Cannon Films: Difference between revisions

* Sometimes, the arrow would remain white, or the hexagon would be completely dark blue.

* A shorter version exists where the "C" merges from the split.

* On trailers, the hexagon zooms out from the center of the screen and fades to a {{color|darkblue|dark blue}} color, but with the lines still present. The hexagon splits open in the middle, revealing "''COMING FROM'' '''''CANNON FILMS'''''", with "CANNON FILMS" in the corporate font. It then quickly closes.

* On early films, the logo was longer, with the "C" moving to the bottom of the screen to make room for text in a heavily condensed Eurostile font reading "{{color|gold|CHRISTOPHER C.DEWEY and DENNIS FRIEDLAND present}}".

* It was seen on some Cannon films from the time frame, as most (including ''Northville Cemetery Massacre'') had no logo or contained only a "The Cannon Group Presents" text notice. Appears on films such as ''The Happy Hooker'', ''The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington'', ''The Alaska Wilderness Adventure'', and ''Hot T-Shirts'' (the latter after the second 1984 logo).

* It may be seen on American theatrical prints (and possibly the [[Paragon Video Productions]] VHS) of the 1980 film ''Contamination'', released in the United States as ''Alien Contamination''.

* The shorter variant can be seen on ''New Year's Evil''.

* The early variant can be seen on ''Fury on Wheels''.

* It's animated on ''The Barbarians''. "THE CANNON GROUP INC." positions itself from the top of the screen, the C and arrow zooms out, and "presents" slides in.

* On ''The Godsend'', the text says "THE CANNON GROUP INCORPORATED PRESENTS".

* There exists a short version where the logo fades out instead of the hexagon pieces zooming in. This version was mainly seen on trailers, though it was seen at the front of some films, such as ''Robotech: The Movie'' and ''Kickboxer''.

* One version had the "flying segment" animation playing in reverse, and when the logo is almost formed, it fades to black to make room for the text "{{color|deepskyblue|THE CANNON GROUP presents}}" (or "presenteert" in original Dutch). This appeared at the beginning of the Dutch film ''The Assault''.

* There is a version with a {{color|silver}} hexagon that was seen on ''Invaders from Mars'' (1986 version).

* On films released in France, after the usual animation, the words "CANNON France présente", with "France" in script, zoom in upside down, then flip over. "CANNON" is in {{color|blue}}, "France" is in {{color|red}}, and "présente" is in white. The music cuts in a couple of seconds later in this variant.

* On the original home video trailer for ''The Barbarians'', there is a byline under the logo that says "Distributed by Media Home Entertainment Inc., a Heron Communications Inc. Company".

* The 1st jingle is adjusted for the short version, fading out before the last flourish.

* There is a version with a voice-over saying "The Cannon Group presents a Golan-Globus production.". The voice is Don LaFontaine, who had provided the voiceover for many film trailers in the United States from the 1970s until his death in 2008.

* On a Paramount Channel France broadcast of ''King Solomon's Mines'' and the French Blu-Ray release of ''Runaway Train'', there is a low tone version.  

* On a Bulgarian release of ''Rescue Me'' (1992), the [[Cannon Video]] music is used.

* It debuted on ''Hot Chili''.

* A sped-up version was used as Cannon Video's logo in the UK between 1986 and 1988.

* Some TV prints of Cannon films may have the logo removed, such as TBS broadcasts of ''Invasion U.S.A.'' in the 1990s, ending with the Viacom "wigga-wigga" logo.

* It also appears on the [[HBO/Cannon Video|HBO/Cannon]] release of ''The Manhattan Project'' and the Media VHS of ''Mannequin'', both of them [[Gladden Entertainment Corporation|Gladden Entertainment]] productions distributed by 20th Century Fox domestically (the U.S. video rights presumably were retained by Cannon, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-08-13-fi-17904-story.html the result of a lawsuit filed by Gladden] after Cannon's takeover of Thorn EMI's assets; Thorn EMI had been a financial partner of Gladden's).

* This is also retained on the 2012 [[The Criterion Collection|Criterion]] Blu-ray of ''Powaqqatsi''.

* The MGM/UA VHS release of ''The Naked Face'', which originally didn't have a logo, adds this at the start.

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