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<u>Availability:</u> Used to be common, but due to chronic plastering with both 4th and 5th logos, now it's uncommon, bordering on rare. Examples with this are recent releases of ''Pulp Fiction'' and ''Sling Blade''. This logo first appeared on ''I've Heard the Mermaids Singing'', and made its last appearance at the end of ''Music of the Heart'' (which uses the next logo below at the beginning). The international variant is only seen on releases outside of the US, such as Australian prints of the ''Scream'' films, and UK prints of the Jackie Chan film ''Thunderbolt''. However, it has appeared on some Region 1 DVDs of foreign films like ''Farewell My Concubine''. The "presents" variant appears on the R1 DVDs of ''Strictly Ballroom'', ''Kolya'', the Live Entertainment releases of ''The Crying Game'', the VHS releases of ''The Grifters'' (but not on the Canadian Cineplex Odeon VHS, where it's skipped entirely), ''Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!'', the Canadian VHS release of ''Prospero's Books'', and the Canadian Seville Pictures DVD of ''Breaking the Rules'' (VUDU prints use MCEG instead, though with Miramax's jingle retained, oddly), among others. The version that fades out early can be seen on ''Il Postino'' (''The Postman'') and ''Everest''. Don't expect to see this logo on ''Bob Roberts''. Despite the print logo appearing on posters and trailers, only the 1990 Paramount Pictures logo is used on-screen. It was also originally seen on U.S. theatrical prints of ''Freddie'' as ''F.R.O.7'' and ''Tom and Jerry: The Movie'', but the home video releases show no evidence, though in the case of the former, it's an alternate cut. Strangely, this can be seen on ''The Crow: City of Angels'', but Dimension distributed the film. It was also spotted on the 1999 HBO DVD of ''My Left Foot'', and is preserved on the Anchor Bay DVDs of ''Strapless'' and ''The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover''. It is also seen on early U.S. prints of ''Princess Mononoke'' while later prints use the next logo. It was also seen on the Canadian VHS releases of ''The Girl in a Swing'' and ''The Miracle'', despite the fact that Millimeter and Prestige distributed those two respective films to U.S. theaters. Don't expect to see this on ''Sex, Lies and Videotape'' or on ''Reservoir Dogs''. This may have been seen on theatrical prints of ''The Long Walk Home'', but VHS releases skip the logo (despite its presence on the box). This also makes a surprise appearance on the US dub of ''Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra'' instead of the next logo, and is surprisingly intact on the Lionsgate Blu-Ray of ''Life is Beautiful''.