LaserPacific Media Corporation

1st Logo (December 17, 1997-March 4, 2003)

Angel Heart variant

Moonstruck variant

Pi variant

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation variant

Don Juan DeMarco variant

Merlin variant

Belly variant

The Wedding Singer variant

The Great Train Robbery variant

Logo: On a black background, the LaserPacific logo, which is a DVD shape in an eye shape with many different lines, and the words "LASERPACIFIC MEDIA CORPORATION" appear via a wipe effect. Then the LaserPacific logo gleams as a large gray DVD logo (which is narrower than usual) fades in behind it. After that, the white words "ENCODING" and "AUTHORING" appear on the top and bottom via a wipe effect as well.

Variants:

• A still version exists, with the drop shadow text "DVD ENCODING AND AUTHORING BY" above the logo on a light blue background with two white and blue lights shining. It appears on the 1997-98 DVDs of The Lawnmower Man, Spawn, Young Guns, Sophie's Choice, and Jacob's Ladder. Sub-variants exist, mentioned below:
  • On Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, it appears over a hazy yellow background.
  • On the original release of Moonstruck, it appears superimposed over a scene of Cher and Nicolas Cage that was also used for the disc's copyright screen.
  • On The Wedding Singer, the film's logo (with "DVD" next to it) appears above "authoring, encoding, and graphics by", with the LaserPacific logo below.
  • On Pi, it appears over a static background numerical background. In befitting the monochromatic tone of the movie, everything is in gray.
  • On Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, it appears over a stormy background, with flashes of lightning.
  • On Don Juan DeMarco, it appears on a grey piece of paper with "Credit" (in a fancy script font) on top of a red line, and "Authoring Compression and Graphic Design by" below the line.
  • On Merlin (1998), it appears on a purple background.
  • On Belly, it appears on a white-yellow background.
  • On Dark City, it appears on a dark background with lightning.
  • On The Great Train Robbery, it appears over a reddish-orange shot of a train.
  • On Angel Heart, it appeared on a shot from the DVD menu.
  • On Wishmaster and Critical Care, it appeared on a blue background.

FX/SFX: The LaserPacific logo and text wiping in, the fading of the DVD logo, and the white words appearing. None for the still versions.

Music/Sounds: A whoosh followed by a dark bang as the logo gleams. A silent version appears on MGM, Artisan, Sony Music Entertainment, and Morgan Creek/Warner Home Video releases, as well as the New Line releases of Besieged and Love Jones and the USA Home Entertainment release of One Night at McCool's.

Availability: The still version is rare, but the animated logo is fairly common.

• Seen at the end of New Line Cinema releases such as Boiler Room, Trial and Error, The Little Vampire (2000), Thirteen Days, Blade II, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Austin Powers in Goldmember, S1M0N3, Pump Up the Volume, and 15 Minutes.
• It was also seen at the end of MGM Home Entertainment releases such as Sleeper, Spaceballs, Bat*21, Escape from New York, The Hallelujah Trail, Death Warrant, Hannah and Her Sisters, Heartbreakers, Igby Goes Down, Original Sin, Killing Me Softly, Deuces Wild, This is Spinal Tap, 24 Hour Party People, Unforgettable, A Doll's House, Fritz the Cat and the first two seasons of Stargate SG-1.
• It was also seen on Artisan Home Entertainment releases such as Requiem for a Dream, the first two Wishmaster movies, Black Mask, Alice in Wonderland (1999), Noah's Ark (1999), Felicia's Journey, Stir of Echoes, The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns, and the Special Edition of The Doors, as well as Trimark's Mob Hits box set.
• On Morgan Creek/Warner Home Video releases, it appears on The In Crowd, Stay Tuned, White Sands, Trial by Jury, Juwanna Mann, and the 2002 reissue of True Romance.
• It also appears on the USA Home Entertainment DVD of One Night at McCool's.

2nd Logo (June 10, 2003-2007)

Logo: On a black background, a split red arrow is pointing at a DVD emitting lights before it rotates to the side and "DVD" appearing on the DVD. More arrows come in to the DVD and disappear as a oval outline draws around the DVD and "ENCODING" appears on it. It becomes a solid sky blue circle via a countdown effect with lines and arrows on it and then it has "AUTHORING" appearing on it as it becomes yellow, then red, and more lines draw around it. The logo zooms out completely as it fully transforms into the logo from the previous logo. "LASERPACIFIC MEDIA CORPORATION" fades in below.

FX/SFX: The LaserPacific logo forming.

Music/Sounds: Beeps and synths.

Music/Sounds Variant: A silent version appears on some MGM titles, and New Line's Snakes on a Plane, A History of Violence, Final Destination 3, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Little Children, The New World, and releases of The Lord of the Rings films from the extended version of The Two Towers onward.

Availability: Common.

• Seen at the end of New Line Cinema DVDs such as The Mask, After the Sunset, Son of the Mask, Friday After Next, Elf, Blade: Trinity, Secondhand Lions, Freddy vs. Jason, Monster In Law, and The Butterfly Effect, as well as the Morgan/Creek Warner Bros. Extended Version DVD of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
• This was also used on MGM DVD releases such as Lightning, the White Stallion, West Side Story, Thunderbird 6, Judgment at Nuremberg, Agent Cody Banks, Bowling for Columbine (the Canadian release from Alliance Atlantis has the Asset Digital logo instead), Follow That Dream, Hotel Rwanda, Junior Bonner, The Brother from Another Planet, Walking Tall, Good Boy!, Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids, Babes in Toyland, The Outer Limits: Aliens Among Us Collection, Bubba Ho-Tep, Green Acres: The Complete Second Season, all three volumes of The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection, the special edition of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Spaceballs: Collector's Edition, most MGM releases of ABC-owned films (such as SpaceCamp, Ring of Bright Water, Junior Bonner, and Krakatoa, East of Java), Clifford, and the Rocky Anthology box set.
• Weirdly, this plasters the previous logo on a mid-2000s reprint of The Corruptor.

3rd Logo (2006)

Opening to Twenty Good Years Pilot Final Sales Version DVD (2006)

(Seen at the start of the video)

Logo: On a white background, four different colored arrows scroll into a 2-D version of the LaserPacific logo from the previous logo, with a gray "3" in it. The teal part then turns into yellow, then red, as the "3" changes to a teal "2" and several shots of a LaserPacific-branded car, which gets increasingly smaller and ultimately drives away as the LaserPacific logo forms. It eases back, and the car passes through it, leaving the company name in its wake.

FX/SFX: The animations of the logo and car.

Music/Sounds: A techno tune and some car driving sounds.

Availability: Impossibly rare. Consider yourself very lucky if you come across this one. This appears on a sales DVD of the pilot to the short-lived NBC sitcom Twenty Good Years.