Millar Gough Ink

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CampingRamen and SuperMax124

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Background
Millar Gough Ink is an American television and film production company that has co-produced the long-running Superman prequel television series Smallville and the upcoming Tim Burton Netflix Addams Family spin-off series Wednesday, along with The Strip, the short-series, the 2006 television pilot of Aquaman (also known as Mercy Reef) and the 2011 remake of Charlie's Angels. They also co-produced wuxia-influenced AMC TV series Into the Badlands and the epic fantasy series The Shannara Chronicles (based on the book trilogy by Terry Brooks), as well as co-writing films such as Jackie Chan's Shanghai Noon and Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man 2. Miles Millar has worked alongside his writing/producing partner Alfred Gough since they met at USC School of Cinematic Arts. They are prolific writers/producers. Their feature credits include Sami Rami's Spider-Man 2, the hit action-comedy Shanghai Noon, as well as its sequel Shanghai Knights both starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson. Other credits include the action-adventure The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Herbie: Fully Loaded, Lethal Weapon 4, and I Am Number Four. They produced Hannah Montana: The Movie, based on the smash hit Disney Channel Series starring Miley Cyrus. The feature marked the first for the duo's production company, Millar Gough Ink, as a television and film production company. The films Millar and Gough have written or produced have a combined global box office in excess of one billion dollars. The first season of The Shannara Chronicles premiered on MTV in the United States on January 5, 2016, and consisted of 10 episodes. MTV originally greenlit a second season in April 2016; however, in May 2017, it was announced that the series would relocate to Spike (now Paramount Network). The second season premiered on October 11, 2017, and concluded November 22, 2017. On January 16, 2018, it was announced that the series had been cancelled after two seasons and that the producers were shopping the series to other networks. The series was later considered officially concluded but has since generated a cult following on Netflix. In October 2020, Gough and Millar sold a series to Netflix based on the character of Wednesday Addams. The series was created by Gough and Millar but Tim Burton teamed with the duo as an executive producer and directed the first four episodes. Wednesday represents Burton's first foray into television and stars Jenna Ortega in the title role. The series also stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, Luis Guzman as Gomez Addams as well as Gwendoline Christie as Larissa Weems. The company was founded in 1997 by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.

1st Logo (October 12, 1999-November 10, 2011)
Logo: In an office setting, at the forefront we see a bottle filled with orange red ink in it labeled with the company name in golden, with only the bottom half in. After a while, a brick falls on top of it and breaks it that causes the orange red ink in it to fly everywhere, covering up the screen. One second later, it abruptly cuts to the next logo.

Variant: There exists an full screen version of the logo.

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FX/SFX: Live-action. The live-action logo was created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.

Cheesy Factor: How could there be so much ink in that one, tiny bottle? Also, the transition to the next logo is really poorly done.

Music/Sounds: Music/Sounds Variants:
 * October 12, 1999-July 7, 2000: The closing theme then the splatter sound.
 * October 16, 2001-February 12, 2002: Just the sound of the bottle breaking.
 * February 26, 2002-May 21, 2002: An 3-note odd piano tune.
 * September 2002-November 2011: An 13-note cartoon ditty and an 7-note instrumental tune prior to the shatter sound.
 * On the Smallville season 1 episodes "X-Ray" and "Hug", the bottle breaking sound is absent.
 * On early episodes of the 2nd season of Smallville, the cartoon ditty is somewhat a little quieter.
 * Original airings use a generic theme and a voice over.

Availability: Common. First seen on the short-lived series The Strip, and later seen on Smallville and the 2011 remake of Charlie's Angels on ABC, Sony Crackle and the CTV Throwback in Canada. It also made an appearance on the 2006 television pilot of Aquaman, which was initially released on iTunes on July 2006 and later included as a bonus feature on the Blu-ray release of Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths.

Legacy:


 * For the version with only the sound of the bottle breaking, the bottle breaking without a warning can be jarring to many people. However, for the music version, it may slightly less scary than the earlier version, and it may be favored for fans of Smallville.
 * While the sound of the bottle breaking can be startling for some people (especially the version without music where it breaks with no warning, which could be jarring to many people), some people may find this logo funny.

Scare Factor:


 * 1999: High.
 * 2001-2002: Medium to high. The bottle suddenly breaking with no warning can be jarring to many people, especially after the long silence during both this logo and the one before such as the Tollin/Robbins Productions logo.
 * Early 2002: Medium, due to the eerie music, but tame compared to the previous version.
 * 2002-2011: Low to medium. It is slightly less scary than the earlier version with the music playing.

2nd Logo (November 15, 2015-)
Logo: On a black background, we see the dark red words "MILLAR GOUGH". To the right it is a dark red beaker with a drop with the dark red word "INK" inside.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None or the ending theme.

Availability: It's currently seen on the 2015 AMC series Into the Badlands and the 2016 MTV series The Shannara Chronicles. It should be expected to be seen on the upcoming 2022 Netflix series Wednesday.

Legacy: None.

Scare Factor: Low. The logo on a black background can creep someone out, but as always, it's tamer than the last logo.