Millar Gough Ink

''"MGI" redirects here. The company's abbreviation "short" name is for the company's title name.''

Background
Millar Gough Ink is the American film and television production company founded in April Fools Day on April 1, 1995 by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough when they produced the very first television series, Bugs, the British series. The company is known from producing series such as Smallville, the 2022 Netflix series Wednesday, the wuxia-influenced AMC TV series Into the Badlands and other shows, as well as films such as Hannah Montana: The Movie. The feature marked the first film for the duo's Walt Disney-based production company.

1st Logo (October 12, 1999-November 10, 2011)
Nicknames: "Orange-Red Ink", "Ink Bottle Gets the Hammer"

Logo: On a background with the office setting with the painted wall, a bottle, with orange-red ink in it, is placed at the center of the screen on the  lightened floor. A black label covers the bottom half, containing the words:

MILLAR GOUGH INK

in an Impact font, in color and a stacked format. "Impact", also in color, has the bottom half in silver. A split-second before the logo ends, a large hammer falls down from the far upper corner of the screen and breaks the bottle, causing the ink to spread everywhere, including covering up the whole screen and the label getting ripped.

Variants:
 * The logo exists in both a full-screen and wide-screen format.
 * On The Strip until October 16, 2001, the animation is slightly faster.
 * Cropped 4:3 variants of the logo exist.

Technique: Entirely live-action.

Music/Sounds: It varies, but they usually end with the glass breaking sound. Music/Sounds Variants:
 * Debuted Variant, October 12, 1999-July 7, 2000: The ending theme of the show.
 * Silent "Original" Variant, October 16, 2001-February 12, 2002: None.
 * Odd Piano Tune Variant, February 26, 2002-May 21, 2002: An odd, three-note piano tune with an eerie sound effect was heard.
 * Cartoon Ditty "More Familiar Tune" Variant, September 24, 2002-present: On Smallville starting with the episode "Vortex", a 13-note synth tune in D major was heard, with the 7-note orchestral theme playing in the logo's theme, ending with a bass and the orchestrated note when the bottle breaks.
 * The last 2 music themes in the above were composed by Mark Snow.

Availability: Common. It first appeared on The Strip, then later seen on Smallville, the 2006 pilot film Aquaman and the 2011 remake of Charlie's Angels.
 * A variant of this logo exists on The CW original airings of Smallville: the music and the glass breaking sound were both replaced with the general theme and the voiceover.
 * An earlier variant of the logo exists on The Strip: The glass breaking sound was replaced with a splattering sound when the bottle gets hit.
 * On some prints of Smallville for season 1, the ending theme is heard before the glass breaking sound.
 * PAL prints, as well as international prints (e.g Paramount Network, Syfy or UK airings) have the music in high pitch.
 * Sometimes, the music might have been delayed slightly while we can possibly hear the theme for the Tollin/Robbins Productions logo or silent. It can be found on some episodes of Smallville, ending with "Wither", the season 6 episode.
 * A very rare variant of the logo where it is low toned recently appeared on an Russian print of season 2 episodes of Smallville.

2nd Logo (November 15, 2015-present)
Logo: On a black background, we see the stacked words "MILLAR GOUGH". To the right of it is a beaker with a big black water-drop in it. Inside the water-drop is the text "INK".

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None, or the ending theme of the show.

Availability: Seen on Into the Badlands and The Shannara Chronicles and the 2022 Netflix series Wednesday.