CMC Entertainment

Background
CMC Magnetics is a Taiwanese manufacturer of optical (and formerly magnetic) media technology, founded in 1978. The company was sold to some magnetic components, which owned to defunct corporations as a film production & distribution company in the Hong Kong and outside Taiwan, and then folded into CMC Entertainment in 2005. The company sold to CMC Corporation and it was discontinued in 2015, leaving the CMC Entertainment current company as a movie studio.

Logo (December 21, 2000-2004?)


Visuals: The logo opens with a metallic UFO-like object rotating in space with a Milky Way galaxy on the bottom-left. It turns into a gold-colored compact disc which disappears as it spins towards the camera. Then, the words

CMC CMC Magnetics Corporation

rise up from the pool of liquid metal.

Technique: The object and disc spinning, the logo appearing from the pool of liquid metal, which is also animated.

Audio: None.

Availability: May appear on China Strike Force, Fulltime Killer (Chuen jik sat sau), and Moh waan chue fong.

1st Logo (2002-2007?)


Visuals: On a white background, we see a CMC logo, with a rainbow gradient lines on the top, and a Chinese characters on the bottom.

Technique: None.

Audio: None.

Availability: Possibly appeared on Infernal Affairs II and many other films.

Legacy: This is a early founder of CMC Entertainment to use the old CMC logo, which used after CMC Magnetics Corporation.

2nd Logo (2006?-2008?)
Visuals: On a black background, we see a colored flowers fading in, then the Chinese characters appears via lights, and the words "CMC entertainment" fades in below.

Technique: The characters appearing, the text fading in.

Audio: None.

Availability: It was short lived. Used as a placeholder logo on some films by the company (including the early ones.).

Legacy: This is a first logo to use without CMC letters, as well as a unused old logos.

3rd Logo (2008-2019)
DvylLUsRNOI EzB9Doq08w4 Visuals: On a sky background with a grass, we see a boy holding a flower from the previous one, which is animated. The hand then throws down, and then a flowers from the previous logo then falls down and spin it, which then reveal to be a current CMC Entertainment logo, and the Chinese characters and English name then appears from the previous logo below.

Technique: The flying and the forming of the logo.

Audio: A dreamy tune, which segues into a orchestral fanfare made with 3-note sounder. Sometimes, the 2012 Huayi Brothers logo music is used due to an error.

Availability: Seen on many films like Blood Brothers, Spicy Teacher and The Last Thieves.