The Montecito Picture Company

Credits

Captures by
SuperMax124 and Leogarcia lenhill

Video captures courtesy of
Introsation, Bossline91 and ifrequire

Background

This is the production company founded by late producers/directors Ivan Reitman and Tom Pollock as a successor to Northern Lights Entertainment in 1998. It is named after the community in which Reitman grew up: Montecito, California. The company did not have a logo until 2000. As of 2022, the company is likely defunct due to the deaths of both founders.

1st Logo (May 19, 2000-December 22, 2017)

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  Prototype version

Visuals: The screen fades in on a rock formation in the middle of the ocean. As a wave hits the rock, we begin to zoom out, passing over some mountains and then some trees. During the zoom-out, the sky changes from dawn to midday. The screen passes through the belfry of a bell tower in which the bell is ringing. The sequence continues to zoom out as the image becomes enclosed in a box on a black background. Below, the text "The Montecito Picture Company" zooms out with the box while the bell stops ringing.

Variants:

• On Road Trip, a prototype version appears. This version starts from about the halfway point with a slower zoom-out and less detailed scenery. The text appears via a "shine" effect.
• A short version appears on Hitchcock, Baywatch and the animated series Alienators: Evolution Continues.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: A dramatic synth tune, with water and bell ringing sounds, ending with an orchestrated fanfare, composed by Bill Byrne. In other cases, it is usually the film's soundtrack, plus the accompanying sound effects. The prototype variant uses a different arrangement of the theme.

Availability: It debuted on Road Trip and appears on films such as Old School, Evolution, Disturbia, Up in the Air, No Strings Attached and Draft Day, with the last film to use this being Father Figures. This can be also seen on the animated series Alienators: Evolution Continues. However, this does not appear on Hotel for Dogs, The Uninvited, I Love You, Man or Ghostbusters (2016).

2nd Logo (October 15, 2020)

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Visuals: The screen fades in with the ocean view at sunrise, with mountains on the background, then the camera moves quickly to the left then zooms out while the dawn changes to midday (as in the previous logo), revealing a huge mountain/hill scenery and what appears to be a small set of houses, with a small flock of seagulls flying around the ocean and a sailboat off in the distance. The sequence continues to zoom out and then pass by the bell tower. The bell is now golden, the bricks on the tower are lighter (as opposed to the darker bricks from the previous logo and its prototype variant) and everything from background to tower is now more detailed. As the bell rings, the screen zooms out and the image is again enclosed on a box. As the box zooms out, "THE MONTECITO PICTURE COMPANY" in all-caps, with "MONTECITO" wiping in as it zooms out, appear below the box in a salmon-ish color.

Variant: A print version exists.

Technique: CGI by Filmograph.

Audio: A majestic string and brass fanfare, composed by Matthew Margeson, with the bell ringing sounds at the end.

Availability: It has been seen on A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting on Netflix. This logo does not appear on Ghostbusters: Afterlife.