Tomorrow Entertainment: Difference between revisions

'''Tomorrow Entertainment, Inc.''' was a television production company that was founded by former [[ABC National IDs|ABC]] president Tom Moore and owned by General Electric. The company produced movies which were generally acclaimed by critics. In August 1971, the company acquired [[Alan Landsburg Productions]], after having previously purchased Hurok Concerts Inc. and [[Rankin-Bass]]. In late 1974, GE chose to exit the entertainment industry, shutting down Tomorrow and spinning off its' other entertainment companies, while retaining ownership of Tommorow and Rankin-Bass' programs produced up to that point.

Following Tomorrow's closure, Tom Moore established a new production company, Tom Moore Entertainment, and renamed it Tomorrow Entertainment in 1976. By 1981, the company was owned by advertising agency Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, and former CBS executive John Backe became the company's president and CEO. The company planned a move into feature films starting in 1985, but this turned out to be a failure, and Tomorrow ended program production the following year. GE retained the rights to the first Tomorrow's library until 1987, when it was sold to [[Broadway Video]]; it is now controlled by [[NBCUniversal]] through [[DreamWorks Animation]] and [[Classic Media]]. It is unknown who owns the second Tomorrow's library, at one point held by the Backe Group, although some of their movies are currently distributed by [[CBS Media Ventures]], as [[Viacom Enterprises]] syndicated movies from both Tomorrow incarnations in the early 1980s.

'''Logo:''' On a {{color|lightblue|light blue}} background with part of a white rectangle below, we see a hummingbird flying toward us. It flies down and back as the "T" from the same logo from before comes together, with the E sliding in its place from the right. The hummingbird flies through the base of the "T" and out of the top line of the "E", and the "TE" slides up with a residue-trailing effect. The hummingbird then flies around the top of the "T" as the words "{{font|serif|''from TOMORROW ENTERTAINMENT, INC.''}}" in the Bookman Swash font appear stacked and aligned to the "TE" in black, along with the byline "A Subsidiary of General Electric" with the GE logo beside it. The hummingbird stays in flight next to the left of the "TE".

'''Logo:''' On a {{color|yellow}} background, we see the Tomorrow Entertainment logo (in the same design as the 1st logo) in {{color|blue}}. The words "{{font|serif|''TOMORROW ENTERTAINMENT, INC.''}}" in Bookman font are seen below the "TE". Suddenly, a {{color|silver|silvered}} hummingbird appears flying from the left and stays in flight next to the left of the "TE".

'''Logo:''' We see a {{color|blue}} nighttime background, the "TE" logo zooms out, turning the background into a dawn sky as it does so, accompanied by the stacked words "{{font|serif|''TOMORROW ENTERTAINMENT''}}" in the same font from before. Four sparkles flash on the words and the "TE" one-by-one, while a glowing {{color|orange}} circle (the sun) appears in the "TE".