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'''Availability:''' 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''. This version is intact on the US DVD of ''Farewell My Concubine'', the Japanese Blu-Ray of ''The Talented Mr Ripley'', and an Australian DVD of ''Emma''. 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 and the 2017 DVD uses the GKIDS 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. It can also be found on the US Buena Vista/Lionsgate Blu-Rays of Sling Blade, Chasing Amy, Life is Beautiful, the Alliance Blu-Ray releases of The English Patent, Good Will Hunting, and the Echo Bridge Blu-Ray of Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. 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 makes a very strange appearance on an Italian HDTV airing of The Brothers Grimm (instead of the international variant of the next logo).  

'''Availability:''' Uncommon. Seen on releases from 1998 to 2008 and was the norm for plastering the previous logo, but is replaced with the next logo on most newer prints of their film library. This logo first appeared on ''Shakespeare in Love'', and made its final theatrical appearance on ''The Boy in the Striped Pajamas''. ''Gangs of New York'' (2002) does not have this logo at all. In an interesting occurrence, when ''Confessions of a Dangerous Mind'' airs on Starz/Encore, the standard-definition version retains this logo, but the high-definition showing features the next logo below instead. The "International" version is seen on the German Concorde (as well as a Brazilian) Blu-Ray release of The Brothers Grimm (2005) It's surprisingly preserved on the Criterion Blu-ray and DVD of ''Naqoyqatsi'' on the ''Qatsi'' trilogy set. VHS tapes and DVDs of movies released during this logo's span are almost always guaranteed to have this logo, such as ''Pokémon Heroes''. Despite plastering from the following logo, it can still be seen on US prints of ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'', ''There Will Be Blood'', and a YouTube Movies print of ''The Aviator'' (2004).

'''Nicknames:''' "The Buildings II", "Lights/Lites in the Big City II", "Manhattan Skyline II", "The City II", "Miramax Skyline II", "The Skyline of Annoyance", "The Skyline of Plastering"