Weed Road Pictures

Background

Weed Road Pictures is filmmaker Akiva Goldsman's production company, founded in 2004. The company didn't debut an animated logo until 2007.

1st Logo (April 27, 2007-July 2, 2008)

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Visuals: There is a painted picture of a pathway, surrounded by autumn trees. It starts zooming into a box, and we see a fence with a chain blocking the way with a banner of a blue blueberry attached to the chain. The leaves fall from the trees as it stops zooming back. The white words "Weed Road Pictures" fade in underneath.

Variants:

• On Hancock, it cuts from the preceding Overbrook Entertainment logo to a version that begins with the zoom out. After a few seconds when the text fades in, it cuts to the Blue Light logo.
• There is a version where the animation is the same but without the leaves falling and the chain is nowhere to be seen.
• A shortened version exists.

Technique: Flash animation.

Audio: A calm guitar theme, the opening theme or none.

Availability: It only appeared on I Am Legend, Hancock and the failed pilot of The Cure.

2nd Logo (April 23, 2010-)

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Visuals: The sequence starts looking at the ground, then grass zooms by as the camera moves forward upon a weeded road and bumps into a wooden gate blocking the road, with an old yellow banner (resembling a road sign), reading "WEED ROAD". Then the lower section flips down, revealing "PICTURES". The background becomes black as vines and grapes appear around the gate.

Variants:

• On the trailer for The Losers, the logo is made from pink paint.
  • The film itself uses the cartoon strip sequence of logos with Weed Road among them.
• On the trailer for Jonah Hex, the logo uses several custom designs.
• On Winter's Tale, the logo is tinted in sepia. Also, the sky doesn't turn black.
• On King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, the logo is on a sparkly background with the logo zooming in a few seconds later.
• There is a print version of this logo seen on posters and trailers of their films and on two television shows, Childhood's End and Underground.
• On the TV adaptation of Titans, the logo is shortened.
• Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds use a very short version of this logo.
• Without Remorse uses a version where it bumps into the gate.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: The opening theme of the movie, with a flipping sound when the lower section flips.

Audio Variants:

• On Titans, only the flipping sound is heard.
• The logo is silent on Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
• A rock and harmonica theme is used on The Map of Tiny Perfect Things. This was composed by Tom Bromley.

Availability: It was first seen on Jonah Hex and appeared on the company's productions since then.