Logo descriptions by mr3urious, LogosForTheWin, and MegaAveron25 Video capture courtesy of I am Arcade
Background[]
Shout! Factory is an American multimedia company formed in 2003 by Garson Foos, formely of Rhino Entertainment.
Shout! Factory[]
1st Logo
(2003-June 2014)[]
Nicknames: "Red and Black Bars", "Then-and-Now Television"
Logo: We see a jittery TV screen with bluish static and a film countdown leaderboard on it. The Shout! Factory logo (consisting of five unevenly-arranged rectangles alternating between red and black colors in a pattern with an exclamation point at the end, with "SHOUT" displayed on each rectangle letter-by-letter with the exclamation point at the end and "FACTORY" is shown below it in between two horizontal lines) comes into focus, flashing a bit. As the leaderboard finishes the static remains, and then fades away after a couple of seconds. The logo tilts a bit before fading out.
Variants:
- Some feature film releases features the logo in widescreen (actually non-anamorphic widescreen, as it's rather cheaply horizontally stretched.)
- On the last releases with this logo, an alternate variant was used. Here, the leaderboard stays in the same place, is green, and the blocks that make up "SHOUT!" zoom towards the camera one by one. However, Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXIX uses the original variant.
- On Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man, the logo fades in from the end of the credits.
FX/SFX: The static, leaderboards, and logo focusing.
Music/Sounds: A film projector running combined with static, electric buzzing, and a VID-like whirring sound.
Music/Sounds Variant: There is also a higher-pitched variant of the logo music.
Availability: Common. Seen on DVDs released from the company, mostly classic TV shows and films. Also appears on Blu-rays, but it's in DVD quality.
2nd Logo
(Summer 2014-August 29, 2023)[]
Nicknames: "Red and Black Bars II", "The Other Bars of Boredom"
Logo: On a white background, 2 bars with the word "FACTORY" slides in. As it settles, 3 red bars and 2 black bars, all unevenly arranged, rise up from the bar and "SHOUT" appears on the bars one by one. A exclamation point flies in and sticks to the last bar. All this happens at a very fast pace.
Variant: On the 2015 DVD reissue of UHF, the logo is zoomed in.
FX/SFX: The letters animating.
Music/Sounds: A distant explosion sound followed by a series of short swooshes.
Availability: Common. Seen on Shout! Factory releases from 2014-23, such as Prisoners of War: Season One, The Battery, My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks, all five seasons of Lou Grant, Starman: Collector's Edition, The Tenant, The Ghost and the Darkness, and Shout Select Blu-rays such as Streets of Fire, Used Cars, Talk to Me, and A Walk to Remember. It also appeared on the 2017 revival of Mystery Science Theater 3000. This can also be seen on Shout! Factory's YouTube channel, prefacing video clips of their products. The final releases to use it were the UHDs of Bride of Chucky, Seed of Chucky, Cult of Chucky, and of Curse of Chucky.
Shout! Studios[]
1st Logo (January 12, 2018-)[]
Visuals: Over a white or black background is the black or white text "SHOUT STUDIOS". "SHOUT" has a large red exclamation point by it, which provides the "O" in "STUDIOS" with its dot. The logo slightly zooms in before fading out.
Variant: On the teaser trailer for Head Count, the logo is colored in a green gradient. The same color variant is superimposed over the opening scene of the official trailer.
Technique: A still graphic.
Audio: None or the opening/closing theme.
Availability:
- It debuted on Humor Me, and has since appeared on other productions by the label, such as on season 12 of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (season 2 of the Netflix revival, subtitled The Gauntlet), Itsy Bitsy and Assault on Hill 400.
- It is also seen on home media releases from mid-2023 until very early 2024, such as Natural Born Killers, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, and Forced Vengeance.
2nd Logo (May 15, 2020)[]
Visuals: In darkness, a blue light shines, revealing the "SHOUT! STUDIOS" text. The exclamation point glows especially bright. Everything then fades back into the darkness, with the brightly glowing exclamation point disappearing last.
Technique: CGI by R79 Digital.
Audio: The opening sounds of the movie.
Availability: This was a custom variant only used on Proximity. It can also be found on R79 Digital's Vimeo account.
3rd Logo (January 9, 2024-)[]
Visuals: On a black background, red rings to the right of the screen ripple like water. They ripple faster and more intensely until the "SHOUT! STUDIOS" text appears over them in the shadows. The circular center of the ripples glows red, shining light onto the text and becoming the dot of the "!". The ripples disappear, and the logo zooms out slightly before fading out.
Trivia: The press release for the full rename to Shout! Studios mentioned the debut of the "new motion logo" months before its official debut, indicating that it must have been shown to shareholders first.
Variant: A short version with just the zooming at the end exists.
Technique: 2D computer animation.
Audio: A mysterious techno beat or none.
Availability: It debuted on current streaming prints of Anything Else, and has since been used as a de-facto home video/streaming logo by the company, starting with the Blu-rays of St. Ives and Telefon. Other releases that have it include Funeral Home, Darkman, Quigley Down Under, K-19: The Widowmaker, Affliction, Ali G Indahouse: The Movie, The Delta Force, and The Last Unicorn. It also appears on Donal MacIntyre's Killer Evidence on Shout! TV, Pluto TV prints of The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, and MeTV Toons airings of Speed Racer.