2. Dreamworks
Spielberg envisioned a logo that would reflect the
Golden Age Hollywood feel the new company was
hoping to evoke in its films. Spielberg came up with
the image of a man fishing from the moon and
commissioned painter Robert Hunt to render it.
Hunt suggested the fisherman instead be a boy and
modeled the image after his own son. The "SKG"
text was added to recognize DreamWorks' three
founders: Spielberg, Katzenberg, and Geffen.
3. Paramount Pictures
Legend has it that the mountainous
logo came from a sketch Hodkinson
drew himself. The Utah-based
distributor often saw the Wasatch
range and decided to use one of its
peaks for his company's calling card.
The stars were added later after
Paramount's merger with Famous
Players and Lasky Feature Play
Company to represent the first 22
stars contracted by the company. The
number of stars has gone up and
down a little, but it's usually had 22
stars encircling the mountain peak.The
current logo was created in 2012 to
celebrate the studio's 100th
anniversary.
4. MGM
The lion with banner reading "Ars
gratia artis" ("art for art's sake") was
designed by studio publicist Howard
Dietz in 1916 as a nod to his alma
mater, Columbia University, whose
mascot is the lion. MGM kept the lion
logo, though slight tweaks have been
made over the years, including a
rather unpopular "contemporary" logo
in the 1960s used for just three films.
The first time the lion roared was in
1928, and he's roared most years since
then. The studio has used various
lions, but "Leo" is the one the studio
has been using since 1957. Leo's roar,
however, is a mix of several different
large jungle cats to enhance the
sound.
5. Tristar
TriStar is an American film studio
which is owned by Sony Pictures
Entertainment. The iconic logo
features a flying Pegasus with the
TriStar written just above his head. It
is believed that the reason behind
using Pegasus in TriStar film studio
logos is that the founder, Victor
Kaufman and his family has an interest
in riding horses.
