Cineplex Entertainment

Background
Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund, the owners of the chain, renamed Cineplex Galaxy LP to Cineplex Entertainment on October 3, 2005. In 2011, Cineplex Galaxy became Cineplex Inc.

1st Logo (2005-2009)
Logo: The Cineplex logo rotates counter-clockwise into place on the screen, with the Famous Players, Cineplex Odeon, and Galaxy Theatres logos, ONEX byline and the URL appearing below. The film-reel stops, and the viewer is in a city with buildings made of filmstrips. The camera pans to the "GO BIG" text with searchlights behind it, then the camera moves around till it stops at the "FEATURE PRESENTATION" text flashing into view.

Technique: CGI.

Music/Sounds: A superhero-like soundtrack with whooshes from traffic and a helicopter.

Availability: Extinct. Only used in theatres.

2nd Logo (2009-2012)
Logo: On the side of a cliff, we see lots of mountains, trees, waterfalls, and two castles as a flock of birds fly by. A quick zoom-in through hundreds of blue and green orbs transitions to a sunset sky with a rocky ground, with pyramids, trees, and ancient rock structures, with a scorpion close to us. Then, another transition with orange orbs brings us to an eagle-eyed view of a city street with lots of cars. Some Canadian flags and a Coca-Cola billboard can be seen on the buildings. Brown and yellow orbs change the scene to a futuristic city, with lots of abstractly-designed skyscrapers, a monorail, a bridge, and a river running through the middle. Several crowds of people are seen walking around. A transition with light blue orbs goes to space with Earth slowly spinning and lights shining on the west side of the globe. The golden 3D text "FEATURE PRESENTATION" is seen over the globe, and one more transition with gold and green orbs brings us to a cloud background with the Cineplex logo slowly spinning to face us. A byline reading "ONEX A Founding Partner" appears below, and the whole logo flips, changing the text to "ESCAPE WITH US".

Technique: CGI by 4stroke.

Music/Sounds: An orchestral fanfare which slowly builds up with each passing scene.

Music/Sounds Variant: There is a version with a different, much calmer fanfare. There are also additional sound effects, and digital scrambling sounds during the transitions.

Availability: Extinct.

3rd Logo (2012-2015)
Logo: In a black-and-white 1900s environment, we see the Wright Brothers plane flying to a set of clouds. After a few seconds, the whole film turns to colour inside the clouds, as the aspect ratio widens. A new plane appears, and flies vertically reaching a cloud. We have the same top-down effect and the plane has another new look. The plane then turns into a jet and the film grain fades out. Then, another scene of a cloud appears with a space-like jet flying up. However, when the jet reaches the clouds it becomes a space shuttle and leaves the Earth. It launches to the screen. We cut through the engine of the space shuttle and the shuttle goes up. Then, the space shuttle reaches lightspeed until it becomes a white flash. When this flashes, we cut to a nebula scene with the Cineplex logo and a banner saying "100 Years of Movie Memories". Some asteroids come to the logo. One of the asteroids come from the left transforming the Cineplex logo and the banner to just "ENJOY THE SHOW".

Technique: CGI by Spy Films.

Music/Sounds: A calm tune that grows slowly to a majestic fanfare including the sounds of a plane, a jet and a space shuttle. Composed by BoomBox and Deluxe.

Availability: Extinct. This was a centennial logo to commemorate 100 years of the original Famous Players company; however, it remained in use for 3 years.

4th Logo (2016-2022)


Logo: We start by seeing a silver-ish background with a light shining on it. It then reveals a stone coliseum as the camera cuts to another shot of several silver balls rolling around. The coliseum opens up to reveal a bright white shine, revealing the classic Cineplex coliseum all turning yellow as the camera cuts to rectangles being inserted to make the logo smooth. A bright flash appears and puts the coliseum on a white background as the letters for Cineplex appears one by one from left to right. The text "See the Big Picture" appears below the logo for a few seconds before the logo turns 2D.

Technique: CGI.

Music/Sounds: A slightly dramatic fanfare, which starts to rise up and and be majestic. Sounds of marbles rolling are heard and clanking sounds are heard when the yellow coliseum appears. When the Cineplex letters appear, sounds of a film reel starting to project are heard, along with 4 xylophone notes at the end.

Availability: Extinct.

Final Note: As of mid-2022, Cineplex doesn't use a "Feature Presentation" bumper at the start of films, instead going straight to the start of the movie.