Logos, Intros & Outros

What Does The Logo Mean?

= C for Cannon and signifies moving forward.

That’s according to this book but I have heard other theories (eg it’s “CD” for original Cannon head honcho Christopher Dewey).

For now, I think we’ll go with the book since it has input from former Cannon employees –but if you know better please get in touch.

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Not in order of date, yet:

Classic Cannon intro from 1975. Classic. Watch the video on YouTube

Intro from 1985 onwards and the one most people reading this page will know

(watch the video on YouTube)

Outerspace Intro from 1984-85 watch the video on YouTube

Cannon Video Intro circa 1990 watch the video on YouTube

Cannon Video Intro circa 1993 (version 2) watch the video on YouTube

HBO-Cannon watch the video on YouTube

1982 watch the video on YouTube

The beginning of Cannon:

1970 and long before Golan-Globus arrived

1970s poster artwork

1975

You’ve never heard of them? That’s the company that released The Happy Hooker

and The Alaska Wilderness Adventure (1978)

1972’s The Limit

1970s press kits

As seen on TriStar’s Lifeforce

As seen on early 1990s video releases but mostly for Global Pictures co-productions

and anything else it could be stuck to.

Outro that we see in the end titles of many Cannon films.

Outro for their Cannon Movie Tales

As used for the North American poster of Pirates.

1990s reincarnation.

U1986 logo used with ScanBox home video cassettes in Sweden.

1988 UK/USA home video .

Theatrical releases, Germany. Also appeared on home video through Intercontinental/Mike Hunter.

Home video in Spain

Home video in Italy.

Home video in France

Home video in Norway

As seen on posters where Cannon handled either their own product or distribution only.

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Used in France for home video and cinema releasing.

Cannon Tuschinski in Holland (where Cannon bought the distributor and cinema chain)

As used mostly in productions Cannon took over from Thorn-EMI.

1985

Beautiful logo from Kenneth Rive’s Gala Film Distributors (1952) which Cannon bought whilst employing Rive.

As used by the Cannon Group in 1982 when they bought the Classic cinema chain from Lew Grade's Associated Communications Corporation and before

the name“Cannon Cinemas” 3 years later, when Cannon bought Thorn-EMI Screen Entertainment (TESE) with their ABC cinema chain from Alan Bond.

as seen here and here

UK cinemas 1986

UK 1983

1986-87 UK Home Video

Used in the UK for Cannon Screen Entertainment home video

(VHS & Betamax) rental. The banner design was originally used for

Thorn-EMI Screen Entertainment ((TESE) (as seen here)). When the

Cannon Group bought TESE (including EMI-Elstree Studios and their

cinema chains) TESE home video rental division (just like HBO-Thorn USA) came with it.

Cannon’s UK home rental division later changed its name several times.

1986-87 UK Home Video

Used in the UK for Cannon Screen Entertainment home video for retail (“sell through”)

small box home video. Only seen 3 titles using this logo, one being The Deer Hunter (1978) here

Cannon were only starting to access their vast Screen Entertainment catalogue at this stage.

Used in the UK for Cannon Screen Entertainment home video for classical music and documentaries etc

1987 UK Home Video (distributed by Rank)

Used in Germany for Cannon VMP. Very rich back catalogue and they released

Cannon films long after any other home video label.

Used in North America after Cannon bought Thorn-EMI’s entertainment assets

1985 UK cinema releases presskits.

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1984. When Cannon handled distribution and prior to the purchase of Thorn-EMI Screen Entertainment which gave

us the short-lived co-distribution organisation Columbia-Cannon-Warner (formerly Columbia-EMI-Warner)

Something not right with this picture?

Maybe I’ve been looking at too much Cannon, but check out the end titles of Cannon’s The Rose Garden (1989).

Amazingly the Cannon logo is the wrong way around. How difficult is it to spot that before releasing the film?

Note the inclusion too of 21st Century Distribution Corp. (soon to be renamed to Cannon Pictures).

(1988)

The ending of The Cannon Group, Inc.

Interesting outro from The Human Shield (one of the very last Cannon films)

Cannon Pictures’ “CP” logo.

As used on the Lambada (1990) and Keaton's Cop (1988) USA posters.

More info here

Rarely seen logo from Cannon Pictures when they were linked to the pilot TV show, Walker, Texas Ranger (1993).

See a clip of the video here

1990 UK.

The End of Cannon home video in the UK. Pathé (the short-lived criminally (literally) renamed MGM) was to be the new label.

The Pathé name is still alive in the UK but it’s part of the Vivendi Universal Group as far as I can tell.

And of course Vivendi Universal got the great British former Cannon Screen Entertainment back catalogue eventually too.

Leaving mostly junk to what was left of MGM and a few scraps to Time Warner who stopped Cannon sinking into

oblivion long enough for the dodgy deals of Giancarlo Parretti with the saga of MGM/Cannon/Pathé Communications Inc.

The logo lives on, however…

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