Colossal Pictures

Colossal Pictures (styled as (Colossal) Pictures or (C)P) was an entertainment company^[1] that developed and produced television programming, network branding, and film titles. Colossal's work has won every major industry award, from the Clio, Emmy and Grammy to the Cannes Gold Lion and Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Top Honor.

Founded in 1976, Colossal Pictures' clients included MTV,^[2] Nickelodeon,^[3] Coca-Cola, Starbucks Coffee, Disney, Discovery Channel, Denny's, Americast, Samsung, Microsoft, Cartoon Network, Broderbund, Nike, Sega, AT&T, Honda, Hershey's, Listerine, Hasbro Interactive, Time Warner, Paramount, Pizza Hut, Apple, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Turner Entertainment and just about every major network cable and television company.

History

In 1976, two men named Drew Takahashi and Gary Gutierrez started a company named (Colossal) Pictures. It became well known in the 1980s and 1990s for its innovative design work. Its clients included MTV, Nickelodeon, Disney, and Coca-Cola, among others.

In 1995, they started losing money from an exhibit the company made for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Click 3X, a post-production company they often worked with. In 1996, the company underwent Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Due to profits the company got from attempting to work on projects, they emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Winter 1997.

In 1999, the company closed. Meanwhile, Ed Bell, Charlie Canfield, and George Evelyn folded it into Wildbrain. Jamie Hyneman, manager of Colossal Pictures’ model shop, took over the facility and turned it into M5 Industries.^[4]

Work

Filmography

• One from the Heart (1981) (title design)
• The Right Stuff (1983) (special photographic effects)
• Cat & Mouse At (the) Home (short film, 1983)
• The Cotton Club (1984) (title design & photography)
• Seven Minutes in Heaven (1985) (main title design)
• The Twilight Zone (1985) (special effects)
• Raspberry Beret (music video) (1985)
• Children of a Lesser God (1986) (title design)
• Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) (title design and production)
• Top Gun (1986) (special effects)
• Gardens of Stone (1987) (title design)
• The Running Man (1987) (special visual effects)
• The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) (special visual effects)
• Tucker: The Man and His Dream (title design)
• The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley (1988)^[5]
• New York Stories (1989) (titles for "Life Without Zoë")
• Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery (1990, as BIG Pictures)
• Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1990) (title design)
• Saturday Night Live (1990) (title design)
• Liquid Television (1991–1994)
• Adventures in Wonderland (main title; 1991)
• Back to the Future: The Animated Series (1991–1992, as BIG Pictures)
• The Wish That Changed Christmas (1991)
• Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) (special effects)
• Demolition Man (1993) (special effects)
• The Moxy Show (1993–1995)
• Natural Born Killers (1994) (animation)
• Mickey's Fun Songs (1994) (opening sequence)
• Tank Girl (1995) (animation)
• Living Books: Ruff's Bone (1995)
• Psychic Detective (video game) (1995)^[6]
• What A Cartoon! ("Strange Things") (1997)
• Frankenguy & The Professor (interstitial series for Disney Channel, 1997)
• ZOOB Toons (short film, 1997)
• Showtime Championship Boxing (1998) (title design)
• The Mix-ups (interstitial series for Disney Channel, 1998)
• Zoog Disney (first season only; later seasons produced by Mondo Media) (1998–1999)
• Super Chunk (show packaging; 1998)

Commercials and branding

References

External links

• Archive of Colossal Pictures website
• 1992 demo reel
• 1993 demo reel
• 1996 demo reel