Jerry Bruckheimer Films

Main Logo Variations

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Jerry Bruckheimer Films Inc.
Founded:	1983
Founder:	Jerry Bruckheimer Don Simpson
Formerly:	Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films (1983-1996)

Background

This is Jerry Bruckheimer's production company after Don Simpson died in 1996 renaming Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films to Jerry Bruckheimer Films, with the logo first appearing on Con Air. From 1983 to 1990, and again starting in 2014, the studio's films were released by Paramount Pictures and by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution (later Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) through its Walt Disney Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, and Touchstone Pictures units from 1990 to 2013 (although select films were released by Columbia Pictures and sister company Screen Gems Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures).

(June 6, 1997-)

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  Prototype version

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  Later version

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Logo: We zoom down a road, as a thunderstorm brews above. Lightning strikes multiple times, as we encounter a leafless tree. Lightning strikes it, and leaves instantly appear on the tree. The screen freezes and zooms out in a box, as the text "JERRY BRUCKHEIMER FILMS" is revealed below.

Trivia: According to Jerry Bruckheimer, the lightning bolt is meant to represent "the power of an idea." The tree was modeled after an oak on a property in Kentucky that Bruckheimer owns. He photographed the tree and sent it to Dream Quest Images, who created the logo.

Variants:

• There exists a prototype version of this logo, where the tree backdrop is entirely different. It also already has leaves on it and lacks the zooming down the road animation. The text is larger, more stretched out and in a yellow color.
• On Con Air, the logo is slightly longer, and the box above the text is bigger.
• There is a later variant where there is a thin green rectangle added around the clip as the camera gradually keeps zooming out, stopping when the lightning strikes. The text is also absent.
• A print version exists.
• There exists a short version beginning with the lightning strike.
• On ITV, ITV2 and Channel 4 UK airings of Coyote Ugly (2000) as well as small HD widescreen versions of Deja Vu (2006), the logo is cropped to 16:9 aspect ratio.

Technique: CGI by Dream Quest Images.

Audio: The sounds of wind and thunder.

Audio Variants:

• In most cases, the film's opening theme is heard, with the wind and lightning sounds intact.
• On Confessions of a Shopaholic and The Lone Ranger (2013), the film's opening theme is heard without any of the usual sounds.
• At the end of Disney-distributed movies like Armageddon, as well as Black Hawk Down, it's silent.
• On Secret Headquarters, the opening theme of the movie plays a few seconds before the logo cuts out.

Availability:

• Appears on most of the films produced by this company, including Armageddon, Gone in 60 Seconds, Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down, and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
• This logo first appeared on Con Air, with the prototype variant appearing at the end of the film and on trailers and TV spots for it.
• The later variant appears on most films from 2004 onward, beginning with National Treasure (though it does not appear on The Sorcerer's Apprentice and 12 Strong, as they use the original version of the logo).
• This does not appear on Remember the Titans, which uses the Technical Black Films logo instead.
• It was also seen on two made-for-TV movies, Max Q (1998, co-produced with Touchstone Television), and Swing Vote (1999, co-produced with Columbia TriStar Television).
• The Sony Pictures Choice Collection DVD-R and Amazon Prime's print (provided by Samuel Goldwyn Films under license from Sony) of the latter title retain this.

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