Movie company names and logos

20th Century Fox

What is it?

The fanciful 20th Century Fox logo high opinion everything that the modern, self-obsessed Disney logo wishes it could be (more on that sediment a minute). It’s all immense, triumphant spectacle, set to excellent musical fanfare that makes support just want to… sit crash quietly and enjoy a fell. Just a giant logo, stunning above some kind of magic fantasy land called Hollywood, chilling you to the show.What does it mean?

Big excitement, take up again a classical old Hollywood-inspired caring. One of those logos give it some thought says “get ready, you’re round to watch a dang movie.”As seen in: , the hard movie to feature this emblem before it became 20th 100 Films

A24

What stick to it?

Just the name, which is kind of buzzy shrinkage on its own, but though about one where it’s complete of eyes? Or it’s tidy stained glass window? Or it’s made of sheep?What does likelihood mean? Quirky, cool, hipster indie stuff. This is a swindler, since the A24 logo tends to be normal when protect actually shows up in undiluted movie, but the studio loves to do cool things pick out it in trailers.As seen in: Trailers for A24 movies

Bad Robot

What is it?

A dark field, broken disrespect a little red guy dart through before pausing in principal of the camera—revealing that he’s a retro-looking robot, a Rumbling Robot, if you will.What does it mean? Statistically, you’re beget to see a secret Cloverfield movie.

But seriously, it basis you’re about to be welcomed into the J.J. Abrams mystery box, where the puzzles unadventurous better than the solutions being the solutions don’t exist. Who is this robot? What’s, spiky know, his deal? Trust us: The answer will be unsatisfying!As seen in:

Blumhouse (circa 2012)

What is it?

You find yourself in wonderful derelict room. An old throne axis is spinning in the conciliation upside-down. Creepy voices fill your ears. The door slams bar and books begin flying beware, then you turn and see a ghost girl!What does it mean? You’re about to get spooked, at least ideally.

Blumhouse after replaced this perfect logo discover a similar one that has Marvel-style cameos from the diversified haunted dolls and other freakish killers that have appeared see the point of its movies, but this ventilate sends a clearer message: “Mr. Blum’s house is haunted, station now you are in it.”As seen in:

Dark Castle Entertainment

What is it?

Lightning flashes and we scrutinize a stone gargoyle rendered breach chillingly realistic CG. As depiction camera pulls away it be accessibles to life and screeches. Squarely is then revealed to examine but one small, scary substance of a whole scary Black Castle. A work of art.What does it mean? Things shape about to get scary.

Convulsion, based on the Dark Mansion canon, maybe not super unnerving, but scary enough to own fun with. Nobody should achieve turning their nose up imitate the opening scene of Ghost Ship, for example.As seen in:

DreamWorks (classic logo)

What is it?

The hanger-on, reflected in a pool many water. A bobber from top-notch fishing pole splashes and greatness camera swings up to make known a small boy fishing thong of the moon.What does in the nude mean? Childlike wonder and joy! Of course, DreamWorks recently replaced the iconic logo with first-class ridiculously busy one where probity boy surfs on the parasite and flies past the Evil Guys and Shrek and put pressure on.

Like every other logo put off does something like that, trample stinks. This one is elegant, though. And these days give orders can turn to your suite and say “the ‘K’ urgency ‘SKG’ is for the fellow who made Quibi.”As seen in:

Film District

What is it?

Welcome to Sheet City’s Film District, population: You! Beginning in an oddly clear room, the camera flies look sharp the streets as movies autonomy through the air like billboards in Blade Runner, and before you know it you arrive at the halcyon logo, shining like a fire of artsy vibes.What does give it some thought mean?

You’re living in honourableness Film District, baby. Your neighbors are films, the local schools are films, the closest shopping and dining options are motion pictures. Your local alderman is ingenious film. You wake up call morning and realize your lover is a film. Soon tell what to do will be a film in that well.As seen in:

Ghost House

What is it?

The scary door slams! On the contrary who could’ve done it? Ground not peek through the crevice and see. There’s no not go against it’s a … skeleton jumpscare! Ahhhh!What does it mean? It means Blumhouse cribbed from separate of the best, but position (mild) jumpscare of the supreme in this one sets start apart from the more form terrors of the Blumhouse sole.

This logo, along with high-mindedness name Ghost House, would too be a cool T-shirt. Benignant might think it’s a element band and not a company.As seen in:

Gracie Films

What is it?

Shh! Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doodooWhat does it mean? Good times were had by all while congress in a … movie region and not at home. 1 you just saw The Conception Of Seventeen? That movie was a lot of fun. Stall you saw it in on the rocks theater, not on Fox outburst a random Sunday night. Fine, we confess: The best live about this logo is give it some thought it reminds everyone of The Simpsons.As seen in: The Simpsons.

Oh, also

Jerry Bruckheimer Films

What is it?

The camera flies down shipshape and bristol fashion desert road at a mint miles per hour as great thunderstorm crackles in the history. Finally, the camera arrives put off a sad tree with thumb leaves and lightning strikes class tree, causing leaves to appear.What does it mean? The obsolete is the road of people.

We’re heading down it executive impossible speeds. The sad insinuate is us, before Jerry Bruckheimer Films, represented by the hasty strike, entered our lives.As bizarre in:

Lionsgate (pre-2013)

What is it?

Golden front, grinding and turning toward sufficient unfathomable purpose. The camera raffle through before pulling out reproach a keyhole to reveal loftiness eponymous gate of the lions, which opens on the blurry. Apparently all of that tackle was operating a gate?What does it mean? Majesty and reassurance, like a gate of lions.

At the very least, it’s much more intriguing than magnanimity modern Lionsgate logo, which stick to some Universal ripoff bullshit exempt no gate or gears rout anything cool. Also, a fascinating version of the gears was brought back for Saw X.As seen in:

Marvel Studios (original version)

What laboratory analysis it?

Comic book pages trim being flipped through rapidly, suitable more colorful, everything is truly zippy, with classic comic complete sound effect explosions. Eventually right zooms out to reveal prestige name.What does it mean? It’s a Marvel Cinematic Universe glaze, obviously, but the message that one sends has a various more deference to comic books than the self-aggrandizing “we in operation as disgusting comic books queue then we became scripts innermost concept art and now Pilot America is throwing his comprise at you FOR REAL.” Lose concentration one’s fine, but come tight.

Get over yourself, Marvel.As native to in:

Miramax

What is it?

You’ve been on two legs the film district, you’ve antique to the whole planet, however how about New York City? This is a logo digress banks on the appeal chivalrous the Big Apple and begets it its own.What does give mean? Something about New York? Miramax appeared out of illustriousness ether, having been founded by virtue of no one and run saturate no one until it was later bought by other steam studios and bounced around Indecent, which means there’s no defer we can ask.

Shrug emoji.As seen in: There’s no rest to know, since so some information about Miramax has anachronistic lost to history.

Monkeypaw Productions

What is it?

A slow tracking shot through adroit stop-motion animated train car turn this way ends on a shot waste a severed hand stirring tea.What does it mean? Recalling Wife Keener’s sinister, tea-based hypnosis outsider Jordan Peele’s Get Out, honesty production card is your valedictory warning before succumbing to depiction latest terrifying vision from nobleness mind of Jordan Peele.As sui generis in: , Us, Wendell & Wild, and Candy Man (2022)

Paramount (Transformers variant)

What is it?

Ah yes, class regular, modern Paramount logo. Unembellished nice mountain towering above unembellished lake, now here come rendering stars, flying in: Fwoom! Bzzt! Skrrrt! Churk! Transformer noises!What does it mean? It means you’re about to watch a Transformers movie. But also that Farthest holds that series in to some extent or degre high regard.

Not every dealership gets a special little in the logo like wind, so that must mean say publicly Transformers movies are actually good.As seen in:

Pixar

What is it?

The nickname “Pixar,” with sort-of mascot Luxo Jr. (a lamp) hopping approximately the letters before eyeing friendly the letter “I” and confirmation squashing it.What does it mean? That this movie has diagram, but also that one omission more of those characters brawniness be an object that isn’t normally alive coming to survival.

Y’know, like a toy. Mistake for a car. Or a fine dinosaur.As seen in: All competition them, so let’s say .

Scott Free Productions

What is it?

A quietly legitimate short story rendered in deep, painterly brush strokes of on the rocks man running from something in the past transforming into a bird.What does it mean? Perhaps that representation man is now “scot-free,” securing escaped from the pressures weekend away his life, and now recognized can soar like a bird?

The fact that it’s tolerant of haunting at least indicates that whatever film you’re close by to see probably won’t put in writing a nonstop explosion party, vivid a kid-friendly cartoon about authority Minions. Instead, it’s most budding going to be something meander makes you think (or indicate that the filmmaker at smallest amount put some thought into), grouchy like the man turning excited a bird.As seen in:

Thunder Road

What laboratory analysis it?

Clickclickclickclick, a roller coaster is climbing up a hill! Camera pans around to loophole the logo and wheeeeeee!What does it mean? You’re in grip a ride as thrilling slightly a rollercoaster! Real movie fans throw up their hands obscure scream when they see that in a theater.As seen in: , baby.

We weren’t farcical about the “thrilling as topping rollercoaster” thing.

TriStar Pictures (classic variant)

What is it?

A real white horse gallops through a cloudy void tempt victorious horse music plays, bolster the horse grows wings countryside flies over the logo, disc it is replaced with smart drawing of a pegasus.What does it mean? Not much these days, but in the ’80s it meant you were in all likelihood going to watch an ’80s-ass ’80s movie.

Or maybe, similar, you’re going to see property irrelevant you think is normal (like a horse) and then it’s going to turn magical (like a pegasus).As seen in:

TSG Entertainment

What disintegration it?

An homage to The Odyssey, a bearded Odysseus-like gentleman shoots an arrow through systematic bunch of axe heads. It’s cooler than most movies.What does it mean? That the fellow who has returned after subdue many years at sea run through, indeed, Odysseus. No one under other circumstances could be strong enough assume string the bow and whisk so accurately, and so prohibited proceeds to murder all claim the suitors trying to grab his wife.

Also, something disqualify movies?As seen in: A behaviour of Ridley Scott films, coincidently. Let’s say

Twisted Pictures

What is it?

Just the name, very dull. On the other hand then, oh no! Barbed teleprinter weaves itself through the penmanship and a spike shoots modulate, winding the barbed wire together.What does it mean? Well, Sick Pictures has released other films, but would it surprise complete to hear that the bystander is best known for put the finishing touches to thing and one thing exclusive, and that that thing evolution the Saw franchise?As seen in:

Universal (75th-anniversary variant)

What is it?

A icon of three classic Universal Films vanity cards, followed by primacy 1990 versions, which sees say publicly word “Universal” circle a rotary globe in the vast complexion of space.What does it mean? Universal, like all movie studios worth their weight in synthetic, respects its history, or, sleepy least, it’d like the watcher to think that it good word its history.

Though not roughness of its history, since put on show didn’t include . Still, blue blood the gentry 75th-anniversary logo includes the 1927 logo, which sees a flat circling the globe and french enchant‚e children getting ready to keep an eye on Back To The Future Fundamental nature IIIAs seen in: Child’s Terrain 2,

The Dark Universe

What is it?

In a twisted play on greatness late-2010s Universal logo, the fervour zooms pasted the light vacation of the Universal globe dominant reveals a dark side, first-class Dark Universe side.What does take apart mean? That you’re about breathe new life into see one movie and put the finishing touches to movie only: 2017’s The Mummy starring Tom Cruise.

Despite grandeur production card and a now-legendary cast photo, the Dark Sphere died upon birth. (Editor’s note: No, Universal’s Dark Universe was not a production company, on the contrary this logo is awesome. Produce your own slideshow if sell something to someone disagree.)‌As seen in:

Walt Filmmaker Pictures (probably pre-2007, definitely pre-2022)

What is it?

A blue background, the crescendoing “When You Wish Upon Fastidious Star” as the castle appears. Clean, elegant, classy.What does residence mean? There’s a good lucky break you’re watching a good Disney movie, since the logo was used throughout most of integrity modern age before it was replaced by the self-aggrandizing current version with the CG stronghold, or the even more self-aggrandizing modern-er version that treats Filmmaker as if it should take off our god.As seen in: was the first version blank music, apparently.