation ident of the time) rotating along. As the comet passes over the screen, small stars start to flash and random numbers begin to appear in place of the flashes. A lightning bolt strikes from the right side of the screen into the middle of the screen, causing the numbers to disappear and a circular burst of "rain" to appear on the left side. Large white circles of varying sizes pop up all over the screen and disappear almost instantaneously, as well as more stars. Another lightning bolt hits the screen, filling the screen with fog for a frame before the source of the "rain" switches to the right side of the screen. The rain stops and white lines begin to appear all over the screen (once again disappearing instantly) as the letters for "STUDIOCANAL" appear haphazardly across the screen before disappearing just as quickly. A shooting star and a lightning bolt then appear at the same time and cross each other, and rain starts coming from all sides of the screen, as well as small white circles floating upwards. The entire screen then zooms in as sparkles of light encompass the screen, culminating in a cut to black for a frame, followed by a bright flash of white to reveal a black rectangle for a single frame, and then the StudioCanal logo appears as the screen shakes. The logo is the same as the previous logo, but the rectangles are now black and grey respectively, the logo glows with a radiant light border, and "CANAL" appears as a light quickly appears and dies down just as fast. Another light flash appears on the upper right corner, and a byline reading "A CANAL+COMPANY'" appears quickly one-by-one in the lower right corner, with the Canal+ logo added.
Variants:
A short version of the logo that starts at the logo's appearance exists, so far this has only been seen on the 2002 DVD release, 2017 Australian DVD release, and the 2015 Criterion Blu-ray release (not the 2021 re-release) of Mulholland Drive, and a Philippines VCD release of The Others.
An open matte version of the logo also exists on 4:3 prints.
A still version also exists as well.
On the Italian VHS release of Pirate Family: The Mystery of The Ghost Treasure, the logo is on the white background.
Technique: 2D computer animation with some CG elements. A digital graphic for the still variant.
Audio: First, a zap sound is heard when the comet flies by, then a tribal hymn heavy on thunderous percussion, with an operatic singer marking the appearance of the company name, and a strange primal scream at the white flash (from Spectrasonics' Heart of Africa 1 sample CD). A brief bongo tap is also heard to mark the appearance of "A CANAL+ COMPANY".
Audio Variants:
The 2002 Anchor Bay DVD release of Highlander (1986) also uses this logo, but on the audio commentary track, the 1992 jingle from the second Lumiere Pictures logo can be heard as this logo plays. This is because the commentary was taken from the 1996 Republic LaserDisc release of the movie.
NTSC prints of films have had the fanfare low pitched (due to PAL to NTSC conversion).
The short version uses the opening theme of the movie.
Sometimes, the logo is silent, or the opening theme of the film plays.
Availability: Not many films used this logo, but it's still not too hard to find.
Seen on films like Billy Elliot (the US release), Bridget Jones's Diary and 40 Days and 40 Nights.
It is also been used as a de-facto home video logo, such as on the 2001 French VHS release of Traffic and the Universal UK DVD release of Brotherhood of the Wolf.
It is also seen on Paramount/Trifecta syndicated prints of Narrow Margin, before the TriStar and Carolco logos.
This logo was also used as a de-facto VHS and DVD logo in France entitled StudioCanal Video.
This logo was also seen at the start of a December 27, 2022 UK airing of Warlords of Atlantis (1978) on LEGEND.
3rd Logo (May 22, 2002-August 26, 2011)
Visuals: A thin rectangle with an image of clouds inside appears in the center of a black background, and slowly grows so that it takes up the whole screen. The camera flies through the clouds and, after a few seconds, the StudioCanal logo (with the reflection of the clouds on it) appears, and the surrounding area fades to black when the logo turns flat.
Variants:
A B&W version of the logo exists, which can be found on recent prints of The Farmer's Wife and The Elephant Man (sans Encore's prints), as well as other black-and-white films (most commonly French New Wave films) and British ABC produced shows such as Armchair Theatre.
It also makes an appearance in most current prints of The Mirror Crack'd before the film-within-a-film that the people of St Mary Mead have gone to see, plastering the 1976-1982 Columbia Pictures logo.
A shorter version of the logo also exists, which starts in the clouds. This can be found on Inland Empire and the Canadian and U.S. releases of Franklin and the Turtle Lake Adventure, as well as the 2003 VHS and DVD releases of Stargate.
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures uses a enhanced variant where all the clouds are lighter and re-rendered to look more realistic. When the StudioCanal logo (now already in flat) fades in, it slides to the left a little bit before the background fades to black.
Technique: CGI, done by BUF Compagnie and designed by Laurent Panissier.[1]
Audio: Faint unintelligible whispers, followed by a whimsical-sounding fanfare, accompanied by various sound effects (e.g. a camera lens adjusting, wooden creaks, and bird chirps, sometimes louder).
Audio Variants:
Sometimes, the logo is silent, or the opening theme of the film plays.
Like the previous logo, the fanfare is low pitched on some NTSC releases once again due to PAL to NTSC conversion.
On Love Actually (2003), the faint whisper comes in late and cut off before the fanfare appears, this time with the various sound effects intact.
On Thunderbirds (2004), the faint whisper plays twice and while the fanfare plays, the various sound effects play twice.
On Johnny English (2003) and Wimbledon and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (both 2004), the tail end of the 1997 Universal Pictures logo's music plays alongside the faint whispers before the fanfare appears, this time with the various sound effects intact.
Availability: Seen on films like Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Babies, Thunderbirds, and Genesis, among others.
Like the previous logo, it is also seen on television and DVD prints of films from the previously mentioned companies' libraries.
It also plasters the TriStar and Carolco logos on the Blu-ray release of Angel Heart.
It is also used as a de-facto VHS and DVD logo in France.
It is also seen on most current prints of the 1958-1966 Carry On films that were released by Anglo-Amalgamated Films, preceding the first three logos of that company, though most newer prints of them may plaster it with the next logo below, though some have it still intact, although it is strangely retained on its own on Blu-ray and Britbox prints of Carry On Screaming due to the 1962?-1971 Anglo-Amalgamated Films logo being strangely cut out.
This logo first appeared as a custom variant on Irreversible, before it was re-introduced with its normal version on 18 ans aprés in 2003.
4th Logo (September 5, 2011-)
Visuals: In a live-action black environment are several revolving rectangular glass panels in a letterboxed format, with brightly-colored lights shining through it. There are reflections of StudioCanal's new logo ("STUDIOCANAL" in Futura LT Bold, all upright and with the "O" and "C" connected, inside a black rectangle with the top-left and bottom-right corners rounded off; it is also rendered with the rectangle being white and the name being the same colors as the glass). They rotate like a revolving door to form the studio's name, upon the formation of which the rectangle fades in behind it and the lights continue to appear behind it.
Trivia: The logo's background was entirely done in live-action, with the glass installed specifically for the logo. A behind-the-scenes featurette can be seen here.
Variants:
A print version of the logo exists. Also this version is an in-credit variant.
A B&W variant of this logo exists.
A short version exists for TV shows.
A version in which the normal logo is scrolling in credits also exists.
Starting in 2020 with the re-release of Total Recall (1990), the byline "A CANAL+ COMPANY" appears underneath the studio name for the first time since the 2000 logo.
A seemingly unused package of variations from 2018 omits the mattes on top and bottom of the logo, and has the StudioCanal logo form through its letters as outlines rotating together, which then fill up with white. The result also lacks the rounded rectangle.
Technique: Primarily live-action with some minor computer graphics. Done by Devilfish.
Audio: A strings, woodwind, and mallets-laden composition by Alexandre Desplat, somewhat reminiscent of his score from Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Audio Variants:
On The Fives, the logo is silent.
A Portuguese print of Total Recall (1990) has the 2003 fanfare from the previous logo due to sloppy plastering.
On recent releases of films originally mixed in mono (such as Jean-Luc Godard's A Woman is a Woman and Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club), only the center channel (containing the guitar, the flute, a trumpet and some strings) of the logo's original 7.1 mix can be heard.
On Johnny English Strikes Again, the tail end of the 2012 Universal Pictures fanfare is heard before the fanfare plays. The music is also low-pitched.
The 2018 variations use a different accelerando composition by Desplat. Each variation uses a set of different instruments.
On the U.S. release of Paddington 2 (2017), the tail end of the 1999 Warner Bros. Pictures fanfare plays over the logo, omitting the first two chimes.
On a Paramount Network UK 2020 airing of Raw Deal (1986), the final note of the 2003 fanfare from the previous logo can be faintly heard after the logo ends due to a sloppy plastering job.
The in-credit variant uses the ending theme of the movie.
Availability: Seen on releases from the studio such as Non-Stop, Paddington and The Commuter.
It is also used as a de-facto DVD and Blu-ray logo in France, United Kingdom, Germany and Australia, and appears on many current prints of older titles, for instance, streaming copies of Escape from New York and Carnal Knowledge on Vudu.
This logo is seen at the beginning of every episode of both Wanted: Dead or Alive and The Big Valley on Starz Encore Westerns, however, it does not appear on Me-TV's airings of the aforementioned show.
It is also seen at the start of the 3D version of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), and also on new prints of the first three Rambo movies since 2018, when a 4K restoration from the original negative was released on Blu-ray and 4K UHD.
It is also preserved on some current French television prints of Regency and Spyglass Entertainment titles (as well as French digital prints of Spyglass titles), such as The Sixth Sense, What Happens in Vegas, Keeping the Faith, Love and Other Drugs and Shanghai Noon, among others.
It is also seen at the end of TV shows that they own such as The Avengers, War of the Worlds and The Adventures of Paddington.
This logo was also seen on TV shows that it's units produced such as Ridley Road and Happy Valley.
This logo can also be seen on GKIDS's English dub of The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales.
The 2018 variation package was posted on J.F. Degrevy's Vimeo account on August 9, 2018.
This logo is also preserved on UK prints of post-2011 Studio Ghibli films on both DVD and Blu-ray.
The in-credit variant is seen on Shaun the Sheep Movie, Early Man and A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, respectively.
This logo is also seen on the Mamoru Hosada film, The Boy and the Beast, however, it is cut out on home media releases, mostly due to StudioCanal using authoring from the Australian releases from Madman Entertainment.
This logo also does not appear at all on Johnny English Reborn (despite the company being mentioned in the credits) and it also does not appear on Mr Bean's Holiday either.
The bylineless version of this logo was also seen at the start of an April 8, 2023 UK airing of Five Guns West (1953) before the 1997 Orion Pictures logo on LEGEND.
The version with the Canal+ byline is also preserved at the start of a Sky Go New Zealand streaming print of Richard III (1955) before the 2013 ITV Studios Global Entertainment logo.
This logo can also be spotted on German theatrical and home media releases of Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie.
Some current prints of The Mirror Crack'd have this logo instead of the B&W variant of the previous logo.
This logo is also strangely preserved on the Lionsgate Blu-ray release of Saw X (2023).
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