Media 8 Entertainment

Background
A production/film sales company started by Mark Damon after his previous company, Vision International, folded. In 1999, the company was purchased by Behaviour Communications and renamed to Behaviour Worldwide; however, after that company folded, Damon bought the company back and reverted it to its original name.

(September 1, 1993-2003)
Logo: A golden oval globe frame zooms out upwards while shines, and then M, D (which covers the globe frame), and P fade in one by one. The yellow line draws below it, while "WORLDWIDE" fades below.

Variant: On some video releases of films produced by this company such as Inner Sanctum 2, "Home Video" appears in place of "Worldwide."

FX/SFX: The zooms, the fades, and the line drawing.

Music/Sounds: None or the opening theme of the movie.

Availability: Found on Blood for Blood (a.k.a. Midnight Man), Bad Blood (a.k.a. Viper), Inner Sanctum 2, and Shootfighter 2, among others. It is unknown if it appeared on foreign prints of The Jungle Book (1994), which they co-produced with Disney; it does not appear on the Australian VHS, though the print logo appears on the packaging.

Background
On October 10, 2003, the company changed its name to Media 8 Entertainment, which in turn, filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in April of 2012.

(January 18, 2003-March 1, 2010)
Logo: A seagull flies over the water and touches it twice, casting ripples, that join together into "8", when the words: media8 e n t e r t a i n m e n t rotate in above.

Variant: There is a still variant with the plain, brighter picture and the seagull in flight. It appeared on the company's website.

FX/SFX: The seagull, water animation and name appearing. Great animation.

Music/Sounds: A majestic soundtrack, with two dings when the seagull touches the water.

Availability: Common on the movies distributed by Media 8 worldwide. The still version was seen on the Media 8 website and the trailer for a re-release of Monster by Millennium Films.