Castle Rock Entertainment: Difference between revisions

'''Castle Rock Entertainment''' is an American film production company founded in 1987 by actor and director Rob Reiner, Martin Shafer, 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 Entertainment Co.|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|PolyGram Filmed Entertainment]]; [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios|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 (exceptions include all three Columbia Pictures co-productions, which are held by [[Sony Pictures Television]]). 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|Universal Studios]], 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.

'''Visuals:'''  There is 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.

'''Visuals:''' 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 it zooms 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 while the lighthouse and the company name stay on the logo.

* August 25, 1995-September 27, 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.)

* January 30, 1998-December 22, 2000: "'''A Time Warner Company'''" (in Bookman Old Style)

* September 28, 2001-April 30, 2004: "'''An AOL Time Warner Company'''" (also in Bookman Old Style)

* July 2, 2004-July 13, 2018: "A '''TimeWarner''' Company" ("'''TimeWarner'''" appears as the corporate logo; the rest of the text appears in FF Meta typeface).

'''Availability:''' It appears on almost every Castle Rock film since ''The Shawshank Redemption''.

* The early Turner variant appears on ''The Shawshank Redemption'', ''Before Sunrise'', ''Dolores Claiborne'' and ''Forget Paris''. The original [[Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment|Columbia TriStar Home Video]] releases of those films retain it.

* The second Turner logo debuted on ''Beyond Rangoon'' and appears on ''The Run of the Country'', ''The American President'', ''Othello'', ''Dracula: Dead and Loving It'', ''A Midwinter's Tale'', ''City Hall'', ''Lone Star'', ''Striptease'', ''Alaska'', ''The Spitfire Grill'' and ''Extreme Measures''.

* The bylineless version appears on ''Ghosts of Mississippi'', ''Hamlet'', ''Some Mother's Son'', ''Waiting for Guffman'', ''SubUrbia'' and ''Absolute Power''.

* The first Time Warner byline appears on ''Zero Effect'', ''Palmetto'' ''My Giant'', ''Sour Grapes'', ''Mickey Blue Eyes'', ''The Story of Us'', ''The Green Mile'', ''Bait'', ''Best in Show'', ''Lost Souls'', ''Proof of Life'' and ''Miss Congeniality''.

* The AOL Time Warner logo appears on ''Hearts in Atlantis'', ''The Majestic'', ''Murder by Numbers'', ''The Salton Sea'', ''The Adventures of Pluto Nash'', ''Two Weeks Notice'', ''Kangaroo Jack'', ''Dreamcatcher'' (as a custom variant), ''A Mighty Wind'', ''Alex & Emma'' and ''Envy'' (despite all Time Warner companies using the Time Warner byline at the time of that film's release; the logo possibly had the AOL Time Warner byline due to the movie's release being delayed).

* No logo appears on ''Michael Clayton'', ''Friends with Benefits'' or ''Before Midnight'', as only an in-credit notice appears instead.

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