Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
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Seen on most films produced by the company, including Armageddon, Gone in 60 Seconds, Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down, the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, and the infamous Kangaroo Jack.
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Background
Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films was created in the 1980's by movie producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. Together, the duo produced some of the most successful movies of the 1980's, including Flashdance, the Beverly Hills Cop series and Top Gun. The studio didn't use a logo until 1990 on Days of Thunder. Don Simpson passed away in 1996 after the release of The Rock. As a result, the studio was renamed to simply Jerry Bruckheimer Films.
Logo (June 27, 1990 - June 7, 1996; July 18, 2003; May 13, 2019; September 4, 2019; May 27, 2022; June 7, 2024)
Nickname: "The Lightning" Logo: Fading in from black is a scene of dark moving clouds. Then, two lightning bolts come down and crash in a "V" shape, tinting the picture to a hellish red. It zooms out enclosed in a square on a black background, as the company name appears in red at the bottom of the screen. Variants: •The size of the square and text sometimes varies. •The teaser trailer for Days of Thunder just has the text. •At the end of Bad Boys, the print logo is in-credit along with the Columbia Pictures closing logo. •The trailers for Bad Boys for Life, Top Gun: Maverick and Bad Boys: Ride or Die have the logo minus the name. FX/SFX: A combination of live-action and CGI. Music/Sounds: The opening theme of the movie, accompanied by the sounds of thunder. At times, only the thunder is heard. Music/Sounds Variant: On Top Gun: Maverick, only the opening theme is heard. Availability: Uncommon. •It debuted on Days of Thunder and ended on The Rock, which is also the last film Simpson produced in his lifetime. •Also appears on Crimson Tide and Dangerous Minds. •Jerry Bruckheimer has opted to use this logo instead of the next one on sequels to films he originally produced with Simpson as a tribute. It can be seen on the post-1996 films Bad Boys II, Bad Boys for Life, Top Gun: Maverick and trailers for the upcoming Bad Boys: Ride or Die. •Don't expect to see this logo on The Ref.
Background
As mentioned above, the studio was renamed to Jerry Bruckheimer Films after the death of Don Simpson. A new logo was created to coincide, which first appeared on Con-Air. Bruckheimer continues to pay tribute to Simpson by giving him a legacy producer credit on the sequel films Bad Boys II, Bad Boys for Life, Top Gun: Maverick and Bad Boys: Ride or Die. Alongside this, he's also opted to use the Simpson/Bruckheimer logo on the aforementioned films and their trailers.
Logo (June 6, 1997 - Present)
Nickname: "The Oregon Tree" Logo: On an empty desert highway, a thunderstorm brews above with lightning striking multiple times. After a few twists and bends down the road, a leafless tree is encountered. Lightning strikes it, and leaves instantly appear on the tree. The screen freezes and zooms out in a square on a black background, revealing the same yellow text as before but slightly thinner and smaller. Trivia: The logo is based off an actual tree that is located in a remote part of Oregon. Variants: •A prototype version of the logo is seen at the end of Con Air, where we see footage of the same tree in the desert with moving thundering clouds. However, the tree already has the leaves. The lightning hits the tree and the footage zooms out to be enclosed by the square to reveal the same text. The box above the text is bigger, the footage freezes and becomes still. The logo is longer in length overall. •This version also appeared on its trailers. •The logo's animation was updated in 2004. It’s mostly the same, but with a thin yellow rectangle added around the clip, the camera keeps zooming out, revealing that the clip is now in a rectangle, until the lightning strikes on the tree, the screen fades out. •On Glory Road (in its variation) and 12 Strong, the studio text is absent. •On the 1998-99 TV movies Max Q and Swing Vote, there's a short version beginning with the lightning strike. •The print logo appears at the end of Deliver Us From Evil. FX/SFX: The camera panning down the road, the thunderstorm, the lightning striking the tree. Pretty cool CGI. Music/Sounds: Wind and thunder sounds. Music/Sounds Variants: •In 2004, some of the sounds were replaced with new, more realistic thunder effects. •On Coyote Ugly and Kangaroo Jack, the film's opening theme is heard, with the wind and thunder sounds intact. •On Confessions of a Shopaholic, only the film's opening theme is heard. •At the end of Armageddon and Black Hawk Down, it's silent. Availability: Current. •It premiered at the start of Con Air, and has since appeared on subsequent Bruckheimer productions. •The later variant appears on films from 2004 onward, beginning with •Don't expect to see this logo on The Sorcerer's Apprentice or Remember the Titans, as well as the sequels to Bad Boys and Top Gun.
Jerry Bruckheimer Films Inc. (JBF) is an American independent film production company formed by Jerry Bruckheimer in 1995, after cutting his ties with film producer Don Simpson before his death in 1996. It produces blockbuster films such as the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
Bruckheimer has produced films including Flashdance, The Rock, Crimson Tide, Con Air, Armageddon, Enemy of the State, Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down, and Kangaroo Jack, as well as the Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Bad Boys, Pirates of the Caribbean, and National Treasure franchises.
Jerry Bruckheimer Films. Logo descriptions by WizardDuck, LogoBoy95, AlaskanMalamute188, and indycar. Logo captures by Eric S., V of Doom, AlaskanMalamute188, and Logophile. Editions by Yoshidude987 and indycar. Background: Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films was founded in the 1980s by movie producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer.
During his lifetime, he produced films in the 80s and 90s for Paramount like Flashdance (1983), Thief of Hearts (1984), Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and its sequel Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Top Gun (1986) and Days of Thunder (1990), most of them met with success.
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