Cineplex Odeon Video

Background

Cineplex Odeon Video (Cineplex Odeon Home Video before 1991) was the home video division of Cineplex Odeon Corporation, established in 1985. The division's releases were distributed in Canada by MCA Home Video and later on by Universal Studios Home Entertainment before the company folded in 1998, and was absorbed into Alliance.

Cineplex Odeon Home Video

Logo (1985-1991)

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Visuals: On a starfield background, the Cineplex Odeon logo appears and slowly zooms in. It then gets bombarded with red lasers before splitting into many squares (with the ones on the edges curved), which flip forward. The logo zooms past some of the squares before another Cineplex Odeon logo appears, in which 3 red rings wipe around it. Then after it stops zooming, the surrounding background gets covered up with a "HOME VIDEO PRESENTATION", below the "O", and "CINEPLEX ODEON" appears above it in the Korrina font. It appears like this:

CINEPLEX ODEON

HOME VIDEO

PRESENTATION

Technique: CGI, but there is obviously a black border that appears around the logo at the end with the misaligned text and cut-off logo.

Trivia: This logo is similar to the Cineplex Odeon Theatres "Feature Presentation" bumper from the time albeit with a darker background.

Audio: A dramatic synth fanfare that increases in volume accompanied by plinks when red streaks cut the oval into squares.

Availability: Can be found on Canadian VHS tapes of films such as Bombs Away, Circle Man, Happy Hour, The Offspring, Starship, Control, Dreams Beyond Memory, City of Shadows, Killing Cars, The Outing, Torrents of Spring, Deadtime Stories, Thrashin', Ninja Academy and Free Ride, among others. It can also be found on tapes from its predecessor, Pan-Canadian, on tapes such as Vigilante, but that's because those are most likely reprints. Since this is a Canadian company, be sure to check Canadian sites like Amazon.ca as well as eBay. The last movie to have this logo was the Canadian VHS release of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. It also appeared on the Canadian VHS release of Hardware, despite having the next logo on the box art. It can also be found on Canadian VHS releases from SGE Home Video and Virgin Vision.

Cineplex Odeon Video

Logo (1990-1998)

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Visuals: On a black background, the Cineplex Odeon logo fades in, though in a lighter purple than usual, closer to an orchid color. The logo then turns into two C-shaped ribbons, spreading apart and rotating around as they shine. The ribbons then unfold and bend into a far more standard "C", in which the ribbons (which now changed to lavender and hot pink respectively and they also appear to be in different sizes now; they are also not as shiny) appear to cross over each other. "CINEPLEX ODEON VIDEO" in a slightly different, metallic pink font fades in next to it in orchid.

Technique: CGI, with the new text chyroned in.

Audio: A low synth drone, followed by a eight-note piano and horn fanfare, composed by Brad MacDonald Music Ltd. of Toronto. Sometimes, it is silent.

Availability: It can be found on Canadian VHS copies of Woof!, Cronos, CrackerJack, Popcorn, Tiger Claws II (As well as Canadian copies of the first movie), Freefall, Queens Logic, Highway 61, Hard Core Logo, Jack Be Nimble, The Miracle, Back in Action, Dragon Hunt (as well as the Twin Dragon Productions DVD-R as it uses the same master), Knight Moves, Abraxas: Guardian of the Universe (it makes an appearance on the Brentwood DVD release as well as the Simitar VHS, and even the TubiTV streaming print; It is unknown if it's preserved on the Simitar DVD of the film), and Pastime among others. Some tapes that still say "Cineplex Odeon Home Video", such as Hostile Takeover, may have this logo, although those are most likely reprints. American Eagle, Strapless, and Apartment Zero, the third of which was the first tape to have this logo are like that as well, except they were like that from the start. The silent variant was spotted on a Canadian demo tape from MCA Home Video Canada titled November Highlights, before a trailer for The Nutcracker Prince.