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Nickelodeon Movies is the motion picture production arm of American children's cable network Nickelodeon, founded on February 25, 1995.
- Background
- 1st Logo (Harriet the Spy variant, July 10, 1996 - July 2, 1997)
- 2nd Logo (Good Burger variant, July 25, 1997 - Fall 1997)
- 3rd Logo (1997)
- 4th Logo (The Rugrats Movie variant, November 20, 1998 - Winter 1998)
- 5th Logo (February 11, 2000 - December 21, 2001)
- 6th Logo (June 28, 2002 - June 13, 2003)
- 7th Logo (The Wild Thornberrys Movie variant, December 20, 2002 - January 2003)
- 8th Logo (The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie variant, October 27, 2004 - November 19, 2004)
Nickelodeon Movies is the movie production arm of U.S. kids television network Nickelodeon, established on February 25th, 1995 to produce movies based on their shows, which are distributed by Paramount Pictures (with the exceptions of The Adventures of Tintin, which was distributed domestically by Paramount and internationally by Columbia Pictures, and The Loud House Movie, which was distributed by Netflix), a division of Paramount Global and subsidiary of National Amusements, Inc. They have also produced some original films such as Clockstoppers. Their first film was Harriet the Spy, released on July 10th, 1996.
Many of the movie-specific logos used by the studio were repurposed into network idents (and usually removed any mention of "movies" unless it preceded an actual movie), and appeared during the period in which said movies were released. While all of the normal movie variants are usually left intact on home media/streaming prints, the network variants are all extinct, having only been used for several months at most.
Nicknames: "The Rhino", "Blue Rhino", "Nick Rhino"
Logo: A blue rhino is shown running on what appears to be clouds. However, he repeatedly bumps, slips and crashes into the clouds in the logo, which turn out to be cardboard cutouts on a movie set. The rhino trips over the Nickelodeon logo, shaped like a cloud, and crashes into the camera. The rhino pulls himself off the screen and hangs onto the Nickelodeon cloud on a black background, causing it to turn into the splat design. The rhino swings on it a bit and smiles at the viewer.
Trivia: The logo is a parody of TriStar Pictures' famous 1984 and 1993 logos, with its cloudy set design and the rhino representing the Pegasus.
Variants:
•A network variant exists, in which this logo is presented in full screen.
•It can also be found on full screen prints of Harriet the Spy.
Nicknames: "Soda Cup", "Home of the Good Burger", "Orange Soda"
Logo: On a black and blue gradient background, an orange soda is seen being dispensed into a large fast food cup. When it's full, the cup's lid (with attached straw) closes at the top, and the cup starts racing around the screen like a sports car. After a few seconds, the cup speeds back to where it was originally, sputtering and breaking down in the process as if due to "engine" failure. It abruptly stops and falls down, causing the lid to pop open and the orange soda to spill out, revealing "NICKELODEON".
Trivia: This logo pays homage to a Nickelodeon Productions logo from 1995.
Variants:
•The network variant has this logo presented in full screen.
•Can also be seen (albeit choppier) on full screen prints of Good Burger.
Nickname: "Crane Operator"
Logo: On a white background, There is an orange movie camera with "NICKELODEON" (in its well-known font). A green filmstrip sticks out reading "MOVIES".
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: The opening of the trailer.
Availability: Extremely rare. This was mainly used as a print logo for the company that was used from its inception up until after the release of The Rugrats Movie, though it can be seen on the first trailer for said movie, which uses the next logo on the film itself.
Editor's Note: None.
Nicknames: "Slap T. Pooch", "Slap's Fleck", "The Nick Footprint"
Logo: On a black screen, There is Slap T. Pooch spotting a blob of red orange goo. It then goes to a really close zoom-in on his face and hand as he starts fidgeting with it. It then gets stuck to his fingers and he struggles to throw it off. Once it does, it starts bouncing off the walls and then gets stuck to his foot. He then walks around to wipe it off, making more red orange spots on the ground. A shadow then appears over Slap T. Pooch, then a giant purple foot stomps on the dog and red orange goo, turning into the Nickelodeon foot as seen on the gates to the Nicktoons Studios in Burbank, California. The camera pans to reveal it, then Slap T. Pooch falls off of it. It then fades out.
Variants:
•The network variant has this logo presented in full screen.
•It also appears (albeit choppier) on full screen prints of The Rugrats Movie.
•On publicity for The Rugrats Movie and Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (as well as the videogame of the latter; that film itself uses the next logo), a blue oval reading "MOVIES" in Arial Narrow font accompanies the foot.
Nicknames: "The Man and the House", "Nickelodeon Balls", "Paris", "Barking Dog", "Goddard", "My House!"
Logo: There are three major variants of this logo appearing on three respective films, with the end result mostly being the same throughout:
•Snow Day (2000): A man shovels snow off the sidewalk to his house, with his Golden Retriever dog sitting and watching him on the side. All of a sudden, a giant snowball falls onto his house, completely destroying it in a very graphic manner. The dog runs off barking in panic and the man does a double take. The snow falls off the snowball, revealing an orange ball with the text "NICKELODEON" on it. The background turns black and the ball then bounces to the middle-left of the screen, and then a small orange ball and a blue ball with "movies" appear. The logo then fades out.
•Rugrats in Paris: The Movie: Same basic concept as the Snow Day variant, except there is now a stereotypical French man, accompanied by his dog, raking leaves in front of his Paris house in the autumn season. The Eiffel Tower can be seen in the background. The ball smashing the house is now just the big orange ball with the "NICKELODEON" text on it. The logo ends the same way as the Snow Day variant, except the dog appears again on the bottom-right of the screen. He jumps and barks once at the logo.
•Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: We start with the orange Nickelodeon ball bouncing to the middle-left of the screen alongside the smaller orange ball. Then Goddard, Jimmy's robotic pet dog from the movie, runs on-screen with a synthesized bark. He looks at the logo and whimpers, knowing it's incomplete. He activates a laser beam on his back and creates the blue "movies" ball (with the text in a noticeably different font). He puts away the laser and curiously looks at the audience.
Variants:
Nicknames: "Sneezing", "The Wiggling Balls", "2002: A Nick Odyssey"
Logo: On a black background, a faint black crescent sphere (representing the moon) moves to the bottom of the screen, causing a crescent earth, the sun, and a moving starfield to appear. As the moon moves off-screen at the bottom, the earth starts to wiggle and "sneezes", causing it to crash into the camera. This causes the moon to bounce back onto the screen, which is revealed to be an orange ball with "NICKELODEON" on it. The starfield suddenly transitions to a plain black background as the earth becomes a spinning blue ball with "movies" on it, and the sun becomes the small orange ball. The small ball flies around the screen before hitting the blue ball, stopping it from spinning. When all three balls are in their normal positions in the logo, the blue ball sneezes again, causing the orange balls to briefly "jolt" forward. The blue ball then turns back to the camera to finish the logo.
Variants:
•A shorter version of the logo starts out with the balls zooming out from the middle of the screen.
•On Rugrats Go Wild, the logo is slightly darker and cuts to black instead of fading out.
•On Clockstoppers, only the finished logo is seen moving left-to-right like a pendulum on a grandfather clock. It then gets quickly sucked into a vortex, segueing to the opening credits.
Nicknames: "The Dog Spot", "Nick Dog", "Dog Nose", "Dog of Doom"
Logo: From a bug's-eye view is a forest on a sunny blue sky with green trees. A white dog with brown spots then appears from the far-right of the screen in the distance, and sniffs around it, moving towards the center of the screen with a close-up of its nose. The dog then spots something on the ground, pulling itself back with a confused look. The camera then cuts to reveal the Nickelodeon Movies logo made by three different-sized orange and blue frisbees, resting still on the grass. The camera cuts back to the dog, who licks the screen, wiping into black.
Variants:
•A slightly extended prototype variant exists where there are a few minor visual differences.
•A second prototype also exists. In it, the color shade of the logo looks closer to the final product, alongside being standard length.
•This logo was also used as a network ID. It is overall similar to the second prototype, but it is in full screen and slightly zoomed out, sometimes fading in at the beginning. The animation is slightly faster and edited, both the blue frisbee that shows the word "movies" on it and the smaller orange frisbee are removed, leaving just the big orange frisbee with the word "NICKELODEON" centered in the middle.
Nicknames: "The Bubbles", "Underwater Bubbles", "Psychedelic Nickelodeon", "Kaleidoscopic Nickelodeon", "Nickelodeon Acid Trip"
Logo: On a black background, an explosion occurs. A blue-colored ball emerges from the explosion as several yellow streaks form in it. The camera then zooms through the ball as the background fades to an animated kaleidoscopic blue cloudy sky. Another explosion occurs, on which it causes an orange rose to appear, blooming. It then starts dissipating into petals before an orange zeppelin appears, flying through it to the far right of the screen. The sky background ripples before the scene starts fading into a kaleidoscopic view of several fish swimming. The scene then transforms into an orange bubble, which floats outward and spawns two more bubbles that form the Nickelodeon Movies logo. The finished product is in an orange underwater environment, with more orange and blue violet bubbles that have the same color as the Nickelodeon Movies logo moving in random ways in the same underwater environment. The screen then fades-out.
Alternate Descriptive Video Transcription: In a logo, a blue ball bursts out of an explosion surrounded by bright streaks. A zeppelin floats through an orange flower breaking it apart. Goldfish swim by and bubbles form in a colorful kaleidoscope. Words appear in the bubbles: Nickelodeon Movies.
Trivia:
•The blue ball seen at the beginning of this logo is a possible callback to the "silver ball" logo Nickelodeon used from 1981 to 1984.
•The orange zeppelin that appears is a reference to the Nickelodeon blimp used for the network's Kids Choice Awards, which is represented as a trophy for outstanding achievement in kids' programming.
Availability: Seen on Snow Day, Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and Clockstoppers, with each film having their respective variants of the logo. The Snow Day and Rugrats in Paris versions were also used as IDs for Nickelodeon to help promote the respective movies.
The new Nickelodeon Movies logo introduced in 2009. It has a black background and is only seen on the trailers for Rango and School Gyrls. It is also seen in the 2009 Nick at Nite and TeenNick TV spots for Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.
The Last Airbender (2010): It animates like the title sequence from the film's teaser trailer. It starts with the already-formed logo made of stone, which is covered with flaming fire (to represent the Earth and Fire nations), zooming and positioning itself on an orange background.
Then, the Nickelodeon logo in the form of a heart slides down into the middle while rotating 90 ° counter-clockwise. FX/SFX: The Nickelodeon heart sliding down. Basic animation. Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the special ("I'll Give a Lot of Lovin' to You" by Shackwacky). Availability: Extinct.
Nickelodeon Movies is the theatrical motion picture arm of the American children's cable channel Nickelodeon. Founded in 1995, it has produced feature films based on Nickelodeon properties, as well as other adaptations and original projects.
