Vicodore Productions

Background
Vicodore Productions was a production company operated by Linda Dunn, Penelope Charest and Ruth Dodd, launched in 1987 and based in Salt Lake City, before opening an office in East Sussex. It was initially created to help finance projects by Dunn's husband, actor and writer Robert Dunn, though they also worked on projects without him. Muriel MacPherson would join the company in 1989, but she and Dodd would leave in 1996. The company was hit with a lawsuit by Bonneville International in 2003; Bonneville 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. In 2006, Vicodore attempted to sue First Look Media for re-releasing their last film The Nun and indirectly causing bad publicity through its promotion and release around the time a film with a similar name and premise was released, causing Vicodore's film to be labeled a mockbuster. Vicodore lost the suit, and legal fees from that and the Bonneville proceedings led them to file for bankruptcy in 2006. Crystal Sky would acquire Vicodore's catalog the following year.

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 (1989-1997)
Logo: We fade in to a saturated pink and blue environment, containing a forked white road. A silhouetted man walks walks toward the fork, as we see the Hollywood sign far toward the left, and dune to the right resembling the Coral Pink Sand Dunes (the Dunns resided in Kane County, where the dunes are located). A female silhouette fades in next to the man and leads him toward the right path, as a beacon of light forms in front of them while storm-clouds with erupting lightning appears to the left. The flash engulfs everything before fading to the scene now boxed. The image crossfades to an illustration as "VICODORE" and "productions" fade in below in black.

Variant:


 * A still version exists, both in-credit and on-screen. This was the norm for the company's films until 1995.
 * An abridged version exists.

FX/SFX: The silhouettes and background effects.

Music/Sounds: None or the closing theme.

Availability: Seen on D.O.A.D., Huge, Nest and the 1995 remake of The Beast of Yucca Flats. The abridged variant appeared on the TV movies Rabies: A Neighborhood's Nightmare and She-Hulk.

3rd Logo (2001-2003)
Logo: Against a black background with a wood floor, we see various people running. A girl in a casual outfit sprints ahead and after she leaps, she freezes as a square frame encases her and the text "Vicodore Productions" appears below in white.

Variant: On the unsold pilot for U-Turn, this shares the screen with the logos for Camelot Pictures and Ixtlan Films.

FX/SFX: The film-reel and the turning dancer, along with the flash.

Music/Sounds: A synth theme, which leads to a music box theme, ending with a clash.

Availability: Appeared on The Hunchback and The Nun.