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Logo descriptions by V of Doom and Shadeed A. Kelly

===1st Logo (December 21, 1988-1993)===

<u>Logo:</u> On a nighttime sky background, we see two {{Font color|red|red}} boxes fading-in and turning, featuring the '80s print logos of Columbia Pictures and Tri-Star Pictures with "COLUMBIA PICTURES" in between the Torch Lady and on the Tri-Star box, it doesn't have the word "PICTURES" under the triangle. As the boxes faces the center, the print logos appears in solid white. The sky background later turns into a solid black background with the words "Columbia Tri-Star Films Italia" in white lettering (in the Souvenir font used by Columbia in the 1980s-early '90s) fading in below in between the transition effect. The print logo are used in 1993.

<u>Later Variant:</u> The text was later known as "Columbia TriStar Films Italia" by dropping off the hyphen (-) in August 1991 by Sony Pictures Entertainment.

<u>Variants:</u> On the Spanish film ''Las Historias de Puta Mili'' (''The Stories of S**t Mili''; 1993), there is text above the logo reading "Distribuida Por" (Distributed By), with the text on the bottom reading "Columbia Tri-Star de España" instead of "TriStar". On the trailer for the film, the logo is tinted blue.

<u>Logo:</u> We see the text "(DISTRIBUTED BY) COLUMBIA TRISTAR FILMS [country]" fading in first, then we see a Columbia-like cloud background (which looks like the background from the 1993 TriStar Pictures logo, but it has a mirror effect), with the 1992 print logos of Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures fading in. The logo and text would fade-out like the 1992 CPT logo.

<u>Music/Sounds:</u> Silent, or the music from any given soundtrack. On the DVD of ''Escape from Absolom'' (aka ''No Escape'' in the US and UK), the Savoy Pictures theme plays at the end of the logo.

<u>Availability:</u> Very rare in Europe, but extremely rare in the U.S. Seen on international theatrical prints of films produced or distributed by Columbia/TriStar/Sony. Like the previous logos, most prints either use U.S. domestic versions, have this removed, or plastered this over. Seen on foreign prints of ''The Punisher'' and the SPHE International DVD of ''Suspect Zero''. Around 2005, this was phased out and replaced with the SPR International logo after the demise of the Columbia TriStar label.