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Paramount Feature Presentation

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(1996-2006)

Paramount Feature Presentation (1996-2006)

Logo: Over a background with blue/indigo squares, a flat blue frame of the Paramount 1968 mountain logo appears in front of it, the stars shine, then the logo cuts into pieces, to reveal the words "FEATURE PRESENTATION" in gold zooming in on a heliotrope gradient background, the words shine, then it zooms in again, cutting to the warning screen.

FXSFX: CGI.

Music/Sounds: The 1979 Paramount On Parade fanfare composed by Jerry Goldsmith, With a announcer saying "And now we're pleased to bring you our feature presentation". Or "Paramount is pleased to bring you our feature presentation".

Scare Factor: Low, Bordering on High. Due to the fanfare, the zooming-in-your-face text may scare a couple.

Paramount Home Media Distribution

• This logo appeared primarily on Betamax releases. This should appear on a few VHS releases from 1979 and 1980 including the first two Godfather films, Saturday Night Fever , Grease , Heaven Can Wait , True Grit , Goin' South , Play It Again Sam , The Bad News Bears (1976 version) , Prophecy and Catch 22 .
• Among the last releases to use this logo were five volumes of Star Trek episodes as part of the "Television Classics" series on VHS and Betamax in Summer 1980 (Those releases are out of print, having been replaced in 1985 by Paramount's single episodes releases, and are hard to find). Other final releases with this logo were tapes of Escape from Alcatraz , North Dallas Forty , and Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman .
• This surprisingly appears on a late 1983 pressing of The Odd Couple (usually, releases printed around that time started with the "Acid Trip" warning screen, followed by the Paramount Pictures logo).

• Seen on VHS/Beta releases of the time, which are not that easy to find, especially since the logo was usually taken off of post-1981 prints. However, since this was on a decent variety of movies, it may help a little.
• Among the releases are Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) , Death Wish , Escape from Alcatraz , Breaking Glass , Friday the 13th , Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Airplane! , Charlotte's Web , Little Darlings , Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown! , Barbarella , Starting Over , American Gigolo , Urban Cowboy and Shogun.
• Some, if very little, post-1981 prints surprisingly keep this logo intact.
• Also seen on certain Hi-Fi re-releases of Paramount's early releases (such as Downhill Racer and Death Wish ) from 1984, and the original Hi-Fi VHS release of True Grit (1969 version).
• Don't expect this logo on LaserDisc releases, as it was replaced with the Laservision logo.

• A black-and-white variant exi sts.
• A rare, slightly longer variant exists, which starts with a still shot of the blue Paramount print logo. After a little over a second, the music starts and the logo animates as normal.
• At the end of an April 1998 Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) airing of The Devonsville Terror , the animation is slowed down but plays as normal until all there is is " Paramount " and the mountain, whe n the logo freezes in place and the rest of the music is heard. It's unknown if this was used on a ny home media releases of the film, or any others.
• Most Paramount films used the logo used on the film, but most television series (such as Star Trek , with the exception of the 1984 Television Classics Laserdisc release of the two-parter "The Menagerie", which uses no logo), comedy specials (such as Paramount Comedy Theater: Volume 1 ), and licensed material (such as Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! and The Adventures of the American Rabbit ) have this logo.
• It was also on most prints of the 1982 VHS release of Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (the earliest prints, from around 1982 to early 1983, are confirmed to not have this), and a 1990 reprint of it retained the logo.
• It is also on the 1992 release of A Dog of Flanders (along with the warning that preceded it), also likely a reprint itself.
• The black and white version can be found on a VHS release of The Untouchables pilot "Scarface Mob" and Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back .
• This was also surprisingly seen on the early 1990s re-release of Strong Kids, Safe Kids , after the 5th logo.
• Other releases that have this include Teen Wolf and Call to Glory .
• This logo, as well as the multi-colored copyright warning, appear on the 1991 VHS print of Toho Entertainment's The Wizard Of Oz (1982).
• Paramount Video would produce 1984 to 1986 episodes of Brothers , a sitcom which aired on Showtime from 1984 to 1989. This would appear on 1984 to 1986 episodes, while 1987 to 1989 episodes would be produced by Paramount Television.

• April 1987-1989: " A Gulf + Western Company ". 1987 releases used the 75th Anniversary variant, while 1988-89 releases used the standard version.
• 1989-1995: " A Paramount Communications Company " with a line above the byline fades in. 1989-90 releases had the byline and line above it in gold , while 1990-95 releases had them in white.
• 1995-February 4, 2003: "A VIACOM COMPANY" (in the 1990 \/|/\CO/\/\ "Wigga Wigga" font) with a line above the byline fades in, again, in white.
• This was used as a de-facto home video logo, and can be seen on every VHS and Laserdisc release from that period -- this also includes television series (such as the original Star Trek ), comedy specials, and third-party acquisitions like Teen Wolf Too and The Garbage Pail Kids Movie . Combine this with its 16-year span, and this may be the most common home video logo period--maybe even more so than any of Disney's logos, or even the next logo!
• Look for either the 75th Anniversary print logo, or the standard Gulf+Western print logo (with no mention of "HOME VIDEO") on the packaging and labels.
• The 75th Anniversary logo plasters over the "Blue Mountain" logo on the 1987 home video releases of Ferris Bueller's Day Off , Crocodile Dundee , Children of a Lesser God, Top Gun , and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home .
• Meanwhile, the standard Gulf+Western version plasters over the 75th Anniversary logo on the 1988 releases of Beverly Hills Cop II , The Untouchables , Back to the Beach , Fatal Attraction , and Planes, Trains, & Automobiles .
• International VHS release of these films (all released by CIC Video, with the exception of Crocodile Dundee ) will likely have the film's original logo intact.
• This was also used on all 1994-2004 Peanuts VHS releases and all Nickelodeon VHS releases from 1996 to 2003. The 75th Anniversary variant was also used on a Showtime broadcast of Hamburger Hill from <a href=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FIdvPN3G0A " target="_self">March 1991</a>.
• It was also seen on the direct-to-video films The Little Bear Movie and Blue's Big Musical Movie .
• Even though this logo was officially discontinued in 2003, this would continue to make unexpected appearances on demo tapes from as late as 2007. Examples include the demo VHS releases of Jakers: Piggly Gets Into Trouble & The Wonder Pets: Save The Wonder Pets , released in 2006 and 2007 respectively.
• Occasionally, this will appear before the opening previews on certain tapes. One example of this is the Paramount reissue of Rugrats: A Baby's Gotta Do What a Baby's Gotta Do and some other Nickelodeon tapes from 1996.
• It was preserved on Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 's DVD release of Puppet Master 5 and the Mexican DVD of Demonic Toys , each before the Full Moon logo, most likely due to older VHS masters being used.

• May 17-October 16, 1989: " A Gulf + Western Company " (used for only six months that year)
• November 9, 1989-May 16, 1995: " A Paramount Communications Company " (the "Feature Presentation" versions have a different font for the Paramount Communications byline: sans serif)
• June 13, 1995- January 5, 2007 : "A VIACOM COMPANY" (in the same font as the 1990 Viacom logo)
• There was a special bumper used for trailers from 1989 to 1998 or 1999, with the words " COMING ATTRACTIONS " over the heliotrope gradient background, which cuts off after the zoom in.
• On the 1989 re-releases of Sunset Boulevard on VHS (reissued from the 1988 printing) and The Courageous Dr. Christain on Laserdisc (reissued from the 1987 printing), the logo and warning screen is in black and white.
• There is a very rare long version of the Gulf+Western logo where once we fade in, the logo doesn't actually start for a few seconds. Also, once the " FEATURE PRESENTATION " text zooms in, there is a tan screen for a split-second, then the warning screen appears.
• A variation exists where the announcer says "Paramount is pleased to bring you our feature presentation". This was used with all three byline variants, and can be found on Laserdisc releases, as well as VHS releases which have no previews before the film (such as the 1989 releases of the first four Star Trek films, the 1998 release of A Separate Peace , the 2000 release of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut , the 2001 release Nick Jr.'s Imagine That! , any promotional copies of movies released by Paramount (with the exception of Harriet the Spy , The Ghost and the Darkness , The General's Daughter , Coach Carter A Night at the Roxbury , The SpongeBob Square P ants Movie , Teletubbies: Naughty Noo Noo! , Boohbah: Hot Dog , Nickelodeon Super Toons, and the 1998 widescreen VHS release of Forrest Gump , while the full screen version has the standard voice-over). This variant also appears on tapes made and sold exclusively through Columbia House (usually identifiable by the presence of an orange sticker on the cover) On rare occasions, this variation did appear right after previews, such as the 1996 VHS of Ferris Bueller's Day Off and its 2000 reprint, the 2005 demo VHS releases of Mad Hot Ballroom , & Winter Solstice, and a series of four videocassettes sold as part of a 1993 McDonald's promotion, including The Addams Family and Ghost (these releases have the Rank Home Video print logo on one of the spines on the slipcovers for those films and a face label on the tapes with a special red, yellow, black and white color scheme).
• On the " COMING ATTRACTIONS " variant, the announcer says "Here are some exciting coming attractions from Paramount."
• The "COMING ATTRACTIONS" version was only used until the late 1990's.
• The original Gulf+Western variation (which is the least common) made its debut on the May 1989 home video release of Coming to America , and can be found on releases such as the first four Star Trek films , Distant Thunder , The Experts , The Best of Eddie Murphy: Saturday Night Live , Cousins , T he Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! , Major League , Pet Sematary , and Puppet Master , among others.
• The Paramount Communications variation (which is easier to find) debuted on the November 1 989 VHS release of Scrooged , and is also on the 1990 VHS release of Grease , the 1991 VHS and Laserdisc releases of Ghost , both Wayne's World films, the 1993 release of Charlotte's Web , and the 1998 widescreen VHS release of Forrest Gump .
• The Viacom variant is extremely common and appears on nearly every Paramount VHS release from 1995 onwards, starting with the June 1995 VHS release of Drop Zone .
• The final Paramount film to use this logo was the 2006 VHS of the 2005 remake of Yours, Mine & Ours , and the last tape to use it overall was the 2007 screener VHS of Wonder Pets: Save The Wonder Pets! . Some of the last official releases with this logo (besides the aforementioned Yours, Mine & Ours film) include Elizabethtown , Bad News Bears (the 2005 remake) , Four Brothers , and the film adaptation of The Honeymooners .
• On the 1991 LaserDisc release of Apocalypse Now and the 1998 VHS release of Titanic , this logo is not shown at all, it just goes straight to the warning screen, while on the 1997 releases of The Godfather trilogy, the logo cuts to a black screen before the 1995 THX logo, as the warnings are placed at the beginning, separate from the logo.
• The normal version strangely appears on the original 1989 VHS release of Major League and the 1991 Star Trek: The Movies VHS box set (pan and scan version only; the widescreen edition of the box set uses the other voiceover) despite those releases having no previews.
• This makes a surprise appearance on the United Kingdom VHS releases that have any special features at the end of the tape, such as The Italian Job and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life .
• This appears on demo VHS tapes of PBS Kids shows from 2004 to 2006, such as Boohbah . The normal releases just start with the warning screen used on Paramount DVDs.

• Seen on certain 2002 Paramount Home Video VHS releases from the time frame, such as SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories , The Sum of All Fears , Lucky Break , some prints of Vanilla Sky , MTV Yoga , Crossroads , Dora the Explorer: Move to the Music , The Day Reagan Was Shot , Damaged Care , Bleacher Bums , My Horrible Year! , the demo VHS tapes of Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat, SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Bash and Hey Arnold!: The Movie , all 3 Jackass volumes, and Rugrats Christmas . Some 2002 releases, strangely, such as Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius , SpongeBob SquarePants: Halloween , 9/11: The Filmmakers' Commemorative Edition , Rugrats Halloween , and the Special Edition VHS release of Rat Race , have this logo's print version on the spine but do not have this logo on the tape, as they use the 5th logo instead.
• Also, some prints of Changing Lanes do have this logo, but it cuts to the 1995 warning screen instead of the 2002 one (this is probably due to the fact that some prints use the previous Feature Presentation screen instead of this one).

• The 90th Anniversary version is used on 2002 VHS and DVD releases such as Trading Places , SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories , MTV Yoga , Dora the Explorer: Move to the Music , The Day Reagan Was Shot , Flashdance , Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (where this oddly plasters the 1999 Paramount logo that the film used), Black Sheep , Vanilla Sky , Major League , Damaged Care , Bleacher Bums , My Horrible Year! , all 3 Jackass volumes, and Rugrats Christmas .
• The standard version is used on almost every Paramount VHS released from 2003 onwards. It also appears on the European versions of SpongeBob SquarePants DVDs Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies and Halloween .
• The standard version plasters the 90th Anniversary variant of the 2002 Paramount Pictures logo on the 2003 VHS releases of Extreme Ops , The Wild Thornberrys Movie , Star Trek: Nemesis , Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure , and The Hours .

• It's seen on many post-2003 DVD releases released by the company, starting with the 2003 DVD release of Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (even though the print logo on the cover has "90th Anniversary" tacked on to it).
• This logo was seen on DVD releases of Paramount Television -owned series from 2003 to 2006 (when the rights went to CBS Home Entertainment after Viacom and CBS Corporation became separate companies), such as the 2004 releases of season 1 of Happy Days , and season 1 of The Andy Griffith Show and the 2005 release of season 2 of the latter.
• After 2004 on Nickelodeon TV shows on DVD, this logo doesn't show up.
• Some DVD releases have "90th Anniversary" added on to this logo's print version, they just contain the normal logo. Examples of this are the 2002 DVD releases of SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories , Flashdance , Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius , Black Sheep , Vanilla Sky , and Trading Places . This logo continued to be used until 2019, as seen on such releases as Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown , Project Almanac , Boyhood , and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water , The Gambler (the Mark Wahlberg version), and Interstellar , even though Paramount Pictures debuted a new logo in 2011.
• The last release to use this logo was Instant Family, released on March 5, 2019.

• It was also seen on Paramount HD-DVD releases from 2006 to 2008, such as Four Brothers and The Italian Job (2003).
• Starting sometime in 2007, Paramount's high definition releases were being exclusive to HD-DVD.
• When Toshiba announced they would discontinue HD-DVD, Paramount Home Media Distribution, like all other home media companies, became Blu-ray only.
• Their first film on Blu-ray since HD-DVD's discontinuation was The Spiderwick Chronicles .
• This logo can be found on releases with the print version of this logo on the box art.
• It was also found on the 2008 Blu-ray release of Last Holiday , in which the print logo was absent on the box art, meaning this logo is still in use, but no longer a has print counterpart.
• This logo does not appear on UHD 4K Blu-ray Discs, as they use the 2011-present film logo.

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• 1.1 April 1983
• 1.2 March 9, 1988-February 28, 1991
• 1.3 June 1, 1988
• 1.4 May 17, 1989-December 27, 2008
• 1.5 March 28, 1991-December 1, 1998
• 1.6 October 1, 1996-September 25, 2001
• 1.7 October 15, 1996-September 20, 2005
• 1.8 February 16, 1999-February 18, 2003
• 2.1.1 1999-2003
• 2.1.2 2003-2006
• 2.1.3 2006-present

North America

Visuals : On a light purple background, a red box with a white outline is shown. Inside it is "WATCH FOR."

Technique : A photo still created on a computer, with a fading effect beforehand.

Audio : None.

Availability : Extremely rare. This appears at the end of Godzilla vs. Monster Zero , just before a series of Godzilla trailers.

March 9, 1988-February 28, 1991

Visuals : On a blue-black gradient background, the title of a specific Paramount movie is shown and underneath it in capital letters the text "Coming in *Month* to video stores everywhere from Paramount" or "Coming this *Month* to video stores everywhere" is seen in a white lowercase Helvetica Bold font. Sometimes the text is in a regular Helvetica font. It often had no voiceover until late 1990.

• On the earliest releases with the bumper, no movie title was used. This version appears on Eddie Murphy: Raw , Planes, Trains, and Automobiles , and Beverly Hills Cop II .
• Other early releases have the movie text in lowercase.
• On "Crocodile" Dundee II , the gradient is blue-white.
• On Fat Man and Little Boy and Harlem Nights , the "available" in "Now available at video stores everywhere" is capitalized.
• On Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan and Harlem Nights , the background is solid blue.
• On Shirley Valentine , the gradient runs in the other direction. In addition, following a trailer for Fat Man and Little Boy , the first letter of "this" in the "Coming this May..." clip-on has been capitalized.
• On the 1991 re-release of Chinatown , a special version is used following a trailer for The Two Jakes , with the movie title centered. Text at the top reads "The sequel to Chinatown" and text at the bottom says "Coming soon on videocassette."
• On Another 48 Hrs. , the "Coming this February to video stores everywhere" clip-on is used, but with the first letters of each word in "video stores everywhere" capitalized. This follows a trailer for Days of Thunder .
• On A Show of Force and Days of Thunder , the movie text is in quotation marks. This follows trailers for Tales from the Darkside: The Movie ( A Show of Force ), The Two Jakes , and Ghost ( Days of Thunder ).
• On the Great Movies, Great Price promo, the gradient runs diagonally and the clip-on text is in all caps.
• Sometimes the bumper would fade in from black once the trailer finishes, and other times it would cut in from the last frame of the trailer. On Beverly Hills Cop II , the bumper would fade in from the last frame of the trailer.

Clip-ons : Legend: [n] - no voiceover, [v] - voiceover used

• Coming this summer to a theater near you from Paramount Pictures [n] (This and the next clip-on can be found on Beverly Hills Cop II .)
• Coming on videocassette soon from Paramount Home Video [n]
• Coming Soon On Videocassette From Paramount [n] (This clip-on can be found on the original release of Coming to America .)
• Coming this February to video stores everywhere [v]
• Coming this March to video stores everywhere [v]
• Coming in March to video stores everywhere from Paramount [n] (This clip-on can be found on The Presidio .)
• Coming in April to video stores everywhere from Paramount [n] (This clip-on can be found on "Crocodile" Dundee II .)
• Coming this April to video stores everywhere [v] (Only version #2 is used. This clip-on can be found on Puppet Master II .)
• Coming April 26th to video stores everywhere [n] (This clip-on can be found on Shirley Valentine .)
• Coming this May to video stores everywhere
• Coming in May to video stores everywhere from Paramount [n] (This clip-on can be found on The Experts , Tucker: The Man and His Dream , and The Accused .)
• Coming in June to video stores everywhere from Paramount [n] (This clip-on can be found on The Accused and Distant Thunder .)
• Coming this July to video stores everywhere [v] (This clip-on can be found on We're No Angels .)
• Coming this August to video stores everywhere [v] (Only version #2 is used. This clip-on can be found on We're No Angels and Internal Affairs .)
• Coming this September to video stores everywhere [v] (Only version #2 is used. This clip-on can be found on Flashback .)
• Coming in October to video stores everywhere from Paramount [n] (This clip-on can be found on The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! .)
• Coming this October to video stores everywhere from Paramount Home Video [n] (This clip-on can be found on Planes, Trains and Automobiles .)
• Coming this October to video stores everywhere (Only version #2 is used. This clip-on can be found on Crash and Burn .)
• Coming in October To Video Stores Everywhere [n] (This and the short "Coming in November" clip-on can be found on Cousins .)
• Coming in November to video stores everywhere from Paramount [n] (This clip-on can be found on the first printing of Major League .)
• Coming in November To Video Stores Everywhere [n]
• Now Available at video stores everywhere from Paramount Home Video [n]
• Now Available at video stores everywhere (Two versions exist: One where the announcer doesn't say the text, and another where he uses Version #2. The latter can be seen on Internal Affairs , following a trailer for We're No Angels .)
• Now available on videocassette [v]
• AVAILABLE WHEREVER VIDEOCASSETTES ARE SOLD [n] (This can be found on VHS reissues containing the Great Movies, Great Price promo, like The Hunt for Red October )

Technique : A computerized graphic with fading effects.

Audio : None, except for Brian Cummings saying the lowercase lettered text on some of the later bumpers from 1990-91.

Audio Variant : Sometimes, the end of the music from any given trailer would play underneath the bumper.

Availability : Uncommon. It can be found on Paramount videocassettes from the era after each individual trailer, such as Beverly Hills Cop II (the first release to have it), Tucker: The Man and His Dream , Crocodile Dundee II , The Presidio , Planes, Trains, and Automobiles , Coming to America , The Naked Gun , The Experts , Cousins , Major League , The Accused , Distant Thunder , Scrooged , Shirley Valentine , Black Rain , Harlem Nights , Internal Affairs , Fat Man and Little Boy , Days of Thunder , and The Hunt for Red October .

Editor's Note : The clip-ons with the voiceover feel wasted since they were only used for two years.

June 1, 1988

Visuals : On a black background is the text "Coming This August To A Theatre Near You" in white.

Technique : A photo still created on a computer.

Availability : Seen on the 1988 VHS of Fatal Attraction , after the trailer for Tucker: The Man and His Dream .

May 17, 1989-December 27, 2008

Nicknames : "Coming Attractions", "Feature Presentation", "Abstract Mountain", "Feature Presentation II", "CGI Mountain", "Ultra Majestic Mountain", "Ultra Majestic Paramount"

Visuals : On a background filled with blue/indigo squares, a flat, blue frame with the Paramount abstract mountain logo in silver appears. The stars shine from left to right, before the Paramount frame flies off as the blue/indigo squares move, opening up like a door. The words " C OMING A TTRACTIONS " or " F EATURE P RESENTATION " in gold are revealed on a heliotrope gradient background. They zoom in slowly to the center of the screen. They then shine, and after a few moments, quickly begin zooming in again, cutting the bumper to black (for Coming Attractions) or the warning screen (for Feature Presentation).

Bylines : This used whatever byline Paramount was using at the time:

• May 17-October 12, 1989: " A Gulf+Western Company "
• November 9, 1989-May 16, 1995: "A Paramount Communications Company" (in a sans serif font)
• June 13, 1995-December 27, 2008: "A VIACOM COMPANY" (in its 1990 corporate font)
• On most 1989-91 VHS tapes, such as The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! , Fat Man and Little Boy , Aftershock , Shirley Valentine , Let It Ride , He Said, She Said , and Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan , the Coming Attractions bumper instead cuts to the MPAA rating screen . ( Out of Sight, Out of Mind , co-distributed with Prism Entertainment, is the earliest known release to feature a black screen between the bumper and rating screen.)
• A rare sub-variant of the 1995 variant has the Feature Presentation bumper cut to black after " F EATURE P RESENTATION " zooms in at the camera. This was spotted only on the 1997 VHS releases of The Godfather trilogy, the 2003 Filipino VCD of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life , UK tapes that have special features after the film, and an Australian dealer copy of Jackass: The Movie .
• On tapes with the Gulf+Western variant of the FP bumper, the zoom-in of " F EATURE P RESENTATION " is extended a bit to show a gold screen, which cuts to the warning screen 1-2 seconds later.
• On Gulf+Western-era releases of the first four Star Trek motion pictures, the beginning logo frame fades in slower and is still for a few seconds before the audio and animation start as usual. As with the above mentioned variant, the zoom-in of " F EATURE P RESENTATION " is extended a bit to show a gold screen, which cuts to the warning screen 1-2 seconds later. This can also be seen in black and white on Sunset Boulevard .
• On Will Penny , the FP bumper cuts to black after the gold screen from " F EATURE P RESENTATION ," as the warning screen is placed at the beginning of the tape.
• Sometimes, on early tapes, the gold screen from the " F EATURE P RESENTATION " text cuts to a black screen. Then, the warning screen pops up. This appears on The Best of Eddie Murphy: Saturday Night Live , Coming to America , The Experts , True Grit , Let's Dance , War and Peace , and the 1989 reissues of Grease and The Ten Commandments .
• A black and white variant of the Feature Presentation bumper exists. This can be found on 1989-90 prints of Sunset Boulevard , The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance , The Desperate Hours , The Delicate Delinquent , and Hell Is for Heroes .
• On the 1992 screener VHS of Hired to Kill , the FP bumper cuts in.
• On the 1991-95 screener tapes of The Two Jakes , Soapdish , The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult , and Clear and Present Danger , a timecode is shown in different positions.
• On tapes with the Paramount Communications byline, it was in a serif font on the "Coming Attractions" version, while the "Feature Presentation" version uses a sans-serif font.
• On some VHS tapes from 2002, to celebrate Paramount's 90th anniversary, the "Feature Presentation" bumper was enhanced. This time, there is a full color version of the Paramount "90th Anniversary" Ultra Majestic Mountain logo placed on a box over four purple squares. A line of light passes over it, then the logo flies off and the squares peel off, pretty much like before. They reveal the words " FEATURE PRESENTATION " in a gold-yellow bold Onyx font flying into place, each word from a different end, and the words now float against a moving dark cloud background, eventually zooming in towards the screen in a trail of gold light, cutting to the warning screen , which consists of a solid navy blue background this time.
• The first VHS printing of Changing Lanes uses the 2002 Feature Presentation bumper, but it instead cuts to the 1995-2006 warning screen due to a manufacturing error.

Technique : Both versions use CGI animation. The 90th anniversary variant also used live-action stock footage for the moving cloud background.

Audio : An abridged version of the 1988 rendition of the 1976 Paramount on Parade fanfare (with a rearranged intro as well; the 1986 rendition had the synthesized chimes fade out when the music began), accompanied with a deep-voiced male announcer (presumably Bill McAllister) saying:

• Coming Attractions : "Here are some exciting coming attractions from Paramount."
• This was used on videocassettes that had previews before the film, though it strangely appears on Better Off Dead , the Star Trek: The Movies box set (in addition to the 1989 release of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier ), re-releases of Footloose and Top Gun , Just for You , A Soldier's Sweetheart , Midnight in St. Petersburg , The Prince and Me , screener tapes of The Pit and the Pendulum , Teletubbies: Naughty Noo-Noo! , Boohbah: Hot Dog , Rugrats in Paris: The Movie , Whitewash: The Clarence Bradley Story , Jay-Z: Fade to Black , and Queer Duck: The Movie , a Spanish-subtitled print of 'Til There Was You , later prints of Timeline , Extreme Ops , The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! , Patriot Games , The Butcher's Wife , Necessary Roughness , Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star , The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear , Prehysteria , Major League , Narc , Cousins , Boomerang , Scrooged , The Addams Family , Kid Cop , We Were Soldiers , The Core , Sliver , The Fighting Temptations , Mean Girls , School of Rock , The Perfect Score , Paycheck , and Star Trek: Nemesis , and most Paramount Communications-era Philips CD-I disc releases of Paramount films all of which have no previews.
• This was used with all three byline variants, and can be found on Laserdiscs and Viacom-era Philips CD-Is (as well as the Paramount Communications-era releases of The Addams Family , Black Rain , and Apocalypse Now ), as well as videocassettes without any opening previews. On very rare occasions, though, this variation did appear on tapes with previews, examples including: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , Wayne's World , Delicatessen , Pet Shop , Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns , the 1996 VHS of Ferris Bueller's Day Off , screener tapes of Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth , The Silver Stallion: King of the Wild Brumbies , It's All True , Intersection , Jimmy Hollywood , The Browning Version (1994) , I.Q. , Pontiac Moon , Parallel Lives , Dead Man on Campus , Hollywood Confidential , Midnight Man , Bad Apple , Apres Vous , Asylum , Ask the Dust , Year of the Dog , and Next , two out of four videocassettes sold as part of a 1993 McDonald's promotion, Ghost and The Addams Family (these releases have the Rank Home Video print logo on one of the spines on the slipcovers for those films and a face label on the tapes with a special red, yellow, black and white color scheme; Charlotte's Web and Wayne's World use the normal voiceover), and the Directors' Series editions of Fatal Attraction and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home .
• This was also used on the 90th Anniversary FP bumper on Damaged Care , Bleacher Bums , The Day Reagan Was Shot , My Horrible Year! , Bobbie's Girl , alternate prints of The Sum of All Fears , and demo tapes from this era such as those of Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat , SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Bash , SpongeBob SquarePants: Deep Sea Sillies , Rugrats: Mysteries , Hey Arnold!: The Movie , and Who is Cletis Tout? .

Audio Variants :

• On the VHS of The Desperate Hours and the Laserdisc of The Best of Eddie Murphy: Saturday Night Live (both from 1989), as well as some screener tapes, the ending of the fanfare is cut off.
• On the 1991 screener VHS of Subspecies , the FP bumper is silent.
• On the 1992 screener VHS of Hired to Kill , due to the FP bumper cutting in, the theme starts a split-second in.

Availability : Depends on the version, but as a whole, ultra common, since it was used for 19 years. It appears on the majority of Paramount's home video releases.

• The Gulf+Western variant is the rarest of the three, but can be found on the 1989 VHS releases of Coming to America (on which it made its debut following a Pepsi commercial), The Experts , Major League , and The Naked Gun .
• The Paramount Communications version is the most common, and appears on 1989-95 VHS tapes such as Wayne's World , The Addams Family , It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown , The Kid Who Loved Christmas , Patriot Games , Jennifer 8 , Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer , the first two Prehysteria! films, Beverly Hills Cop III , Ladybugs , and What's Eating Gilbert Grape? .
• The Viacom version, whose availability falls in-between the Gulf+Western and Paramount Communications versions, is seen on 1995-96 VHS tapes such as Prehysteria! 3 , Magic Island , the original 1996 releases of Rugrats: Tommy Troubles and Rugrats: Phil and Lil Double Trouble , Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown? , Eye for an Eye , Tommy Boy , Braveheart , Congo , Star Trek: Generations , Drop Zone , Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation , The Best of Mission Impossible: Volume 1 , and The Phantom (on which it made its final appearance).
• While it usually appeared as the first thing on the tape, it appears as the second thing on the aforementioned Coming to America and two 1994 Peanuts videos released in conjunction with Travelodge, It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown and You Don't Look 40, Charlie Brown .
• While it was typically used on tapes that used the "And now, we're..." variant of the Feature Presentation bumper, a few tapes (e.g. Wayne's World and Delicatessen ) use this and the "Paramount is..." variant of the FP bumper.
• The Gulf+Western variant is the toughest find of the three, as it was only used for six months before being replaced by the Paramount Communications variant. It debuted on Coming to America , and can be found on the earliest releases with this bumper, such as the first four Star Trek motion pictures, the 1989 re-releases of Grease and The Naked Prey , Major League , The Naked Gun: From the Flies of the Police Squad! , Pet Sematary , Puppet Master , The Experts , Cousins , Popeye , True Grit , Arrowhead , Let's Dance , War & Peace , Will Penny , The Best of Eddie Murphy: Saturday Night Live , Sunset Boulevard , and The Desperate Hours .
• The Paramount Communications variant is a bit easier to find, and can be found on 1989-95 VHS releases such as both Wayne's World films, Coneheads , one-third of Paramount's Peanuts releases, the 1990 reissue of Grease , Ghost , Forrest Gump , the 1993 reissue of Charlotte's Web , Cool World , the first two Prehysteria! films, and both Paramount Addams Family movies.
• The Viacom variant is the most common of the three, and appears on the vast majority of Paramount VHS tapes from 1995-2006, as well as some Paramount Communications reprints. This version was debuted on the retail release of Drop Zone (the screener version used the Paramount Communications byline). A 2000 printing of This is America, Charlie Brown: The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk retains the original Paramount Communications variant of the Coming Attractions bumper, while this bumper appears in its Viacom version.
• Strangely, on the 1998 VHS of Titanic , cassette #1 starts right at the warning screen, most likely because there wasn't much room on the tape. It also wasn't seen on the 1989 demo VHS of Scrooged , the 1990 demo VHS of Hawks (which cuts right to the start of the movie after a retailer promo for it and Black Rain ), the 1991 VHS releases of the Indiana Jones trilogy (the 1989 and 1999 releases still had this intact), the 1989 VHS of The Shootist (later releases still had this intact), a 1990 reprint of Breakfast at Tiffany's , the 1991 Laserdisc of Apocalypse Now , the 1989 Laserdisc of The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! , some Star Trek: The Animated Series tapes, alternate copies of The Truman Show and Sliding Doors , some Boohbah tapes such as Snowman and Comfy Armchair , CHC prints of Payback , and the majority of French Canadian releases after Malofilm ceased being the French Canadian distributor of Paramount titles (although a few French Canadian releases actually do have this).
• The bumper appears twice on double feature demo tapes from Paramount, preceding both features on the cassette. It is also seen twice (with the Paramount logo coming in-between) on the 1998 demo VHS of Midnight Man , in both the "And now, we're..." and "Paramount is..." voiceover variants.
• The last Paramount film to have this bumper, and the final commercial tape to feature the "Paramount is..." voiceover, was Yours, Mine & Ours . The last commercial tape to feature the "And now, we're..." voiceover, and the last commercial tape to use this bumper overall, was Go Diego Go!: Diego Saves Christmas! , which is also Paramount's final commercial VHS. However, it continued to appear on rare screener tapes of material released beyond that point, such as An Inconvenient Truth , The Wonder Pets: Save the Wonder Pets! , and Ghost Town , none of which were released on VHS commercially.
• It debuted on the second VHS print of Vanilla Sky , and can also be seen on some other 2002 tapes, such as SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories , Rugrats: Christmas , later prints of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius , Orange County and Crossroads , Jackass: Volumes 1, 2, and 3 , MTV Yoga , Dora the Explorer: Move to the Music , Lucky Break , The Sum of All Fears , My Horrible Year! , Damaged Care , K-19: The Widowmaker , The Day Reagan Was Shot , The Emperor's New Clothes , the 2002 reissues of Rules of Engagement and Charlotte's Web , five demo tapes of the era ( Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat , SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Bash , SpongeBob SquarePants: Deep Sea Sillies , Rugrats: Mysteries and Hey Arnold!: The Movie ), Blue's Clues: It's Joe Time! , Little Bill: Merry Christmas Little Bill , Dora the Explorer: Christmas , and Bobbie's Girl . The last tape to contain it is Bleacher Bums .
• Strangely, some tapes from the year, such as the original prints of Vanilla Sky , Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius , Orange County and Crossroads , the demo tapes of SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories and The Sum of All Fears , Clockstoppers , 9/11: The Filmmakers' Commemorative Edition , SpongeBob SquarePants: Halloween , Rugrats: Halloween , later prints and the demo tape of Changing Lanes , the retail editions of Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat and Hey Arnold!: The Movie , Serving Sara , Blue's Clues: Meet Joe! , Rat Race: Special Edition , Rugrats: Easter , Little Bill: I Love Animals , and We Were Soldiers , have the 90th Anniversary print logo on the packaging and tape label, but not on the tapes themselves, as they use the original FP bumper instead.

Editor's Note : Despite the nature of this bumper and its primitive CGI animation (including the text becoming pixelated upon zoom-in), it held up pretty well throughout its lifespan, and as such has become a favorite bumper of many. The 90th Anniversary FP clip-on is a great bumper from Paramount that was specifically made to contemplate the studio's 90th Anniversary logo nicely, even though it didn't see as much exposure as the original version.

March 28, 1991-December 1, 1998

Visuals : On the background of the later 1989 (or 1995) variant of Paramount's warning screen , the title of a specific Paramount movie is displayed in capital letters, in a big silver font. Below it is any of the following clip-ons in a slightly smaller white font, with only the first letter of the clip-on and the month capitalized.

• On The Butcher's Wife , the "Coming this June to video stores everywhere" clip-on appears twice, bookending MC Hammer's music video for "Addams Groove," which was used to promote The Addams Family .
• On Juice , both voiceover variants were used with the "Coming this August to video stores everywhere." clip-on; the low-voice version follows an ad for Time Out: The Truth About HIV, AIDS and You , and the jolly-voice version follows the trailer for Wayne's World .
• The Delicatessen and Remote screens pictured above respectively show release months of January and August for both titles. They were later bumped a month.
• On Shrunken Heads , the trailer for Oblivion is shown twice (once during the opening previews, and again between the end of the movie and the Full Moon Entertainment "VideoZone" behind-the-scenes feature), with the "Coming this December to video stores everywhere." clip-on only appearing the first time.
• Two 1995 releases use this bumper after a trailer for Star Trek Generations , but with the title arranged differently. On Drop Zone , the title is on one line, while on From Here to Infinity: The Ultimate Voyage , the title is on two lines.
• On VHS tapes of Sightings , the "Now available on videocassette" clip on appears in two different ways. The first time it appears, after a trailer for The Sightings Video Collection , it has a period at the end. On its second appearance, after a trailer for From Here to Infinity: The Ultimate Voyage , there is no period.
• From 1991-95, the clip-on would have a period at the end.
• In 1991, the clip-on would read "coming in *Month* to video stores everywhere." or "now available on video cassette."
• On The Pit and the Pendulum , following a trailer for Subspecies , "This picture has not yet been rated." appears in an even smaller font at the bottom of the "coming in August..." clip-on.
• On Funny About Love and Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael (some of the first releases to use this screen), the text is in a different font.
• On the screener tape of Subspecies , a rare variant appears before each of the Full Moon trailers ( The Pit and the Pendulum and Subspecies itself). Here, the text is much larger, in a different font, and reads " AVAILABLE [DATE] FROM PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO ." A pink line is at the bottom.
• On the Paramount Family Favorites reissue of The Beautician and the Beast , after a trailer for A Smile Like Yours , the clip-on reads "Rent it now on videocassette."
• Another rare variant has the text "Rent it this *Month* at video stores everywhere." The only known months used with it are January, April, and November. The January variant is the most common, as it can be seen on certain 1997-98 releases following the trailer for Good Burger , though some releases (such as the Rugrats tapes Diapered Duo and Dr. Tommy Pickles ) instead have the "Coming this February to video stores everywhere" text. On Beavis and Butt-head Do America and Star Trek: First Contact , it also appears after the trailer for Event Horizon .
• A few rare "Now available..." variants exist, with the text reading either "Now available wherever videos are sold or rented", "Now available wherever videocassettes are sold", or just "Now available". No voiceover is used on any of these.
• 1991-95 releases have the Paramount Communications bylines in the background.
• 1995-98 releases have the Viacom "Wigga-Wigga" bylines in the background.
• Grease 2 : on videocassette June 23.
• 'Til There Was You and Roman Holiday : Now available on videocassette.
• On The Odd Couple II , the font is especially compressed and the ID stays on-screen longer.
• A drop shadow was added in 1993.

Clip-ons : Legend: [n] - no voiceover, [v] - two voiceovers used

• Coming this summer to a theater near you. [n] (This clip-on can be found on Body Parts .)
• Coming this January to video stores everywhere [v] (A third voiceover was found on Sliding Doors , in which he says it in a jolly-pitched voice like on Version #2, but the tone and speed are different.)
• Rent it this January at video stores everywhere (The announcer actually says "Coming this January to video stores everywhere".)
• Coming this April to video stores everywhere [v]
• Rent it this April at video stores everywhere (The announcer actually says "Coming this April to video stores everywhere".)
• Coming this May to video stores everywhere [v]
• Coming this June to video stores everywhere [v] (Only version #2 was used, which can be heard on The Butcher's Wife , 'Necessary Roughness , and Star Trek: First Contact .)
• Coming this July to video stores everywhere [v] (A jolly-pitched voiceover was found on Killer Image .)
• Coming this August to video stores everywhere [v]
• coming in August to video stores everywhere. (This clip-on can be found on a handful of 1991 releases, with three different voiceovers. On The End of Innocence , Version #1 is used. On Almost an Angel and Subspecies , Version #2 is used. A third voiceover is used on He Said, She Said , Flight of the Intruder , True Colors , and The Pit and the Pendulum , where the announcer says the text in a deeper voice than usual.)
• Available this August wherever videocassettes are sold. [n]
• Coming this September to video stores everywhere [v] (A third voiceover was found on Nobody's Fool and Circumstances Unknown .)
• coming in September to video stores everywhere. (This clip-on can be found on The Perfect Weapon .)
• Available this September wherever videocassettes are sold. [n] (This clip-on can be found on the original release of The Brady Bunch Movie .)
• Coming this October to video stores everywhere [v] (A third voiceover was found on Circumstances Unknown .)
• Coming this November to video stores everywhere [v]
• Rent it this November at video stores everywhere (The announcer actually says "Coming this November to video stores everywhere".)
• Coming this December to video stores everywhere [v]
• Coming soon to video stores everywhere. [n] (This clip-on can be found on Hear My Song , Bad Channels , Subspecies II , and Delicatessen .)
• Now available [n] (This clip-on can be found on Cool World after a promo for the SNES Cool World video game by Ocean.)
• Now available on videocassette [v] (A third voiceover is used on Hunting , Ladybugs , K2: The Ultimate High , Hostage , The Spider and the Fly , and Private Parts , in which the announcer says the text in a deep voice.)
• now available on video cassette. (This can be seen on The End of Innocence )
• now available on videocassette. (A version of the above clip-on that has "videocassette" as one word. This version can be seen on Talent for the Game , Regarding Henry , and Hunting .)
• Rent it now on videocassette (The announcer actually says "Now available on videocassette".)
• Now available wherever videocassettes are sold [n] (This clip-on can be found at the end of a promo for Indecent Proposal , The Firm and Sliver on Beverly Hills Cop III .)
• Now available wherever videos are sold or rented. [n] (This clip-on can be found after a promo for Wayne's World on Boomerang , and after a promo for Time Out: The Truth About HIV, AIDS, and You on Patriot Games , Hostage , and Cool World .)
• Now available wherever videocassettes are sold or rented. [n] (This clip-on can be found after a promo for Time Out: The Truth About HIV, AIDS, and You on Bebe's Kids .)

Audio : Same as the second bumper, except Brian Cummings says the lowercase lettered text more consistently than before. A few different voiceovers were used for some of the screens; for the sake of convenience, these are listed as Version #1, where he says it in a low voice, and Version #2, where he says it in a jollier voice.

• On some 1991 releases, the end of the music from any given trailer would play underneath the bumper.
• On the Subspecies screener variant, a flute solo (drawn from the trailer for The Comfort of Strangers , which is not advertised here) plays.
• On Subspecies , after a trailer for Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth , Cummings' voiceover starts at the last second of the trailer.

Availability : More common than the second screen. It can be found on most Paramount videocassettes from the era after each individual trailer, such as Funny About Love (the first tape to have it), The Butcher's Wife , Ladybugs , Patriot Games , Wayne's World , Whispers in the Dark , Clear and Present Danger , Blue Chips , Nick of Time , The Brady Bunch Movie , Eye for an Eye , Beavis and Butt-Head Do America , The Evening Star , Switchback , The Odd Couple II , and Sliding Doors (the last tape to have it).

Editor's Note : Several variants strangely have Cummings saying the wrong text.

October 1, 1996-September 25, 2001

Visuals : Same as the 1995 Paramount Pictures logo, except it contains a brighter color scheme, is videotaped, and slightly zooms in when the “Paramount” script fades in.

Variant : On Mission: Impossible , the logo animates at warp speed.

Technique : Same as the 1995 Paramount Pictures logo, which uses a combination of live-action model work and CGI animation from Flip Your Lid Animation and Apogee, Inc.

Audio : Silent, except for Brian Cummings or Nick Tate saying one of the following:

• Paramount Family Favorites : Brian Cummings: "Paramount Home Video introduces Paramount Family Favorites, a collection of memorable feature films, perfect for the entire family."
• Coming to Theaters : Nick Tate: "Coming to theaters this holiday season from Paramount Pictures."

Availability : The first voiceover variant appears on all Paramount VHS tapes with the Paramount Family Favorites trailer, such as the Paramount rereleases of the Sony Wonder Rugrats tapes, the 1996-98 VHS releases of The Phantom , Harriet the Spy , Good Burger , and The Education of Little Tree , the Special Edition of Snow Day , and most Paramount Family Favorites VHS tapes (some might not have them). The second voiceover variant appears only on Mission: Impossible .

October 15, 1996-September 20, 2005

Visuals : On a black background, one of the clip-ons below appears in white, capital letters.

• COMING TO VIDEO STORES
• COMING TO THEATRES (only seen on Deep Impact )
• COMING SOON TO VIDEO AND DVD
• COMING SOON ON DVD AND VIDEO
• AVAILABLE NOW ON VIDEO AND DVD
• NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD AND VIDEO (these next two clip-ons are seen exclusively on The Singing Detective )
• NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD AND VHS
• A sub-variant appears during a home video trailer for The Longest Yard (as found on its screener VHS as well as the 2005 DVD of Sahara ), where the text zooms towards the viewer.

Technique : A photo still created on a computer with fading effects.

Audio : Silent (also for the rest of these Clip-ons), except for the announcer, Brian Cummings, enthusiastically saying one of the following:

• Coming to Video Stores : "Coming this November to video stores."
• Coming to Theatres : "Coming to theatres!"
• A variant of the "COMING TO VIDEO STORES" clip-on features Cummings saying "And, coming this February from Paramount Home Video." This appears only on the original release of The Truman Show .
• Sometimes it could be the end of the trailer theme, like the Orange County trailer theme.

Availability : Rare.

• The first two clip-ons was used for a very short time before being replaced with the next bumper, but can be found on the original releases of Deep Impact and The Truman Show . It first appeared earlier on the 1996 VHS of Primal Fear .
• The others debuted on Snake Eyes , and appeared on some 1999-2004 tapes, such as The Four Feathers , Star Trek: Nemesis , The Hunted , The Perfect Score , Mean Girls , and Paycheck , as well as screener tapes such as the 2004 demos of The Perfect Score , The United States of Leland , and The Prince & Me . Because this version appears at the end of trailers rather than the beginning, some trailers have their own end-of-trailer card instead, making this bumper rare.

Editor's Note : The first two clip-ons had no animation, until the 1999 VHS of Dead Man on Campus , where the rest of these bumpers fade in and out. Before this, it was used before 1999-2003 clip-ons showed up.

February 16, 1999-February 18, 2003

Visuals : There is a still shot of the 1995 Paramount Home Video/Entertainment logo fading in and fading out to a black background (with the clouds still moving). They then see one of the clip-ons below fade in, zoom in, then fade out.

Clip-ons : Legend: [a] - both announcers used, [n] - no announcers used

• Coming To Theaters [a]
• Now In Theaters [a] (This can be found on Enemy at the Gates , Along Came a Spider , The Emperor's New Clothes , Festival in Cannes , and Triumph of Love )
• Coming To Videocassette
• Now Available On Videocassette
• Coming To Videocassette And DVD
• Now Available On Videocassette And DVD
• Coming To DVD
• Now Available On DVD (This can be found on Orange County and Mostly Martha )
• The Previously Unreleased Vanilla Sky Teaser Trailer [n] (Exclusive to the 2002 VHS release of Vanilla Sky )
• Special variants of these bumpers appeared on Vanilla Sky . On a white background, we see the texts in a narrow black font, and in all capitals. The other announcer says some of the texts in this variant.
• On the original variant of the "Now In Theaters" clip-on, the standard edition of the re-done 1999 version of the logo (in open matte) is used instead of the 1995 version.
• Starting in 2002, the logo is cut and only the clip-on is shown. Rarely, even before this, the original clip-ons will sometimes also appear without the logo.
• On Orange County , the clip-ons appear in a slightly different font, which turns out to be Times New Roman Bold.

Technique : 2D computer animation, and on the original variant, the Paramount logo is a photo still created on a computer.

Audio : The original four clip-ons have Beau Weaver announcing them, usually after a few seconds of silence following the Paramount logo. Another male announcer, Brian Cummings, announces the last four clip-ons, as well as the later variant of the "Coming To Theaters" and "Now In Theaters" clip-ons.

Availability : Fairly common. This was seen on most tapes of the era, such as many Nickelodeon TV and movie releases, including Snow Day , Blue's Big Musical Movie , Clockstoppers , Hey Arnold!: The Movie , SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories , Rugrats: Christmas and SpongeBob SquarePants: Sponge Buddies . It premiered on Snake Eyes , and was last seen on The Four Feathers . The later variant is rarer.

Editor's Note : Unlike the other bumpers by Paramount, this one is not very well received.

United Kingdom

Visuals : On the same aurora background as the 1997-2001 CIC Video warning screen, there is one of the following clip-ons.

• AVAILABLE TO BUY ON VIDEO
• AVAILABLE TO BUY ON DVD
• NOW AVAILABLE TO RENT ON VIDEO
• COMING SOON
• NOW AVAILABLE TO RENT ON VIDEO & DVD
• FEATURE PRESENTATION

Variant : On the "COMING SOON" variant, sometimes the words may be on top of each other and in a different font.

Technique : CGI animation.

Availability : Seen on international Paramount Home Entertainment releases from 1999-2003. Examples include Star Trek: Voyager and Rugrats videos.

Editor's Note : On the "COMING SOON" variant, why are they not more specific?

Available to Own on Video

Available to Own on Video and DVD

Available to Rent on Video and DVD

Coming Soon

Feature Presentation

• AVAILABLE TO OWN ON VIDEO
• AVAILABLE TO OWN ON VIDEO AND DVD
• AVAILABLE TO RENT ON VIDEO AND DVD
• Feature Presentation: Inside the projector where the warning screen and bumpers of the time took place, there is the filmstrips with different film symbols on it and they have many cuts of the filmstrip in sync with the music. As they fade to the close up of the filmstrip they zoom in till the entire filmstrip flashes and then cut to black.

Technique : A combination of live-action and CGI filmstrip animation and footage.

Audio : The jazz/piano music from the warning screen, with the projector as background noise.

Audio Variant : For the Feature Presentation bumper, the music is shortened and the projector noises are added in the background.

Availability : Seen on international Paramount Home Entertainment releases from 2003-2006 like Clockstoppers , The Core , Action Man: X Missions , SpongeBob SquarePants: Lost in Time , SpongeBob Squarepants: Tide & Seek , and Rugrats Go Wild! .

Editor's Note : Same as above. In addition, due to a lack of feature presentation text, some have been left unsure what the FP bumper is.

2006-present

Visuals : On a dark blue background are the words, " Coming Soon " in an Arial font. Below it are the smaller words, 'PRESS MENU ON YOUR REMOTE TO GO TO THE MAIN MENU'.

Availability : Appears on many UK DVDs released by Paramount Home Entertainment and DreamWorks Home Entertainment from 2006-2012, like Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging , Charlotte's Web , Little Fockers , Norbit , Iron Man 2 , SpongeBob SquarePants: Friend or Foe? , Blades of Glory , Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues , Super 8 and The Spiderwick Chronicles , among others. This was also seen on a Mexican DVD of Babel .

Editor's Note : Same as above.

Visuals : On the same background as the German Paramount warning screen, the text "Demnascht auf Video" squeezes into view.

Technique : 2D computer animation.

Audio : A two-note ethereal synth tune.

Availability : This was found on a German VHS of Mission: Impossible II .

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North america, united states and canada, 1st bumper (1986).

Visuals: Over an abstract background is the text "STAY TUNED FOR SCENES FROM "DECENT EXPOSURES" VOLUME TWO OF PARAMOUNT COMEDY THEATRE IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THIS PROGRAM."

Technique: A still, computerized graphic.

Audio: None.

Availability: Appears on Paramount Comedy Theatre, Vol. 1: Well Developed .

2nd Bumper (1987)

Visuals: Over a black/ blue gradient background is the text "STAY TUNED FOR HOME VIDEO PREVIEWS FROM PARAMOUNT IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THIS PROGRAM".

Availability: Seen on the 1987 VHS releases of Jay Leno: The American Dream , Heartburn and The Best of Spike Jones: Volume One .

3rd Bumper (March 9, 1988-February 28, 1991)

Visuals: On a blue -black gradient background, the title of a specific Paramount movie is shown and underneath it in capital letters the text "Coming in *Month* to video stores everywhere from Paramount" or "Coming this *Month* to video stores everywhere" is seen in a white lowercase Helvetica Bold font. Sometimes the text is in a regular Helvetica font. It often had no voiceover until late 1990.

Variants: Depending on the variant:

• On the earliest releases with the bumper, no movie title was used. This version appears on the 1988 VHS releases of Eddie Murphy: Raw , Planes, Trains, and Automobiles , and Beverly Hills Cop II .
• Other early VHS releases have the movie text in lowercase.
• On the 1989 VHS release of "Crocodile" Dundee II , the gradient is blue-white.
• On the 1990 VHS releases of Fat Man and Little Boy and Harlem Nights , the "available" in "Now available at video stores everywhere" is capitalized.
• On the 1990 VHS releases of Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan and Harlem Nights , the background is solid blue .
• On the 1990 VHS release of Shirley Valentine , the gradient runs in the other direction. In addition, following a trailer for Fat Man and Little Boy , the first letter of "this" in the "Coming this May..." bumper has been capitalized.
• On the 1991 VHS release of Chinatown , a special version is used following a trailer for The Two Jakes , with the movie title centered. Text at the top reads "The sequel to Chinatown" and text at the bottom says "Coming soon on videocassette."
• On the 1991 VHS release of Another 48 Hrs. , the "Coming this February to video stores everywhere" bumper is used, but with the first letters of each word in "video stores everywhere" capitalized. This follows a trailer for Days of Thunder .
• On the 1990-91 VHS releases of A Show of Force and Days of Thunder , the movie text is in quotation marks. This follows trailers for Tales from the Darkside: The Movie ( A Show of Force ), The Two Jakes , and Ghost ( Days of Thunder ).
• On the Great Movies, Great Price promo, the gradient runs diagonally and the bumper text is in all caps.
• Sometimes the bumper would fade in from black once the trailer finishes, and other times it would cut in from the last frame of the trailer. On the 1988 VHS release of Beverly Hills Cop II , the bumper would fade in from the last frame of the trailer.

Bumpers: Legend: [n] - no voiceover, [v] - voiceover used

• Coming this summer to a theatre near you from Paramount Pictures [n] (This and the next bumper can be found on the 1988 VHS of Beverly Hills Cop II .)
• Coming on videocassette soon from Paramount Home Video [n]
• Coming Soon On Videocassette From Paramount [n] (This bumper can be found on the original 1989 VHS of Coming to America .)
• Coming this February to video stores everywhere [v]
• Coming this March to video stores everywhere [v]
• Coming in March to video stores everywhere from Paramount [n] (This bumper can be found on the 1989 VHS of The Presidio .)
• Coming in April to video stores everywhere from Paramount [n] (This bumper can be found on the 1989 VHS of "Crocodile" Dundee II .)
• Coming April 26th to video stores everywhere [n] (This bumper can be found on the 1990 VHS of Shirley Valentine .)
• Coming this May to video stores everywhere
• Coming in May to video stores everywhere from Paramount [n] (This bumper can be found on the 1989 VHS releases of The Experts , Tucker: The Man and His Dream , and The Accused .)
• Coming in June to video stores everywhere from Paramount [n] (This bumper can be found on the 1989 VHS releases of The Accused and Distant Thunder .)
• Coming this July to video stores everywhere [v] (This bumper can be found on the 1990 VHS release of We're No Angels .)
• Coming this August to video stores everywhere [v] (The only voiceover made for this screen was version #2. This bumper can be found on the 1990 VHS releases of We're No Angels and Internal Affairs .)
• Coming this September to video stores everywhere [v] (The only voiceover made for this screen was version #2. This bumper can be found on the 1990 VHS release of Flashback .)
• Coming in October to video stores everywhere from Paramount [n] (This bumper can be found on the 1989 VHS/Betamax release of The Naked Gun .)
• Coming this October to video stores everywhere from Paramount Home Video [n] (This bumper can be found on the 1988 VHS release of Planes, Trains and Automobiles .)
• Coming in October To Video Stores Everywhere [n] (This and the short "Coming in November" bumper can be found on the 1989 VHS release of Cousins .)
• Coming in November to video stores everywhere from Paramount [n] (This bumper can be found on the first printing of the 1989 VHS release of Major League .)
• Coming in November To Video Stores Everywhere [n]
• Now Available at video stores everywhere from Paramount Home Video [n]
• Now Available at video stores everywhere (Two versions exist: One where the announcer doesn't say the text, and another where he uses Version #2. The latter can be seen on the 1990 VHS release of Internal Affairs , following a trailer for We're No Angels .)
• Now available on videocassette [v]
• AVAILABLE WHEREVER VIDEOCASSETTES ARE SOLD [n] (This can be found on VHS reissues containing the Great Movies, Great Price promo, like The Hunt for Red October )

Technique: Fading effects.

Audio: None, except for Brian Cummings saying the lowercase lettered text on some of the later bumpers from 1990-91 (he does not say the movie title).

Audio Variant: Sometimes, the end of the music from any given trailer would play underneath the bumper.

Availability: It can be found on Paramount videocassettes from the era after each individual trailer, such as Beverly Hills Cop II (the first release to have it), Tucker: The Man and His Dream , "Crocodile" Dundee II , The Presidio , Planes, Trains, and Automobiles , Coming to America , The Naked Gun , The Experts , Cousins , Major League , The Accused , Distant Thunder , Scrooged , Shirley Valentine , Black Rain , Harlem Nights , Internal Affairs , Fat Man and Little Boy , Days of Thunder , and The Hunt for Red October .

4th Bumper (May 17, 1989-December 27, 2008)

Gulf+Western byline

Paramount Communications byline

Viacom byline

Viacom byline (90th Anniversary variant)

Visuals: On a background filled with blue / indigo squares, a flat, blue frame with the Paramount abstract mountain logo in silver appears. The stars shine from left to right, before the Paramount frame flies off as the blue / indigo squares move, opening up like a door. The words " C OMING A TTRACTIONS " or " F EATURE P RESENTATION " in gold are revealed on a heliotrope gradient background. They zoom in slowly to the center of the screen. They then shine, and after a few moments, quickly begin zooming in again, cutting the bumper to black (for Coming Attractions) or the warning screen (for Feature Presentation).

Bylines: This used whatever byline Paramount was using at the time:

• May-November 1989: " A Gulf+Western Company "
• November 1989-June 1995: "A Paramount Communications Company" (in a sans serif font)
• June 1995-December 2008: "A VIACOM COMPANY" (in its 1990 corporate font)
• On most 1989-91 VHS tapes, such as The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! , Fat Man and Little Boy , Aftershock , Shirley Valentine , Let It Ride , He Said, She Said , and Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan , the Coming Attractions bumper instead cuts to the MPAA rating screen . (The 1990 VHS of Out of Sight, Out of Mind , co-distributed with Prism Entertainment, is the earliest known release to feature a black screen between the bumper and rating screen.)
• A rare sub-variant of the 1995 variant has the Feature Presentation bumper cut to black after " F EATURE P RESENTATION " zooms in at the camera. This was spotted only on the 1997 VHS releases of The Godfather trilogy, the 2003 Filipino VCD of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life , UK tapes that have special features after the film, and an Australian dealer copy of Jackass: The Movie .
• On tapes with the Gulf+Western variant of the FP bumper, the zoom-in of " F EATURE P RESENTATION " is extended a bit to show a gold screen, which cuts to the warning screen 1-2 seconds later.
• On Gulf+Western-era releases of the first four Star Trek motion pictures, the beginning logo frame fades in slower and is still for a few seconds before the audio and animation start as usual. As with the above mentioned variant, the zoom-in of " F EATURE P RESENTATION " is extended a bit to show a gold screen, which cuts to the warning screen 1-2 seconds later. This can also be seen in black and white on Sunset Boulevard .
• On the 1989 VHS release of Will Penny , the FP bumper cuts to black after the gold screen from " F EATURE P RESENTATION ", as the warning screen is placed at the beginning of the tape.
• Sometimes, on early tapes, the gold screen from the " F EATURE P RESENTATION " text cuts to a black screen. Then, the warning screen pops up. This appears on The Best of Eddie Murphy: Saturday Night Live , Coming To America , The Experts , True Grit (1969), Let's Dance and the 1989 VHS releases of Grease and The Ten Commandments (1956).
• A black and white variant of the Feature Presentation bumper exists. This can be found on VHS reprints of Sunset Boulevard , The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance , The Desperate Hours , and The Delicate Delinquent , and a Laserdisc reprint of The Courageous Dr. Christain .
• On the 1992 screener VHS of Hired to Kill , the FP bumper cuts in.
• On the 1991-95 screener tapes of The Two Jakes , The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult and Clear and Present Danger , a timecode is shown in different positions.
• On tapes with the Paramount Communications byline, it was in a serif font on the "Coming Attractions" version, while the "Feature Presentation" version uses a sans-serif font.
• On most 2002 VHS tapes, to celebrate Paramount's 90th anniversary, the "Feature Presentation" bumper is enhanced. This time, we have a full color version of the Paramount "90th Anniversary" Ultra Majestic Mountain logo placed on a box over four purple squares, but as the squares move, we instead reveal the words " F EATURE P RESENTATION " in a gold-yellow bold Onyx font flying into place, each word from a different end, and the words now float against a moving dark cloud background, eventually zooming in towards the screen in a trail of gold light, cutting to the warning screen, which consists of a solid navy blue background this time.
• The first VHS printing of Changing Lanes uses the 2002 version of the Feature Presentation bumper, but it instead cuts to the 1995-2006 warning screen due to a tape manufacturing error.

Technique: Both versions are animated with CGI, while the 90th anniversary variant's stormy background is live-action footage.

Audio: The 1988 Paramount on Parade fanfare, with a rearranged intro as well (the 1986 rendition of the 1976 fanfare had the synthesized chimes fade out when the music began). When the text is revealed, Brian Cummings is heard saying:

• Coming Attractions: "Here are some exciting coming attractions from Paramount."
• Feature Presentation (Variant A): "And now, we're pleased to bring you...our feature presentation." This was usually used on videocassettes that had previews before the film, though it strangely appears on Timeline , Extreme Ops , later prints of The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! , the 1991 releases of the first five Star Trek motion pictures (in addition to the 1989 release of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier ) and Footloose , the 1994 VHS of Top Gun , Just for You , A Soldier's Sweetheart , Midnight in St. Petersburg , Star Trek: Nemesis , The Prince and Me , promotional copies of Teletubbies: Naughty Noo-Noo! , Boohbah: Hot Dog , Rugrats in Paris: The Movie , Whitewash: The Clarence Bradley Story and Jay-Z: Fade to Black , a Spanish-subtitled print of 'Til There Was You , alternating prints of Patriot Games , The Butcher's Wife , Necessary Roughness , Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star , The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear , Prehysteria , Major League , Narc , Cousins , Boomerang , Scrooged , The Addams Family , Kid Cop , We Were Soldiers , The Core , Sliver , The Fighting Temptations , Mean Girls , The School of Rock , The Perfect Score , and Paycheck , and most Paramount Communications-era Philips CD-I disc releases of Paramount films, all of which have no previews.
• Feature Presentation (Variant B): "Paramount is pleased to bring you our feature presentation." This was used with all three byline variants, and can be found on Laserdiscs and Viacom-era Philips CD-Is (as well as the Paramount Communications-era releases of The Addams Family , Black Rain , and Apocalypse Now ), as well as videocassettes without any opening previews. This variation did appear on tapes with previews, examples including: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , Wayne's World , Pet Shop , Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns , the 1996 VHS of Ferris Bueller's Day Off , screener tapes of The Silver Stallion: King of the Wild Brumbies , It's All True , Jimmy Hollywood , The Browning Version (1994) , I.Q. , Pontiac Moon , Parallel Lives , Dead Man on Campus , Midnight Man , Bad Apple , Apres Vous , Asylum , Ask the Dust , Year of the Dog , and Next , two out of four videocassettes sold as part of a 1993 McDonald's promotion, specifically Ghost and The Addams Family (these releases have the Rank Home Video print logo on one of the spines on the slipcovers for those films and a face label on the tapes with a special red, yellow, black and white color scheme; Charlotte's Web and Wayne's World use the "And now, we're..." variant), and the Directors' Series editions of Fatal Attraction and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home . This was also used on the 90th Anniversary FP bumper on the 2002 VHS releases of Damaged Care , Bleacher Bums , The Day Reagan Was Shot , My Horrible Year! , Bobbie's Girl , the Columbia House copy of The Sum of All Fears , and demo tapes from this era such as those of Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat , SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Bash , SpongeBob SquarePants: Deep Sea Sillies , Rugrats: Mysteries , and Hey Arnold!: The Movie .

Audio Variants:

• On the VHS of The Desperate Hours and the Laserdisc of The Best of Eddie Murphy: Saturday Night Live (both from 1989), as well as some screener tapes, the ending of the fanfare is cut off.
• On the 1991 screener VHS of Subspecies , the FP bumper is silent.
• On the 1992 screener VHS of Hired to Kill , due to the FP bumper cutting in, the theme starts a split-second in.
• Starting in 1993, the fanfare comes in slightly later than usual. This happens on later tapes with the Paramount Communications byline variant, as well as on all tapes with the Viacom byline variant.

Availability: It appears on the majority of Paramount's home video releases.

• The Gulf+Western variant can be found on the 1989 VHS releases of Coming to America (on which it made its debut following a Pepsi commercial), The Experts , Major League , and The Naked Gun .
• The Paramount Communications version appears on 1989-95 VHS tapes such as Wayne's World , The Addams Family , It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown , The Kid Who Loved Christmas , Patriot Games , Jennifer 8 , Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer , the first two Prehysteria! films, Beverly Hills Cop III , Ladybugs , and What's Eating Gilbert Grape? .
• The Viacom version is seen on 1995-96 VHS tapes (mainly Paramount Communications reprints) such as Prehysteria! 3 , Magic Island , Rugrats: Tommy Troubles , Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown? , Eye for an Eye , Tommy Boy , Braveheart , Congo , Star Trek: Generations , Drop Zone , Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation , and The Phantom (on which it made its final appearance).
• On the 1996 VHS release of Mission: Impossible , this bumper is replaced with the regular Paramount Pictures logo, which animates at warp speed while Nick Tate says "Coming to theaters this holiday season from Paramount Pictures."
• Although this bumper officially ended in 1996 with the VHS release of The Phantom , it was retained on reprints of older releases that include it, ending with a 2006 reprint of The Mayflower Voyagers .
• While it usually appeared as the first thing on the tape, it appears as the second thing on the aforementioned Coming to America and two 1994 Peanuts videos released in conjunction with Travelodge, It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown and You Don't Look 40, Charlie Brown .
• Though most tapes with this bumper use the "And now, we're..." variant of the Feature Presentation bumper, this would occasionally appear on the same tape as the "Paramount is..." variant thereof. Two tapes where this happens are the original 1992 VHS release of Wayne's World and the 1993 VHS release of Delicatessen .
• The Gulf+Western variant is the toughest find of the three, as it was only used for six months before being replaced by the Paramount Communications variant. It premiered on Coming to America , and can be found on the earliest releases with this bumper, such as the first four Star Trek motion pictures, the 1989 VHS release of Grease , Major League , The Naked Gun: From the Flies of the Police Squad! , Pet Sematary , Puppet Master , The Experts , Cousins , Popeye , True Grit (1969) , Arrowhead , Let's Dance , War & Peace , The Naked Prey , Will Penny , The Best of Eddie Murphy: Saturday Night Live , Sunset Boulevard , and The Desperate Hours .
• The Paramount Communications variant can be found on 1989-95 VHS releases such as both Wayne's World films, Coneheads , one-third of the Paramount Peanuts VHS releases, the 1990 VHS release of Grease , Ghost , Forrest Gump , the 1993 reissue of Charlotte's Web , Cool World , the first two Prehysteria! films, and both Paramount Addams Family movies.
• The Viacom variant appears on most Paramount VHS tapes from 1995 to 2006 as well as some Paramount Communications reprints. This version was first used on the retail release of Drop Zone (the screener version used the Paramount Communications byline). A 2000 printing of This is America, Charlie Brown: The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk retains the original Paramount Communications variant of the Coming Attractions bumper, while this bumper appears in its Viacom version.
• Strangely, on the 1998 VHS of Titanic , cassette #1 starts right at the warning screen, likely because there wasn't much room on the tape. It also wasn't seen on the 1989 demo VHS of Scrooged , the 1990 demo VHS of Hawks (which cuts right to the start of the movie after a retailer promo for it and Black Rain ), the 1991 VHS releases of the Indiana Jones trilogy (both 1989 and 1999 release still had this intact), the 1989 VHS of The Shootist (both 1996 and 1998 releases still had this intact), a 1990 reprint of Breakfast at Tiffany's (the 1992 VHS release still had this intact), the 1991 Laserdisc of Apocalypse Now , the 1989 Laserdisc of The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! , some Star Trek: The Animated Series tapes, alternate copies of The Truman Show and Sliding Doors , some Boohbah tapes such as Snowman and Comfy Armchair , CHC prints of Payback , and most French Canadian releases after Malofilm ceased French Canadian distribution of Paramount titles (however, some some French Canadian releases actually do have this).
• The bumper appears twice on double feature demo tapes from Paramount, preceding both features on the cassette. It is also seen twice (with the Paramount logo coming in-between) on the 1998 demo VHS of Midnight Man , in both the "And now, we're..." and "Paramount is..." voiceover variants.
• The last Paramount film to have this bumper, and the final commercial tape to feature the "Paramount is..." voiceover, is Yours, Mine & Ours . The last commercial VHS tape to use this was Go Diego Go!: Diego Saves Christmas! , which is also the final Paramount VHS ever released, though it continued to appear on screener tapes of material released beyond that point, such as An Inconvenient Truth , The Wonder Pets: Save the Wonder Pets! , and Ghost Town .
• It first appeared on the second VHS print of Vanilla Sky , and can also be seen on some other 2002 tapes, such as SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories , Rugrats: Christmas , later prints of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius , Orange County and Crossroads , Jackass: Volumes 1, 2, and 3 , MTV Yoga , Dora the Explorer: Move to the Music , Lucky Break , The Sum of All Fears , My Horrible Year! , Damaged Care , K-19: The Widowmaker , The Day Reagan Was Shot , The Emperor's New Clothes , the 2002 reissues of Rules of Engagement and Charlotte's Web (1973) , the demo tapes of Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat , SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Bash , SpongeBob SquarePants: Deep Sea Sillies , Rugrats: Mysteries and Hey Arnold!: The Movie , Blue's Clues: It's Joe Time! , Little Bill: Merry Christmas Little Bill , Dora the Explorer: Christmas , and Bobbie's Girl . The last tape to contain it is Bleacher Bums . It was also on the early '00s re-release of Snoopy Come Home .
• Some tapes from the year, such as the original prints of Vanilla Sky , Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius , Orange County and Crossroads , the demo tapes of SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories and The Sum of All Fears , Clockstoppers , 9/11: The Filmmakers' Commemorative Edition , SpongeBob SquarePants: Halloween , Rugrats: Halloween , later prints and the demo tape of Changing Lanes , the retail editions of Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat and Hey Arnold!: The Movie , Serving Sara , Blue's Clues: Meet Joe! , the 2002 Special Edition of Rat Race , Rugrats: Easter , Little Bill: I Love Animals , and We Were Soldiers , have the 90th Anniversary print logo on the packaging and tape label, but instead use the original FP bumper on the actual tape.

Legacy: This is seen as one of the most famous bumpers in home video history.

5th Bumper (March 28, 1991-December 1, 1998)

Visuals: On the background of the later 1989 (or 1995) variant of Paramount's warning screen is the title of a specific Paramount movie in capital letters, in a big silver font. Below that is any of the following bumpers in a slightly smaller white font, with only the first letter of the bumper and the month capitalized.

• On the 1992 VHS release of The Butcher's Wife , the "Coming this June to video stores everywhere" bumper appears twice, bookending MC Hammer's music video for "Addams Groove," which was used to promote The Addams Family .
• On the 1992 VHS release of Juice , both voiceover variants were used with the "Coming this August to video stores everywhere." bumper; the low-voice version follows an ad for Time Out: The Truth About HIV, AIDS and You , and the jolly-voice version follows the trailer for Wayne's World .
• On the 1993 VHS releases of Mandroid and There Goes the Neighborhood , the "Coming this August to video stores everywhere" bumper appears after a trailer for Remote , which was originally slated to be released that month but delayed to September.
• On the 1994 VHS release of Shrunken Heads , the trailer for Oblivion is shown twice (once during the opening previews, and again between the end of the movie and the Full Moon Entertainment "Videozone" behind-the-scenes feature), with the "Coming this December to video stores everywhere." bumper only appearing the first time.
• Two 1995 VHS releases use this bumper after a trailer for Star Trek Generations , but with the title arranged differently. On Drop Zone , the title is on one line, while on From Here to Infinity: The Ultimate Voyage , the title is on two lines.
• On VHS tapes of Sightings , the "Now available on videocassette" clip on appears in two different ways. The first time it appears, after a trailer for The Sightings Video Collection , it has a period at the end. On its second appearance, after a trailer for From Here to Infinity: The Ultimate Voyage , there is no period.

Bumpers: Legend: [n] - no voiceover, [v] - two voiceovers used

• Coming this summer to a theater near you. [n] (This bumper can be found on the 1992 VHS of Body Parts .)
• Coming this January to video stores everywhere [v] (A third voiceover was found on the 1998 VHS of Sliding Doors , in which he says it in a jolly-pitched voice like on Version #2, but the tone and speed are different.)
• Rent it this January at video stores everywhere (The announcer actually says "Coming this January to video stores everywhere".)
• Coming this April to video stores everywhere [v]
• Rent it this April at video stores everywhere (The announcer actually says "Coming this April to video stores everywhere".)
• Coming this May to video stores everywhere [v]
• Coming this June to video stores everywhere [v] (The only voiceover made for this screen was version #2, which can be heard on the 1992 releases of The Butcher's Wife and Necessary Roughness , and the 1997 VHS release of Star Trek: First Contact .)
• Coming this July to video stores everywhere [v] (A jolly-pitched voiceover was found on the 1992 VHS release of Killer Image .)
• Coming this August to video stores everywhere [v]
• coming in August to video stores everywhere. (This bumper can be found on a handful of 1991 VHS releases, with three different voiceovers. On The End of Innocence , Version #1 is used. On Almost an Angel and Subspecies , Version #2 is used. A third voiceover is used on He Said, She Said , Flight of the Intruder , True Colors , and The Pit and the Pendulum , where the announcer says the text in a deeper voice than usual.)
• Available this August wherever videocassettes are sold. [n]
• Coming this September to video stores everywhere [v] (A third voiceover was found on the 1995 VHS releases of Nobody's Fool and Circumstances Unknown .)
• coming in September to video stores everywhere. (This bumper can be found on the 1991 VHS of The Perfect Weapon .)
• Available this September wherever videocassettes are sold. [n] (This bumper can be found on the original 1995 VHS release of The Brady Bunch Movie .)
• Coming this October to video stores everywhere [v] (A rare third voiceover was found on the 1995 VHS release of Circumstances Unknown .)
• Coming this November to video stores everywhere [v]
• Rent it this November at video stores everywhere (The announcer actually says "Coming this November to video stores everywhere".)
• Coming this December to video stores everywhere [v]
• Coming soon to video stores everywhere. [n] (This bumper can be found on the 1992 VHS releases of Hear My Song , Bad Channels , and Subspecies II .)
• Now available [n] (This bumper can be found on the 1993 VHS release of Cool World after a promo for the SNES Cool World video game by Ocean.)
• Now available on videocassette [v] (A third voiceover was found on the 1992-97 VHS releases of Hunting , Ladybugs , K2: The Ultimate High , Hostage , The Spider and the Fly , and Private Parts , in which the announcer says the text in a deep voice.)
• now available on video cassette. (This can be seen on the 1991 VHS release of The End of Innocence )
• now available on videocassette. (A version of the above bumper that has "videocassette" as one word. This version can be seen on the 1991-92 VHS releases of Talent for the Game , Regarding Henry , and Hunting .)
• Rent it now on videocassette (The announcer actually says "Now available on videocassette".)
• Now available wherever videocassettes are sold [n] (This bumper can be found at the end of a promo for Indecent Proposal , The Firm and Sliver on the 1994 VHS release of Beverly Hills Cop III .)
• Now available wherever videos are sold or rented. [n] (This bumper can be found after a promo for Wayne's World on the 1992 VHS release of Boomerang , and after a promo for Time Out: The Truth About HIV, AIDS, and You on the 1992-93 VHS releases of Patriot Games , Hostage , and Cool World .)
• Now available wherever videocassettes are sold or rented. [n] (This bumper can be found after a promo for Time Out: The Truth About HIV, AIDS, and You on the 1993 VHS release of Bebe's Kids .)
• From 1991-95, the bumper would have a period at the end.
• On 1991 VHS tapes, the bumper would read "coming in *Month* to video stores everywhere." or "now available on video cassette."
• On the 1991 VHS release of The Pit and the Pendulum , following a trailer for Subspecies , "This picture has not yet been rated." appears in an even smaller font at the bottom of the "coming in August..." bumper.
• On the 1991 VHS releases of Funny About Love and Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael (some of the first releases to use this screen), the text is in a different font.
• On the Paramount Family Favorites issue of the 1998 VHS release of The Beautician and the Beast (earlier copies contain different previews, and only use the "Now available on videocassette" bumper), after a trailer for A Smile Like Yours , the bumper reads "Rent it now on videocassette."
• Another rare variant has the text "Rent it this *Month* at video stores everywhere." The only known months used with it are January, April, and November. The "Rent it this January..." bumper is the most common, as it can be seen on certain 1997-1998 VHS releases following the trailer for Good Burger , though some releases (such as the Rugrats tapes Diapered Duo and Dr. Tommy Pickles ) instead have the "Coming this February to video stores everywhere" text. On Beavis and Butt-head Do America and Star Trek: First Contact , it also appears after the trailer for Event Horizon .
• A few rare "Now available..." variants exist, with the text reading either "Now available wherever videos are sold or rented", "Now available wherever videocassettes are sold", or just "Now available". No voiceover is used on any of these.
• 1991-95 VHS tapes have the Paramount Communications bylines in the background.
• 1995-98 VHS tapes have the Viacom "Wigga-Wigga" bylines in the background.
• Grease 2 : on videocassette June 23.
• 'Til There Was You and Roman Holiday : Now available on videocassette.
• On The Odd Couple II , the font is especially compressed and the ID stays on-screen longer.
• On 1991-92 VHS tapes, each bumper does not contain a drop shadow.
• On 1993-98 VHS tapes, each bumper contains a drop shadow.

Audio: Same as the 3rd bumper, except Brian Cummings says the lowercase lettered text more consistently than before. A few different voiceovers were used for some of the screens; for the sake of convenience, these are listed as Version #1, where he says it in a low voice, and Version #2, where he says it in a jollier voice.

• On some 1991 VHS releases, the end of the music from any given trailer would play underneath the bumper.
• On the 1991 VHS release of Subspecies , after a trailer for Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth , Cummings' voiceover starts at the last second of the trailer.
• Several variants strangely have Cummings saying the wrong text.

Availability: It can be found on most Paramount videocassettes from the era after each individual trailer, such as Funny About Love (the first tape to have it), The Butcher's Wife , Ladybugs , Patriot Games , Wayne's World , Whispers in the Dark , Clear and Present Danger , Blue Chips , Nick of Time , The Brady Bunch Movie , Eye for an Eye , Beavis and Butt-Head Do America , The Evening Star , Switchback , The Odd Couple II , and Sliding Doors (the last tape to have it).

6th Bumper (June 27, 1991-October 26, 1994)

Visuals: On the background of the early 1990's Paramount warning screen, which we see after the Paramount Feature Presentation bumper, there is a message asking viewers to stay tuned after the movie for a specific feature.

• On the 1991 VHS of The Pit and the Pendulum , the text reads:
• A variant promoting Time Out: The Truth About HIV, AIDS and You exists with the big movie text usually seen on post-trailer IDs above the stay tuned text (here reading "Stay tuned for a special message after/following our feature presentation.").
• On the 1993 VHS of Silver , the text reads:
• An end-of-tape version appears after the music video for "(Can't Help) Falling in Love With You", where the text reads:

Then, the bottom part fades to:

• On the 1994 VHS of Searching for Bobby Fischer (as well as a 1996 reprint of that tape), the text reads:
• On the 1994 VHS release of Riding High , the text reads:
• A sub-variant exists on the 1994 VHS release of Broadway Bill , where the text reads:

Availability: The Time Out: The Truth About HIV, AIDS and You variant can be seen on both the 1992 VHS of Patriot Games and the 1993 VHS of Cool World , while the other variants can be seen on the titles mentioned above.

7th Bumper (June 6, 1994)

Visuals: On a pink curtain backdrop, movie star Shannon Tweed appears seated in a chair talking about the Cold Sweat Night on the Town Sweepstakes . As she talks, the camera zooms in on her until stopping with only her head and some of her body visible.

Trivia: The sweepstakes Tweed was referring to offered a shot at a fully chauffeured limousine ride with her, followed by dinner and a visit to a "popular nightspot," as she called it (all of this was for the sweepstakes' four grand prize winners). After the movie, Tweed reappeared in the same spot and talked about the sweepstakes.

Technique: Live-action footage.

Audio: Tweed saying "Hi, I'm Shannon Tweed. You're about to see me in Cold Sweat , an electrifying, sexy suspense thriller. How would you like to meet me in person for a night on the town? You can if you're one of four grand prize winners in the Cold Sweat Night on the Town Sweepstakes . You'll get all the details right after the following feature presentation of Cold Sweat . And be sure to watch the film closely so you can answer the sweepstakes questions, then we'll talk after the movie."

Availability: Seen on the 1994 VHS release of Cold Sweat .

8th Bumper (November 14, 1995)

Visuals: Over a plain black background is the text:

Availability: Appears on earlier printings of the 1995 VHS of Congo .

9th Bumper (December 19, 1995)

Visuals: On a blurry red background is the words:

The text is in a mish-mash of fonts, with "'Watch the Music Video" and "Following" in a sans serif font, ""ALRIGHT" by SUPERGRASS" in Souvenir, and "CLUELESS" in Dom Casual.

Availability: This only appears on the original VHS of Clueless .

10th Bumper (June 18, 1996)

Visuals: At the end of a soundtrack promo for the remake of Sabrina , the text " Stay tuned after the film for Sting "Moonlight" video. ", in red , fades in next to the A&M Records logo.

Audio: The closing of the soundtrack promo's voiceover, playing over an excerpt of "Moonlight."

Availability: Appears on the 1996 VHS of Sabrina (1995).

11th Bumper (February 25, 1997)

Visuals: On a yellow background resembling the front cover of a composition notebook is the black text "STAY TUNED...", followed by "Rugrats Rap", in the font of the Rugrats logo, zooming in on the background with a teal banner reading "Bonus Music Video" in the upper left corner. These actions are repeated a couple of seconds later, except "STAY TUNED..." is replaced with the Harriet the Spy logo, "Rap" is replaced with "Rock" (alluding to the second bonus video, "Rugrats Rock"), and the banner reads "2nd Bonus Music Video".

Technique: CGI.

Audio: A horn-and-drum theme (the opening theme to Harriet the Spy , composed by Jamshied Sharifi) with a young female announcer saying "Stay tuned for a bonus Rugrats music video followed by Harriet the Spy ! And don't touch that VCR, because there's another Rugrats music video coming up right after the movie!"

Availability: This can be seen on the VHS of Harriet the Spy .

12th Bumper (March 10, 1998-September 14, 2004)

• There is an end of film variant of this bumper, which is the same background, but the text is changed to say: A ND N OW, T HE S PECIAL P RESENTATION
• A French Canadian variant of this bumper exists. So far, this was seen on the 2001-02 French Canadian VHS tapes of Rugrats in Paris: The Movie and the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Special Edition.
• A Spanish version was discovered on a Spanish-subtitled tape of The General's Daughter .
• On later sell-through copies of The Truman Show is the following on a black background:
• One variant exists where the text is on the right and says:

On the left is the cover of EW's "Oscar Winners & Losers" issue. This is all on a blue curtain background.

Technique: Computer animation.

Audio: Two seconds of silence, then a male announcer (Michael Bell) says the text. The other variants are completely silent.

Availability: It's known to appear on tapes that use the 14th bumper, as well as Special Edition releases.

• In chronological order, this appears on VHS copies of In & Out , Snake Eyes , Payback: Special Edition , Rugrats: Discover America , The Talented Mr. Ripley , It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown , Blue's Big Musical Movie , Rugrats in Paris: The Movie , Survivor: The Australian Outback - Season 2: The Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments , Mission: Impossible 2 , Rugrats: Kwanzaa , Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles , Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius , Zoolander , The Wild Thornberrys Movie , Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life , Curious Buddies tapes, and G.I. Joe: Valor vs. Venom .
• Certain prints of Rugrats: Mysteries also have this.
• Surprisingly, this and the following Feature Presentation ID also appear on foreign tapes with special features at the end, such as UK releases of The Italian Job and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (majority of UK tapes use a version based off of the IDs), and an Australian dealer copy of Jackass: The Movie .
• The Entertainment Weekly variant appears on the 1998 VHS releases of Kiss Me Guido and Thunder Point , as well as the original release of The Education of Little Tree .

13th Bumper (December 15, 1998-January 26, 1999)

Visuals: On a black background, one of the bumpers below appears in white, capital letters.

• COMING TO VIDEO STORES
• COMING TO THEATRES (only seen on Deep Impact )

Audio: Silent, except for the announcer, Brian Cummings, enthusiastically saying one of the following:

• Coming to Video Stores: "Coming this November to video stores."
• Coming to Theatres: "Coming to theatres!"

Audio Variant: A variant of the "COMING TO VIDEO STORES" bumper features Cummings saying "And, coming this February from Paramount Home Video." This appears only on the original 1999 VHS release of The Truman Show .

Availability: This was used for a very short time before being replaced with the next bumper, but it can be found on the original 1998-99 VHS releases of Deep Impact and The Truman Show .

14th Bumper (February 16, 1999-February 18, 2003)

Visuals: There is a still shot of the 1995 Paramount Home Video/Entertainment logo fading in and fading out to a black background (with the clouds still moving). We then see one of the bumpers below fade in, zoom in, then fade out.

Bumpers: Legend: [a] - both announcers used, [n] - no announcers used

• Coming To Theaters [a]
• Now In Theaters [a] (This can be found on Enemy at the Gates , Along Came a Spider , The Emperor's New Clothes , Festival in Cannes , and Triumph of Love )
• Coming To Videocassette
• Now Available On Videocassette
• Coming To Videocassette And DVD
• Now Available On Videocassette And DVD
• Coming To DVD
• Now Available On DVD (This can be found on Orange County and Mostly Martha )
• The Previously Unreleased Vanilla Sky Teaser Trailer [n] (Exclusive to the 2002 VHS release of Vanilla Sky )
• On the original variant of the "Now In Theaters" bumper, the standard edition of the redone 1999 version of the logo (in open matte) is used instead of the 1995 version.
• Starting in 2002, the logo is cut and only the bumper is shown. Rarely, even before this, the original bumpers will sometimes also appear without the logo.
• On the 2002 VHS release of Orange County , the bumpers appear in a slightly different font, which turns out to be Times New Roman Bold.
• On the VHS release of Vanilla Sky , the text is in a sparse, greyish font on a white background in all caps, with the text " VIDEOCASSETTE " or " DVD " in a slightly bigger black font. It also has a special variant that reads "THE PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED VANILLA SKY TEASER TRAILER", which is silent.

Technique: Zooming and fading effects.

Audio: The original four bumpers have Beau Weaver announcing them, usually after a few seconds of silence following the Paramount logo. Another male announcer, Brian Cummings, announces the last four bumpers, as well as the later variant of the "Coming To Theaters" and "Now In Theaters" bumpers.

Availability: This was seen on most tapes of the era, such as many Nickelodeon TV and movie releases, including the 2002 VHS releases of Clockstoppers , Hey Arnold!: The Movie , SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories , Rugrats: Christmas and SpongeBob SquarePants: Sponge Buddies . The first tape to use this was the 1999 VHS release of Snake Eyes , and the last tape to have it was the 2003 VHS release of The Four Feathers . The original variant is more common than the later variant due to it being used longer and can, for example, be found on the 2000 VHS releases of Snow Day and Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Musical Movie .

15th Bumper (May 11, 1999)

Visuals: Over a starfield background is the text "STAY TUNED FOR A SPECIAL "MAKING OF" STAR TREK: INSURRECTION FEATURETTE AFTER OUR FEATURE PRESENTATION". The background starts zooming in slowly but then gets faster, indicating that the warp drive of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D is about to engage.

Availability: Seen on two different pressings of the VHS of Star Trek: Insurrection (one with regular previews, one with only Star Trek previews; a third pressing just cuts to the Feature Presentation ID).

16th Bumper (November 23, 1999)

Visuals: Over a black background is the following text in a Papyrus font:

Availability: It appears on the 1999 Commemorative Edition VHS of Chinatown .

17th Bumper (1999-2000)

Visuals: On a brown dirt background used in trailers for the Young Indiana Jones trilogy is the text: "STAY TUNED FOR AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE LUCAS STEVEN SPIELBERG AND HARRISON FORD AFTER OUR FEATURE PRESENTATION"

Variant: There is a variant in which Spielberg and Ford's names are removed and replaced with Sean Flanery's full name. On the bottom is the text "Exclusive to The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones features on video." There is also a second screen which the first screen fades to featuring the title of the movie.

Audio: None on the original variant, but on the second variant some Indiana Jones music plays over the ID as a male announcer says the text and then says " And now, enjoy The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: [title of feature] " as the ID fades over to the second screen.

Availability: Appears on Indiana Jones VHS releases from 1999, including UK editions. The variant can be found on the 1999 (and in the case of the UK version of The Phantom Train of Doom , 2000) VHS releases of Young Indiana Jones features.

18th Bumper (March 12, 2002-September 20, 2005)

Visuals: On a black background, one of the below bumper texts is shown.

• COMING SOON TO VIDEO AND DVD
• COMING SOON ON DVD AND VIDEO
• AVAILABLE NOW ON VIDEO AND DVD
• NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD AND VIDEO (these next two bumpers are seen exclusively on the 2004 VHS release of The Singing Detective )
• NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD AND VHS
• A sub-variant appears during a home video trailer for The Longest Yard (as found on its screener VHS as well as the 2005 DVD release of Sahara ), where the text zooms towards the viewer.
• Two prototypes exist on a preview of Orange County .

Audio: The end of the trailer theme or none.

Availability: This appears on 2003-04 VHS and DVD releases such as The Four Feathers , Star Trek: Nemesis , The Hunted , The Perfect Score , Mean Girls , and Paycheck , as well as screener tapes such as the 2004 demos of Marci X , The Perfect Score , The United States of Leland , and The Prince & Me . Because this one appears at the end of trailers rather than the beginning, some trailers have their own end-of-trailer card instead, making this bumper rare. A prototype variant exists on the 2002 VHS releases of Domestic Disturbance , Zoolander , Sidewalks of New York , My First Mister , Crossroads .

19th Bumper (May 21, 2002)

Visuals: On a white background, there are the words:

This is presented in the same format as the tape's other bumpers.

Availability: Only seen on the 2002 VHS of Vanilla Sky .

After the 2004 VHS release of Mean Girls , Paramount opted not to include previews on any more of its videotapes (with the exception of screeners and releases of material more suitable for younger audiences), and as such these bumpers were retired within the next year.

Bumper (2001?-2005?)

Visuals: Same as the Universal Pictures Home Entertainment bumpers at the time, but the 1986 Paramount logo is shown instead of the Universal logo. So far, only the " a la venta en video " version has been found.

Technique: Same as the Universal Pictures Home Entertainment bumpers at the time.

Audio: Same as the Universal Pictures Home Entertainment bumpers at the time.

Availability: Found on Mexican VHS releases at the time, such as Rugrats: Decade in Diapers ( Rugrats: Década en Pañales ).

Europe and Middle East

United kingdom, 1st bumper (1999-2003).

Visuals: On the same aurora background as the 1997-2001 CIC Video warning screen is one of the following bumpers.

• AVAILABLE TO BUY ON VIDEO
• AVAILABLE TO BUY ON DVD
• NOW AVAILABLE TO RENT ON VIDEO
• COMING SOON
• NOW AVAILABLE TO RENT ON VIDEO & DVD
• FEATURE PRESENTATION

Variant: On the "COMING SOON" variant, sometimes the words may be on top of each other and in a different font.

Availability: Seen on international Paramount Home Entertainment releases from 1999-2003. Examples include Star Trek: Voyager and Rugrats videos.

2nd Bumper (2003-2006)

Available to Own on Video

• AVAILABLE TO OWN ON VIDEO
• AVAILABLE TO OWN ON VIDEO AND DVD
• AVAILABLE TO RENT ON VIDEO AND DVD
• Feature Presentation: Inside the projector where the warning screen and bumpers of the time took place is the filmstrips with different film symbols on it and we have many cuts of the filmstrip in sync with the music. As the screen fades to the close up of the filmstrip the screen zooms in till the entire filmstrip flashes and we cut to black.

Technique: Live-action and CGI.

Audio: The jazz/piano music from the warning screen, with the projector as background noise.

Audio Variant: For the Feature Presentation bumper, the music is shortened and the projector noises are added in the background.

Availability: Seen on international Paramount Home Entertainment releases from 2003-2006 like Clockstoppers , The Core , Action Man: X Missions , SpongeBob SquarePants: Lost in Time , SpongeBob Squarepants: Tide & Seek , and Rugrats Go Wild! .

Legacy: Due to a lack of feature presentation text, some have been left unsure what the FP bumper is meant to be.

3rd Bumper (2006-)

Visuals: On a dark blue background are the words, " Coming Soon " in an Arial font. Below it are the smaller words, 'PRESS MENU ON YOUR REMOTE TO GO TO THE MAIN MENU'.

Availability: Appears on many UK DVDs released by Paramount Home Entertainment and also DreamWorks Home Entertainment from 2006-2012, like Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging , Charlotte's Web , Little Fockers , Norbit , Iron Man 2 , SpongeBob SquarePants: Friend or Foe? , Blades of Glory , Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues , Super 8 and The Spiderwick Chronicles , among others. This was also seen on a Mexican DVD of Babel .

Bumper (2000)

Visuals: On the same background as the German Paramount warning screen, the text " Demnächst auf Video " squeezes into view.

Audio: A two-note ethereal synth tune.

Availability: This was found on a German VHS of Mission: Impossible II .

Bumper (2001-2006?)

Same as the CIC Video Future Video Releases bumpers .

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Paramount Home Video/Feature Presentation

• View history
• 1.1.1 Bylines
• 1.1.2 Variants
• 1.2 2nd logo (2002-2003)
• 2.1.1 Music/Sounds/Voice-over Variants
• 2.2.1 Music/Sounds Variant
• 3.1 1st logo
• 3.2 2nd logo

1st logo (1989-2006) [ ]

On a background filled with blue/indigo squares, there is a flat blue square with the 1968 Paramount mountain logo in gold. The stars shines, then the logo moves and zooms away as the squares behind it move off, opening up like a door. They reveal the stacked words "FEATURE PRESENTATION" in gold that zoom in on a heliotrope gradient background. The words shine, and after that, it zooms again towards us at breakneck speed. Just when the text engulfs the screen, it cuts to a warning screen, which has a pattern of Paramount mountains in the background. Or a black background.

Bylines [ ]

This used whatever byline Paramount was using at the time:

• May 17-October 16, 1989: " A Gulf + Western Company " (used for only six months that year)
• November 9, 1989-May 16, 1995: "A Paramount Communications Company" (the "Feature Presentation" versions have a different font for the Paramount Communications byline: sans serif)
• June 13, 1995-February 28, 2006: "A VIACOM COMPANY" (in the same font as the 1990 Viacom logo)

Variants [ ]

• There was a special bumper used for trailers from 1989 to 1998 or 1999, with the words "COMING ATTRACTIONS" over the heliotrope gradient background, which cuts off after the zoom in.
• On the 1989 re-releases of Sunset Boulevard on VHS (reissued from the 1988 printing) and The Courageous Dr. Christain on Laserdisc (reissued from the 1987 printing), the logo and warning screen is in black and white.
• There is a very rare long version of the Gulf+Western logo where once they fade in, the logo doesn't actually start for a few seconds. Also, once the "FEATURE PRESENTATION" text zooms in, there is a tan screen for a split-second, then the warning screen appears.

2nd logo (2002-2003) [ ]

An enhanced version of the previous "Feature Presentation" logo. A full color version of the 2002 Paramount logo appears in a square that overlaps a background of four purple squares. A line of light passes over it, Then the logo flies off and the squares peel off, pretty much like before. They reveal the words "FEATURE PRESENTATION" in a gold-yellow Onyx font flying into place, each word from a different end. The words now float against a moving dark cloud background, eventually zooming in towards the screen in a trail of gold light. The warning post appears as always, but with a solid navy blue background in place of the usual logo wallpaper.

In the release of Changing Lanes, it uses the normal 2002 feature presentation logo. But it instead cuts to the 1995-2006 warning screen due to a tape manufacturing error.

Music/Sounds [ ]

1st logo [ ].

An arranged version of the 1979 "Paramount on Parade" fanfare, with the music fading in after the chimes play, when the words are shown a male announcer (Brian Cummings) says "And now, we're pleased to bring you...our feature presentation."

Music/Sounds/Voice-over Variants [ ]

• A variation exists where the announcer says "Paramount is pleased to bring you our feature presentation". This was used with all three byline variants, and can be found on Laserdisc releases, as well as VHS releases which have no previews before the film (such as the 1989 releases of the first four Star Trek films, the 1998 release of A Separate Peace , the 2000 release of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut , the 2001 release Nick Jr.'s Imagine That! , any promotional copies of movies released by Paramount (with the exception of Harriet the Spy , The Ghost and the Darkness , The General's Daughter , A Night at the Roxbury , The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie , Teletubbies: Naughty Noo Noo! , Boohbah: Hot Dog , Nickelodeon Super Toons, and the 1998 widescreen VHS release of Forrest Gump , while the full screen version has the standard voice-over). On rare occasions, this variation did appear right after previews, such as the 1996 VHS of Ferris Bueller's Day Off and its 2000 reprint, and a series of four videocassettes sold as part of a 1993 McDonald's promotion, including The Addams Family and Ghost (these releases have the Rank Home Video print logo on one of the spines on the slipcovers for those films and a face label on the tapes with a special red, yellow, black and white color scheme).
• On the "COMING ATTRACTIONS" variant, the announcer says "Here are some exciting coming attractions from Paramount."

2nd logo [ ]

Same as the 5th logo.

Music/Sounds Variant [ ]

There is a very rare variant which uses the "Paramount is..." voiceover. The only known releases with this variant were Damaged Care, Bleacher Bums, My Horrible Year!, Bobbie's Girl, the demo VHS tapes of SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Bash and Hey Arnold!: The Movie, and The Day Reagan Was Shot. Again, these are releases with no previews.

Paramount Home Entertainment/Summary

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• 1 Background
• 2.1 1st Logo (September 1979 - June 1980)
• 2.2 2nd Logo (July 1980 - October 1981; 1984; March 5, 2019)
• 2.3 3rd Logo (November 1981 - March 1987; late-1980s)
• 2.4 4th Logo (April 1987 - October 7, 2003; mid-2000s)
• 2.5 5th Logo (May 17, 1989 - December 2008)
• 2.6 6th Logo (December 1993)
• 2.7 7th Logo (May 21, 2002 - October 24, 2006)
• 3.1 1st Logo (2002)
• 3.2 2nd Logo (January 7, 2003 - March 5, 2019)
• 4.1 (September 26, 2006 - March 26, 2019)

Background [ ]

Paramount Home Entertainment (formerly known as "Paramount Home Media Distribution", "Paramount Home Video", and "Paramount Video") is Paramount Pictures ' home media division and was formed around 1978/1979 (some sources claim late 1975). The company owns the home media rights to films and shows owned by Paramount and shows from sister company ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks (under individual labels such as MTV Home Video and other subsidiaries). The company also licenses the right to release material from CBS Corporation (now known as Paramount Global) such as CBS Studios / CBS Media Ventures and Showtime Networks material released through CBS Home Entertainment , (although CBS Films material is released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Lionsgate Home Entertainment ) and several independent studios. They formerly released DreamWorks Animation material through DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment until 2014, when the latter acquired distribution rights to their library and transferred the rights to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment . On September 27, 2011, Paramount Home Entertainment was renamed Paramount Home Media Distribution after merging with Paramount Digital and Television. Starting in 2012, the Republic Pictures library and select Paramount films were licensed to Olive Films (until 2017), Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Shout! Factory, Arrow Films, and the Criterion Collection. From 2013-2017, much of the company's output was co-released in conjunction with Warner Home Video . Paramount continues to release licensed material (such as from Peacock ) and material from sister companies. In May 2019, the company went back to the Paramount Home Entertainment name.

Paramount Home Video [ ]

1st logo (september 1979 - june 1980) [ ].

Nicknames : "Still Mountain," "Boring Mountain," "Home Video Blue Mountain"

Logo : On a navy blue background, the text "Paramount" in its famous script can be seen, with "HOME VIDEO" below that in a wide Microgramma Bold font sandwiched between two lines, one above and one below. To the right of that is the 1968 Paramount print logo with the Gulf+Western byline. A moment later, the logo crossfades to a navy blue warning screen.

Variant : A black and white variant exists for releases of B&W films, such as Stalag 17 and The Elephant Man .

FX/SFX : The crossfade to the warning screen.

Music/Sounds : None.

Availability : Ultra rare. This was only seen on the earliest batch of VHS and Betamax tapes, and as a result, these are very hard to find.

• Titles that have this include the first two Godfather films, Saturday Night Fever , Grease , Heaven Can Wait , True Grit , Goin' South , Play It Again Sam , The Bad News Bears , Prophecy , and Catch 22 .
• Among the last releases to use this logo were five volumes of Star Trek episodes as part of the "Television Classics" series on VHS and Betamax in early 1980 (which are long out of print, having been replaced in 1985 by Paramount's single episodes releases, and are hard to find), as well as tapes of North Dallas Forty , Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman , and early copies of Escape from Alcatraz .
• This surprisingly appears on a late 1983 pressing of The Odd Couple (usually, releases printed around that time started with the "Acid Trip" warning screen, followed by the Paramount Pictures logo), which is likely a reprint.

Editor's Note : It's a little simple, but this is one of the earliest home video logos ever, so don't expect a showstopper.

2nd Logo (July 1980 - October 1981; 1984; March 5, 2019) [ ]

Nicknames : "Mountain Silhouette," "Mountain of Doom," "Black Mountain," "Rising Mountain," "Cheesy Mountain," "In the Shadow of Paramount"

Logo : On a blue background, a silhouette of a mountain appears as the camera zooms out. After zooming to a comfortable distance, a bright flash occurs behind the mountain, and white "stars" (looking more like lens flares) appear, as well as "Paramount" (in a school bus yellow script, but closer to the pre-1975 logos). A saffron-colored trapezoidal trail zooms out from the base, and "HOME VIDEO" (set in the same font as the previous logo) zooms out soon after, tacked onto the saffron-colored trail. As that happens, the blue background gets extremely dark (looking like federal blue). The end result looks similar to the pre-1967 print logo.

Trivia : The second half of the logo was first used as the 1977 Paramount Television Service logo, which explains the rough cut after the mountain zoom out. "PARAMOUNT TELEVISION SERVICE" was featured at the bottom, which explains the chyron for "HOME VIDEO". If one looks very closely as the trail zooms out, the original text can barely be made out before the chyron appears.

Variant : On Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown! , the logo cuts to the second half of the film's Paramount logo.

FX/SFX : The flash behind the mountain, the stars and text zooming toward the screen. All scanimate effects that were produced by the design firm of Sullivan & Marks, who also did the earlier Paramount Television Service version.

Music/Sounds : A pounding backbeat as the mountain zooms out, then a synth chord mixed with a brief explosion sound and synthesized sizzling.

Availability : Extremely rare, but more because of the fact that this was only used on two batches of releases and re-releases.

• Seen on VHS/Betamax releases of the time, which are not that easy to find, especially since the logo was usually taken off of post-1981 prints. However, since this was on a decent variety of movies, it may help a little. Among the releases are Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) , Death Wish , Breaking Glass , Friday the 13th , Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Airplane! , Charlotte's Web , Little Darlings , a re-release of Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown! , Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy , Starting Over , American Gigolo , Urban Cowboy Shogun , and Don't Look Now .
• Also seen on certain Hi-Fi re-releases of Paramount's early releases (such as Downhill Racer and Death Wish ) from 1984, and the first Hi-Fi and Mono combined VHS release of True Grit .
• Don't expect this on any Laserdisc releases, as the LaserVision logo appeared instead.
• It made a surprise appearance on a 2019 April Fool's Day VHS trailer for Bumblebee , despite the film taking place after the logo's run had ended (the trailer also appeared on the promotional VHS version it was plugging).

Editor's Note : It shares the same amount of cheesiness from the Paramount Television Service logo, with the addition of the cheap cut to it and the chyroned "HOME VIDEO" text. It's also known to creep out some thanks to the ominous music and nature. Nonetheless, it's quite an interesting logo, and even Paramount themselves found it so cheesy, that they decided to reuse it almost 40 years later for April Fool's Day!

3rd Logo (November 1981 - March 1987; late-1980s) [ ]

Nicknames : "Growing Mountain", "Blue Paramount"

Logo : On a black background, the abstract mountain logo in light blue appears, with "Paramount" in black script and the "A Gulf + Western Company" byline at the bottom. The whole logo immediately zooms up to the camera right after it fades in, as the stars (which are followed by light trail streaks) and byline zoom past, and both the mountain and circle grow bigger until all that's left is the top of the peak and "Paramount" centering in. Right after the background fully turns blue and the stars are out of view, the "Paramount" text begins to shine with a bright flash filling the screen, and it dies down to reveal the Paramount script logo (in blue) and a small "VIDEO" (where the flash dies down to) between two blue lines. It then fades out.

• Sometimes, the logo cuts to black after it finishes. This can be seen on the 1986 VHS of Teen Wolf .
• At the start of the 1986 VHS of The Untouchables: The Scarface Mob , the logo cuts in half a second late. The ending features the full logo.
• A rare, slightly longer variant exists, which starts with a still shot of the blue Paramount print logo. After a little over a second, the music starts and the logo animates as normal. The fades are also slower.
• At the end of an April 1998 Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) airing of The Devonsville Terror , the animation is slowed down but plays as normal until all there is is "Paramount" and the mountain, when the logo freezes in place and the rest of the music is heard. It's unknown if this was used anyplace other than this.

FX/SFX : The mountain and other elements growing, the text shining and flashing. Pure Scanimate effects that look better than the previous logo.

Music/Sounds : A building set of synthesized strings, ending in a new-age 4-note synthesizer tune. Composed by Richard J. Krizman.

Music/Sounds Trivia : The 4-note tune sounds very similar to the "Meet George Jetson" portion of the theme song to The Jetsons .

Music/Sounds Variant : On the 1983 RCA CED videodisc release of An Evening with Robin Williams , this follows the RCA SelectaVision logo, but is silent.

Availability : Very rare.

• This was mostly reserved for VHS, Betamax, Laserdisc & CED releases of television shows, specials, and non-Paramount licensed material. Most Paramount films released during this period instead went straight to the film after the warning screen, as does, surprisingly, Toho's Godzilla vs. Monster Zero .
• Some releases where this can be seen include episodes of Star Trek (except the 1984 Television Classics Laserdisc release of the two-parter "The Menagerie," which uses no logo), Paramount Comedy Theater: Volume 1 , Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! , Heathcliff: The Movie , The Adventures of the American Rabbit , Teen Wolf and Call to Glory .
• It was also seen on some prints of the 1982 VHS release of Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (the earliest prints, from around 1982-early 1983, have no logo), as well as on a 1990 reprint.
• It is also seen on the 1991-92 releases of Toho's The Wizard of Oz and A Dog of Flanders (along with the warning that preceded it), also likely reprints themselves.
• The black and white version can be found on The Untouchables: The Scarface Mob and Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back .
• This was surprisingly retained on 1990s re-releases of Strong Kids, Safe Kids , Eddie Murphy: Delirious and The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème following the 5th logo.
• This also appeared on 1984-86 episodes of the Showtime sitcom Brothers , which was produced by Paramount Video during that timeframe (Paramount Television took over for the 1987-89 episodes).

Editor's Note : This is a favorite of many, thanks to its soothing music and rather high-tech (for the time) animation.

4th Logo (April 1987 - October 7, 2003; mid-2000s) [ ]

Nicknames : "CGI Mountain," "Model Mountain"

Logo : It's just the 1986 Paramount Pictures logo with no video indicator whatsoever. The difference here from the theatrical version is that it's videotaped, the picture quality is sharper, and the color scheme is brighter than normal.

• April 1987-1989: "A Gulf + Western Company". 1987 releases used the 75th Anniversary variant, while 1988-89 releases used the standard version.
• 1989-1995: "A Paramount Communications Company" with a line above the byline fades in. 1989-90 releases had the byline and line above it in gold, while 1990-95 releases had them in white.
• 1995-October 7, 2003: "A VIACOM COMPANY" (in the 1990 \/|/\CO/\/\ "Wigga Wigga" font) with a line above the byline fades in, again, in white.
• A black and white version was found on the 1988 VHS releases of Hamlet and This Sporting Life .
• At the end of some home video promos from the early 1990s, the logo is shortened to when the semi-circle forms. Alongside the byline, a copyright notice fades in. This variant surprisingly appears in place of the regular logo on the screener tape of Trancers III: Deth Lives! , immediately after the warning screen.
• A still version is used at the end of some releases. Normally, this fades in and out, but on Snoopy Double Feature: What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown/It's Magic, Charlie Brown and Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Pajama Party , it cuts in and fades out.

FX/SFX : The same as the Paramount logo from 1986.

Music/Sounds Variant : Following a retailer promo for Drop Zone on its demo VHS, the 1987 Paramount Television theme plays.

Availability : Extremely common.

• This was used as a de-facto home video logo, and can be seen on every licensed VHS and Laserdisc release from that period. This also includes television series, comedy specials, and films from other companies like Atlantic Releasing Corporation, Skouras Pictures, Full Moon Entertainment, and Toho.
• Look for either the 75th Anniversary print logo, or the standard Gulf+Western print logo (with no mention of "HOME VIDEO") on the packaging and labels. The 75th Anniversary logo plasters over the original "Blue Mountain" logo on the 1987 home video releases of Ferris Bueller's Day Off , "Crocodile" Dundee , Children of a Lesser God , and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home .
• Meanwhile, the standard Gulf+Western version plasters over the 75th Anniversary logo on the 1988 releases of Beverly Hills Cop II , The Untouchables , Back to the Beach , Fatal Attraction , and Planes, Trains, & Automobiles . International VHS releases of these films (all released by CIC Video except for "Crocodile" Dundee ) will likely have the film's original logo intact.
• Strangely, the Great American Writers Series VHS of The Great Gatsby plasters the film's original Paramount logo with the Gulf+Western variant. The Paramount Communications variant also makes a surprise appearance on the 1995 VHS of Through the Eyes of a Killer , which has the Viacom variant of the next logo preceding it.
• In all other cases, Paramount films released during this period will use the logo originally used on the film, or sometimes a newer-byline plaster of the same theatrical logo.
• This was also used on all 1994-2004 Peanuts releases and all Nickelodeon releases from 1996-2003, as well as the 2003 VHS of Two of Us .
• The 75th Anniversary variant was also used on a Showtime broadcast of Hamburger Hill from March 1991.
• It was also seen on the direct-to-video films The Little Bear Movie and Blue's Big Musical Movie .
• The logo makes unexpected appearances on demo tapes from 2004-07, such as Broadway: An American Musical , Jakers: Piggly Gets Into Trouble , and The Wonder Pets: Save The Wonder Pets . It was also spotted on a Mexican VHS of Collateral as well.
• Occasionally, this will appear before the opening previews on certain tapes. Examples include the Paramount reissue of Rugrats: A Baby's Gotta Do What a Baby's Gotta Do and some other Nickelodeon tapes from 1996.

Editor's Note : Despite it simply being a videotaped variant of their 1986 theatrical logo, this may be one of the most common home video logos ever due to its 16-year lifespan and appearance on nearly every Paramount-licensed release during this period. It even rivals that of MGM's or Disney's logos, or even the following bumper.

5th Logo (May 17, 1989 - December 2008) [ ]

Nicknames : "Feature Presentation," "Coming Attractions," "Abstract Mountain," "The ID-ish Logo", "90th Anniversary"

Logo : On a background filled with textured indigo squares, a blue square with the 1968 Paramount print logo (with one of three bylines) in gold sits in the middle of the screen. The stars shine from left to right, then moves and zooms away as the squares behind it pull away, revealing the stacked words "FEATURE PRESENTATION" in gold zooming in on a heliotrope gradient background. The words shine, and after that, it zooms towards the camera at breakneck speed. Just when the text engulfs the screen, it cuts to a warning screen, which has a pattern of Paramount mountains in the background.

Bylines : This used whatever byline Paramount was using at the time:

• May 1989 - November 1989: " A Gulf+Western Company "
• November 1989 - June 1995: " A Paramount Communications Company " (in sans serif font with a line above)
• June 1995 - December 2008: " A VIACOM COMPANY " (in its 1990 corporate "wigga-wigga" font with a line above)
• The Paramount Communications variant of this uses the same serif font for the byline as the theatrical logo, with the text and line being a bit further apart than the Feature Presentation one.
• Black and white versions of the Gulf+Western and Paramount Communications variants exist. They can be seen on the 1989-90 VHS releases of Sunset Boulevard , The Delicate Delinquent , The Desperate Hours , The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance , and Hell Is for Heroes .
• Some prints of Changing Lanes have this logo cut to the wallpaper warning screen instead of the dark blue one, due to a tape manufacturing error. This is probably due to the fact that earlier prints used the standard Feature Presentation logo instead of this one.
• This also occurs on the 1989 VHS of Will Penny , but the bumper instead cuts to the start of the film as it and the warning screen had their usual orders swapped.
• A shorter version of the Viacom variant exists where after the "FEATURE PRESENTATION" text zooms in, it suddenly cuts to black. This can be seen on the 1997 releases of the Godfather trilogy, the 2003 Filipino VCD of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life , UK and Australian releases that have special features after the film, and the 1994 screener VHS of Dragonworld (this also applies to promotional copies of Paramount films as well, although the demo warning screen appears after a split-second of a black screen).
• On the 1991 screener VHS of Hired to Kill , the logo cuts in a half-second late.
• On a few screener cassettes from 1991-95 such as The Two Jakes , Soapdish , The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult , and Clear and Present Danger , a timecode can be seen in various positions.

Variants Trivia : The cloud background for the 90th Anniversary variant is simply footage taken from a stock video library. The footage in question can be viewed here at approximately 6:30.

FX/SFX : The shine on the stars, the squares moving away, the zooming of the text. Amazing CGI work that still holds up today.

Music/Sounds : The 1987 remixed Paramount on Parade fanfare, composed by Jerry Goldsmith, with the intro chimes omitted and a slightly different lead. As the squares separate, a male announcer (most likely Bill McAllister) says one of the following:

• Coming Attractions : "Here are some exciting coming attractions from Paramount."
• This voiceover would mostly be used for videocassette releases that had previews before the feature, as well as Paramount Communications-era Philips CD-I releases (excluding The Addams Family , Black Rain , and Apocalypse Now , which use the other voiceover).
• Some tapes without opening previews mistakenly use this voiceover, such as a reprint of the original 1989 VHS release of Major League , a few Star Trek titles (one printing of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier , the pan and scan version of the 1991 Star Trek: The Movies VHS box set [the widescreen version uses the correct "Paramount is..." voiceover], and Star Trek: Nemesis ), the screener VHS of Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (the commercial release does have previews before the film), Cousins , Scrooged , Paycheck , Extreme Ops , the 2005 reissues of Mean Girls and School of Rock , Timeline , and Kid Cop .
• This was used with all three bylines, and can be found on Laserdiscs, Viacom-era Philips CD-I discs, and videocassettes without opening previews.
• This voiceover was also rarely used for the 90th Anniversary variant, appearing on Damaged Care , Bleacher Bums , My Horrible Year! , Bobbie's Girl , the demo tapes of SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Bash and Hey Arnold!: The Movie , and The Day Reagan Was Shot .
• On rare occasions, this variation did appear right after the opening previews, such as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , Wayne's World , Delicatessen , Pet Shop , Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns , the 1996 VHS of Ferris Bueller's Day Off , screener tapes of Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth , The Silver Stallion: King of the Wild Brumbies , It's All True , Intersection , Jimmy Hollywood , The Browning Version , I.Q. , Pontiac Moon , Parallel Lives , Dead Man on Campus , Hollywood Confidential , Midnight Man , Bad Apple , Apres Vous , Asylum , Year of the Dog , Next , Rugrats: Grandpa's Favorite Stories , Mad Hot Ballroom , Winter Solstice , and Ask the Dust , and two in a series of four videocassettes sold as part of a 1993 McDonald's promotion, namely The Addams Family and Ghost ( Charlotte's Web and Wayne's World were the other two, but both use the correct voiceover). The McDonald's releases have the Rank Home Video print logo on one of the spines on the slipcovers for those films and a face label on the tapes with a special red, yellow, black and white color scheme.

Music/Sounds Variants :

• On the VHS of The Desperate Hours and the Laserdisc of The Best of Eddie Murphy: Saturday Night Live (both released in 1989), the ending of the fanfare is cut off. This also happens on the screeners of Leapin' Leprachauns! and Magic in the Mirror: Fowl Play , except at a slightly later point in the music.
• On the 1991 screener VHS of Subspecies , the bumper is silent. This was fixed on the commercial release.
• On the 1991 screener VHS of Hired to Kill , the music starts a split-second in due to the logo cutting in.

Availability : Very common overall. It appears on most Paramount VHS, Laserdisc, VCD and CD-I releases.

• It made its overall debut alongside the "Feature Presentation" bumper on Coming to America , and was last used on The Phantom .
• The Paramount Communications variant is the most common, while the Gulf+Western and Viacom variants are significantly harder to come by.
• While it usually appears as the very first thing on the tape, it appears second on the aforementioned Coming to America (after a Pepsi commercial) and two Peanuts tapes from 1994 released in conjunction with Travelodge: It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown and You Don't Look 40, Charlie Brown (both after a Travelodge promotional offer ad plugging Peanuts tapes).
• The Gulf+Western variant is rare, as it was only used for less than a year. Like mentioned above, it made its debut on Coming to America , and can be found on releases afterward such as the first four Star Trek films, Distant Thunder , The Experts , The Best of Eddie Murphy: Saturday Night Live , Cousins , The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! , Major League , Pet Sematary , and Puppet Master , among others.
• The Paramount Communications variant is more common. It debuted on Scrooged , and appears on almost all Paramount tapes from late 1989-95. It also appears on Paramount-distributed titles from Prism Entertainment, Full Moon Entertainment, Skouras Pictures, and Miramax Films, as well as some reprints past 1995, such as the 1996 reissue of It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown! .
• The Viacom variant is extremely common and appears on nearly every release from June 1995 onwards, starting with Drop Zone (although the screener version uses the Paramount Communications byline). The final Paramount film released on VHS and to use this logo was Yours, Mine & Ours (2005), and the final commercial release to use it overall was Go Diego Go!: Diego Saves Christmas! . It continued to appear on screener tapes of material released afterwards up until as late as 2008, such as An Inconvenient Truth , The Wonder Pets: Save the Wonder Pets , and Ghost Town , none of which were released on VHS commercially.
• Some titles, such as the 1991 Laserdisc release of Apocalypse Now and the 1998 VHS release of Titanic , go straight to the warning screen, while on the 1997 releases of The Godfather trilogy, the logo cuts to black before the THX "Broadway" logo, as the warnings are placed at the beginning, separate from the logo. It also goes right to the warning screen on most French Canadian Paramount releases, right after Malofilm Video ceased distribution of French Canadian Paramount releases. Other releases where only the warning screen appears include the 1991 VHS releases of the Indiana Jones trilogy, the 1989 VHS of The Shootist , a 1990 reprint of Breakfast at Tiffany's , the 1989 Laserdisc of The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! , some Star Trek: The Animated Series tapes, alternate copies of The Truman Show and Sliding Doors , and CHC prints of Payback .
• This makes a surprise appearance on foreign VHS releases that have any special features at the end of the tape (perhaps because American video masters were likely used over in the UK, but were edited for release there), such as the UK releases of The Italian Job (2003) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life , and an Australian dealer copy of Jackass: The Movie .
• The bumper appears twice on double feature demo tapes, preceding both features on the cassette. It is also seen twice (with the 4th logo inserted in between) on the 1998 demo VHS of Midnight Man with both voiceover variants.
• This appears on demo VHS tapes of PBS shows from 2004-06, such as Teletubbies , Boohbah , Cyberchase , Broadway: An American Musical , and Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise & Fall of Jack Johnson . The commercial releases just start with the warning screen used on Paramount DVDs and Blu-ray Discs.
• It premiered on later prints of Vanilla Sky (earlier prints use the standard bumper) and was last seen on K-19: The Widowmaker .
• Other 2002 releases that use this variant include SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories , The Sum of All Fears , Lucky Break , MTV Yoga , later prints of Crossroads and Orange County , Dora the Explorer: Move to the Music , The Day Reagan Was Shot , Damaged Care , Bleacher Bums , My Horrible Year! , the demo VHS tapes of SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Bash and Hey Arnold!: The Movie , all 3 Jackass volumes, and Rugrats Christmas .
• Some 2002 releases, such as Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius , SpongeBob SquarePants: Halloween , 9/11: The Filmmakers' Commemorative Edition , Rugrats Halloween , Rat Race: Special Edition , the standard VHS version of Hey Arnold!: The Movie , Rugrats: Easter , We Were Soldiers , the demo VHS of SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories , and Little Bill: I Love Animals , have the 90th Anniversary print logo on the spine and label, but instead use the standard bumper on the tapes themselves.

Editor's Note : Perhaps one of the most famous logos/bumpers in home video history, due to its well-done CGI animation and appearances on many video titles throughout its runtime. The loud fanfare and the cut to black on some variants may startle some, though.

The 90th Anniversary variant was a unique and impressive way to celebrate the film studio's milestone, even though it was short-lived.

6th Logo (December 1993) [ ]

Nickname : "Lined Mountain"

Logo : On a black background with blue filmstrips, "Paramount" is seen being written in a gold color in its trademark font. As this is occurring, the background is opening up in segments to reveal the 1986 Paramount logo, without a byline and the stars in a light gold color.

FX/SFX : The background opening up, "Paramount" being written, and the Paramount Pictures logo being revealed. All of this is very nice CGI.

Music/Sounds : A male announcer says, "Paramount Pictures, bringing you the best in holiday entertainment, and the best of the new year". All of this is said against a bombastic fanfare, an excerpt from The Untouchables soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone.

Availability : Very rare. This logo was seen on three out of four VHS releases by the company from the era around the Christmas season of 1993 that were available in McDonald's restaurants, those being Charlotte's Web , Ghost , and The Addams Family ( Wayne's World was the fourth, but it was merely a re-release of the standard issue).

Editor's Note : A well-animated alternate take on the 1986 theatrical logo, despite only appearing on a few promotional releases.

7th Logo (May 21, 2002 - October 24, 2006) [ ]

Nicknames : "CGI Mountain III", "Ultra Majestic Mountain II", "Ultra Majestic Paramount II"

Logo : Like the 4th logo, it's just the 2002 Paramount Pictures logo without a video indicator, except it is videotaped and zoomed out.

Variant : In its first year of use, VHS and DVD releases used the "90th Anniversary" variant.

FX/SFX : Same as its movie counterpart.

Availability : Fairly common. This was used as another de-facto home video logo.

• The 90th Anniversary version is used on 2002 VHS and DVD releases such as Trading Places , SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories , MTV Yoga , Dora the Explorer: Move to the Music , The Day Reagan Was Shot , Flashdance , Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (where it inexplicably plasters the 1999 film logo on VHS), Orange County (also plastering the 1999 logo, but on both formats), Black Sheep , Vanilla Sky , Major League , Damaged Care , Bleacher Bums , My Horrible Year! , all 3 Jackass volumes, and Rugrats Christmas , as well as the 2003 DVD of Easy Come, Easy Go (despite the normal logo being used on the packaging).
• The standard version is used on 2003-06 releases such as G.I. Joe: Valor vs. Venom , SpongeBob SquarePants: The Sponge Who Could Fly , Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown , and Go Diego Go!: Diego Saves Christmas! (where it made its final overall appearance on VHS).
• The standard version plasters the 90th Anniversary variant of the film logo on the VHS versions of Extreme Ops , The Wild Thornberrys Movie , Star Trek: Nemesis , Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure , and The Hours .
• Strangely, it doesn't appear on the DVDs of Graveyard Shift and Five Card Stud , which just start on the warning screen.

Paramount DVD [ ]

1st logo (2002) [ ].

Logo : The 1986 Paramount logo is seen on-screen already formed. However, the "Paramount" text is black in front of a DVD disc that is behind the mountain. "DVD" is seen below, with the Viacom byline below that.

FX/SFX : None.

Music/Sounds : The opening of the TV spot.

Availability : Extinct. It was seen on a 2002 TV spot for the DVD release of Rat Race . It is unknown if this appeared anywhere else.

Editor's Note : Its existence was debated for a while, since its rushed look does make it look like a fan-made logo. It can otherwise be viewed as a prototype for the main logo below.

2nd Logo (January 7, 2003 - March 5, 2019) [ ]

Nicknames : "CGI Disc Mountain", "Modern Mountain of Doom", "Dark Mountain of Steel", "Dark Perumount"

Logo : It starts off with the 2002 Paramount logo animation with the stars flying through the clouds, the zoom out of the "Paramount" script, and the stars coming in and circling around the mountain. After zooming away to a comfortable distance, a DVD disc suddenly flies in from the bottom with a bright light in the sky swooping by. The DVD disc glides and settles behind the summit and the Paramount script. Then, a bright flash underneath the peak brings forth "DVD" with a line below it, and the Viacom byline (in the same font as the 1990 Viacom logo) below the line. The background fades to black, and a white laser scans the disc in a downward motion, turning the entire logo silver. The finished product almost resembles the Paramount DVD print logo.

Trivia : This logo appears on the original Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment DVD releases of The Avengers and Iron Man 3 , alongside the Marvel logo. This is because The Walt Disney Company (owner of the films' production company Marvel Studios) and Viacom came to an agreement for the films' distribution to transferred from Paramount Pictures to Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, but Paramount still had two films left in their six-movie contract with Marvel. So, Paramount's logo would appear on the films and promotional material.

Variant : At the end of the logo, a menu would sometimes appear with two selections: "PREVIEWS" and "MAIN MENU", both of which would take you to exactly what it said on the tin when selected. When either one was selected, the color on the menu goes from blue to yellow, once it was pressed, the Paramount logo fades out, with the selections disappearing a few seconds afterward. This was seen on some early DVD releases with this logo, such as The Italian Job (2003) , How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days , Rugrats Go Wild! , SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete First Season , The Ren & Stimpy Show: The First and Second Seasons , and All Grown Up: Lucky 13 (the last release to use this variant).

FX/SFX : Same as the normal logo, except for the disc gliding and turning the logo to silver.

Music/Sounds : It starts off silent, but when the stars fly by, some whooshing sounds are heard, culminating in a synthesized explosion effect with a thunderclap. As the white laser scans down, a humming sound can be heard.

Music/Sounds Variant : On the post-menu-selection variation, a soft "bong" is heard as the logo fades out, followed by a whirring sound when the selections disappear.

Availability : Very common.

• It's seen on many post-2003 DVD releases released by the company, starting with Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (even though the print logo on the cover is the 90th Anniversary version).
• This logo was seen on DVD releases of Paramount Television-owned series from 2003-06 (when the rights went to CBS Home Entertainment after Viacom and CBS Corporation became separate companies), such as the 2004 releases of season 1 of both Happy Days and The Andy Griffith Show , and the 2005 release of season 2 of the latter.
• After 2004, this logo would no longer appear on Nickelodeon (although The Wild Thornberrys Movie , released in 2003, doesn't have this logo), Comedy Central, and CBS DVD releases.
• Despite Viacom introducing a new byline in 2010, and Paramount introducing a new logo in 2011, this logo continued to be used well beyond those years, as seen on more recent releases such as Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown , Project Almanac , Boyhood , The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water , The Gambler , Interstellar , Selma , Top Five , Allied , and A Quiet Place .
• It was retained on a 2008 Lionsgate reprint of Nobody's Fool , on a double-feature flipper disc with Fat Man and Little Boy .
• On the 2006 DVD reissue of Mission: Impossible 2 , this only appears on the second disc, as disc 1 is a reprint of the original 2000 release.
• This doesn't appear on Metallica: Some Kind of Monster , which is an IFC Films production. It's also strangely absent from the 2003 DVDs of Bang the Drum Slowly , Fear Strikes Out , Talent for the Game , and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral , which start at the warning screen, despite all being Paramount films.
• The last release to use this logo was Instant Family .

Editor's Note : The animation of the DVD flying in is pretty simple, while it as well as the sudden thunderclap and flash may surprise some, though it's still a favorite among most (though not as much as the 1989 logo). As already mentioned, this logo was still being used into 2019 despite a new Viacom byline and a new Paramount logo early in the decade.

Paramount High Definition [ ]

(september 26, 2006 - march 26, 2019) [ ].

Nicknames : "Digital Mountain", "From SD to HD", "Digital Paramount"

Logo : At the start, there is an on-screen effect of a television getting switched on, zooming out from one of the stars and transitioning to a dark, muddled version of the 2002 Paramount logo already animating in progress. When the star reaches the mountain's peak, two white lines appear and move across the picture vertically from the center, sharpening the picture and forming the silver text " HIGH DEFINITION ", which zooms out into place. The Viacom byline (without the line) from the previous three logos fades in below and the HD text shines.

Trivia : This logo appears on the original Disney Blu-ray releases of The Avengers and Iron Man 3 (see the Trivia section for the previous logo).

FX/SFX : The television static, the zooming away from the star, and the revelation of the text.

Music/Sounds : Some television static sound effects and a few loud whooshes and shining sounds.

Availability : Common.

• It can be seen on Paramount's Blu-ray releases, such as Black Sheep , Major League , South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut , We Were Soldiers , Black Rain , Primal Fear , Almost Famous , Defiance , The Peacemaker , and Kiss the Girls .
• It was also seen on Paramount HD-DVD releases (hence the term "High Definition" rather than just "Blu-ray" or "HD-DVD") from 2006-08, such as Four Brothers and The Italian Job . Starting sometime in 2007, Paramount switched their high definition support to HD-DVD. When Toshiba announced they would discontinue HD-DVD, Paramount, like all other home media companies, became Blu-ray only. Their first films on Blu-ray since HD-DVD's discontinuation were Next and Face/Off , as well as DreamWorks' Blades of Glory , all of which were first planned for release in 2007, followed by The Spiderwick Chronicles .
• This logo can be found on releases with the short-lived print version of this logo (consisting of a silver border around the cover image, with "HIGH DEFINITION" on the lower left) on the box art. Sometime around 2008, the print logo was abandoned (examples include Last Holiday and Iron Man ), while the on-screen logo continued to be used.
• The last release to feature this was Pet Sematary: 30th Anniversary Edition .

Editor's Note : Same as the 2003 DVD logo, though there's nothing really simple nor surprising about this.

Final Note : Beginning with the release of  Bumblebee , all Paramount DVDs and Blu-rays began using the standard 2011 theatrical logo as a de-facto video logo.

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The 2013 logo was used as the opening logo for 4K releases on June 14, 2016 with the first two films in Star Trek 's Kelvin timeline film series. The logo wasn't introduced on DVD and Blu-ray releases until the home release of Bumblebee (2018) on April 2, 2019.

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The logo with the ViacomCBS byline was introduced as the new opening logo for home releases starting with the home release of Like a Boss (2020) on April 7, 2020.

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Following ViacomCBS having been renamed Paramount Global , the byline was removed from the Paramount Pictures logo since the release of The Lost City (2022), but wasn't yet used on its home releases until July 12, 2022.

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Amid Skydance Offer, Paramount Global CEO Trio Trumpet 14 Billion Dollar Brands, Plans To Explore Streaming Joint Ventures

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As Paramount Global controlling shareholder Shari Redstone mulls the terms of a merger between her conglom and Skydance , the network/studio/streaming service trotted out their best and brightest CEO troika this early AM in annual global stockholders meet to tout their hit parade of 14 billion dollar revenue earning franchises across all mediums, their assurance to cut $500 million in overhead, and maximize shareholder value and profits.

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Of course, the investment in streaming has taken major studios for a ride, Paramount Global alone getting hit with a $490M loss due to the sector in Q4, despite subs hitting 67.5M. While there wasn’t any mention of the Skydance merger on today’s presentation, McCarthy, outlined a streaming strategy that called for exploring strategic partnership or a joint venture in accelerating Paramount+’s path to profitability. Another interpretation: Here’s how the company can survive if they were to go it alone; a theory that has been floated out there in ether should Redstone pass on the Skydance offer.

To prevent any cockeyed reactions on the splitting of the CEO office, the troika emphasized on a video presentation which mirrored CBS Mornings that they’ve continually been working together for years, and were the think tank that assembled Paramount+.

McCarthy emphasized that “steaming is key to the company as audiences migrate from linear to streaming,” while Cheeks said “We’re prepared to move quickly on cost reductions by adjusting to the realities of the environment” and that includes cutting duplications across the already job-cut conglom in marketing, real estate for “long-term sustainable growth.”

Exclaimed during the presentation was how Paramount owns 100% of their content.

Added Robbins, “Windowing content is core to our business and has always existed in film and TV, and in domestic and international markets. Defining these windows to optimize return on investment…maximize first run on our own channels…we need to figure out how to grow our vast revenue of our library and we do this by thoughtful licensing” and that means licensing outside the Paramount ecosystem. In sum, as Robbins said it’s about “owning our future.”

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In the wake of Hayao Miyazaki’s latest Oscar win for “The Boy and the Heron” and the VOD dominance of “Godzilla Minus One,” Japanese cinema continues to be as vital as ever to American audiences. That should make the upcoming edition of Japan Cuts , the annual film festival celebrating Japanese cinema co-produced by Japan Society, one of the most exciting events on New York cinephiles’ summer calendars.

“We couldn’t be more amazed by this year’s festival,” Peter Tatara, director of film at Japan Society, who said in a statement announcing the lineup. “This year’s Japan Cuts presents an abundance of powerful, engaging and unexpected films together with rare appearances from some of their most imaginative creators. Japan Cuts is a reflection of the breadth of Japan’s contemporary film industry, and this year absolutely celebrates the scope and storytelling of what Japanese cinema brings to the world.”

Keep reading for the complete Japan Cuts 2024 lineup, with film descriptions provided by the festival. It runs July 10-21 in New York.

OPENING FILM

Between the White Key and the Black Key  (North American Premiere)  Opening Night Film with Director Masanori Tominaga Q&A and Reception.  Music sweeps through 1980s Ginza, a glamorous and dangerous neighborhood where well heeled Tokyoites, artists and thugs all sway together under the power of jazz. Sosuke Ikematsu stars in this spiraling, splintering, intersecting Mobius strip of a film based on the memoirs of jazz pianist Hiroshi Minami and a single night and a forbidden song that changes destiny. Also featuring Japanese pop star Crystal Kay.

CENTERPIECE FILM

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Great Absence  (New York Premiere) Tokyo-based actor Takashi (Mirai Moriyama) reluctantly travels to northern Kyushu with his wife (Yoko Maki) after local police inform him of a distress call made by his estranged father Yohji (Tatsuya Fuji), a retired professor who shows signs of rapidly progressive dementia. Once there, Takashi becomes involved in a mystery concerning the disappearance of Naomi (Hideko Hara), the woman for whom Yohji abandoned his family 20 years ago. Did she really commit suicide as Yohji claims? A deeply moving and artfully multi-layered sophomore feature about reconciliation, love and mortality by director Kei Chika-ura ( Complicity ) featuring stellar cinematography by frequent Hirokazu Kore-eda collaborator Yutaka Yamazaki.  Followed by Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation for Tatsuya Fuji, Q&A with Kei Chika-ura and Tatsuya Fuji, and Reception.

FEATURE SLATE

All the Long Nights  (U.S. Premiere) Auteur Sho Miyake’s ( And Your Bird Can Sing , JC 2019) tender followup to acclaimed boxing drama  Small Slow but Steady  focuses on the interpersonal lives of two coworkers afflicted with debilitating conditions—a beautifully compassionate drama shot on 16mm.

The Box Man  (East Coast Premiere) Featuring Director Gakuryu Ishii In-Person.  Absurdist, self-aware and characteristically bizarre, Gakuryu Ishii’s rendition of Kobo Abe’s experimental  nouveau roman  is fashioned with the punk ethos of Ishii’s early work as it follows a photographer who obsesses over a “box man”—a purposeful outcast who renounces everything to live inside a cardboard box.

Cha-Cha  (North American Premiere) Cha-Cha  is the love story between a free-spirited artist and a boy with increasingly questionable tastes. The film is painted with the whimsical colors of a romantic comedy at its surface that belie much, much, much darker hues to be found in its deranged depths.

Following the Sound  (North American Premiere) A film of stillness and quotidian beauty,  Following the Sound  features all the hallmarks of director Kyoshi Sugita’s lyrical stylings.

Great Absence  (New York Premiere) Tatsuya Fuji stars as a retired professor who shows signs of rapidly progressive dementia. A deeply moving and artfully multi-layered feature about reconciliation, love and mortality by director Kei Chika-ura.

KUBI  (New York Premiere) 77-year-old icon of Japanese film and television Takeshi Kitano returns to the big screen in epic fashion with his 19th feature—a bloody and comically subversive retelling of the death of samurai warlord Oda Nobunaga. Heads will roll!

Kyrie  (North American Premiere) Starring singer AiNA THE END in her first leading role,  Kyrie  tells the story of a street musician who cannot speak and can only communicate through song. From Shunj Iwai, masterful director of  Swallowtail Butterfly  and  All About Lily Chou-Chou .

Shadow of Fire  (U.S. Premiere) Centerpiece Film.  An unflinching examination of the immediate postwar chaos, Shinya Tsukamoto’s  Shadow of Fire  is a brutally searing critique of war, examining the destroyed lives of those who survived its horrors.  Followed by Mirai Moriyama CUT ABOVE Award presentation, Q&A with Shinya Tsukamoto and Mirai Moriyama, and Reception.

Six Singing Women  (U.S. Premiere) A car accident finds two men imprisoned by a group of enigmatic, animalistic women who seem spiritually connected to the land. A bold and decadent mystery-laden ecological fable,  Six Singing Women  is the first feature film in over a decade from artist and  JAPAN CUTS  alum Yoshimasa Ishibashi.

Whale Bones  (North American Premiere) Written and directed by Takamasa Oe — who co-wrote the Oscar winner  Drive My Car  with Ryusuke Hamaguchi — Whale Bones  is an ethereal noir-tinged mystery that investigates the loneliness and desperation of our internet-mediated modern life.

NEXT GENERATION

Blue Imagine  (North American Premiere) In the aftermath of being assaulted by a well-known director, young actress Noel finds refuge in a communal living space for abused women.  Blue Imagine  complexly explores the physical, mental, and emotional scars of abuse, transformative power of friendship, and difficult questions of revenge, recovery and self-realization.

Motion Picture: Choke  (New York Premiere) In an imagined post-apocalyptic future, humanity reverts to prehistoric conditions and spoken language is lost. A highly original, dialogue-free indie drama shot in black-and-white.

Rei  (North American Premiere) Unhappy in the big city, Hikari can’t find meaning in her existence until she meets Masato, a photographer from far off Hokkaido. This connection leads to an adventure, loneliness, dependency and a destructive love affair.

RETAKE  (North American Premiere) RETAKE  follows a high school student who decides to make a movie over summer break with her friends and is a celebration of adolescence and the raw joy of cinema.

Sayonara, Girls. With graduation around the corner, a group of students at Shimada High School in Yamanashi Prefecture spend their final days processing their time together and the future ahead. Led by an impressive cast of young actresses, Shun Nakagawa’s poignant feature debut deftly captures the bittersweet sensitivity of adolescence.

August in the Water Imported 35mm Print – Featuring Director Gakuryu Ishii In-Person.  An unlikely coincidence of strange cosmic phenomena unites highschoolers Izumi and Mao in a race against ecological ruin brought on by drought and disease. Ishii’s mid-1990s masterwork is an evocative daydream infused with the enigma of existence—a primordial rite of passage awash in cloudburst and myth.

Moving  (East Coast Premiere of 4K Restoration) Featuring Tomoko Tabata In-Person.  Shinji Somai’s undisputed masterpiece is a heartbreaking elegy to childhood, focusing on Ren (Tomoko Tabata), a resilient young girl grieving the separation of her parents and desperately clawing for some type of control in her life. A sweeping odyssey of self-discovery,  Moving  finds young Ren having to grow up in the face of it all, culminating in a surreal  matsuri  drenched in billowing flame and fantasy.

Hail Mary  (International Premiere) A Filipino woman must protect a mysterious package from the cold and dangers of the Tokyo night.  Hail Mary  is shot entirely on a Xperia smartphone.

Wife’s Power Outage  (U.S. Premiere) Hana and Yusuke have been growing more distant and now sit in a karaoke room contemplating divorce. As they weigh their future, Tokyo suffers a blackout, and at the same time, Hana suddenly collapses.

Bottle George From the mind of Akihiro Nishino comes a short film with a big message. Told through disarmingly beautiful stop motion animation,  Bottle George  is a parable for addiction, what we can lose when trapped by alcohol, and the hope of breaking free.

Parking Area (International Premiere) Parking Area  sends a weary traveler into a psychedelic kaleidoscope. Stopping at a highway rest area, each step the traveler takes propels them into a realm where nature and concrete merge and sprawl into the sky.

Nezumikozo Jirokichi  (U.S. Premiere ) Legendary anime director Rintaro’s first new work in over a decade depicts pioneering 1930s director Sadao Yamanaka and the production of his  Nezumikozo Jirokichi .

DOCUMENTARY

Kadono Eiko’s Colorful Life: Finding the Magic Within  A documentary bounding with energy on the renowned children’s book author most known as the writer of  Kiki’s Delivery Service .

The Making of a Japanese  (North American Premiere)  Concerning itself with the formative qualities and values instilled by the country’s education system,  The Making of a Japanese  documents the lives of grade schoolers in one of Japan’s largest public elementary schools, intimately capturing what it means to learn and become a member of Japanese society.

Shunga: The Lost Japanese Erotica  (North American Premiere) A lush documentary on the past, present and future of sexually explicit art prints known as  shunga . Recommended for mature audiences.

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