Logo Joke / Multiple Company Logos

Over the decades has become commonplace for two/more film companies to collaborate together on making a film. Thus their various logo jokes become united by a specific theme representing the film.

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In General

• One of the most common combinations is Warner Brothers with Village Roadshow, Legendary Pictures, Dark Castle Entertainment, Christopher Nolan's studio Syncopy Inc, New Line Cinema and DC Comics.
• The 2000s decade had Marvel Comics have their comic books adapted by other studios - Spider-Man with Sony, X-Men and the Fantastic Four with 20th Century Fox, and Phase 1 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Paramount. Marvel Studios started up in 2008 and became fully independent since 2013, but a few Spider-Man properties still belong with Sony; those properties are produced with Columbia and Marvel with the line "In association with".
• The final shot of Who Framed Roger Rabbit combines the closing logos of Warner Brothers and Disney, with Porky Pig stammering his "That's All, Folks!" and Tinker Bell giving him a parting tap with a magic wand.

Universal

• American Made has the 2012 ident play for a few seconds before abruptly cutting to the 1963 logo (with Comcast byline). The other producer plates receive similar makeovers, with Imagine receiving its actual late-80s logo and Cross Creek and Hercules Film Fund getting specifically-made versions. 1980s era TV clips also play in-between each logo.
• The Cat in the Hat: The Universal, DreamWorks and Imagine Entertainment logos are all drawn and colored Dr. Seuss style. Plus, the DreamWorks logo's kid is wearing the titular hat, and you can see Fish-In-a-Dish swim away in the ripples of the Imagine logo.
• Candyman (2021): The Universal, MGM, Bron and Monkeypaw logos are mirrored horizontally (reflecting Candyman's power to appear from mirrors), set to Sammy Davis Jr.'s "The Candy Man".
• The Fabelmans: The Universal Earth and the Amblin Entertainment Moon appear together in a shot of the Moon revolving around the Earth.
• Fast & Furious: Spy Racers has a chrome version of the Universal logo as a radiator emblem, which then rotates to reveal the DreamWorks logo on the other side.
• Gladiator: The DreamWorks SKG and Universal logos are sepia-toned.
• Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous: The DreamWorks Animation and Amblin Entertainment logos appear as continents on the Universal globe logo - whis is depicted as Pangea to establish show's prehistoric setting - seen here.
• In Meet the Parents, logo jokes are incorporated into the opening song, "A Fool In Love" by Randy Newman. A chorus can be heard singing "Look at the light coming out of the earth" at the beginning of the song, which coincides the Universal logo in the movie. Then, after a few lines by Randy, you hear the chorus singing "Look at the boy, sitting on the moon", which coincides with the DreamWorks logo. (Because the movie is handled outside North America by DreamWorks, this musical joke doesn't work on international prints.)
• Minions: The titular characters sing the Universal theme, with one holding the last note for so long that it continues into the Illumination Pictures logo, revealing him still trying to sing and collapsing in fatigue as the other Minions stare at him awkwardly.

Paramount

• In The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the Paramount and Warner logos appear in a pile of buttons. ^note  David Fincher claimed he did the Logo Joke purely as self-compensation for being disappointed by all the Artistic Title proposals pitched to him, all of which being in his words, "this sort of antique, sepia, old china cup kind of feeling [...] like a grandma’s idea of a title sequence" rather than out of any thematic integration to the film.
• The Last Airbender: Element bending occurs to the production logos: the stars in the Paramount logo are accompanied by splashes of water, and the Nickelodeon Movies logo is seen on fire and is cooled down with a blast of air.
• Terminator: Dark Fate: The logo sequence (Paramount, Skydance, 20th Century Fox, Tencent Pictures)^note Paramount and Fox swap positions in the logo sequence on foreign prints glitches, skips and has artifacts akin to a VHS tape doing the same thing as it plays and is interspersed with archival footage of Sarah Connor talking to Dr. Silberman in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Right before they end, the Fox and Paramount logos glitch out, briefly showing their 80's variant.

Marvel

• The Avengers (2012): The Marvel and Paramount logos play within the Tesseract, seen here.
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: The Marvel and Columbia logos are affected by the Super Collider device and shifts between different versions of themselves. The Sony Pictures Animation and Pascal Pictures logos also glitch out into a variety of styles.

Sony/Columbia

• American Hustle uses the 1976 Columbia logo, and the Atlas Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures as neon signs (since both studios were founded in The '90s and in 2011).
• In The Smurfs 2, the robes of the Columbia Pictures's Torch Lady are a brighter shade of blue than normal (the Smurf color blue), and the fireworks of The K Entertainment Company's logo are also colored Smurf blue.
• The Star: An acapella performance of "Carol of the Bells" plays over the Sony Pictures Animation and Walden Media logos.

Warner Brothers

• Baz Luhrmann films:
  • Elvis (2022): The Warner Bros and Bazmark Films logos appear in a display of sequins and sparkles.
  • The Great Gatsby (2013) has the Warner Bros, Village Roadshow and Bazmark Films logos appear in black-and-white, reflecting the story's 1920s setting.
• Blade Runner 2049: The Warner Bros, Alcon Entertainment and Columbia Pictures logos are black and white, slightly glitching holograms, seen here. As the WB logo glitches, the shot of the WB studios in the logo turns to a nighttime shot with studio neon lights on.
  • A prototype of this joke had the logos appear as red holograms, seen here.
• The Flash (2023): In keeping with the time-travel escapades of the movie, previous versions of the Warner Bros. and DC Comics logos are shown in rapid succession, connected by Speed Force lightning.
• Game Night has the Warner, New Line and Access Entertainment logos as pieces of tabletop games.
• Interstellar: The WB and Paramount logos are sepia toned, representing the dry and dusty state the Earth has become in the film.
• Memoirs of a Murderer has the Warner Bros, Nippon Television Network Corporation and Robot Communications logos playing radio transmissions about the 1995 Kobe earthquake over them, setting the ominous tone of the movie.
• In Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, both the DreamWorks and Warner Bros. logos have desaturated colors to match the look of the film proper.
• In Terminator Salvation, the logos for distributor (Warner Bros. in the US, Columbia worldwide) and production company (Halcyon, which only did this film before going bankrupt shortly afterwards and thus don't even have a regular logo to speak of) are shocked by static.
• In the film adaptation of Watchmen, all of the logos (Warner Brothers, Paramount, Legendary Pictures, DC Comics) are rendered in static, monotone black on a yellow background with the "Futura Condensed" font when applicable, mimicking the cover of the comic book.
• In Zodiac, co-produced by Warner and Paramount, both companies' logos are presented in period-appropriate (i.e., 1970s) versions.

Other Logos

• Cartoon Network's old "Cartoon Theater" had parodies of the MGM, Paramount and Columbia logos.
• James Bond: The franchise has switched between studios in its long history.
  • Casino Royale (2006) has the MGM and Columbia Pictures logos in black-and-white to go with the opening prologue.
  • Spectre and No Time to Die has the James Bond theme music go with opening logos (both use MGM, but the former uses Columbia while the latter uses Universal).
• Minority Report: Fox and DreamWorks are black and white and look like they're underwater, to fit in the Precog tank opening scene.
• Monty Python's Flying Circus parodied the 20th Century-Fox and MGM logos in the same sequence.
• Moonfall: The Lionsgate, Huayi Brothers and Centropolis Entertainment logos are interspersed with footage of the Apollo 11 mission, and are all together in black and white with TV static.
• The Muppets Go To The Movies has parodies of multiple film company logos: 20th Century Frog, the Columbia Pictures logo with Miss Piggy as the Torch Lady, Fozzie taking Leo's place for "Metro Goldwyn Bear" and Link Hogthrob on the gong for "J. Arthur Link".
• Sex and the City: The second feature film adaptation has the New Line, HBO and Village Roadshow logos studded with rhinestones.
• The parody The Silence of the Hams was apparently co-produced by Silvio Berlusconi Productions and... Thirtieth Century Wolf (which, confusingly, parodies Fox's name but the MGM logo, with the wolf howling in lieu of the lion growling).
• UglyDolls portrays the STX Entertainment, Alibaba Pictures, and Huaxia Film Distribution logos as pieces of felt loosely falling onto the backdrop, fitting the "crafted" world of the movie.
• The Family Guy episode "Friends of Peter G" parodied this with Peter and Brian coming to a cinema and waiting for the movie to start, through six logos. Seen here.