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=== 6th Logo (June 13, 1993- ) ===

<u>Nicknames</u>: "'90s Torch Lady", ''Torch Lady V'', "Majestic Torch Lady", "The Jenny Joseph Logo"

* 2006-2014: Starting with The Holiday, released on December 8, 2006, the logo was given a more "enhanced" look, similar to the 2001 Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment logo and Michael J. Deas' original artwork of the logo, which can be seen here. The hand is in a different pose in which the finger is at the tip of the torch. The sky is also darker and the "COLUMBIA" text has more silver in it and is slightly off-center. Trailers and TV spots, however, continued to use the 1993 version of the logo until 2008. On The Holiday, it shows the logo already formed; the fully animated variant debuted on Ghost Rider, as between those two films, the 1993 version was still used until The Messengers.

* 2014-: Starting with The Amazing Spider-Man 2, released on May 2, 2014, the logo is preceded by the Sony Corporation logo. This involves the addition of blurry parting clouds with a very bright light between them. The light gets brighter until the clouds are apart and then it fades to the traditional zoom out from the torch.

<u>Trivia</u>:

* A face hidden within the clouds can be seen to the left of the Torch Lady as the camera is zooming out of the torch. It is very hard to distinguish in the original 1993 variant, whereas the 2006 version makes it a lot more noticeable.

* It is unknown what animation company did the 2006 and 2014 versions of the logo.

<u>Bylines</u>:

* A prototype version of the SPE byline was used on The Juror, released on February 2,1996. The byline is chyroned on cheaply and is a lot bigger and wider than the proportion of the "COLUMBIA" name and the pedestal.

* In late 2013, the byline was shortened to "a Sony Company", with the orange-yellow color of the previous byline changed to a bronze. This version was first spotted on American Hustle (the variant of the logo to use the 1976 logo in 2013), The Monuments Men, and the official trailers for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and 22 Jump Street.

<u>Variants</u>:

* On a few Columbia Pictures licensed video games, such as Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime and The Smurfs, the print version, seen on most DVD covers of Columbia films, appears on a white background, with the text in black (as with Columbia Pictures Television) and the byline below the stacked words.

* After the end credits of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, the logo is still and the print logo is replaced.

<u>Closing Variants</u>:

* On Palmetto, yet another arrangement of the theme is heard without cymbal hits, ending smoothly with synthesized flutes. This variant was only seen on the original Columbia TriStar releases, as the current releases remove this logo (prior to Time Warner owning Castle Rock library, as Palmetto is a Castle Rock film).

* It is believed that on the Sony region 2 DVDs of Evolution (2002), the 5.1 English track contains the DreamWorks jingle. Oddly enough, a similar thing happened on the DreamWorks logo on the R1 DVD when the 2.0 English track is selected and the 1993 CP jingle is heard.

<u>Availability</u>: Very common. It has been placed in front of Columbia films for over 25 years.

* While the print logo appears on ads for The Angry Birds Movie 2, the logo itself doesn't appear on trailers for the film or the film itself.

* A portion of this logo appears about halfway through The King.

<u>Editor's Note</u>: A beautiful homage to the 1936 logo that has been in use for over 25 years.