Summit Entertainment

Background
Summit Entertainment is a film studio that was originally funded in 19991 by Berne Eichinger, Arnon Milchan, and Andrew G. Vajna to handle foreign sales and officially launched in 1993 by Rob Friedman & Patrick Wachsburger as a limited partnership (LP). The studio was originally a production/distribution/sales organization, which usually co-released and internationally released films by other studios (Such as Touchstone Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros.) But they became fully independent in 2006.Their fid film as a fully independent studio was P2 (2007). On January 13th, 2012, Lions Gate Entertainmentacquired Summit for $412.5 million.

1st Logo (1996-2007)
Nicknames : "Peaceful Summit", "CGI Peaceful Summit", "Abstract Mountain"

Logo : On a black background, we see a moving blue ribbon. The ribbon slowly floats down, and it falls. The ribbon then moves up to become an outline of a mountain. The mountain moves back, and the words:

S U M M I T  E N T E R T A I N M E N T ==fade in below.

FX/SFX : The ribbon floating down and moving up forming the mountain. Great CGI.

Music/Sounds : A whoosh sound on some sort of flute, then a dreamy synth tune with a tympani beat at the end. For Summit's later films post-2000, the logo was silent.

Availability : Uncommon. It appears on some Universal, Touchstone, Fox, Alcon, and Warner Bros. releases internationally, such as Racing Stripes and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels.

Scare Factor : Minimal. The nature of this logo is a bit ominous, but this logo is well liked by most people who have seen it.

2nd Logo (2007-present)== Nicknames : "Peaceful Summit II", "CGI Peaceful Summit II", "Summit Outline"

Logo : On a black background, a light shines, showing the outline of a mountain. The resulting mountain outline gradually zooms out, and the light gradually gets brighter until there is something akin to a flash on the screen. The background becomes an ice blue, the mountain's outline becomes white, and this zooms out until the logo becomes an ice blue rectangle with a mountain outline. The light dims out in the distance, and the ice blue rectangle is on a blue/white gradient background. The text (in the same style as the previous logo) fades in below the mountain on the ice blue rectangle.

Variants :


 * A still version exists.
 * In Summer 2012, the logo is redone. The light is much brighter than the normal version, the text fades in earlier, and the byline "A LIONSGATE COMPANY" fades in below the rectangle
 * In newer films, the byline is larger and it zooms in to position while it fades in

FX/SFX/Trivia : The CGI (Which is done by Intralink Film Graphic Design) is once again amazing.

Music/Sounds : A soft and dramatic fanfare that gradually becomes more majestic.

Music/Sounds Variants:
 * Sometimes, it has the opening theme, the closing theme or silence.


 * At the end of the theatrical and TV airings of Fly Me to the Moon, the normal logo has its music, but on home media releases it is silent for some reason.

Availability : Common. The normal version appears both at the beginning and at the end of Fly Me to the Moon. It appeared on the films of the era, and as the default logo at the beginning of their Blu-Ray/DVD releases.

Scare Factor : None.