Paramount Pictures/Logo Variations/Summary

Vertigo (1958): The standard VistaVision logo, but the logo is darker and in black and white and the clouds are static..

Psycho (1960): The background is still and segmented, like in the following opening credits, and the text is outlined in black.

Popeye (1980): In the grayscaled, cold opening sequence, the 1950s (pre-VistaVision) logo is shown with a 35mm filter.

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981): The 1950s logo is used, with the byline fading in a couple seconds later. The background fades to the mountain in the Brazillian jungle for the opening shot as the stars and text fades out.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984): The 1950s logo is used. The mountain dissolves to the design of the mountain of the gong in Club Obi-Wan, Shanghai. The stars and text fades in and out in orange. A man (ala Rank Organisation) hits the gong.

Falling in Love (1984): After it forms, the logo crossfades to the opening shot.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989): Very similar to the Raiders of the Lost Ark variant, but the background fades to the canyon structure in Utah.

Soapdish (1991): The 1990 version of the normal logo animates as usual. Many multiple white circles, representing bubbles (when mixed with soap and water), pops in until it covers the logo up.

Clueless (1995): The 1995 byline version of the normal logo animates as usual, with the customized music that represents the movements of the logo's animation is heard overlapping the start of the film's opening song ("Kids of America" by The Muffs). Instead of fading out, the circle iris out the logo and into the pink horizontal oval on the blue background, seguing to the opening titles.

The Indian in the Cupboard (1995; PC): The 1995 byline version of the print logo is in cyan, and it is superimposed in front of glowing, blue full moon, lining the the top of the circle with the top of the moon.

A Very Brady Sequel (1996): The 1995 byline version of the normal logo animates as usual, with the customized music that represents the proudness of the iconic mountain. It fades to the real mountain to start the opening scene.

The Beautician and the Beast (1997): The 1995 byline version of the normal logo animates as usual. The background and the mountain environment becomes more realistic as the stars and text fade out. The camera pans down slowly into the forest into the opening animated sequence.

Event Horizon (1997): The 1995 byline version of the normal logo animates as usual, with the slower, rearranged version of the Paramount on Parade theme is heard. The text and stars fade out and the camera pans upward from fading away to outer space for the opening credits sequence.

Hard Rain (1998): The 1995 byline version of the normal logo animates as usual, but with additional black clouds in the sky atmosphere. As the camera zooms in, the atmosphere becomes darker as the color scheme fades to grey, and the fog fades in in front of the left side of the mountain. The byline is transparent. The stars and text fades out just before the lightning occurs in the clouds. The camera pans down from the mountain to reveal even more clouds serging to the opening credits.

South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999): The 1999 version of the 1986 logo, in its debut, animates as usual. The logo then fades to the mountain from the series, in which the camera pans down from it to the town of South Park for the opening scene.

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003): The 2003 version of the 2002 logo animates as usual, superimposed on the ocean as part of the opening shot. It drifts away after it was formed.

The Core (2003): The 2003 version of the 2002 logo animates as usual, but with the ™ symbol. The byline and the symbol fades out. The camera starts moving toward the bottom-right peak of the mountain, rotates and "dives" down through the rocky surface to serge into the opening title sequence.

Mean Girls (2004): The 1986 fanfare plays over the 2002 logo.

Coach Carter (2005): The 2003 version of the 2002 logo animates as usual. Sounds of the basketball game in the court is heard faintly at first, but when the stars draw towards the clouds, three dribbles of the ball is heard followed by the crowd cheering which drowns out when they starts chanting. The notebook version of the logo (with 25 stars encircling the mountain) flashes briefly over it by showing the top-right portion, which very briefly turns into the full illustration before settling back to normal at the last second.

Four Brothers (2005): The 2003 version of the 2002 logo animates as usual, with the wind sound and the film's opening song ("Somebody to Love" by Jefferson Airplane) starting partway. When the "P" is revealed, a snowstorm occurs throughout the rest of the logo. It slowly fades away, and the windshield wipers swipe out of the snow to reveal the opening scene.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008): The 1968 version of 1953-1975 logo is used, but with the Viacom byline in the place of Gulf+Western byline. After a few seconds, the background fades to the desert in Nevada with the mountain dissolving into a sandy molehill as the stars and text fade out. The molehill crumbles from the top to reveal a mole. The approaching truck (with "Hound Dog" by Elvis Presley) comes in and the mole flees from it as the hill destroys by a wheel. On 4:3 fullscreen prints, along with the film itself, this variant is in open matte instead of cropped on pan & scan prints.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008, US): Various buttons drop to form the 2003 version of the 2002 logo out of it with more buttons falling, transitioning to the Warner Bros. Pictures logo. It was still at the end of the film.

Watchmen (2009, International): The print logo is in black on the yellow background, as with the preceding Warner Bros. logo and the following Legendary and DC logos, but with the signature "Paramount" and the byline written in Futura.

Watchmen: Under the Hood (2009): The print logo is yellow and black on the black stripe in the yellow background. The print logo slides in from the left and slides out to the right.

The Last Airbender (2010): The 2010 version of the 2002 logo animates as usual, but it is tinted in blue, to represent the Water Realm. The water bending skills past through the clouds in the first half, but as "Paramount" moves away the skills revealed to be the usual stars. It fades out after the byline fades in.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011): The 2010 version of the 2002 logo animates as usual. The camera pans up from the logo, which darkens away, to the stars to sky to the opening titles for the prologue.

Marvel's The Avengers (2012): The blue energy of the Tesseract reveals the shorter version of the "100 Years" version of the 2012 logo. After the camera stops, the Tesseract draws back from the logo as the energy dissolves.

World War Z (2013): The 2013 version of the 2012 logo animates as usual, with the slight tint of cyan over it.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016): The logo has a green tint and ninja shurikens replace the usual stars in the same number as the normal version. The logo lacks the byline and the ® symbol.

mother! (2017): The logo is in a shade of grey, along with the Protozoa Pictures logo.

Transformers: The Last Knight (2017):* Opening titles : The print logo is metallic with texture on a black background. The HuaHue Media logo has the same variation immediately afterwards.
 * Prologue : The 2013 version of the 2012 logo is tinted in midnight blue and animates as usual with robotic transforming sounds. Launching fireballs fly in from behind the mountain, as the camera starts to follow the fireball to where the prologue begins.

Suburbicon (2017): After the 2013 version of the 2012 logo plays, the print logo (minus the text), is seen in black on a light brown background. The text "Paramount Pictures" in the usual script font, and the word "PRESENTS" are seen below. Also, the logo has a film-projector effect, and slides to the right, with the other logos (Black Bear Pictures, Dark Castle Entertainment and SmokeHouse Pictures) having the same variation.

Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018): The logo is shortened slightly, beginning just as the stars fly past the screen, and is also sped up.

Overlord (2018): The logo is in black and white.

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019):* Domestic : The 2013 version of the 2012 logo plays as usual, but is slightly speed-up and filtered in VHS quality. It glitches to the bylineless version of the 1986 logo that is in cyan for a moment before reverting back to its usual colors. Then it glitches more to the interview footage from Terminator 2: Judgement Day. This also applies to the following 3 logos (Skydance, 20th Century Fox and Tencent Pictures).
 * International : The logo has VHS buzz over it and it briefly flashes to its bylineless version from 1986. It is also incorporated in the opening dialogue from Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022): The 2020 version of the 2012 logo animates as usual, but the golden rings (the item that Sonic characters collects for the bonus points in the games) replace the usual stars in the same amount as the normal version. The sound of the ring collecting is heard when the rings are in place, and the holes of the rings reveal more of the cloudy sky. The rings stop rotating shortly after the ViacomCBS byline and ™ symbol fades in. On the sequel, following ViacomCBS's rebranding to Paramount Global, the same variant is used, except it was bylineless and lacks the ™ symbol.

Coming 2 America (2021, Amazon Prime Video): The 2020 version of the 2012 logo plays normally, but after it is formed, the text, stars, ™ symbol and the ViacomCBS byline fade out. And, just like in the 2002 logo variation from The Core, the camera also moves toward the bottom-right peak of the mountain and through the clouds, starting the film.

Without Remorse (2021, Amazon Prime Video): The 2020 version of the 2012 logo is cut short, beginning just before the ViacomCBS byline fades in, along with the Skydance, Weed Road Pictures and New Republic Pictures logos.

The Tomorrow War (2021, Amazon Prime Video) and Top Gun: Maverick (2022): The 2020 version of the 2012 logo is cut short and sped up, nearly the same as the Mission: Impossible - Fallout variant, but shorter still. On the latter, the logo also has a slight orange tint, along with the Skydance and Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films logos, and the ViacomCBS byline is removed.