Trimark Home Video

Background
Vidmark Entertainment was formed in 1984 by Vidmark, Inc. as a home video distribution company to distribute various low-budget movies, especially from the Trimark library.

1st Logo (1984-1988)
Nickname : "Vidmark in Space"

 Logo : On a zooming blue space background, we see the Vidmark logo colored in fuchsia, with "VID" in a solid form and "MARK" in a segmented form, all on a thinly striped pendant shape. It flies in from the top right, swiveling itself in. As it rests in the near-center, the word "ENTERTAINMENT" later fades-in below.

 FX/SFX : The Vidmark logo flying in, "ENTERTAINMENT" fading in.

 Music/Sounds : A 3-note horn tune, followed by 3 drumbeats, combined with 3 horn notes, an electric guitar, and a synth flourish.

 Music/Sounds Variant : On Fishing Tuna, the second half of the 1988 theme is used.

 Availability : Very rare. Tapes that may have this logo include The New York Ripper, early prints of Killing Cars, Midnight (1981), Bloodstalkers, and Izzy and Moe, among others.

Editor's Note : Dated effects for 1984. The swiveling is just the logo being squashed and stretched the same way, rather than actually flipping. The space background is not the best quality, and the whole thing resembles a TV show intro from the 70's.

2nd Logo (1988-1997)
Nickname : "Colored Lasers"

 Logo : On a black background with a "trail" effect, the Vidmark logo, now mauve gradient, flies down from the top. Lasers colored neon green, pink, gold, and aquamarine, etch the grooves in "MARK". The word "ENTERTAINMENT" wipes in from the left to the right via a light effect. The logo shines and then zooms toward the screen.

Variants :
 * One version of the logo is more centered, and the logo doesn't zoom towards the screen at the end.
 * On the 1994 VHS of Silent Tongue, during its second appearance, the very end of the logo is cut off.

 FX/SFX : The zooming effects, the trail, the "lasers". Much more effort here.

 Music/Sounds : A disco fanfare.

 Availability : Much more common than the previous logo, but still uncommon. Examples of tapes to have this logo include Interceptor, Trading Mom, Hong Kong 97, Teresa's Tattoo, The Little Patriot (it is preserved on the Echo Bridge DVD of that film, under the title of Sign of the Otter: The Little Patriot), and Freefall, among others. It was also spotted on VUDU and Tubi's prints of American Kickboxer 2 and the Amazon Prime and Tubi prints of The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James.

(May 13, 1997-July 24, 2001)
Nickname : "Lion Triangle", "The Trimark Lion"

 Logo : Same as the movie counterpart, except the logo is already formed. We then see a gold comet like streak fly from the left below "T R I M A R K" to bring in the words "HOME VIDEO", replacing "PICTURES".

 FX/SFX : The zooming effects, the trail, the shine.

 Music/Sounds : A jungle-like synthesized score.

 Music/Sounds Variant : On the Canadian LGHE DVD release of All of Me, the opening song starts halfway into the logo. This may be because it plastered the shortened Kings Road Entertainment logo that the film originally opened with.

 Availability : Seen on Trimark videos and some DVDs such as Meet Wally Sparks, Cube, Chairman of the Board, The Peacekeeper, All of Me, the Saturday Night Live best of compilations, Mean Guns, and Hercules in New York, among others. Also appeared on a VHS-sourced print of Black Magic Woman on Amazon Instant Video, the 2003 Lions Gate DVD of Kickboxer 2: The Road Back (Before the Kings Road logo) and Amazon Prime's print of Heaven's Burning.

(March 24, 1998-July 24, 2001)
Nickname : "The DVD Triangle"

 Logo : We see a black background, with purple triangles moving onto it. Then a flat orange pyramid zooms in segments. It backs through the wall of triangles to end up on another one. We see the words "TRIMARK PICTURES" below the triangle; while the purple text "DVD" moves onto the pyramid.

 Variant : On the 2000 DVD of Family of Cops III, the names of various Trimark titles are shown, followed by what appears to be a sped-up version of the logo animation.

 FX/SFX : The lightning speed zoom in, and the word "DVD" by one.

 Music/Sounds : A chime sound, and then a zoom noise, followed by soft chimes.

 Availability : Rare, as it was only used for about three years before Trimark was acquired by Lions Gate, and some releases have the Trimark Home Video logo instead (however, Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th and Heaven's Burning both have this and the THV logo). Discs with this logo include The Tommyknockers, The Shadow Riders, Cube, The Big Easy, and Going Overboard.