Nickelodeon Movies/Summary

Nickelodeon Movies is the movie production arm of Nickelodeon, established on February 25, 1995 to produce movies based on their shows, which are distributed by Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom and subsidiary of National Amusements, Inc. They have also produced some original films such as Clockstoppers. Their first film was Harriet the Spy.

= Nickelodeon =

1st logo
(July 10, 1996-July 2, 1997)Nicknames: "The Rhino", "Blue Rhino", "Nick Rhino", "The Harriet the Spy logo"

Logo: A blue rhino is shown running on what appears to be clouds (a send-up of the TriStar Pictures logo). However, he repeatedly bumps, slips and crashes into the clouds in the logo, which turn out to be cardboard cutouts on a movie set. The blue rhino trips over the Nickelodeon logo, shaped like a cloud, and crashes into the camera. The blue rhino pulls himself off the screen and hangs onto the Nickelodeon cloud on a black background, causes the cloud turns into the splat design. The blue rhino swings a bit on it and then smiles at the screen.

FX/SFX: 2D animation produced by Wild Brain in San Francisco.

Music/Sounds: Dramatic orchestral music that starts getting messed up as the blue rhino trips, along with yelping from the blue rhino when he's about to crash into the camera. The music builds up to the blue rhino crashing into the screen, which segues into a rap-style vocal version of the Nickelodeon jingle.

Availability: Extremely rare. Originally used as a Summer 1996 network ident. It's only seen on Harriet the Spy released on July 10th, 1996.

Editor's Note: Medium. the rhino crashing to the camera may give some people a heart attack.

2nd logo
(1997)Nicknames: "Home of the Good Burger", "Orange Soda", "The Good Burger logo"

Logo: On a black and blue gradient background, we see orange soda being poured into a large cup. When it's done pouring, the cap of the cup with a straw closes the top and the cup drives around the screen until it brakes and falls down, leaves the cap open behind. The soda spills out of the cup, revealing "NICKELODEON".

Trivia: This logo pays homage to a Nickelodeon Productions logo from 1995.

Variants:


 * On the theatrical trailer for Good Burger, a still version is used.
 * On The Making of Good Burger, the word "MOVIES" (in the same font of the wordmark; "M" is bigger than the rest) is seen below "NICKELODEON".

FX/SFX: None for the normal version. CGI for the animated version.

Music/Sounds: The animated version has soda pouring sounds and car sounds. The brake sounds are accompanied with the vocal Nickelodeon theme: "Nick nick nick nick, na-nick nick nick, Nickelodeon!".

Availability: Rare. The normal version is seen on the theatrical trailer for Good Burger. The animated version is used as a Summer 1997 ident, and on the movie itself, released on July 25th, 1997.

Scare Factor: None.

= Nickelodeon Movies =

1st logo
(January 16-June 5, 1998)Nickname: "Crane Operator"

Logo: On a white background, we see an orange movie camera with "NICKELODEON" (in its well known font). A green filmstrip sticks out reading "MOVIES".

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: The TV spot/trailer music.

Availability: Extremely rare. This is the print logo, used in promotional material for Harriet the Spy and Good Burger. So far, it made it in the home video spot for the former, and on the announcement trailer for the video game Rugrats: Diapered Duo.

Scare Factor: None.

2nd logo
(1998-1999)Nicknames: "Slap T. Pooch", "Slap's Fleck", "The Nick Footprint", "The Rugrats logo"

Logo: On a black screen, we see Slap T. Pooch spotting a blob of red orange goo. It then goes to a really close zoom on his face and hand as he starts fidgeting with it. It then gets stuck to his fingers and he struggles to throw it off. Once it does, it starts bouncing off the walls and then gets stuck to his foot. He then walks around to wipe it off, making more red orange spots on the ground. A shadow then appears over Slap T. Pooch, then a giant purple foot stomps on the dog and red orange goo, turning into the Nickelodeon foot as seen on the gates to the Nicktoons Studios in Burbank, California (also seen in Spongebob episode Truth or Square). The camera pans to reveal it, then Slap T. Pooch falls off of it. It then fades out.

Variant: On publicity for The Rugrats Movie and Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (as well as the videogame of the latter), a still version is used, but a blue oval reading "MOVIES" in Arial Narrow font accompanies the foot.

FX/SFX: Traditional animation produced by Wild Brain (like the 1st logo).

Music/Sounds: A weird three note tune, followed by cartoon-like sound effects and music cues, a cartoon-like fanfare, and a hip-hop mix of the Nickelodeon theme accompanied with a tuba "wah-wah" sound effect that reverberates.

Availability: Rare. Can only be seen on The Rugrats Movie, released on November 20, 1998. Was also shown as an ID on Nickelodeon in Fall 1998.

3rd logo
(February 11, 2000-March 29, 2002)Nicknames: "The Man and the House", "A Snow Day", "The Snow Day logo", "Man in Paris" (Rugrats in Paris variant)

Logo: A man shovels the snow off the walk to his house and his Golden Retriever dog is watching him, sitting down on the snow. Then, a giant snowball falls onto his house and completely destroys it in a very graphic manner. The dog runs off barking in a panic and the man does a double take. The snow falls off the snowball revealing an orange ball, and we see the text "NICKELODEON" on the ball. The background turns black and the ball then bounces to the middle-left of the screen, and then a small orange ball and a blue ball appear. The word "movies" is on a blue ball, and then it fades out.

Variants:


 * On Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, there is a special Parisian variant in which it is nearly the same, except the regular man is replaced with a stereotypical French man, accompanied by his dog, raking leaves in front of his house in the autumn season, and the Eiffel tower can be seen in the background not too far from his house. The ball smashing the house is now just the big orange ball with the "NICKELODEON" text on it. Then when the logo resumes like normal, the live-action dog appears on the bottom-right of the screen and barks at the logo.
 * On the ID for the versions, the movies ball is deleted.
 * On Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, the live action setting is cut, the balls bounce differently, the text "NICKELODEON" is stretched a little, and the Movies ball is deleted like the ID versions. Goddard (From the movie, recall of Rugrats in Paris variant) jumps in from the left and stares at the logo. He barks and opens up a blaster. The blasters shoots at the top-right of the tiny orange ball revealing the "movies" ball with three electrons around it and "movies" in a different font which disappears shortly after the blasting. Goddard looks at the audience while he puts away the blaster and jumps, and stares at the audience.
 * On The Making of Jimmy Neutron (2001 TV Special), the logo is already formed.


 * On Clockstoppers, The already-formed logo swings left and right like a grandfather clock. When the opening credits starts on the background, it swings away backwards to the top-left corner.

FX/SFX: Depends on the variant.

Music/Sounds: The Snow Day version has a light whistling tune that abruptly stops just before the house gets destroyed by the snowball, and then changes to a short tuba tune, followed by a tuba/whistling version of the Nickelodeon theme.

Music/Sounds Variant:


 * On the ID variant, when the snowball starts breaking, a rock tune is heard with a choir singing briefly when it shot fades to black.
 * The Rugrats in Paris: The Movie version has an accordion playing the whistling tune. When the house is destroyed, an accordion/whistling rendition of the extended Nickelodeon tune (with three "barks" from the dog) which leads into an accordion/tuba version of the Nickelodeon theme, followed by one last "bark" from the dog.
 * On the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius version, a funny tune is played, along with Goddard barking.

Availability: Rare. Seen on Snow Day, released on February 11, 2000, Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, released on November 20, 2000, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, released on December 21, 2001, and Clockstoppers, released on March 29, 2002, with each film having their respective variants of the logo. The Snow Day and Rugrats in Paris: The Movie versions were also used as IDs for Nickelodeon to help promote the respective movies.

4th logo
(2001-2003, 2005)Nicknames: "Sneezing", "The Wiggling Balls", "2002: A Nick Odyssey"

Logo: On a black background, a faint black crescent sphere (representing the moon) moves to the bottom of the screen, causing a crescent earth, the sun, and a moving starfield to appear; this part of the logo. As the moon moves off-screen at the bottom, the earth starts to wiggle and "sneezes", causing it to crash into the camera. This causes the moon to bounce back onto the screen, which is revealed to be an orange ball with "NICKELODEON" on it. The starfield suddenly transitions to a plain black background a la a Steven Universe episode as the earth becomes a spinning blue ball with "movies" on it, and the sun becomes the small orange ball. The small ball flies around the screen before hitting the blue ball, stopping it from spinning. When all three balls are in their normal positions in the logo, the blue ball sneezes again, causing the orange balls to briefly "jolt" forward. The blue ball then turns back to the camera to finish the logo.

Variant: A shorter version of the logo starts out with the balls zooming out from the middle of the screen.

FX/SFX: CGI animation.

Music/Sounds: Each film has a different theme in the logo.


 * Hey Arnold! The Movie: A dramatic 4-note fanfare that is somewhat reminiscent of Also Sprach Zarathustra, which plays in the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey. During the last part of the fanfare, we hear a loud sneeze, then a light instrumental hip hop-like Nickelodeon theme.
 * Rugrats Go Wild: Two bell rings with sun ray sounds, followed by a different-sounding sneeze and a 20-note techno version of the Nickelodeon theme.

Availability: Rare. The long version is/was seen only on ''Hey Arnold! The Movie and Rugrats Go Wild''. The short version of the Hey Arnold! variant also appeared on split-screen credits of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie from 2005 to 2009.

Scare Factor: Medium to high. The sneezing can be jarring to some people.

5th logo
(2002-2005)Nicknames: "The Dog Spot", "The Dog's Nose", "Nick Dog", "Dog of Doom" “There’s Another Scary Logo In Town”, "Spike from Land Before Time", "The Wild Thornberrys logo"

Logo: We see a forest on a sunny day, as if it was seen in the grass. Then, the curious nose of a brown-striped white dog appears sniffs the camera, and then he sees the Nickelodeon Movies logo on the grass. We cut back to the dog, who licks the screen, turning it black.

Variant: This was also used as a network ID, but with a few differences; the "movies" ball and the small orange ball are removed and the Nickelodeon ball is moved to the middle.

FX/SFX: A mix of stop-motion and CGI animation created by Charged Animation and 2/8/0-Design, both located in New York City.

Music/Sounds: Sniffing and grunting sounds from the dog. When the company logo appears, we hear a "country" version of the famous Nickelodeon theme. When the dog licks the screen, a licking noise is heard.

Availability: Again, rare. Originally used as an ID in December 2002 & January 2003, and was seen after the Live broadcast of the 2003 Kids' Choice Awards. Only seen on The Wild Thornberrys Movie. It was also seen on a TV spot for Yours, Mine and Ours and was used as an ID in December 2002 and January 2003 to help promote The Wild Thornberrys Movie.

Scare Factor: Medium to nightmare. The close-up of the hideous and dated-looking dog as he is licking the screen can cause some spooks.

6th logo
(2004-2007)Nicknames: "The Bubbles", "Underwater Bubbles", "Psychedelic Nickelodeon", "Nickelodeon Acid Trip", "The Spongebob logo"

Logo: On a black background, an explosion occurs. A blue-colored ball emerges from the explosion as several yellow streaks form in it. We zoom through the ball as the background fades to a kaleidoscopic sky. An orange rose grows, and dissipates into pillows-like-things, or sheets, etc, as an orange zeppelin flies through it. A ripple then occurs in the sky, where it fades into a kaleidoscopic view of several goldfish swimming. The logo then transforms into an orange bubble, which floats outward and spawns two more bubbles that form the Nickelodeon Movies print logo for it's time. The finished product is in an orange underwater environment.

Trivia: The blue ball seen at the beginning of the logo is a possible callback to one of Nickelodeon's original logo before the splat that featured a shiny silver ball, and the zeppelin that appears out of the rose later in the logo is quite similar to the Nickelodeon blimp, which the show still uses as a model for their Kids Choice Awards trophies.

Variants:


 * On The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (the video game), the logo starts as it forms.
 * On the Barnyard trailer, TBA.

FX/SFX: Extraordinary CGI created by Brand-New-School (which also created Cartoon Network's post-2010 logo and bumpers).

Music/Sounds: A bouncy, high-pitched wind fanfare, along with sounds including explosions, ripples.

Availability: Rare. Only seen on The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and it's game, along with the trailer for Barnyard.

Scare Factor: Low to mineral. The explosion at the start could startle some people, especially after the silent Paramount Pictures logo, but other than that, it's harmless and much tamer than the previous logo. Despite it only appearing in one movie, it's still a favorite of many.

7th logo
(2004-2009)Nicknames: "The Moons", "The Nick Moons", "Planet Nickelodeon", "A Boring Nickelodeon Movie", "Universal Studios Rip-Off", "Birds" (Original Charlotte's Web variant)

Logo: On a space background, we see the shadow text on a blue tinted saturn planet that reads "NICK". The camera moves away from the ringed planet as the 3D text "NICKELODEON" zooms out from the bottom of the screen as the camera pans to reveal an orange moon, which the text settles in front of. As this happening, a smaller blue moon appears from behind the orange moon and settles on the right, while an even smaller moon zooms out as the moons form the familiar logo. The word "movies" spins in around the blue moon to complete the logo. Then, the logo zooms down into the black screen.

Variants:


 * Originally, on Charlotte's Web, there was going to be a custom variant. We see a group of blue birds flying to the right against a blue daytime sky with clouds. As the blue birds start grouping together towards the right of the screen in the distance, a group of orange birds fly to the left as both groups of birds form the Nickelodeon Movies logo. The birds eventually scatter as the camera pans down, segueing into the opening credits of the movie.
 * There is a shortened variant, seen on Yours, Mine and Ours (2005).
 * On Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Barnyard, and Charlotte's Web, the logo pans down into the opening titles.
 * Another custom version appears on Nacho Libre. We zoom across a wrestling ring as lights flash in the background. We zoom to the bottom of the ring, where we see the logo printed onto an orange and blue wrestling bell. The bell rings two times and fades out to start the movie.

FX/SFX: Once again, well-rendered CGI animation. For the original Charlotte's Web custom variant, The birds flying, forming the logo, and deforming it.

Music/Sounds: The opening theme of the movie (or game for the Hotel for Dogs Wii game).

Music/Sounds Variants:


 * On some movies, the logo is silent.
 * On Nacho Libre, The sounds of the cheering audience and pictures being taken (which actually start over the Paramount logo, it is not the opening "theme" of the movie as the real theme (I am, I am) begins when the logo fades out), page turning-like sounds for the zooming of the ropes (quieter on the second rope), a swoosh for zooming to the lower rope and to the back of the ring, and the bell clanging.

Availability: Uncommon. Can be seen on such films as Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Barnyard, Charlotte's Web, and Yours, Mine & Ours (2005). Also seen on the Hotel for Dogs game on Wii. The birds version was supposed to appear on Charlotte's Web, but it was scrapped for unknown reasons, and the 10th logo appeared instead. The only way you can see this logo now is online.

8th logo
(February 14, 2008-2009)Nicknames: "The Splat", "Flying Logo and Letters"

Logo: Against a black background, some orange fluid-like slime swirls out from the distance toward the viewer. The camera pans around and the slime forms the Nickelodeon logo with "movies" appearing letter-by-letter on its right.

Trivia: This is the only Nickelodeon Movies logo to utilize the famous splat logo.

Variant: On Hotel for Dogs, the logo fades to the paper sun from the opening titles.

FX/SFX: CGI animation, done by Picture Mill.

Music/Sounds: Slime sounds, and the opening theme of the movie.

Availability: Rare, as it only appeared on four movies. First seen on The Spiderwick Chronicles. Also appears on Hotel for Dogs (the Wii video game uses the 10th logo), Imagine That, and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.

9th logo
(2009-2010)

Logo: On a black background, the 2009 Nickelodeon logo is zooming out, followed by "MOVIES" in a purple color appearing letter-by-letter via some purple rays shining left to right.

FX/SFX: The Nickelodeon logo zooming out and MOVIES forming from rays.

Music/Sounds: The trailer music.

Avabillity: This is a prototype/placeholder logo. Seen on trailers and promos for The Last Airbender, as well as the first trailer for Rango.

10th logo
(2010)

Nicknames: "The Avatar logo", "Flaming Nickelodeon"

Logo: It animates like the title sequence from the Avatar: The Last Airbender teaser trailer. It starts with the Nickelodeon Movies logo from before but "MOVIES" is closer to the 2009 Nickelodeon logo, which is covered with flaming fire, zooming and positioning itself on an orange background. Then, the air bends itself to defrost the fire on the logo as the background turns navy blue with fireflies in ivory.

FX/SFX: The Nickelodeon Movies logo positioning itself in fires and some air bend to stop the fire.

Music/Sounds: Flaming sounds when the logo moves and cooling sounds when we see air bending.

Avabillity: Seen in The Last Airbender.

11th logo
(March 4, 2011-November 14, 2019)Logo: We zoom out under a orange paint drop facing the camera, which is falling down against a white background. As the camera pans out to position itself so that the orange drop is viewed from a side perspective, the orange drop falls off-screen, and shortly after splashes on top of something, which the camera reveals to the "i" in the current Nickelodeon logo. The orange drop upon impact with it dots the "i" in the logo, as the splash made by the orange drop quickly forms the dot. As the camera then zooms out to fully reveal the finished logo, "MOVIES" in purple fades in, which is then followed by a small TM trademark bug fading in to the right of the logo.

Variants:


 * Starting with The Adventures of Tintin, both the drop and the logo are in a more orange color, the drop looks sleeker, "MOVIES" is in a red color, and the logo's background is brighter. The camera also zooms out at a further distance to show the finished logo.
 * On Monster Trucks, it is shortened, beginning when the logo is just about to finish its animation.

FX/SFX: CGI, done at DevaStudios.

Music/Sounds: None, or the opening theme of the movie.

Availability: Very common. First seen on the Nick@Nite promo for Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, and debuted theatrically with Rango. Also appears on The Adventures of Tintin, Fun Size, and Monster Trucks. It was last used on Wonder Park (although the final trailer for said film uses the next logo) and on some promotional material for Dora and the Lost City of Gold and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.

12th logo
(2014, 2016)

Nicknames: "The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo", "Green Nickelodeon"

Logo: On a black background, we see the Nickelodeon logo. The Nickelodeon text is dark and metallic. The word "MOVIES" wipes in from left to right in bright green.

FX/SFX: TBA

Music/Sounds: The opening theme of the movie.

Avabillity: Seen in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.

Editor's Note: Perfect for a GIF.

13th logo
(February 6, 2015)

Nicknames: "Seaweed Nickelodeon", "The Spongebob logo 2"

Logo: As part of the opening shot, the logo rises up from the water. The "nickelodeon" is dirty & covered with seaweed, moss and starfish, and the "™" symbol is also dirty. The "MOVIES" is in orange. It zooms slightly forward in 3D and drops back down to the water.

FX/SFX: The logo rising up the water and back down.

Music/Sounds: The opening theme.

Avabillity: Only on The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.

14th logo
(February 4, 2019, August 9, 2019-November 8, 2019)Nicknames: "The Dora the Explorer logo",

Logo: On a white background, the camera shows the current Nickelodeon logo forming in the same way from different angles, as the 2017 Nickelodeon Productions logo did. Afterwards, "MOVIES" in orange, jumps in for a couple of seconds, causes the letters of "Nickelodeon" to jump a bit before settling.

Variants:


 * When it was first unveiled in the final trailer for Wonder Park, and the later publicity material for Dora and the Lost City of Gold, it is still.
 * On Playing with Fire, it is enhanced. The animation plays slightly faster and the orange color now gives a gradient yellow.

FX/SFX: CGI.

Music/Sounds: The music from the 2009 Nickelodeon Productions logo, omitting the first two notes, which switches to the orchestrated rendition of the Nickelodeon theme.

Music/Sounds Variant: The still version has the trailer's music.

Availability: This logo was first unveiled in the final theatrical trailer for Wonder Park (although the previous logo is used onscreen). It was used on Dora and the Lost City of Gold and Playing with Fire. This logo might be used on adult Nickelodeon films.

15th logo
(August 7, 2020-future)Nicknames: "The Nickelodeon Blimp", "The Spongebob logo 3"

Logo: We see a switch against a wall with what looks like green slime in the center and a pineapple key-chain hanging on the right, along with a tube connected to the switch. He struggles to pull the switch. After a little bit, he succeeds and the energy from the switch increases and causes the slime to move along the tube (like a firehose). The camera proceeds to follow the tube to a light-bulb covered version of the Nickelodeon logo, which the tube connects to along with two others. The slime energy causes the logo to light up while a room shaped a like a box falls over, revealing a sunset-esque landscape with many hills and palm trees on either side of the logo. Several buildings can also be seen on the hill on the right. The Nickelodeon blimp then flies in from the right side of the screen to make the words “movies," before turning around and flying in the opposite direction.

FX/SFX: CGI, done at Nathan Love.

Music/Sounds: Machine sounds are heard. We hear Spongebob grunt many times until it works. Then, a version of the previous logo's music is heard, ending with a ding.

Music/Sounds Variant: On The Spongebob Movie: Sponge on the Run, Spongebob says "I'm Ready" at the beginning, and Spongebob was singing along to the music.

Availability: First seen on The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run and will likely be seen on upcoming films from the company, according to Nathan Love's website. The first trailer to use this logo is the official trailer for Paw Patrol: The Movie. It's unknown if The Loud House Movie will use this logo.