A Horror Channel UK airing kept this too. I always found it weird how they used the 1990 Paramount logo even though Viacom literally still syndicated Cannon films back then.
The Paramount Communications variant of the 1986 logo also showed up on TV airings of First Blood from 1999 onward, even though Paramount Communications had been defunct for a few years at that point. First Blood was a Carolco film, from 1992-99, Carolco's output was syndicated by Worldvision, a unit of Spelling, which Viacom acquired in 1999. If Paramount really wanted to use a pre-Viacom era logo on Invaders from Mars, they should have used the 1975 logo (the Blue Mountain), which was still in use for most of 1986. They did use the 1975 logo on TV prints of Piranha, a late 1970s New World Pictures feature, which they inherited the TV rights to from Viacom as well.
From May 12, 1985-present, LA/NYC based Trifecta Entertainment & Media has been distributed or co-distributed their movie package collection for both syndication and cable. Including Invaders from Mars, Dreamgirls, Shooter, The 'Burbs, Backdraft, Fear, Flags of Our Fathers, Cobra, Lifeforce, Over the Top, Saving Private Ryan, Don't Be a Menace etc, Wagons East!, Masters of the Universe, The Bounty, Prancer, the Nutty Professor, Bill & Ted, Basic Instinct and Rambo trilogies, The Silent Partner, The Changeling, Tribute, A Change of Seasons, The Amateur, Yellowbeard, Cross Creek, Top Secret!, Swing Shift, the Cannonball Run, Missing in Action and American Ninja franchises, Popeye, The Elephant Man, Frances, Urban Cowboy, My Bloody Valentine, An Officer and a Gentleman, Cujo, Terms of Endearment, Dreamscape, Fear City, Angel Heart, Red Heat, Iron Eagle 2/3, Rambling Rose, The Long Walk Home, Jennifer 8, Leap of Faith and more.
A Horror Channel UK airing kept this too. I always found it weird how they used the 1990 Paramount logo even though Viacom literally still syndicated Cannon films back then.
The Paramount Communications variant of the 1986 logo also showed up on TV airings of First Blood from 1999 onward, even though Paramount Communications had been defunct for a few years at that point. First Blood was a Carolco film, from 1992-99, Carolco's output was syndicated by Worldvision, a unit of Spelling, which Viacom acquired in 1999.
If Paramount really wanted to use a pre-Viacom era logo on Invaders from Mars, they should have used the 1975 logo (the Blue Mountain), which was still in use for most of 1986. They did use the 1975 logo on TV prints of Piranha, a late 1970s New World Pictures feature, which they inherited the TV rights to from Viacom as well.
From May 12, 1985-present, LA/NYC based Trifecta Entertainment & Media has been distributed or co-distributed their movie
package collection for both syndication and cable. Including Invaders from Mars, Dreamgirls, Shooter, The 'Burbs, Backdraft,
Fear, Flags of Our Fathers, Cobra, Lifeforce, Over the Top, Saving Private Ryan, Don't Be a Menace etc, Wagons East!,
Masters of the Universe, The Bounty, Prancer, the Nutty Professor, Bill & Ted, Basic Instinct and Rambo trilogies,
The Silent Partner, The Changeling, Tribute, A Change of Seasons, The Amateur, Yellowbeard, Cross Creek, Top Secret!,
Swing Shift, the Cannonball Run, Missing in Action and American Ninja franchises, Popeye, The Elephant Man, Frances,
Urban Cowboy, My Bloody Valentine, An Officer and a Gentleman, Cujo, Terms of Endearment, Dreamscape, Fear City,
Angel Heart, Red Heat, Iron Eagle 2/3, Rambling Rose, The Long Walk Home, Jennifer 8, Leap of Faith and more.
This must've been shortly after Viacom bought Paramount Pictures.