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However, this logo may or may not be present, depending on who currently owns the rights to the film and where it can be seen. Most commonly, an MGM logo will precede the Castle Rock logo; in other cases, the next logo may replace this one, and on occasion the Columbia Pictures logo seen on original
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Castle Rock Entertainment is an American film production company founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, actor and director Rob Reiner, Andy Scheinman, Glenn Padnick, and Alan Horn, with Columbia Pictures as their original strategic partner. Early in the studio's history, Nelson Entertainment co-financed their films until 1991, when New Line Cinema took over their duties (after Nelson was sold to New Line). On December 22, 1993, Castle Rock was acquired by Turner Broadcasting System and would become a part of Time Warner when the two along with New Line Cinema merged with them on October 10, 1996. In 1999, Warner Bros. Pictures gained distribution rights from Sony Pictures Entertainment/Columbia Pictures. Castle Rock's first release was Winter People in 1989, but no logo was used until When Harry Met Sally. The Castle Rock production label was a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment until numerous box office failures caused the folding of the label's physical production and public relations departments, back-office duties, and remaining employees into Warner Bros. in 2002. Several movies produced afterward used the Castle Rock name with special permission, specifically, movies made by Rob Reiner himself (i.e. LBJ and Shock And Awe).
The home media rights to the pre-1994 Castle Rock library (which was part of Nelson's library) were sold to Epic Productions, which incorporated it into its Gamma library, and then to PolyGram Filmed Entertainment; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired these rights in January 1999 after purchasing the pre-March 31, 1996 PolyGram library (including their back library) (exceptions are A Few Good Men, In the Line of Fire, and North, co-productions with Columbia Pictures that remained with the studio and The Spirit of '76, which Castle Rock produced and has a copyright holder alongside Black Diamond Productions, owned by Warner Bros.). Warner Bros. Television Studios does own the television rights to most Castle Rock films. The post-1994 library is owned by Warner Bros. (except for distribution rights of The Story of Us, The Last Days of Disco, and international rights to The Green Mile and The American President, all of which are owned by Universal Pictures, the original distributor). Castle Rock retains the copyright to nearly all of its films. The company was revived on October 19, 2021, and will produce films in a first-look deal with Warner Bros.
Logo: We see a white light on a black background rotating counterclockwise, then the background fades to reveal some land and a lighthouse at sunrise. An orange sun rises from the bottom of the range, and the light reveals the plain white words "CASTLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT" at the bottom of the screen. The sun becomes white, and the light disappears when the logo is finished.
Trivia:
•Rob Reiner once said in an interview that the lighthouse was an allegory of the company's image: allowing creative talents to make their projects with more freedom than the major Hollywood studios would allow ("safe harbor", as he calls it). Indeed, Castle Rock's nurturing of such talent, including (most notably) Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, made it one of the most successful production companies of the 1990s.
•The company name comes from the name of the fictional town in Maine that is the setting for several Stephen King stories (which he named after the rocky outcrop named "Castle Rock" in Lord of the Flies. Reiner himself named the company after the town after the success of his film Stand By Me, (which is based on King's novella, The Body).
•According to Alan Horn, several ideas for the concept of the logo were tossed around, including five peas falling out of a pod or five elephants marching in a row. The basis for both those aforementioned concepts represents the five founders of the company. Eventually, they settled for the lighthouse as their logo as they liked the idea of their light shining out of the darkness.
•It is worth mentioning while this is the first logo used for theatrical releases, Castle Rock debuted its lighthouse logo a year earlier for their television unit in a still logo with morning skies and blue water.
Logo: Same as the previous logo, but in CGI. On a black background, a white light rotates counterclockwise, then the background fades to a blue and orange gradient sky with water to reveal a lighthouse and a house. As we zoom out, the white light turns from left to right while the plain light orange sun rises and sweeps around to reveal the words "CASTLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT", in the same font as the previous logo and colored in white, below the lighthouse. The company name now zooms out from the bottom of the screen. The light disappears when the lighthouse and the company name stay on the logo.
Bylines: Below it, one of these five bylines fades in below the logo:
•September 23, 1994-May 19, 1995: "A TURNER COMPANY" in a Helvetica font.
•August 25, 1995-October 11, 1996: "A Turner Company" ("Turner" appears as the 1987 Turner Broadcasting logo and the rest of the text is in the same font as it.)
•December 20, 1996-February 14, 1997: The logo is bylineless.
•January 30, 1998-December 14, 2000: "A Time Warner Company" (in Bookman Old Style)
Jan 29, 2024 · Castle Rock Entertainment/Logo Variations. These are the logo variations seen throughout the years by Castle Rock Entertainment. The logo begins in almost complete silence. The volume of the jingle rises as the beam emitting from the lighthouse comes towards the audience, peaks when the name appears, and drops as the beam moves away from us.
Castle Rock Entertainment | Logopedia | Fandom. Logopedia. in: Film production companies of the United States, Independent film production companies of the United States, International, and 11 more. Castle Rock Entertainment. This page only shows primary logo variants. For other related logos and images, see: Logo Variations.
The second logo of film and television production company, Castle Rock Entertainment. The company was founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, ...
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