Monkeypaw Productions

Background

Monkeypaw Productions is an American production company founded by director and producer Jordan Peele in 2012, with Win Rosenfield as its president. The company is known for producing the horror films Get Out and Us, both directed by Peele himself. The company is named after the 1902 horror short story The Monkey's Paw.

On May 3, 2017, Peele signed a two year first-look deal with Universal Pictures to invest, produce and distribute genre films for the studio. The deal also includes Peele producing micro-budget films with Jason Blum and his Blumhouse Productions banner after their collaboration with Get Out. It was later announced that the company was producing a horror drama anthology series with Bad Robot Productions titled Lovecraft Country for HBO and Warner Bros. Television.

In September 2021, the company signed a multi-year television deal with Universal Television after ending a previous first-look deal with Amazon. The deal brought both film and television output under a partnership with Universal.

1st Logo (January 31, 2012-September 9, 2015)

Logo: Next to the Cindylou logo, on a gray crumpled paper background, we see an orange paper with a gray monkeypaw, making an "M" with the letters "ONKEYPAW" next to it and "PRODUCTIONS" underneath, both scrambled out in random positions.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: Just Jordan Peele singing "I gotta do my one line here." with a backup.

Availability: Seen on Key and Peele.

2nd Logo (March 31, 2018-)

Logo: We fade into some stuff (such as a typewriter, crocodile, and a mask) with curtains that move a bit, as well as a magic 8-ball and the package, inside a moving train. The camera pans up to a door opening, rattling between two arrows with some warning signs to the right. It then pans to the left on a seat where a monkey's hand stirs a cup with a spoon as we zoom in with raindrops on the window, as the text "MONKEYPAW PRODUCTIONS" fades in between.

Trivia: The stirring teacup comes from Peele's film Get Out, where stirring a teacup is part of a hypnotism/mind-control technique.

Variants:

A short version exists.
On Candyman (2021), the logo is mirrored alongside the Universal Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and BRON Studios logos, to reference the saying of Candyman's name into a mirror five times.
The black & white version of The Twilight Zone uses a variant to fit the theme.
At the end of Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul, the print logo (with the name below) is on a black concrete-like background.
On Wendell & Wild, the Rust Bank Brewery is seen through the window.

FX/SFX: Stop-motion animation by Wendy Fuller.

Music/Sounds: A train moving sound, coupled with sounds that correlate to the animation. Sometimes, it has the theme from any given soundtrack or none.

Availability: Current. First seen on The Last O.G. and at the end of BlacKkKlansman. Also seen on projects with Peele involved which are Us, Weird City, Lorena, The Twilight Zone, Hunters, Lovecraft Country, Candyman (2021), Nope, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul, and Wendell & Wild.