Taft Entertainment Pictures/Summary

Background : Taft Entertainment Pictures/Keith Barish Productions is a movie studio owned by the Taft Entertainment Company formed in the mid 1980s by film producer Keith Barish, whose first production was Big Trouble in Little China for 20th Century Fox. The studio didn't use a logo until 1987.

(February 6-December 18, 1987)

Nickname : "The Diagonal Bar"

Logo : We see a diagonal bar flashing at the middle of the screen. Then the text "TAFT ENTERTAINMENT PICTURES" slides from the centre to left, and the text "KEITH BARISH PRODUCTIONS" slides from the middle to right.

Variants :


 * There is a variant on which "TAFT" and "KEITH BARISH" slides first, and then "ENTERTAINMENT PICTURES" and "PRODUCTIONS".


 * On The Monster Squad, the logo is still.

FX/SFX : The diagonal bar flashing and the text sliding.

Music/Sounds : Some whoosh sound effects.

Availability : Rare. Seen on The Running Man, The Monster Squad, Light of Day and Ironweed.

Editors Note : At least there was effort put into this.