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Background

Jerry Bruckheimer Films Inc. is an American film production company founded in December 1995 by Jerry Bruckheimer, who had dissolved Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films after cutting ties with his longtime partner Don Simpson (who died in January 1996). The first film produced by the company was Con Air, released on June 6, 1997. Until 2014, most of the company's films were released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution (now Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) under its Walt Disney Pictures, Hollywood Pictures and Touchstone Pictures labels (except for films released by Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems Pictures or Warner Bros. Pictures). In 2013, the company shifted its ties to Paramount Pictures; however, it became fully independent in 2020.

Logo (June 6, 1997-)

Prototype version
Later version

Visuals: The camera zooms down a road as a thunderstorm brews and lightning flashes multiple times. As the camera stops at a leafless tree, a lightning bolt strikes it, and leaves instantly appear on the tree. The scene freezes and zooms out in a box, and the text "JERRY BRUCKHEIMER" appears below it, with an underline and the spaced-out text "FILMS" underneath it.

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.^[1]
The lighting bolt comes from the Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films logo, and was intended to have two bolts for Bruckheimer and Simpson, not unlike the Simpson/Bruckheimer logo. After Simpson died, only one bolt was featured.

Variants:

A prototype version of this logo exists, 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 also 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.
A later variant also exists, 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 also exists.
A short version also exists, which begins 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, thunder, and cracks of lightning.

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 on Black Hawk Down and Young Woman and the Sea, the logo is silent.
On Secret Headquarters, the opening theme of the movie plays a few seconds before the logo cuts out.

Availability:

It made its debut on Con Air and has appeared on every film since.
The later variant can be found on most films from 2004 onward, beginning with National Treasure.
The prototype variant appeared at the end of Con Air, as well as trailers and TV spots for the film.
This logo does not appear on Remember the Titans, which was produced by Technical Black Films and uses that label's logo instead.
It was also seen on two made-for-TV movies: Max Q and Swing Vote (1999).
- 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 also retain this.

References

↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220325134444/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/movies/movie-studios-strive-for-ever-more-inventive-logos.html

◄	Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films

Jerry Bruckheimer Films

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 ===Background===
-'''Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films''' was founded in the 1980s by movie producers '''Don Simpson''' and '''Jerry Bruckheimer'''. Together, the duo had produced some of the most successful films of the 1980s, including ''Flashdance'', ''Beverly Hills Cop I'' and ''II'', and ''Top Gun''. The company didn't use a logo until 1990 on ''Days of Thunder''. When Simpson died in 1996, it was renamed 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]]).
+'''Jerry Bruckheimer Films Inc.''' is an American film production company founded in December 1995 by '''Jerry Bruckheimer''', who had dissolved [[Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films]] after cutting ties with his longtime partner Don Simpson (who died in January 1996). The first film produced by the company was ''Con Air'', released on June 6, 1997. Until 2014, most of the company's films were released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution (now [[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures]]) under its [[Walt Disney Pictures]], [[Hollywood Pictures]] and [[Touchstone Pictures]] labels (except for films released by [[Columbia Pictures]], [[Screen Gems (1998-present)|Screen Gems Pictures]] or [[Warner Bros. Pictures]]). In 2013, the company shifted its ties to [[Paramount Pictures]]; however, it became fully independent in 2020.
+===Logo (June 6, 1997-)===
-==Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films==
+<tabber>
+Images=
-===(June 27, 1990-June 7, 1996, July 18, 2003, May 13, 2019-)===
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="120">
+File:Jerry Bruckheimer Films (1997, prototype).png|Prototype version
-<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
-File:Don Simpson-Jerry Bruckheimer Films (1990).png
-File:Don_Simpson-Jerry_Bruckheimer_Films.jpeg
-File:Don_Simpson-Jerry_Bruckheimer_Films_(1995,_print_logo).jpeg
-File:Don Simpson Jerry Bruckheimer Films (2003).png
-File:Don_Simpson-Jerry_Bruckheimer_Films_(2019).png
-</gallery>
-{{YouTube|id=CYyu_Q-M_wM}}
-'''Nickname:''' "Twin Lightning"
-'''Logo:''' We start with sky blue clouds moving across the screen. Two bolts of lightning strike and converge at the bottom, and the clouds instantly turnorange-red. The screen zooms out in a box on a black background, as the text "DON SIMPSON/JERRY BRUCKHEIMER FILMS" with "FILMS" in spaced-out letters under "DON SIMPSON/JERRY BRUCKHEIMER", is revealed at the bottom of the screen, in a red color.
-'''Variants:'''
-*The print logo was seen at the end of ''Bad Boys''.
-*An early version just has the company name.
-*On ''Bad Boys II'' and ''Bad Boys for Life'', the logo is shortened and the text is smaller.
-*The trailers for ''Top Gun: Maverick'' and ''Bad Boys for Life'' have the logo minus the name.
-'''FX/SFX:''' The clouds gliding, the lightning and the zooming out. Appears to be live-action footage mixed with 2D animation.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' Just the sounds of lightning.
-'''Availability:''' Was scarce before, but now current. In its original run, the film was seen on some films from 1990 until 1996, including ''Days of Thunder'', ''Crimson Tide'', ''Dangerous Minds'', and ''The Rock''. Following Simpson's death, however, Bruckheimer has opted to retain this logo on sequels to films he originally produced with Don Simpson when he was still alive, presumably out of respect; with the logo reinstated for ''Bad Boys II'', ''Bad Boys for Life'', and the series ''L.A.'s Finest'' (a spinoff to the ''Bad Boys'' film series). The logo can also be seen on trailers for ''Top Gun: Maverick'', and may presumably be seen on the actual film as well. The version without the lightning box was on a teaser trailer for ''Days of Thunder'', which can be found on the 1990 Paramount VHS release of ''Black Rain''. Does not appear on ''The Ref''.
-'''Editor's Note:''' The animations and atmosphere may get to some people who do not like lightning. The animation of the lightning also looks poor, with limited visuals and choppy movement.
-==Jerry Bruckheimer Films==
-===(June 6, 1997- )===
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-File:Jerry Bruckheimer Films (2004).png
+File:Jerry Bruckheimer Films (2000).png
+File:Jerry Bruckheimer Films (2004).png|Later version
 File:Jerry Bruckheimer Films (2014, Closing).png
-File:Jerry Bruckheimer Films (2018).png
 </gallery>
+|-|
-{{YouTube|id=_omg3djRFqE|id2=PBb3ofoQoHE}}
+Videos=
+{{YouTube|id=XwKKIXMvTco|id2=_omg3djRFqE|id3=NQ0NLBYf6jg|id4=tNwYs-zOnPo}}
+</tabber>
+'''Visuals:''' The camera zooms down a road as a thunderstorm brews and lightning flashes multiple times. As the camera stops at a leafless tree, a lightning bolt strikes it, and leaves instantly appear on the tree. The scene freezes and zooms out in a box, and the text "JERRY BRUCKHEIMER" appears below it, with an underline and the spaced-out text "FILMS" underneath it.
-'''Nickname:''' "The Road", "The Lightning", "The Tree"
+'''Trivia:'''
-'''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:
+* 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.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220325134444/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/movies/movie-studios-strive-for-ever-more-inventive-logos.html</ref>
+* The lighting bolt comes from the Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films logo, and was intended to have two bolts for Bruckheimer and Simpson, not unlike the Simpson/Bruckheimer logo. After Simpson died, only one bolt was featured.
+'''Variants:'''
-<center>{{big|{{font|Times New Roman|<u>JERRY BRUCKHEIMER</u>}}}}<br>
+* A prototype version of this logo exists, 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 also larger, more stretched out and in a yellow color.
-{{font|Times New Roman|F      I      L      M      S}}</center>
+* On <u>''Con Air''</u>, the logo is slightly longer, and the box above the text is bigger.
+* A later variant also exists, 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 also exists.
+* A short version also exists, which begins with the lightning strike.
+* On <u>[[ITV1|ITV]], [[ITV2]] and [[Channel 4]] UK airings of ''Coyote Ugly''</u> (2000) as well as <u>small HD widescreen versions of ''Deja Vu''</u> (2006), the logo is cropped to 16:9 aspect ratio.
+'''Technique:''' CGI by Dream Quest Images.
-is revealed below, in a yellow color.
-'''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 is a prototype version of this logo that existed at the end of ''Con Air'' and on trailers for the film. The difference is that it is a still shot where the tree already has leaves on it and the font is larger and more stretched out and in a green color. While the normal logo was used in the beginning, at the end of the film, an animated version of the prototype logo appears. It is animated differently as the camera already has the tree (with leaves) on view, the zooming animation down the road is absent. Only the clouds move, thunderstorm and all, and when the lightning strikes the tree, the screen zooms out and freezes.
-*On the aforementioned film, the logo is slightly longer, and the box above the text is bigger.
-*There is a later variant of this logo in which the "JERRY BRUCKHEIMER FILMS" name is absent; it's mainly the same logo with a thin yellow rectangle added around the clip. The camera also gradually keeps zooming out as the clip plays, revealing that the clip is now in a box. When the lightning strikes the tree, the screen freezes without the text below it and the zoom-out of the clip ends.
-*''12 Strong'' has the regular logo without the text.
-*The print logo appears the end of ''Deliver Us From Evil''.
-*On the 1998 TV movie ''Max Q'' and the 1999 TV movie ''Swing Vote'', there's a short version beginning with the lightning strike.
+'''Audio:''' The sounds of wind, thunder, and cracks of lightning.
-'''FX/SFX:''' The zooming through the desert landscape, the lightning rumbling in the clouds, and the lightning striking the tree. Well-made CG animation that still looks great over two decades later.
+'''Audio Variants:'''
-'''Music/Sounds:''' Just the sounds of the wind and thunder.
+* In most cases, the film's opening theme is heard, with the wind and lightning sounds intact.
+* On <u>''Confessions of a Shopaholic''</u> and <u>''The Lone Ranger'' (2013)</u>, the film's opening theme is heard without any of the usual sounds.
+* <u>At the end of Disney-distributed movies like ''Armageddon''</u>, as well as on <u>''Black Hawk Down''</u> and <u>''Young Woman and the Sea''</u>, the logo is silent.
+* On <u>''Secret Headquarters''</u>, the opening theme of the movie plays a few seconds before the logo cuts out.
+'''Availability:'''
-'''Availability:''' Common. Appears on several films, including ''Armageddon'', ''Gone in 60 Seconds'', ''Pearl Harbor'', ''Black Hawk Down'', and the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' films. The later variant appears on films from 2004 onward, beginning with ''National Treasure'' (though it does not appear on ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice''). Does not appear on ''Remember the Titans''. Also seen on two made-for-TV movies: ''Max Q'' (1998, co-produced with [[ABC Signature|Touchstone Television]]), and ''Swing Vote'' (1999, co-produced with [[Sony Pictures Television|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 (and on Amazon's print, this is followed by a filmed CTT logo).
+* It made its debut on ''Con Air'' and has appeared on every film since.
+* The later variant can be found on most films from 2004 onward, beginning with ''National Treasure''.
+* The prototype variant appeared at the end of ''Con Air'', as well as trailers and TV spots for the film.
+* This logo does not appear on ''Remember the Titans'', which was produced by [[Technical Black Films]] and uses that label's logo instead.
+* It was also seen on two made-for-TV movies: ''Max Q'' and ''Swing Vote'' (1999).
+** 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 also retain this.
+===References===
-'''Editor's Note:''' The animation and concept is very creative and professional. The lightning may startle some people though.
+{{Reflist}}
+{{Chronology|[[Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films]]}}
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