Black Bear Pictures

Background
Black Bear Pictures is a media company founded by film producer and former corporate lawyer Teddy Schwarzman in 2011, who left Cinetic Media to form his own company. Black Bear is known for developing, producing and financing original content for film and television. Most of its films have premiered at festivals such as TIFF, Cannes and Venice, among others. The company did not use a logo until the following year.

(August 30, 2012-)
Logo: We fade into a New York City street at night, which is covered entirely by snow as it appears snowing outside. A small brown bear is seen walking in the middle of the pathway as the camera pulls back to reveal a window inside a house, in which a small boy from the back view, wearing a red shirt runs to. The bear then turns his head to look at the boy, and continues walking shortly afterward. The picture then zooms out in an iris-out-like effect, as it reveals a large "B" in white with half of the bear's silhouette shown inside, blurring in against a black background. As it continues to zoom out and slowly sharpen in the process, the stacked words "BLACK BEAR" and "PICTURES" both in white, appear wiping in from the bottom with a line separating the words, with a "glow" like effect shown around the entire logo. The logo continues to zoom out further until it slowly comes to a stop, and then it fades out.

Variants:
 * On All is Lost, the print logo appears scrolling up with various other logos in the credits.
 * On Gold, the logo has a bluish tint.
 * On Mudbound, the print logo is seen on a black background.
 * On Suburbicon, the logo appears customised alongside the other logos for the film, with the name in a different font and has "presents" below it in a script font.
 * On Ben is Back, the live-action half is cut.
 * On The Operative, the logo is seen in a box on a black background.

FX/SFX: Mostly live-action, designed by PROLOGUE. According to them, the bear was shot using green screen and was digitally added onto the street. The footage of the boy running to the window was filmed separately.

Music/Sounds: It begins off with ambience-like sounds, followed by a noise that sounds somewhat like a bear growl when it starts to pull back, and as it zooms out, a faint "ding" noise is heard (if one listens closely), ending with wind-like sounds. Sometimes, it is silent or has the opening theme of the movie.

Availability: Seen on films produced by the company such as At Any Price (the first film to use this logo), Broken City, A.C.O.D., All is Lost, The Imitation Game, The Happytime Murders, and The Operative, among others. Don't expect this to appear on Knock Knock as the company had an in-credit notice.

Editor's Note: A unique and well made logo. The use of a brown bear in a logo for a company called "Black Bear Pictures" is a bit odd, however.