Destination Films 1999 Logo
Nicknames: "Destination Space", "The Revolution", "Abstract Ring", "The Eclipse"
Logo: On a black background with gold haze, we see a planet (presumably the Earth) orbiting around the sun. When the earth comes close to the sun, shadows of the letters "I", "T", "N", "I", "T", and "N" fade in and crowd around the sun and planet. The planet moves into the sun, and the letters, which are now "DESTINATION" in Trajan Pro font, move in. A bright flash occurs, and on a black background, we see the Destination logo, which is two halves of a circle split up by a line. The line has a crescent on one side and a sun on the other. We see the text arranged like this:
DESTINATION
F I L M S
The logo then shines.
Variant: On Amazon and TubiTV prints of Thomas and the Magic Railroad, the logo starts at the last half after the shining.
FX/SFX: Everything in CGI, which is not bad for 1999.
Music/Sounds: An extended whoosh accompanied by a synth choir. Sometimes it is silent, like on Full Contact.
Music/Sounds Variants:
On a print of Steamboy, it had the Screen Gems Pictures music, possibly due to an editing error.
On Amazon and TubiTV prints of Thomas and the Magic Railroad, only the very last part of the music is used.
Availability: Common. It appears on several films Destination released, such as Bats, Drowning Mona, Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Metropolis, Buying the Cow, Steamboy, Eye of the Beholder, Tokyo Godfathers, MirrorMask, and most recently, Accident Man (2018). This strangely doesn't appear on Brothers in Arms (2005), despite the opening credits mentioning them. The Sony Pictures Home Entertainment logo appears instead.
Editor's Note: This logo has a very unique design atypical of the usual aesthetics found in Sony's logos, and still holds up well today. The only downside is that this logo doesn't seem to have a fully digital print of it in existence, as even on recent films with this logo it has film scratches and other artifacts that stick out when shown next to logos that clearly use digital sources