The 20th Century Fox fanfare at the start of Star Wars sort of counts. Fox had stopped using it years before, but Lucas brought it back because it fit with the sense of nostalgia he was trying to build with the film. He didn’t (afaik) change it at all, though.
The Universal Logo floods at the beginning of Waterworld. That was always one of my favorites of this type of Easter Egg.
(My favourite of that are the Ring and Kung Fu Panda ones.)
Didn’t he also deliberately include the ‘extra’ coda at the end of the fanfare that I think was originally only used for Cinemascope movies? In later films the Lucasfilm logo always appears when this plays.
This. He didn’t re-install the fanfare – 20th century Fox never gave that up – he re-instated the “long” version, which I had previously only seen on TV when they ran CinemaScope movies. I knew when I heard that that Star Wars was going to be good, because Lucas paid attention to details.
Now, of course, it’s standard to use the “long form” fanfare, but it had been missing for years.
Incidentally, this is a weird entry for this thread, because Lucas’ opening for Star Wars, although it used the full fanfare, didn’t use the actual 20th Century Fox logo at all. None of the Star Wars movies opens with the giant “20th Century Fox” words and searchlights.
I came in to mention the “Waterworld” one, but was beaten to it. So instead, I’ll point out one where they should have done it but didn’t.
“October Sky” dealt with the impact of the Sputnik launch and should have used the globe logo and then panned in to show the Sputnik orbiting it.
Have I been hallucinating for 39 years? I thought eps I-VI all had it.
I can’t remember what movie it was, but the Universal logo once replaced Earth with Mars for a movie that took place on Mars.
I’ll go back and check, but I know for a fact that the fanfare plays over the “A Lucasfilm production” words. Since Lucas released the prequels, those words aren’t just green sans-serif, but “western” letters, and the coloring changes from none to silver to gold as the fanfare goes along. The fanfare is NOT playing over the 20th Century Fox logo:
Here it is
Looking over the YouyTube videos (bobe of which have the whole intro, dammit), I suspect my memory is playing me false here. It looks like possibly the original opening started with the 20th century Fox logo at the start of the fanfare, but the coda played over “A Lucasfilm production”.
Sorry about that.
I haven’t seen the new flick yet, but I gather from YoluTube that it (and maybe newer releases of the older films) have a new and completely different fanfare under the Lucasfilm logo. That sucks.
The lack of the Fanfare in front of the Force Awakens was a bit jarring for me (I’m old and set in my ways :)). As a goof on my way to see it I played it on my phone for my friend.
Can anyone verify if Anomalisa does this? The trailer has the Paramount mountain mixing in with the clouds for the opening scene on a jet.
(Note that Paramount only got the distro rights recently, so if you saw it at a festival or some such, there won’t be a Paramount logo at all.)
I was going to mention The Ring and I beleive they also did something for Meet the Parents. I get a kick out of it.
There was a very subtle alteration in How to Train Your Dragon, where the silhouette of Toothless obscures the stars. I caught this when I first saw it, although I didn’t yet know what the effect was supposed to be.