Firebird Films

Background: Firebird Films was a shell-label operated by Elliot Strange, Howard Stemple, Dub Goras and Lester McCormick, made exclusively for the film Don't Watch This: Five of the Worst Movies Ever Made. The name of the company is based on that of the now defunct publishing label Firebird, who had released the game Don't Buy This that had a similar concept. Strange, Stemple, Goras and McCormick were also behind the distribution label Trash & Butt Pictures.

(2002)

Logo: Against a CGI fire background, we zoom out to see it's part of the eye of a phoenix head. It roars at the viewer as the company name flies to opposing sides of the head.

Variant/Trivia: On an early cut of the film it was used on, a print version of the logo was pasted over the logo for CBS/FOX Video (set at a second in.) According to McCormick, he got the idea to do this after acquiring a porno tape from Argentina released by a label that stole from a preexisting one (it may be in relation to Enterprise Producciones S.A. which used Prism Entertainment's logo). He was outvoted due to the others feeling none of the viewers would get the joke.

FX/SFX: CG animation.

Music/Sounds: A bored-sounding choir, with a apathetic roar, along with the sound of the fire.

Availability: Only seen at the start of Don't Watch This: Five of the Worst Movies Ever. The end of the movie features the producers' actual vanity cards at the end.

Editor's Note: This logo utilizes very cheap computer animation, but given the nature of this film as an elaborate joke, this was very likely intentional.