Vicodore Productions

Background
Vicodore Productions was a production company operated by Linda Dunn, Penelope Charest and Ruth Dodd, launched in 1988. It was initially created to manage projects by Dunn's husband, actor and writer Robert Dunn and former actress and model Muriel MacPherson, the latter would be granted 25% ownership of the company after retiring from acting. Vicodore would break away from vanity projects and focus on middle to low budgets and international productions. The company was hit with a lawsuit by Bonneville International, who had helped contribute the company's nestegg and accused Vicodore of funding films promoting sacrilege against The Jesus Christ Church of Later Day Saints, owners of Bonneville. The suit was dismissed, as Vicodore only used Bonneville's funds for corporate purposes, and did not specify they would produce non-secular content. The legal fees from the suit and the financial failures of their titles led to Vicodore shutting down in 2004.

Background/Trivia: The name of the company is a merger of the names of the VIC-20 and Commodore 64. This is in reference to Robert Dunn's hobby of collecting old home computers.

1st Logo (1987)
Logo: On a black background, the company name appears letter by letter through various flashes.

FX/SFX: The flashing.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Only seen on Dine.

2nd Logo (1989-2003)
Logo: On a black background, we see illustrations of a film crew fade in; a man holding a script, a director at his camera, a boom operator, an actor by a city backdrop and three women, representative of Dunn, Dodd and Charest, are seen at a table with small sandwiches and cups of coffee. The area rotates, to reveal that everything is cardboard cutouts and to behind the backdrop, where we zoom in to the text "VICODORE" in a black etched font

Variant(s):


 * In 1995, the logo was updated to include Muriel MacPherson after she joined the company.
 * An abridged version exists.
 * An in-credit version also exists.

FX/SFX: The fading and turning.

Music/Sounds: A synth stinger.

Availability: Seen on D.O.A.D., Nest, the 1995 remake of The Beast of Yucca Flats, The Hunchback, The Plague and The Nun (2003). The abridged variant appeared on the TV movies Rabies: A Neighborhood's Nightmare and She-Hulk and the in-credit version appeared on Fisherman's Den.